The Cambridge companion to world literature / edited by Ben Etherington, Western Sydney University, Jarad Zimbler, University of Birmingham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Etherington, Ben, editor.

Zimbler, Jarad, 1980- editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 262 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

The Cambridge Companion to World Literature 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, cultures and languages; and understanding how literary production is affected by forces such as imperialism and globalization. The essays demonstrate how detailed critical engagements with particular literary texts call forth differing conceptions of world literature, and, conversely, how theories of world literature shape our practices of readings. Subjects covered include cosmopolitanism, transnationalism, internationalism, scale and systems, sociological criticism, translation, scripts, and orality. This book also includes original analyses of genres and forms, ranging from tragedy to the novel and graphic fiction, lyric poetry to the short story and world cinema.

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.

Notes:

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781108613354

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.