World Literature And Its Times

Author : Filippo Menozzi
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030416984
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Literature, Non-Synchronism, and the Politics of Time written by Filippo Menozzi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a Marxist concept of world literature, this book is a study of the manipulations of time in contemporary anglophone fiction from Africa and South Asia. Through critical work and literary reading, this research explores the times other than the present that seem to haunt an era of capitalist globalisation: nostalgic feelings about bygone ideals of identity and community, appeals to Golden Ages, returns of the repressed and anxious anticipations of global extinction and catastrophe. The term non-synchronism explored in this book captures these dislocations of the present, while offering a critical lens to grasp the politics of time of an era marked by the continuing expansion of capitalist modernity. Most importantly, non-synchronism is a dialectical paradigm charged with antagonistic political valences. The literary analysis presented in the volume hence connects the literary manipulation of time to discourses on extinction, accumulation, nostalgia, modernity and survival in global politics and literature.

Author : David Damrosch
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691188645
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Is World Literature? written by David Damrosch and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World literature was long defined in North America as an established canon of European masterpieces, but an emerging global perspective has challenged both this European focus and the very category of "the masterpiece." The first book to look broadly at the contemporary scope and purposes of world literature, What Is World Literature? probes the uses and abuses of world literature in a rapidly changing world. In case studies ranging from the Sumerians to the Aztecs and from medieval mysticism to postmodern metafiction, David Damrosch looks at the ways works change as they move from national to global contexts. Presenting world literature not as a canon of texts but as a mode of circulation and of reading, Damrosch argues that world literature is work that gains in translation. When it is effectively presented, a work of world literature moves into an elliptical space created between the source and receiving cultures, shaped by both but circumscribed by neither alone. Established classics and new discoveries alike participate in this mode of circulation, but they can be seriously mishandled in the process. From the rediscovered Epic of Gilgamesh in the nineteenth century to Rigoberta Menchú's writing today, foreign works have often been distorted by the immediate needs of their own editors and translators. Eloquently written, argued largely by example, and replete with insightful close readings, this book is both an essay in definition and a series of cautionary tales.

Author : Walter Blair
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of World Literature written by Walter Blair and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joyce Moss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book World Literature and Its Times written by Joyce Moss and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Author : Emily Apter
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784780022
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Against World Literature written by Emily Apter and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability argues for a rethinking of comparative literature focusing on the problems that emerge when large-scale paradigms of literary studies ignore the politics of the “Untranslatable”—the realm of those words that are continually retranslated, mistranslated, transferred from language to language, or especially resistant to substitution. In the place of “World Literature”—a dominant paradigm in the humanities, one grounded in market-driven notions of readability and universal appeal—Apter proposes a plurality of “world literatures” oriented around philosophical concepts and geopolitical pressure points. The history and theory of the language that constructs World Literature is critically examined with a special focus on Weltliteratur, literary world systems, narrative ecosystems, language borders and checkpoints, theologies of translation, and planetary devolution in a book set to revolutionize the discipline of comparative literature.

Author : Martin Puchner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0812998936
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Written World written by Martin Puchner and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of literature in sixteen acts, from Alexander the Great and the Iliad to ebooks and Harry Potter, this engaging book brings together remarkable people and surprising events to show how writing shaped cultures, religions, and the history of the world"--

Author : Joyce Moss
Publisher : Gale Cengage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature and Its Times: World War II to the affluent fifties (1940-1950s) written by Joyce Moss and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 1997 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LC copy defective: v. 1, copy 1, p. 419-426 bound upside down.

Author : Flair Donglai Shi
Publisher : Ibidem Press
ISBN 13 : 9783838211633
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Literature in Motion written by Flair Donglai Shi and published by Ibidem Press. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By bringing in different degrees of circulation in different regions and languages, this collection shows that while literary centers do exist in what Pascale Casanova calls "the international literary space," their power does not operate unilaterally and modes of intercultural circulation do exist beyond their control. The title World Literature in Motion highlights the fact that world literature is always already the product of certain modes of conceptual and material mobility and mediation.

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ISBN 13 : 9780787637309
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