The Cambridge history of world literature. Volume I and II / edited by Debjani Ganguly.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ganguly, Debjani, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comparative literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 993 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

World Literature is a vital part of twentieth-first century critical and comparative literary studies. As a field that engages seriously with function of literary studies in our global era, the study of World literature requires new approaches. The Cambridge History of World Literature is founded on the assumption that World Literature is not all literatures of the world nor a canonical set of globally successful literary works. It highlights scholarship on literary works that focus on the logics of circulation drawn from multiple literary cultures and technologies of the textual. While not rejecting the nation as a site of analysis, these volumes will offer insights into new cartographies - the hemispheric, the oceanic, the transregional, the archipelagic, the multilingual local - that better reflect the multi-scalar and spatially dispersed nature of literary production. It will interrogate existing historical, methodological and cartographic boundaries, and showcase humanistic and literary endeavors in the face of world scale environmental and humanitarian catastrophes.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Aug 2021).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781009064446 (ebook)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.