This fully updated new edition of The Routledge Companion to World Literature contains ten brand new chapters on topics such as premodern world literature, migration studies, world history, artificial intelligence, global Englishes, remediation, crime fiction, Lusophone literature, Middle Eastern literature, and oceanic studies.
Separated into four key sections, the volume covers
• the history of world literature through significant writers and theorists from Goethe to Said, Casanova and Moretti;
• the disciplinary relationship of world literature to areas such as philology, translation, globalization, and diaspora studies;
• theoretical issues in world literature, including gender, politics, and ethics; and
• a global perspective on the politics of world literature.
Comprehensive yet accessible, this book is ideal as an introduction to world literature or for those looking to extend their knowledge of this essential field.
Author(s): Teo D’haen, David Damrosch, Djelal Kadir
Series: Routledge Literature Companions
Edition: 2
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 486
City: London
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Preface: Weltliteratur, littérature universelle, vishwa sahitya . . .
Part I The historical dimension
1 Johann Wolfgang Goethe: origins and relevance of Weltliteratur
2 Hugo Meltzl and “the Principle of Polyglottism”
3 Georg Brandes: the telescope of comparative literature
4 Rabindranath Tagore’s comparative world literature
5 Erich Auerbach and the death and life of world literature
6 Qian Zhongshu as comparatist
7 René Étiemble: planetary comparatist
8 Dionýz Ďurišin and a systemic theory of world literature
9 Claudio Guillén: (world) literature as system
10 Edward W. Said: the worldliness of world literature
11 Of rivalry and revolution: Pascale Casanova’s World Republic of Letters
12 Franco Moretti and the global wave of the novel
Part II The disciplinary dimension
13 World literature and comparative literature
14 World literature and philology
15 World literature and national literature(s)
16 World literature and translation studies
17 World literature and literary theory
18 World literature: the problem of the premodern
19 World literature and postmodernism
20 Postcolonialism and world literature
21 World literature and migration literature
22 World literature and cosmopolitanism
23 World literature and world cinema
24 World literature and the question of history
Part III The theoretical dimension
25 Uses of world literature
26 Teaching worldly literature
27 Canons and caravans of bibliomigrancy: creating world literary readerships
28 World literature and digital media
29 World literature and the library
30 World literature and the book market
31 World literature, Francophonie, and Creole cosmopolitics
32 World literature and popular literature: the remediated word
33 World crime fiction
34 The genres of world literature: the case of magical realism
35 The poetics of world literature
36 The ethics of world literature
37 The politics of world literature
38 Gender and sexuality in world literature
39 World literature and cultures of the environment
40 World literature and artificial intelligence: the specter of Alan Turing
Part IV The geographical dimension
41 Mapping world literature
42 World literature and Latin American literature
43 Comparative world literatures in Portuguese
44 World literature and global English
45 European literature and world literature
46 The world of Arabic literature
47 African angles on world literature
48 World literature and East Asian literatures
49 World literature and Muslim Southeast Asia
50 Oceans, archipelagoes, and world literature
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