{"product_id":"world-literature-in-theory-isbn-9781118407691","title":"World Literature in Theory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWorld Literature in Theory\u003c\/i\u003e provides a definitive exploration of the pressing questions facing those studying world literature today.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eCoverage is split into four parts which examine the origins and seminal formulations of world literature, world literature in the age of globalization, contemporary debates on world literature, and localized versions of world literature\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eContains more than 30 important theoretical essays by the most influential scholars, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Hugo Meltzl, Edward Said, Franco Moretti, Jorge Luis Borges, and Gayatri Spivak\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes substantive introductions to each essay, as well as an annotated bibliography for further reading\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAllows students to understand, articulate, and debate the most important issues in this rapidly changing field of study\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: World Literature in Theory and Practice 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One: Origins 13\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Conversations with Eckermann on \u003ci\u003eWeltliteratur \u003c\/i\u003e(1827) 15\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohann Wolfgang von Goethe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Emergence of \u003ci\u003eWeltliteratur\u003c\/i\u003e: Goethe and the Romantic School (2006) 22\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Pizer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Present Tasks of Comparative Literature (1877) 35\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHugo Meltzl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 What is World Literature? (1886) 42\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHutcheson Macaulay Posnett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 World Literature (1907) 47\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRabindranath Tagore\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 A View on the Unification of Literature (1922) 58\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eZheng Zhenduo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two: World Literature in the Age of Globalization 69\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Reflections on Yiddish World Literature (1938–1939) 71\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMelekh Ravitsh and Borekh Rivkin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Should We Rethink the Notion of World Literature? (1974) 85\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRené Etiemble\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Constructing Comparables (2000) 99\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMarcel Detienne\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Traveling Theory (1982) 114\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEdward W. Said\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Toward World Literary Knowledges: Theory in the Age of Globalization (2010) 134\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRevathi Krishnaswamy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Conjectures on World Literature (2000) \u003ci\u003eand \u003c\/i\u003eMore Conjectures (2003) 159\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFranco Moretti\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 World Literature without a Hyphen: Towards a Typology of Literary Systems (2008) 180\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlexander Beecroft\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Literature as a World (2005) 192\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePascale Casanova\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Globalization and Cultural Diversity in the Book Market: The Case of Literary Translations in the US and in France (2010) 209\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGisèle Sapiro\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 From Cultural Turn to Translational Turn: A Transnational Journey (2011) 234\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSusan Bassnett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Three: Debating World Literature 247\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Stepping Forward and Back: Issues and Possibilities for “World” Poetry (2004) 249\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStephen Owen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 To World, to Globalize: World Literature’s Crossroads (2004) 264\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDjelal Kadir\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 For a World-Literature in French (2007) 271\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichel Le Bris \u003c\/i\u003eet al.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 For a Living and Popular Francophonie (2007) 276\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNicolas Sarkozy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Francophonie and Universality: The Ideological Challenges of \u003ci\u003eLittérature-monde \u003c\/i\u003e(2009) 279\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJacqueline Dutton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Universalisms and Francophonies (2009) 293\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFrançoise Lionnet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Orientalism and the Institution of World Literatures (2010) 313\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAamir R. Mufti\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Against World Literature (2013) 345\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEmily Apter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Comparative Literature\/World Literature: A Discussion (2011) 363\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGayatri Chakravorty Spivak and David Damrosch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Four: World Literature in the World 389\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 The Argentine Writer and Tradition (1943) 391\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJorge Luis Borges\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Cultures and Contexts (2001) 398\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTania Franco Carvalhal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 An Idea of Literature: South Africa, India, the West (2001) 405\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael Chapman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 The Deterritorialization of American Literature (2007) 416\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePaul Giles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Islamic Literary Networks in South and Southeast Asia (2010) 437\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRonit Ricci\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Rethinking the World in World Literature: East Asia and Literary Contact Nebulae (2009) 460\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKaren Laura Thornber\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Global Cinema, World Cinema (2010) 480\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDenilson Lopes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 The Strategy of Digital Modernism: Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries’ \u003ci\u003eDakota \u003c\/i\u003e(2008) 493       \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJessica Pressman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue: The Changing Concept of World Literature 513\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eZhang Longxi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 524 \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Damrosch\u003c\/b\u003e is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is the founding general editor of the six-volume \u003ci\u003eLongman Anthology of World Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), the editor of \u003ci\u003eTeaching World Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), and co-editor of the \u003ci\u003ePrinceton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (2009). He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Read World Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008) and \u003ci\u003eThe Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh\u003c\/i\u003e (2007). His current research projects include a book on the discipline of comparative literature and a book on the role of global scripts in the formation of national literatures. He is the founding director of the Institute for World Literature at Harvard University.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWorld Literature in Theory\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With this collection of essays, David Damrosch takes us on a breathtaking ride through the history and geography of the term \"world literature\"— and demonstrates that it is quite simply the most productive concept in literary theory today.\" \u003cb\u003eMartin Puchner,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eHarvard University\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Vigorous and capacious, featuring unexpected contributors such as Nicolas Sarkozy, and covering material ranging from the globe-trotting work of Apuleius to the digital modernism of Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries, this impressive volume recovers genealogies of world literature from India, China, Brazil, Ireland. Putting the problematics of translation front and center, it creates a rich dialogue across languages and regions, even as it brings new energies to world literature in the age of globalization.\" \u003cb\u003eWai Chee Dimock,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eYale University\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWorld Literature in Theory\u003c\/i\u003e is an adventurous exploration of the pressing questions facing those studying world literature today. This reader brings together more than 30 essays by some of the most influential scholars in world literature. The essays allow students and scholars to consider important questions, including: How do we gain an adequate grounding in multiple cultures? How do we make intelligent choices about what to read? How do we avoid skimming the surface of complex works that must be read in translation? How do we avoid a simple projection of our own cultures and values on the wider world? How do we negotiate the changing cultural, political, and economic landscape of the texts and ourselves? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection brings together important contributions by Goethe, Hugo Meltzl, Jorge Luis Borges, Edward Said, Franco Moretti, Gayatri Spivak, and many more. The volume's four parts examine the origins and seminal formulations of the concept, world literature in the age of globalization, contemporary debates, and world literature in its manifestations around the world. Damrosch provides substantive introductions to each essay, as well as an annotated bibliography for further reading. Without shying away from the subject's inherent complexities, this collection allows readers to understand, articulate, and debate the most important issues in this rapidly changing field of study.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“With this collection of essays, David Damrosch takes us on a breathtaking ride through the history and geography of the term “world literature” – and demonstrates that it is quite simply the most productive concept in literary theory today.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Martin Puchner, Harvard University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Vigorous and capacious, featuring unexpected contributors such as Nicolas Sarkozy, and covering material ranging from the globe-trotting work of Apuleius to the digital modernism of Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries, this impressive volume recovers genealogies of world literature from India, China, Brazil, Ireland. Putting the problematics of translation front and center, it creates a rich dialogue across languages and regions, even as it brings new energies to world literature in the age of globalization.” \u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWai Chee Dimock, Yale University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990508617957,"sku":"NP9781118407691","price":46.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781118407691.jpg?v=1761788110","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/world-literature-in-theory-isbn-9781118407691","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}