Debating World Literature

ISBN-13: 9781859844588 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 368 str.

Christopher Prendergast; Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson; Emily Apter

Opis

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, with a starting point of Goethe's idea of Weltliteratur, from which it travels out to various parts of the globe at different historical junctures. The book's concerns include the legacy of Goethe's idea; variable understandings of the term literature itself; cross-cultural encounters (the contact of the oral and the written, the paradoxes of exoticism); the nature of small literatures and the cultural politics of literary genres (poetry and the novel). simplifications of polemic in a reach for the complexity embodied in the linking of the two terms world and literature.