Description
| Product ID: | 9781108457842 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | Cambridge Companions to Literature |
| Title: | The Cambridge Companion to World Literature |
| Authors: | Author: Ben Etherington, Jarad Zimbler |
| Page Count: | 286 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: general, Literary studies: general, Literary reference works, Literary reference works, Europe, Asia, The Americas, Modern period, c 1500 onwards |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This Companion introduces readers to major ideas and practices of world literary studies. Its accessible yet sophisticated essays raise fundamental questions about imagining the totality of literature; comparing literary works across histories, cultures and languages; and understanding how literature is affected by forces such as imperialism. The Cambridge Companion to World Literature introduces the significant ideas and practices of world literary studies. It provides a lucid and accessible account of the fundamental issues and concepts in world literature, including the problems of imagining the totality of literature; comparing literary works across histories, cultures and languages; and understanding how literary production is affected by forces such as imperialism and globalization. The essays demonstrate how detailed critical engagements with particular literary texts call forth differing conceptions of world literature, and, conversely, how theories of world literature shape our practices of readings. Subjects covered include cosmopolitanism, transnationalism, internationalism, scale and systems, sociological criticism, translation, scripts, and orality. This book also includes original analyses of genres and forms, ranging from tragedy to the novel and graphic fiction, lyric poetry to the short story and world cinema. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-11-22 |
