Contextualizing World Literature [French]

This book revisits the notion of World Literature and its applications in Comparative Literature. It suggests the notion not as a means to sift out international paradigms for reading literatures, but as a set of guidelines for the construction of interlocking and/or reciprocally illuminating multilingual literary clusters. These ensembles are of very diverse shapes: the world, a region, a country, a language block, a network of cross-cultural «interferences» - while the so-called minor literatures invite to question the use of these ensembles. Within this frame, fourteen essays respond to the basic paradox of World Literature: how may specific methodological and critical outlooks allow expression of the universal? The answers to this question can be arranged in three groups: 1. Recognition of the need to break loose from European or Western critical perspectives; 2. Presentation of macro- and microcosmic dimensions connectedness and its processes; 3. Definitions of the methodological efforts and hermeneutic orientations to be applied.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: French
• ISBN: 2875742833
• ISBN13: 9782875742834
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.6"