Format:
1 online resource (181 pages)
ISBN:
9781351203661
Series Statement:
Literature and Contemporary Thought Ser.
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Introduction: Why world literature? -- The making of a modern classic -- The history of a concept -- Revival -- World literature and its discontents: theoretical challenges -- The way forward -- Acknowledgement -- Notes -- References -- 1. Paradigms: World literature and its others -- National literature -- Comparative literature -- Postcolonial studies -- Translation studies -- References -- 2. Ecologies of literature: The cosmopolitan-vernacular nexus -- Circulation in general and ecologies in particular -- Notes -- References -- 3. Genre: Strangeness and familiarity -- Local and universal? -- Spirited misconceptions -- Best-selling enchantment -- Writing back through genre -- Note -- References -- 4. Geographies: Reading the oceans -- The Black Atlantic (the abyss) -- Indian Ocean narratives -- The Indian Ocean as a public sphere -- By way of conclusion: oceans and ecologies of world literature -- Note -- References -- 5. Media and method: The digitized library of Babel -- World literature in your pocket -- Read everything? -- Circulation -- Reading the great unread -- Critical perspectives -- References -- 6. Translation: Duration and cosmopolitan reading -- Notes -- References -- 7. Unfinished business: A dialogue -- 1 Language in the twenty-first century -- 2 Institutional transformations -- 3 National ideals -- 4 The status of literature -- 5 The complexity of literature -- 6 Postcolonialism -- 7 Gender -- 8 Migrants -- 9 World literature and grand challenges: new directions? -- References -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780815384649
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780815384649
Language:
English
