Machine generated contents note: Preface to the Second Edition 4 Introduction 6 1: What Is "Literature"? 17 2: Reading across Time 51 3: Reading across Cultures 91 4: Reading in Translation 129 5: Brave New Worlds 163 6: Writing Empire 203 7: Global Writing 236 Epilogue: Going Farther.
یادداشتهای مربوط به کتابنامه ، واژه نامه و نمایه های داخل اثر
متن يادداشت
Includes bibliographical references and index.
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
"The study of world literature has developed at a rapid pace since the turn of the millennium. Just since this book first appeared in 2009, many new courses and several entire programs in world literature have been established, while a growing number of sophisticated studies have contributed to the expansion of world literature as a field of scholarship. These developments have also given rise to renewed debates concerning the politics of world literary study amid the ongoing stresses of globalization, including crises of migration, economic inequality, and tensions between local or national belonging and regional or religious identification. In such difficult times, it is more imperative than ever to find productive ways to read across cultures, gaining a better purchase for critical engagement both with the wider world beyond our shores and with our own home culture - or cultures. It has been a pleasure to be able to return to this book now, and I took this opportunity to expand a very succinct account into a more capacious but still accessible introduction to the key issues involved in the study of world literature today, as illustrated through a range of remarkable works from across the centuries and around the world. In preparing this new edition, which is half again the size of the first, I've brought in a range of new writers and have expanded the treatment of others. In particular, I've opened out what had been a single chapter on travel and empire into two full-length chapters"--
ویراست دیگر از اثر در قالب دیگر رسانه
عنوان
How to read world literature.
شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي
9781119009160
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Literature and globalization.
موضوع مستند نشده
Literature-- History and criticism.
موضوع مستند نشده
LITERARY CRITICISM-- General.
موضوع مستند نشده
Literature and globalization.
موضوع مستند نشده
Literature.
مقوله موضوعی
موضوع مستند نشده
BIO-- 007000
رده بندی ديویی
شماره
809
ويراست
23
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شماره رده
PN524
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شماره رده
LIT000000
کد سيستم
bisacsh
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