Tensions in World Literature: Between the Local and the Universal

Book Overview

1 Introduction: What Is World Literature? 2 Comparative Literature and World Literature: From Goethe to Globalization3 The Location of World Literature
4 Frames for World Literature
5 World Literature and the Encounter with the Other: A Means or a Menace?6 Some Remarks on the Concept of World Literature After 20007 World Literature, Canon, and Literary Criticism
8 Four Perspectives on World Literature: Reader, Producer, Text and System9 A World of Translation
10 World Literature in Graphic Novels and Graphic Novels as World Literature11 Experiments in Cultural Connectivity: Early Twentieth-Century German-Jewish Thought Meets the Daodejing12 Ideographic Myth and Misconceptions about Chinese Poetic Art13 Chinese Literature as Part of World Literature
14 How to Become World Literature: Chinese Literature's Aspiration and Way to "Step into the World"15 World Literature from and in China
Dialogue Section A: World Literature and Nation Building
Dialogue Section B: The Interactions between the Local and the Universal: A Few Thoughts after Listening to the Talk of Professor DamroschDialogue Section C: World Literature: Significance, Challenge, and FutureDialogue Section D: Who Decides the "United Nations of Great Books" Inspired by Prof. Zhang's SpeechDialogue Section E: Response

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811344671
• ISBN13: 9789811344671
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"