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Abstract: In the age of globalization, the category of "World Literature" is increasingly important to academic teaching and research. The Routledge Companion to World Literature offers a comprehensive pathway into this burgeoning and popular field.

Table of Contents:

• Part I. Historical dimension. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : origins and relevance of Weltliteratur / John Pizer
• Hugo Meltzl and "the principle of polyglottism" / David Damrosch
• Georg Brandes : the telescope of comparative literature / Svend Erik Larsen
• Richard Moulton and the "perspective attitude" in world literature / Sarah Lawall
• Rabindranath Tagore's comparative world literature / Bhavya Tiwari
• Richard Meyer's concept of world literature / Monika Schmitz-Emans
• Albert Guérard : reworking humanism for a troubled century / Dominique Vaugeois
• Erich Auerbach and the death and life of world literature / Aamir R. Mufti
• Qian Zhongshu as comparatist / Zhang Longxi
• René Etiemble : defense and illustration of a "true literary comparatism" / Samira Sayeh
• Dionýz Ďurišim and a systemic theory of world literature / César Domínguez
• Claudio Guillén : (world) literature as system / Darío Villanueva
• Edward W. Said : the worldliness of world literature / Jonathan Arac
• Pascale Casanova and the Republic of Letters / Helena Carvalhão Buescu
• Franco Moretti and the global wave of the novel / Mads Rosendahl Thomsen
• Part II. The disciplinary dimension. World literature and philology / Michael Holquist
• World literature and national literature(s) / Jing Tsu
• World literature and comparative literature / Sandra Bermann
• World literature and translation studies / Lawrence Venuti

• World literature between history and theory / Vilashini Cooppan
• World literature and postmodernism / Hans Bertens
• World literature and postcolonialism / Robert J.C. Young
• World literature and globalization / Eric Hayot
• World literature and diaspora studies / Jason Frydman
• World literature and cosmopolitanism / César Domínguez
• Part III. The theoretical dimension. Teaching worldly literature / Martin Puchner
• The canon(s) of world literature / Peter Carravetta
• The great books / John T. Kirby
• Bibliomigrancy : book series and the making of world literature / B. Venkat Mani
• World literature and the internet / Thomas O. Beebee
• World literature and the library / Reingard Nethersole
• World literature and the book market / Ann Steiner
• World literature, francophonie, and Creole cosmopolitics / Françoise Lionnet
• World literature and popular literature : toward a wordless literature? / Jan Baetens
• The genres of world literature : the case of magical realism / Mariano Siskind
• The poetics of world literature / Zhang Longxi
• The ethics of world literature / Peter Hitchcock
• The politics of world literature Sanja Bahun
• Uses of world literature / Bruce Robbins
• Gender and sexuality in world literature / Debra A. Castillo
• World literature and the environment / Ursula K. Heise
• Mapping world literature / Theo D'Haen
• Part IV. The geographical dimension. World literature and European literature / Roberto M. Dainotto
• World literature and Latin American literature / Djelal Kadir
• World literature and US American literature / Lawrence Buell
• African roads / Nirvana Tanoukhi
• World literature and East Asian literature / Red Chan
• Constructions of world literature in colonial and postcolonial India / Vinay Dharwadker
• The thousand and one nights as world literature / Sandra Naddaff
• World literature and Muslim Southeast Asia / Ronit Ricci.

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Contributors:

Haen, Theo d' , editor

Damrosch, David , editor

Kadir, Djelal , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Literature — History and criticism

Literature — Study and teaching

Literature and society

Literature and globalization

Literature

Genres:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on title page of print version.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (58 entries) : 1 image.

Call Numbers:

PN51 .R736 2012eb

ISBNs:

9780415570220 (hardback, alk. paper) [Invalid]
0415570220 (hardback, alk. paper) [Invalid]
9780203806494 (ebook) [Invalid]
0203806492 (ebook) [Invalid]
9781784029234 (electronic version)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2011005719 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

900201453

Other Control Numbers:

gtp00561552 (source: CaBNVSL)
routworld2013 (source: Credo)
[Unknown Type]: Credo9781784029234