World Literature in Theory

Damrosch , David 지음

Wiley-Blackwell 2013년 12월 16일 출간

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World Literature in Theory provides a definitive exploration of the pressing questions facing those studying world literature today.Coverage is split into four parts which examine the origins and seminal formulations of world literature, world literature in the age of globalization, contemporary debates on world literature, and localized versions of world literatureContains more than 30 important theoretical essays by the most influential scholars, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Hugo Meltzl, Edward Said, Franco Moretti, Jorge Luis Borges, and Gayatri SpivakIncludes substantive introductions to each essay, as well as an annotated bibliography for further readingAllows students to understand, articulate, and debate the most important issues in this rapidly changing field of study

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Introduction: World Literature in Theory and Practice 1Part One: Origins 131 Conversations with Eckermann on Weltliteratur (1827) 15Johann Wolfgang von Goethe2 The Emergence of Weltliteratur: Goethe and the Romantic School (2006) 22John Pizer3 Present Tasks of Comparative Literature (1877) 35Hugo Meltzl4 What Is World Literature? (1886) 42Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett5 World Literature (1907) 47Rabindranath Tagore6 A View on the Unification of Literature (1922) 58Zheng ZhenduoPart Two: World Literature in the Age of Globalization 697 Reflections on Yiddish World Literature (1938&n-1939) 71Melekh Ravitsh and Borekh Rivkin8 Should We Rethink the Notion of World Literature? (1974) 85Ren&e' Etiemble9 Constructing Comparables (2000) 99Marcel Detienne10 Traveling Theory (1982) 114Edward W. Said11 Toward World Literary Knowledges: Theory in the Age of Globalization (2010) 134Revathi Krishnaswamy12 Conjectures on World Literature (2000) and More Conjectures (2003) 159Franco Moretti13 World Literature without a Hyphen: Towards a Typology of Literary Systems (2008) 180Alexander Beecroft14 Literature as a World (2005) 192Pascale Casanova15 Globalization and Cultural Diversity in the Book Market: The Case of Literary Translations in the US and in France (2010) 209Gisèle Sapiro16 From Cultural Turn to Translational Turn: A Transnational Journey (2011) 234Susan BassnettPart Three: Debating World Literature 24717 Stepping Forward and Back: Issues and Possibilities for “World” Poetry (2004) 249Stephen Owen18 To World, to Globalize: World Literature&'s Crossroads (2004

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David Damrosch is Professor and Department Chair of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is the founding general editor of the six-volume Longman Anthology of World Literature (2004), the editor of Teaching World Literature (2009), and co-editor of the Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature (2009). He is also the author of How to Read World Literature (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008) and The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (2007). His current research projects include a book on the discipline of comparative literature and a book on the role of global scripts in the formation of national literatures. He is the founding director of the Institute for World Literature at Harvard University.

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