Debating World Literature (Paperback, New)

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. Its starting point is Goethe's idea of Weltliteratur, from which it travels out to various parts of the globe at different historical junctures. Its 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). The underlying objective of the volume is to transcend the pieties and simplifications of polemic in a reach for the complexity embodied in the linking of the two terms "world" and "literature."

General

Imprint:	Verso Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2004
First published:	March 2004
Editors:	Christopher Prendergast
Dimensions:	210 x 137 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	288
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-85984-458-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General Promotions
LSN:	1-85984-458-8
Barcode:	9781859844588

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