The Cambridge companion to world literature / edited by Ben Etherington, University of Western Sydney ; Jarad Zimbler, University of Birmingham.
Series: Cambridge companions to literaturePublisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; Cambridge University Press, 2018Description: xx, 262 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781108471374
- 9781108457842
- 809 .C178 2018
- PN523 .C36 2018
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Ben Etherington and Jarad Zimbler -- Worlds. Cosmopolitanism and world literature / Timothy Brennan -- Nation, transnationalism, and internationalism / Anna Bernard -- Scales, systems, and meridians / Ben Etherington -- Literary worlds and literary fields / Jarad Zimbler -- Translation and the circuits of world literature / Stefan Helgesson -- Scriptworlds / Sowon Park -- Ecologies of orality / Liz Gunner -- Practices. Lyric universality / Boris Maslov -- On worlding tragedy / Ato Quayson -- The novel and consciousness of labour / Neil Lazarus -- The worldliness of graphic narrative / Charlotta Salmi -- Short story and peripheral production / Shital Pravinchandra -- World cinema, world literature and dialectical criticism / Keya Ganguly -- Publishing, translating, worldmaking / Chris Andrews.
This book introduces the significant ideas and practices of world literary studies. It provides a lucid and accessible account of the fundamental issues and concepts in world literature, including the problems of imagining the totality of literature; comparing literary works across histories, cultures and languages; and understanding how literary production is affected by forces such as imperialism and globalization. The essays demonstrate how detailed critical engagements with particular literary texts call forth differing conceptions of world literature, and, conversely, how theories of world literature shape our practices of readings. Subjects covered include cosmopolitanism, transnationalism, internationalism, scale and systems, sociological criticism, translation, scripts, and orality. The book also includes original analyses of genres and forms, ranging from tragedy to the novel and graphic fiction, lyric poetry to the short story and world cinema.
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