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World Authorship (Hardcover)
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World Authorship (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature
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The original essays in Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to
Literature mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge
rather than codify. Instead of summarizing existing knowledge,
scholars working in the field aim at opening fresh discussion;
instead of emphasizing settled consensus they direct their readers
to areas of enlivened and unresolved debate. Booksellers, authors,
and academics have been talking about world literature since Goethe
made the term fashionable in the early nineteenth century. Yet
amidst all the talk of books that 'circulate' and literature as a
kind of universal property that can function as a 'window on the
world', how do we account for the people who live in real places,
and who write, translate, market, and read the texts that travel on
these global journeys? World Authorship breaks new ground by
showing how to bring together the real-world contexts of authorship
with the literary worlds of fiction. Written by world-leading
academics and creative professionals including authors,
translators, publishers, editors, prize jurors, and literary
festival organizers, World Authorship updates Michael Foucault's
'author function' by significantly expanding the network of people
and practices involved in literature. It covers keyword aspects of
world authorship, grounding them in the study of actual literary
texts to illuminate how literature is shared and made in different
parts of the world and at different times in history. At the heart
of all contributions, however, is one key question: where is the
human element in world literature? By covering everything from
'Beginnings' to 'Voice', World Authorship provides the answer.
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