Mapping world literature : international canonization and transnational literatures

Mapping world literature : international canonization and transnational literatures / Mads Rosendahl Thomsen.

Mapping World Literature explores the study of literature and literary history in light of global changes, looking at what defines world literature in the 21st century. Surveying ideas of literature from Goethe to the present, Thomsen devises a compelling concept of literary constellations. He discu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thomsen, Mads Rosendahl, 1972-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2008.
Series:Continuum literary studies.
Subjects:
Literature > History and criticism.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Literature
Globalisierung
Kanon
Weltliteratur
globalisation (mondialisation) > littérature.
canon (littérature) > globalisation (mondialisation)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • World literature : history, concept, paradigm
  • Shifting focal points in the international canons
  • Migrant writers and cosmopolitan culture
  • Ethics and aesthetics in traumatic literature
  • Conclusion : constellations as facts and experiments.

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