A History of World Literature

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-43305-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 611 g

A History of World Literature is a fully revised and expanded edition of The Routledge Concise History of World Literature (2012). This remarkably broad and informative book offers an introduction to “world literature.”

Tracing the term from its earliest roots and situating it within a number of relevant contexts from postcolonialism, decoloniality, ecocriticism, and book circulation, Theo D’haen in ten tightly-argued but richly-detailed chapters examines:

- the return of the term “world literature” and its changing meaning;

- Goethe’s concept of Weltliteratur and how this relates to current debates;

- theories and theorists who have had an impact on world literature; and

- how world literature is taught around the world.

By examining how world literature is studied around the globe, this book is the ideal guide to an increasingly popular and important term in literary studies. It is accessible and engaging and will be invaluable to students of world literature, comparative literature, translation, postcolonial and decoloniality studies, and materialist approaches, and to anyone with an interest in these or related topics.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

D'Haen, Theo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The (Re)Turn of World Literature

Chapter 1. Naming World Literature

Chapter 2. Goethe’s Weltliteratur and The Humanist Ideal

Chapter 3. World Literature and Comparative Literature

Chapter 4. World Literature as an American Pedagogical Construct

Chapter 5. World Literature in European Academe

Chapter 6. World Literature as System

Chapter 7. World Literature and Translation

Chapter 8. World Literature, (Post)Modernism, (Post)Colonialism, Littérature-Monde, Decoloniality

Chapter 9. Asian, African, and Oceanian Perspectives on World Literature

Chapter 10. World Literature and Planetary Materialities

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Theo D’haen is Emeritus Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Leuven University and Emeritus Professor of English and American Literature at Leiden University. He has published widely on (post)modernism, (post)colonialism, and world literature. His publications include World Literature in an Age of Geopolitics (2021) and The Routledge Companion to World Literature, Second Edition (co-edited with David Damrosch and Djelal Kadir; Routledge, 2022).