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Item Details
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STUDYING TRANSCULTURAL LITERARY HISTORY
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| By: |
Gunilla Lindberg-Wada (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£145.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
3110189550 |
| ISBN 13: |
9783110189551 |
| Publisher: |
DE GRUYTER |
| Pub. date: |
19 September, 2006 |
| Series: |
Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft/Spectrum Literature 10 |
| Pages: |
324 |
| Description: |
Today's spectrum of research in literary studies is characterized by a sense of openness to the methods of comparative literature and cultural studies, along with a wide range of interdisciplinary crossover. The spectrum Literaturwissenschaft series is intended to be a forum for this pluralistic new model of literary studies. It presents papers that are informed by methodologically innovative, frequently comparative approaches, and whose findings are of importance well beyond the narrow boundaries of national philological horizons. |
| Synopsis: |
In our globalised world, literature is less and less confined to national spaces. Europe-centred frameworks for literary studies have become insufficient; academics are increasingly called upon to address matters of cultural difference. In this unique volume, leading scholars discuss the critical and methodical challenges that these developments pose to the writing of literary history. What is the object of literary history? What is the meaning of the term "world literature"? How do we compare different cultural systems of genres? How do we account theoretically for literary transculturation? What are the implications of postcolonial studies for the discipline of comparative literature? Ranging in focus from the Persian epic of Majnun Layla and Zulu praise poetry to South Korean novels and Brazilian antropofagismo, the essays offer a concise overview of these and related questions. Their aim is not to reach a consensus on these matters. They show instead what is at stake in the emergent field of global comparatism. |
| US Grade: |
College Graduate Student |
| Publication: |
Germany |
| Imprint: |
De Gruyter |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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