edited by Christopher Prendergast, with contributions by Benedict Anderson [and others].
1st ed.
New York :
Verso,
2004.
xiii, 353 pages ;
23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. The world republic of letters / Christopher Prendergast -- 2. Changing fields : the directions of Goethe's Weltliteratur / Stefan Hoesel-Uhlig -- 3. World literature and world thoughts : Brandes/Auerbach / Peter Madsen -- 4. Global translatio : the 'invention' of comparative literature, Istanbul, 1933 / Emily Apter -- 5. Mapping identities : literature, nationalism, colonialism / Timothy J. Reiss -- 6. Conjectures on world literature / Franco Moretti -- 7. The politics of genre / Stephen Heath -- 8. Literary history without literature : reading practices in the ancient world / Simon Goldhill -- 9. The rooster's egg : pioneering world folklore in the Philippines / Benedict Anderson -- 10. Hearing voices : Ricardo Palma's contextualization of colonial Peru / Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela -- 11. The order of Oriental knowledge : the making of d'Herbelot's Bibliothèque orientale / Nicholas Dew -- 12. Victor Segalen abroad / John Sturrock -- 13. Kafka and the dialect of minor literature / Stanley Corngold -- 14. Rhythmical knots : the world of English poetry / Bruce Clunies Ross -- 15. India in the mirror of world fiction / Francesca Orsini.
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In this set of essays the contributors explore the notion of world literature and world thoughts by examining past perspectives and mapping identities in terms of literature, nationalism and colonialism.
Debating world literature.
Literature-- History and criticism.
Littérature-- Histoire et critique.
Literatura (história e crítica)
Literature.
Weltliteratur
Weltliteratur.
Wereldliteratuur.
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Anderson, Benedict R. O'G., (Benedict Richard O'Gorman),1936-2015.