Mapping World Literature

International Canonization and Transnational Literatures

AvMads Rosendahl Thomsen

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Mapping World Literature explores the study of literature and literary history in light of global changes, looking at what defines world literature in the 21st century. Surveying ideas of literature from Goethe to the present, Thomsen devises a compelling concept of literary constellations. He discusses a wide-range of critical positions, identifies the limits of comparative and post-colonial approaches and examines two specific cases: literature written by migrant writers and the literature of genocide, war and disaster. Mapping World Literature captures new ways of understanding the patterns and trends that emerge in literature, opening up and inspiring research to map patterns in the field.

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Utgivningsdatum:2008-06-21
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:192
Filformat:PDF
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781441156488
Förlag:Continuum Publishing Corporation
Serie:Continuum Literary Studies

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Mads Rosendahl Thomsen is Professor with Special Responsibilities in Comparative Literature at Aarhus University, Denmark.

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"Rosendahl Thomsen's book offers us, for the first time, a both comprehensive and systematic overview of the history, and of the different phenomena and the semantic layers of 'World Literature' today. This would already make his work truly important. But Thomsen goes one decisive step further: he not only points to the traumatic conditions that, in addition to the process of 'globalization', have permeated and founded the experience of 'World Literature'; he also proposes a new concept of literary 'constellations' that has the capacity to trigger and to orient future empirical research. Altogether, this is an amazing début by a young Danish scholar within the English-speaking scene of Literary Criticism and Literary Theory."Professor Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Albert Guérard Professor in Literature, Stanford University, USA

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AcknowledgementsIntroduction 1. World Literature: History, concept, paradigm 2. Shifting focal points in the international canon3. Migrant writers and cosmopolitan culture4. Ethics and aesthetics in traumatic literatureConclusion: Constellations as facts and experimentsNotes ReferencesAppendix: World Literature by Georg BrandesIndex