The Cambridge Companion to World Literature

Herausgeber: Etherington, Ben; Zimbler, Jarad

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Produktbeschreibung

This Companion introduces readers to major ideas and practices of world literary studies. Its accessible yet sophisticated essays raise fundamental questions about imagining the totality of literature; comparing literary works across histories, cultures and languages; and understanding how literature is affected by forces such as imperialism.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9781108457842
• ISBN-10: 1108457843
• Artikelnr.: 51776794

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Ben Etherington and Jarad Zimbler
Part I. Worlds: 1. Cosmopolitanism and world literature Timothy Brennan
2. Nation, transnationalism, and internationalism Anna Bernard
3. Scales, systems, and meridians Ben Etherington
4. Literary worlds and literary fields Jarad Zimbler
5. Translation and the circuits of world literature Stefan Helgesson
6. Scriptworlds Sowon Park
7. Ecologies of orality Liz Gunner
Part II. Practices: 8. Lyric universality Boris Maslov
9. On worlding tragedy Ato Quayson
10. The novel and consciousness of labour Neil Lazarus
11. The worldliness of graphic narrative Charlotta Salmi
12. Short story and peripheral production Shital Pravinchandra
13. World cinema, world literature and dialectical criticism Keya Ganguly
14. Publishing, translating, worldmaking Chris Andrews.