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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      09 November 2018
      22 November 2018
      ISBN:
      9781108613354
      9781108471374
      9781108457842
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108613354
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.52kg, 288 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.41kg, 286 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature: General Interest, Literary Theory, European and World Literature: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature: General Interest, Literary Theory, European and World Literature: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    Book description

    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.

    Reviews

    'The Cambridge Companion to World Literature helpfully pushes the boundaries of any idea(s) of 'world literature' - and, usefully, does so from a variety of angles, as it were. As the Introduction makes clear, there's no ambition to be comprehensive here; instead, the Companion presents a variety of perspectives and foci, and usefully projects beyond them, making for a nicely wide-ranging starting point …'

    M. A. Orthofer Source: The Complete Review (www.complete-review.com)

    'This book will serve as a companion for anyone’s literary travels and for critical commitments needed for the journey.'

    A. P. Church Source: Choice

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    • 1 - Cosmopolitanism and World Literature
      pp 23-36
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    • 4 - Literary Worlds and Literary Fields
      pp 69-84
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