What Is World Literature?

by David Damrosch

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691049866
• ISBN13: 9780691049861
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"