"Ever since Neolithic times Greek lands lay open to cultural imports from western Asia: agriculture, metal-working, writing, religious institutions, artistic fashions, musical instruments, and much more. Over the last sixty years scholars have become increasingly aware of links …
This remarkably broad and informative book offers an introduction to and overview of World Literature. Tracing the term from its earliest roots and situating it within a number of relevant contexts from postcolonialism to postmodernism, Theo D'haen examines: The return of the te…
Comparative literature in an age of globalization
As an academic discipline built upon Enlightenment thought and a cosmopolitan worldview -- not grounded in the literary tradition of any single language or nation -- comparative literature has benefited from regular reexamination of its basic principles and practices. The Americ…
T.S. Eliot, Dante, and the idea of Europe
The romance between Greece and the East
World literature was long defined in North America as an established canon of European masterpieces, but an emerging global perspective has challenged both this European focus and the very category of "the masterpiece." The first book to look broadly at the contemporary scope an…
World literature was long defined in North America as an established canon of European masterpieces, but an emerging global perspective has challenged both this European focus and the very category of "the masterpiece." The first book to look broadly at the contemporary scope an…
La Literatura Comparada, que explora desde los géneros hasta los movimientos artísticos, pasando por los temas y las formas en sus variadas metamorfosis, tiene un único y gran anhelo: el de superar las fronteras nacionales para, como aspiraba Goethe, poder por fin soñar con una …