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Reading World Literature
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Author : Sarah Lawall
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-01-01
Reading World Literature written by Sarah Lawall and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
As teachers and readers expand the canon of world literature to include writers whose voices traditionally have been silenced by the dominant culture, fundamental questions arise. What do we mean by "world"? What constitutes "literature"? Who should decide? Reading World Literature is a cumulative study of the concept and evolving practices of "world literature." Sarah Lawall opens the book with a substantial introduction to the overall topic. Twelve original essays by distinguished specialists run the gamut from close readings of specific texts to problems of translation theory and reader response. The sequence of essays develops from re-examinations of traditional canonical pieces through explorations of less familiar works to discussions of reading itself as a "literacy" dependent on worldview. Reading World Literature will open challenging new vistas for a wide audience in the humanities, from traditionalists to avant-garde specialists in literary theory, cultural studies, and area studies.
How To Read World Literature
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Author : David Damrosch
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2017-07-10
How To Read World Literature written by David Damrosch and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
The new edition of this highly popular guide, How to Read World Literature, addresses the unique challenges and joys faced when approaching the literature of other cultures and eras. Fully revised to address important developments in World Literature, and generously expanded with new material, this second edition covers a wide variety of genres – from lyric and epic poetry to drama and prose fiction – and discusses how each form has been used in different eras and cultures. An ideal introduction for those new to the study of World Literature, as well as beginners to ancient and foreign literature, this book offers a variety of "modes of entry" to reading these texts. The author, a leading authority in the field, draws on years of teaching experience to provide readers with ways of thinking creatively and systematically about key issues, such as reading across time and cultures, reading works in translation, emerging global perspectives, postcolonialism, orality and literacy, and more. Accessible and enlightening, offers readers the tools to navigate works as varied as Homer, Sophocles, Kalidasa, Du Fu, Dante, Murasaki, Moliere, Kafka, Wole Soyinka, and Derek Walcott Fully revised and expanded to reflect the changing face of the study of World Literature, especially in the English-speaking world Now includes more major authors featured in the undergraduate World Literature syllabus covered within a fuller critical context Features an entirely new chapter on the relationship between World Literature and postcolonial literature How to Read World Literature, Second Edition is an excellent text for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in World Literature. It is also a fascinating and informative read for all readers with an interest in foreign and ancient literature and the history of civilization.
World Literature Reader
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Author : Theo D'haen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-06
World Literature Reader written by Theo D'haen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
World Literature is an increasingly influential subject in literary studies, which has led to the re-framing of contemporary ideas of ‘national literatures’, language and translation. World Literature: A Reader brings together thirty essential readings which display the theoretical foundations of the subject, as well as showing its conceptual development over a two hundred year period. The book features: an illuminating introduction to the subject, with suggested reading paths to help readers navigate through the materials texts exploring key themes such as globalization, cosmopolitanism, post/trans-nationalism, and translation and nationalism writings by major figures including J. W. Goethe, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Longxi Zhao, David Damrosch, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Pascale Casanova and Milan Kundera. The early explorations of the meaning of ‘Weltliteratur’ are introduced, while twenty-first century interpretations by leading scholars today show the latest critical developments in the field. The editors offer readers the ideal introduction to the theories and debates surrounding the impact of this crucial area on the modern literary landscape.
Readings In World Literature
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Author : Anthology
language : en
Publisher: Holt McDougal
Release Date : 2000-09
Readings In World Literature written by Anthology and has been published by Holt McDougal this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-09 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Prose, poetry, drama and speech from: Ghana, Greece, Scandinavia, Japan, Ireland, Rome, Spain, Russia, South Africa, France, Zimbabwe, England, Nigeria, Botswana, India, Cuba, Dominican Republic, U.S.A., Haiti, Chile, Israel, Poland, Venezuela, Italy, Egypt, St. Lucia, and the Czech Republic.
What Is World Literature
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Author : David Damrosch
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2018-06-05
What Is World Literature written by David Damrosch and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
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 from the Sumerians to the Aztecs and from medieval mysticism to postmodern metafiction, David Damrosch looks at the ways works change as they move from national to global contexts. Presenting world literature not as a canon of texts but as a mode of circulation and of reading, Damrosch argues that world literature is work that gains in translation. When it is effectively presented, a work of world literature moves into an elliptical space created between the source and receiving cultures, shaped by both but circumscribed by neither alone. Established classics and new discoveries alike participate in this mode of circulation, but they can be seriously mishandled in the process. From the rediscovered Epic of Gilgamesh in the nineteenth century to Rigoberta Menchú's writing today, foreign works have often been distorted by the immediate needs of their own editors and translators. Eloquently written, argued largely by example, and replete with insightful close readings, this book is both an essay in definition and a series of cautionary tales.
Readings In World Literature
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Author : Srikanth Reddy
language : en
Publisher: Omnidawn
Release Date : 2012
Readings In World Literature written by Srikanth Reddy and has been published by Omnidawn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Poetry categories.
Readings in World Literature is the daybook of a speaker haunted by the prospect of perpetual night. Cast in the form of lecture notes for an imaginary course in the humanities, this extended prose sequence combines academic satire, a survivor's memoir, translations from obscure works of world literature, and a postmodern journey through the underworlds of various cultures. Accompanied by a class full of skeptical students--"some in headscarves, some, occasionally, dressed in fatigues"--the quixotic protagonist of this volume undertakes to scale the Tower of Babel that is world literature, and learns, in the process, that learning itself may count for precious little in the final reckoning. "Contrary to the accounts of Mu Lian, Odysseus, and Kwasi Benefo," this speaker discovers, "it is not customarily permitted to visit the underworld. No, the underworld visits you."
The Reader S Companion To World Literature
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Author : Lillian Herlands Hornstein
language : en
Publisher: Signet Book
Release Date : 1956
The Reader S Companion To World Literature written by Lillian Herlands Hornstein and has been published by Signet Book this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with Fiction categories.
An authoritative guide to writers and writings from ancient times to the present.
World Literature I
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Author : Laura Getty
language : en
Publisher: University of North Georgia Press
Release Date : 2015-12-31
World Literature I written by Laura Getty and has been published by University of North Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-31 with Education categories.
This peer-reviewed World Literature I anthology includes introductory text and images before each series of readings. Sections of the text are divided by time period in three parts: the Ancient World, Middle Ages and Renaissance, and then divided into chapters by location. World Literature I and the Compact Anthology of World Literature are similar in format and both intended for World Literature I courses, but these two texts are developed around different curricula.
The Idea Of World Literature
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Author : John Pizer
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2006-04-15
The Idea Of World Literature written by John Pizer and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe introduced the concept of Weltliteratur in 1827 to describe the growing availability of texts from other nations. Although the term "World Literature" is widely used today, there is little agreement on what it means and even less awareness of its evolution. In this wide-ranging work, John Pizer traces the concept of Weltliteratur in Germany beginning with Goethe and continuing through Heinrich Heine, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels to the present as he explores its importation into the United States in the 1830s and the teaching of World Literature in U.S. classrooms since the early twentieth century. Pizer demonstrates the concept's ongoing viability through an in-depth reading of the contemporary Syrian-German transnational novelist Rafik Schami. He also provides a clear methodology for World Literature courses in the twenty-first century. Pizer argues persuasively that Weltliteratur can provide cohesion to the study of World Literature today. In his view, traditional "World Lit" classes are limited by their focus on the universal elements of literature. A course based on Weltliteratur, however, promotes a more thorough understanding of literature as a dialectic between the universal and the particular. In a practical guide to teaching World Literature by employing Goethe's paradigm, he explains how to help students navigate between the extremes of homogenization on the one hand and exoticism on the other, learning both what cultures share and what distinguishes them. Everyone who teaches World Literature will want to read this stimulating book. In addition, anyone interested in the development of the concept from its German roots to its American fruition will find The Idea of World Literature immensely rewarding.
World Literature
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Author : Arthur Christy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1947
World Literature written by Arthur Christy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1947 with Civilization categories.