Reexamining World Literature: Challenging Current Assumptions and Envisioning Possibilities

ISBN-13: 9781032238807 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 138 str.

Richard Serrano

Opis

Reexamining World Literature asks scholars to reassess the practice of World Literature by engaging with a range of literary works that elude the field’s assumptions generated by its homogenizing theoretical predisposition.

Spis treści

Introduction

Chapter One Sun Yunfeng (1764–1814): Woman out of Place

Chapter Two Paul Claudel (1868–1955): Lost before Translation

Chapter Three Esteban Echeverría (1805–1851): La Cautiva Lost to History

Chapter Four Jamil Buthayna (7th c.) in the Book of Songs (10th c.): Man out of Poetry

Chapter Five Friedrich Rückert’s (1788–1866) Unnachahmlich Qur’an

Chapter Six Yi Ok (1760–1815): Man out of Time

Conclusion

O autorze

Richard Serrano is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. His primary research interest is intercultural transmission.