Beschreibung
14 scholars, from Europe, Asia, North and South America and Africa address issues in World Literature. They defend approaching the world-relatedness of non-Eurocentric cultures without blinkers, present the macro- and microcosmic dimensions of regional and world connectedness and its processes, and posit methodological and hermeneutic challenges.
Autorenportrait
Jean Bessière is a Professor emeritus in Comparative Literature at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. He was the ICLA President from 1997 to 2000. He extensively lectured abroad. He coedited two ICLA books (
;
) and recently published
(2010),
(2012),
(2014).
Gerald Gillespie is emeritus professor of Comparative Literature and German studies at Stanford University and a former president of the International Comparative Literature Association. His recent publications include:
(2nd ed., 2010);
(2013);
(2013); and, as coed.,
(2014).
Leseprobe
Leseprobe
Inhalt
Contents: Lisa Block de Behar : Henry James à la quête des universaux – Ipshita Chanda: «World Literature»: A View from Outside the Window – Dorothy Figueira: «Salut au Monde»: The World as Envisioned by World Literature – Eva Kushner: A Moving Target… – Haun Saussy: By Land or Sea: Models of World Literature – Manfred Schmeling : De la
en temps de guerre et de crise : Romain Rolland et Thomas Mann, un maillage international – Maria Alzira Seixo : L’effet-monde et le particulier littéraire – Steven Sondrup: Goethe, China, and World Literature – Monica Spiridon: The Well-Tempered Relativism, Or How to Compare the Incomparable – Micéala Symington: World Literature and Minor Literatures – Mario J. Valdés: Translation and Comparative Literature – Hein Viljoen: Caught in Complex Webs: World Literature - a South African Perspective.
