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In our globalised world, literature is less and less confined to
national spaces. Europe-centred frameworks for literary studies
have become insufficient; academics are increasingly called upon to
address matters of cultural difference. In this unique volume,
leading scholars discuss the critical and methodical challenges
that these developments pose to the writing of literary history.
What is the object of literary history? What is the meaning of the
term "world literature"? How do we compare different cultural
systems of genres? How do we account theoretically for literary
transculturation? What are the implications of postcolonial studies
for the discipline of comparative literature? Ranging in focus from
the Persian epic of Majnun Layla and Zulu praise poetry to South
Korean novels and Brazilian antropofagismo, the essays offer a
concise overview of these and related questions. Their aim is not
to reach a consensus on these matters. They show instead what is at
stake in the emergent field of global comparatism.
This volume consists of articles on imagery in the poetry of
various literary canons. Focussing on figurative speech, the
authors analyse poetry of the Near East, Greece, the Arabic world,
early modern Spain, classical China and classical Japan. The
articles present new research based on individual approaches for
each particular canon within a wide span from socio-cultural
environment to semantic and cognitive properties of specific
images. They deal with the poetics of the other, the role of the
poet, poetic persuasion in politics, traditional typologies of
tropes, intertextuality, and the principle of analogy. The authors
combine literary theory with specialised knowledge of the local
context and literary tradition and provide innovative and dynamic
close readings.
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