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…
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…
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…
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…
Surrealism began as a movement in poetry and visual art, but it turned out to have its widest impact worldwide in fiction-including in major world writers who denied any connection to surrealism at all. At the heart of this book are discoveries Delia Ungureanu has made in the ar…
"The idea of "world literature" has served as a crucial though underappreciated interlocutor for African diasporic writers, informing their involvement in processes of circulation, translation, and revision that have been identified as the hallmarks of the contemporary era of wo…
"David Foster Wallace is invariably seen as an emphatically American figure. Lucas Thompson challenges this consensus, arguing that Wallace's investments in various international literary traditions are central to both his artistic practice and his critique of US culture. Thomps…
Literature: a portable anthology
"The fourth edition has been significantly revised and updated with a wide choice of literary selections that include a more contemporary and diverse selection of fiction, several canonical poets and fresh and contemporary poems, and four new plays."--Page vi.
Introduction: Slippery Words: Orhan Pamuk, Good, and World Literature -- What Good Can a Novel Do? A Novel Can Teach You About Other People -- A Novel Can Teach You About Other People's History -- What Good Can a Novelist Do? Orhan Pamuk as Political Gadfly: "The Armenian Issue"…
