The Cambridge Companion to World Literature
剑桥世界文学指南
By Ben Etherington, University of Western Sydney
ISBN: 9781108471374 Binding: Hardback list price: USD 99.99
ISBN: 9781108457842 Binding: Paperback list price: USD 29.99
Publication date:2018.10
Pages: 300pp 1 b/w illus. 3 maps
Cambridge Companions to Literature
图书简介
The Cambridge Companion to World Literature introduces the significant ideas and practices of world literary studies. It provides a lucid and accessible account of the fundamental issues and concepts in world literature, including the problems of imagining the totality of literature; comparing literary works across histories, cultures and languages; and understanding how literary production is affected by forces such as imperialism and globalization. The essays demonstrate how detailed critical engagements with particular literary texts call forth differing conceptions of world literature, and, conversely, how theories of world literature shape our practices of readings. Subjects covered include cosmopolitanism, transnationalism, internationalism, scale and systems, sociological criticism, translation, scripts, and orality. This book also includes original analyses of genres and forms, ranging from tragedy to the novel and graphic fiction, lyric poetry to the short story and world cinema.
• Provides exemplary essays in world literary criticism
• Includes discussion of ancient and modern works, from: North America, Latin America,
Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Western Europe
• Considers a range of genres, forms and modes often excluded from recent world literature debates
章节内容
Introduction Ben Etherington and Jarad Zimbler; Part I. Worlds: 1. Cosmopolitanism and world literature Timothy Brennan; 2. Nation, transnationalism, and internationalism Anna Bernard; 3. Scales, systems, and meridians Ben Etherington; 4. Literary worlds and literary fields Jarad Zimbler; 5. Translation and the circuits of world literature Stefan Helgesson; 6. Scriptworlds Sowon Park; 7. Ecologies of orality Liz Gunner; Part II. Practices: 8. Lyric universality Boris Maslov; 9. On worlding tragedy Ato Quayson; 10. The novel and consciousness of labour Neil Lazarus; 11. The worldliness of graphic narrative Charlotta Salmi; 12. Short story and peripheral production Shital Pravinchandra; 13. World cinema, world literature and dialectical criticism Keya Ganguly; 14. Publishing, translating, worldmaking Chris Andrews.
学术水平
undergraduate students, graduate students
读者群
world literature, twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, postcolonial literature