Mapping World Literature

International Canonization and Transnational Literatures

AvMads Rosendahl Thomsen

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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Thomsen develops the concept of constellations of books based on particular formal and thematic traits and shows how this works in relation to literature written by migrant writers and literature on genocides, wars and catastrophes. "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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-10-06
Mått:154 x 232 x 12 mm
Vikt:280 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Continuum Literary Studies
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:Continuum Publishing Corporation
ISBN:9781441173546

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Mads Rosendahl Thomsen is Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Aarhus University, Denmark. He has been a Visiting Scholar and guest lecturer at Stanford University and is editor of the academic journal Passage.

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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

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. World Literature: History, concept, paradigm; 2. Shifting focal points in the international canon; 3. Migrant writers and cosmopolitan culture; 4. Ethics and aesthetics in traumatic literature; Conclusion: Constellations as facts and experiments; Notes; References; Appendix: World Literature by Georg Brandes; Index.