Debating world literature

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Author:

Prendergast, Christopher.

ISBN:

9781859844588

9781859845929

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

London ; New York : Verso, 2004.

Physical Description:

xiii, 353 p. ; 23 cm.

Contents:

1. The world republic of letters / Christopher Prendergast -- 2. Changing fields / Stefan Hoesel-Uhlig -- 3. World literature and world thoughts / Peter Madsen -- 4. Global translation / Emily Apter -- 5. Mapping identities / Timothy J.Reiss -- 6. Conjectures on world literature / Franco Moretti -- 7. The politics of genre / Stephen Heath -- 8. Literary history without literature / Simon Goldhill -- 9. The rooster's egg / Benedict Anderson -- 10. Hearing voices / Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela -- 11. The order of Oriental knowledge / Nicholas Dew -- 12. Victor Segalen abroad / John Sturrock -- 13. Kafka and the dialect of minor literature / Stanley Corngold -- 14. Rhythmical knots / Bruce Clunies Ross -- 15. India in the mirror of world fiction / Francesca Orsini.

Subject Term:

Literature -- History and criticism.

Added Author:

Prendergast, Christopher.

Anderson, Benedict R. O'G. (Benedict Richard O'Gorman), 1936-2015.

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Summary

In the continuing debates about the cultural dimensions of globalization, the question of 'literature' has been something of a poor relation. This volume seeks to redress the balance. It takes as its starting point Goethe's idea of Weltliteratur , from which it then travels out to various parts of the globe at different historical junctures. Among its many concerns are the legacies of Goethe's idea, variable understandings of the term 'literature' itself, cross-cultural encounters, the nature of 'small literatures', and the cultural politics of literary genres. With contributions from many of the leading voices in the field, Debating World Literature seeks to transcend the pieties and simplifications of polemic in a search for the complexity embodied in the linking of the two terms 'world' and 'literature'.