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Contextualizing World Literature

Jean Bessire Gerald Gillespie

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  • 166 sidor
  • 2015
This book revisits the notion of World Literature and its applications in Comparative Literature. It suggests the notion not as a means to sift out international paradigms for reading literatures, but as a set of guidelines for the construction of interlocking and/or reciprocally illuminating multilingual literary clusters. These ensembles are of very diverse shapes: the world, a region, a country, a language block, a network of cross-cultural interferences while the so-called minor literatures invite to question the use of these ensembles. Within this frame, fourteen essays respond to the basic paradox of World Literature: how may specific methodological and critical outlooks allow expression of the universal? The answers to this question can be arranged in three groups: 1. Recognition of the need to break loose from European or Western critical perspectives; 2. Presentation of macro- and microcosmic dimensions connectedness and its processes; 3. Definitions of the methodological efforts and hermeneutic orientations to be applied.
  • Författare: Jean Bessire, Gerald Gillespie
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9782875742834
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 166
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2015-08-11
  • Förlag: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften