Mads Rosendahl Thomsen

Mapping World Literature (eBook, PDF)

International Canonization and Transnational Literatures

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441156488
• Artikelnr.: 40774083

Autorenporträt

Mads Rosendahl Thomsen is Professor of Comparative Literature at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the author of Mapping World Literature: International Canonization and Transnational Literature (2008) and The New Human in Literature: Posthuman Visions of Changes in Body, Mind and Society (2013), and the editor of several volumes, including World Literature: A Reader (2012). He is a member of the Academia Europaea and an advisory board member of the Institute for World Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

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