The work of world literature : introduction
- The contentious discourse around world literature tends to stress the 'world' in the phrase. This volume, in contrast, asks what it means to approach world literature by inflecting the question of the literary. Debates for, against, and around 'world literature' have brought renewed attention to the worldly aspects of the literary enterprise. Literature is studied with regard to its sociopolitical and cultural references, contexts and conditions of production, circulation, distribution, and translation. But what becomes of the literary when one speaks of world literature? Responding to Derek Attridge's theory of how literature 'works', the contributions in this volume explore in diverse ways and with attention to a variety of literary practices what it might mean to speak of 'the work of world literature'. The volume shows how attention to literariness complicates the ethical and political conundrums at the centre of debates about world literature.
Author: | Francesco Giusti, Benjamin Lewis Robinson |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-609291 |
URL: | https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-19/giusti-robinson_introduction.pdf |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-19_01 |
ISBN: | 978-3-96558-013-8 |
ISBN: | 978-3-96558-022-0 |
ISSN: | 2627-731X |
Parent Title (English): | The work of world literature / ed. by Francesco Giusti and Benjamin Lewis Robinson ; Cultural Inquiry ; Vol. 19 |
Publisher: | ICI Press |
Place of publication: | Berlin |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2021/05/03 |
Year of first Publication: | 2021 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2021/06/10 |
GND Keyword: | Weltliteratur; Attridge, Derek |
Page Number: | 23 |
First Page: | 2 |
Last Page: | 23 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 481513302 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / ICI Berlin | |
BDSL-Klassifikation: | 04.00.00 Allgemeine Literaturgeschichte / BDSL-Klassifikation: 04.00.00 Allgemeine Literaturgeschichte > 04.04.00 Weltliteratur |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 |