eBook, PDF

The Routledge Companion to World Literature (eBook, PDF)

Beschreibung

This fully updated new edition of The Routledge Companion to World Literature contains ten brand new chapters on topics such as premodern world literature, migration studies, world history, artificial intelligence, global Englishes, remediation, crime fiction, Lusophone literature, Middle Eastern literature, and oceanic studies.

Separated into four key sections, the volume covers:

• the history of world literature through significant writers and theorists from Goethe to Said, Casanova and Moretti
• the disciplinary relationship of world literature to areas such as philology, translation, globalization, and diaspora studies
• theoretical issues in world literature, including gender, politics, and ethics; and
• a global perspective on the politics of world literature

Comprehensive yet accessible, this book is ideal as an introduction to world literature or for those looking to extend their knowledge of this essential field.

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• Seitennummerierung folgt dem gedruckten Werk
• Kurze Alternativtexte für nicht-textuelle Inhalte vorhanden
• Navigierbarer Index mit direktem Zugriff auf Indexbegriffe
• Navigierbares Inhaltsverzeichnis für direkten Zugriff auf Text und Medien

Autor

Theo D'haen is Emeritus Professor of English, American and Comparative Literature at the universities of Leuven and Leiden. Recent publications include The Concise Routledge History of World Literature, World Literature: A Reader (with César Domínguez and Mads Rosendahl Thomsen), American Literature: A History (with Hans Bertens), and World Literature in an Age of Geopolitics. David Damrosch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University and founder of the Institute for World Literature. His books include What Is World Literature?, Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age, and Around the World in 80 Books, and he is Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of World Literature. Djelal Kadir is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at the Pennsylvania State University. Among his books are Memos from the Besieged City: Lifelines for Cultural Sustainability, Columbus and the Ends of the Earth: Europe's Prophetic Rhetoric as Conquering Ideology, and Questing Fictions: Latin America's Family Romance. He is the former Editor of World Literature Today and Founding President of the International American Studies Association.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 486
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000625882
• Artikelnr.: 64762207