The Cambridge companion to world literature /

This book introduces the significant ideas and practices of world literary studies. It provides a lucid and accessible account of the fundamental issues and concepts in world literature, including the problems of imagining the totality of literature, comparing literary works across histories, cultur...

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Other Authors: Etherington, Ben, editor, Zimbler, Jarad, 1980- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Series:Cambridge companions to literature.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Ben Etherington and Jarad Zimbler
  • Worlds. Cosmopolitanism and world literature / Timothy Brennan
  • Nation, transnationalism, and internationalism / Anna Bernard
  • Scales, systems, and meridians / Ben Etherington
  • Literary worlds and literary fields / Jarad Zimbler
  • Translation and the circuits of world literature / Stefan Helgesson
  • Scriptworlds / Sowon Park
  • Ecologies of orality / Liz Gunner
  • Practices. Lyric universality / Boris Maslov
  • On worlding tragedy / Ato Quayson
  • The novel and consciousness of labour / Neil Lazarus
  • The worldliness of graphic narrative / Charlotta Salmi
  • Short story and peripheral production / Shital Pravinchandra
  • World cinema, world literature and dialectical criticism / Keya Ganguly
  • Publishing, translating, worldmaking / Chris Andrews.