Comparing the Literatures (eBook)

Literary Studies in a Global Age

David Damrosch (Autor)

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2020
392 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20128-3 (ISBN)

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From a leading figure in comparative literature, a major new survey of the field that points the way forward for a discipline undergoing rapid changesLiterary studies are being transformed today by the expansive and disruptive forces of globalization. More works than ever circulate worldwide in English and in translation, and even national traditions are increasingly seen in transnational terms. To encompass this expanding literary universe, scholars and teachers need to increase their linguistic and cultural resources, rethink their methods and training, and reconceive the place of literature and criticism in the world. In Comparing the Literatures, David Damrosch integrates comparative, postcolonial, and world-literary perspectives to offer a comprehensive overview of comparative studies and its prospects in a time of great upheaval and great opportunity.Comparing the Literatures looks both at institutional forces and at key episodes in the life and work of comparatists who have struggled to define and redefine the terms of literary analysis over the past two centuries, from Johann Gottfried Herder and Germaine de Stael to Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Franco Moretti, and Emily Apter. With literary examples ranging from Ovid and Kalidasa to James Joyce, Yoko Tawada, and the internet artists Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, Damrosch shows how the main strands of comparison-philology, literary theory, colonial and postcolonial studies, and the study of world literature-have long been intertwined. A deeper understanding of comparative literature's achievements, persistent contradictions, and even failures can help comparatists in literature and other fields develop creative responses to today's most important questions and debates.Amid a multitude of challenges and new possibilities for comparative literature, Comparing the Literatures provides an important road map for the discipline's revitalization.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.4.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 14 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Ali Behdad • Allegory • Anatomy of Criticism • Anecdote • Apuleius • Autobiography • Benedict Anderson • Ben Etherington • Biography • British Literature • Buddhism • Cambridge Companion to World Literature • Cesar Dominguez • Chinese literature • Chinua Achebe • Classroom • Close reading • Colonialism • Comparative Literature • comp lit • Confucianism • Cosmopolitanism • crisis of comparative literature • Criticism • cross-cultural • Dario Villanueva • death of comparative literature • Deconstruction • Dominic Thomas • Edward Said • English literature • Erich Auerbach • Essay • Fiction • Finnegans Wake • Franco Moretti • future of literary criticism • future of literary studies • Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak • Genre • Georg Brandes • ghalib • Great Power • Handbook • Harry Levin • Haun Saussy • hegemony • Herder • History • history of literary criticism • Humanities • Hu Shih • Ideology • Introduction • Irony • Jacques Derrida • Jarad Zimbler • Jews • Joseph Conrad • Lecture • Leo Spitzer • Lilian Furst • Linguistics • Lin Yutang • Literary criticism • Literary Theory • Literature • Lu Xun • Marguerite Yourcenar • Memoir • mla • modernism • Modernity • Modern Language Association • Multatuli • Murasaki (novel) • Murasaki Shikibu • narrative • newspaper • Northrop Frye • Novel • novelist • Orhan Pamuk • Orientalism • Paperback • Paul de Man • petrarch • Philology • Philosopher • Philosophy • Poet • Poetry • Politics • Postmodernism • Prose • Rabindranath Tagore • Rene Wellek • rhetoric • Roland Barthes • Romanticism • Salman Rushdie • Sanskrit • Satire • Scientism • Sheldon Pollock • Short Story • Technology • the europeans • Theory of literature • theory wars • the tale of genji • To this Day • Translation • Translation Studies • Tristia • T. S. Eliot • Viktor Shklovsky • Virginia Woolf • Vladimir Nabokov • Western Culture • Western literature • World literature • Writer • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20128-5 / 0691201285
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20128-3 / 9780691201283