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What Is a World? On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature by Pheng Cheah
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (4): 452–454.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Emmanuel Bruno Jean-François What Is a World? On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature . By Cheah Pheng . Durham : Duke University Press , 2016 . ix, 397 p. Copyright © 2017 University of Oregon 2017 Works Cited Allan Michael . In the Shadow of World...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (3): 285–293.
Published: 01 September 2024
..., and Mbongiseni Buthelezi (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009, 41–49); and World Literature: A Reader , edited by Theo D’Haen, Cesar Dominguez, and Mads Rosendahl Thomsen (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2013, 18–22). While Schulz and Rhein, as well as the editors of those later two collections, were aware...
View articletitled, Three Translations from the Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum : “Preliminary Tasks of Comparative <span class="search-highlight">Literature</span>, Part III: Decaglotism”; “Laws of Comparative Literary Research”; and “Goethe’s <span class="search-highlight">World</span> <span class="search-highlight">Literature</span>”
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Geopolitics of Comparison: World Literature Avant la Lettre
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 255–269.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., and under what ideological and discursive conditions. [email protected] Copyright © 2021 by University of Oregon 2021 geopolitics of comparison comparative literature world literature Arabic literature Juan Andrés Wer sich selbst und andere kennt, Wird auch hier erkennen...
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World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (4): 502–505.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan [email protected] World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics . By J. Daniel Elam . New York : Fordham University Press , 2021 . 192 pp. Copyright © 2022 by University of Oregon 2022 What...
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Two Aspects of Language, Two Types of Comparison: Toward a Rhetoric of Comparative and World Literature
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 111–126.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Ben Hutchinson Abstract This article revisits the emergence of “comparative” and “world” literature within the early nineteenth century, arguing that we can only understand the full normative force of the two terms if we read them rhetorically. In order to do this, the article draws on Roman...
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The Hikayat Abdullah , the Missionary Press, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century “World Literature”
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (4): 451–471.
Published: 01 December 2024
... represents an attempt to present Malay writing to European audiences as a coherent national and, by extrapolation, world literature. Retracing Abdullah’s strategic textual work is important not only because it helps explain his status as the “Father of Modern Malay Literature,” but also because it exposes...
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Poetry and the Production of Solidarity: Nazım Hikmet in Beijing, “Asiafrica,” and World Literature
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Comparative Literature (2025) 77 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 March 2025
... explores Hikmet’s reception in China in the context of yafei wenxue , or “Asiafrican literature,” and its significance for literary history (particularly South-South relations) and the role of translation in world literature. [email protected] Copyright © 2025 by University of Oregon 2025...
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America's Exceptional Comparabilities: An Instance of World Literature
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 209–219.
Published: 01 June 2009
... of the Fourth World: Reading the Native Americas through Their Literatures . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992 . Calvino, Italo. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler . Trans. William Weaver. Orlando: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981 . ____. Se una notte d'inverno un viagiattore . Milano: Einaudi, 1979...
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Lost in Lit-Terra Incognita, or What Is and to What End Do We Study World Literature?
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 315–335.
Published: 01 September 2010
... to pass academic judgment on texts from literatures they are not sufficiently equipped to handle linguistically, culturally, and historically. Against the backdrop of the recent spate of publications on world literature, especially the monographs by David Damrosch and the various multi-volume anthologies...
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The Globalization of the Novel and the Novelization of the Global. A Critique of World Literature
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 336–360.
Published: 01 September 2010
... of world literature. Recently re-introduced to academic debate by Franco Moretti, Pascale Casanova, and David Damrosch, among others, this restored notion of world literature can be understood as an attempt to conceptualize the global ubiquity of the novel since the mid-twentieth century. Here I analyze...
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“A sane balance of values”: The Cantos as World Literature
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 361–375.
Published: 01 September 2010
... language that is its ostensible ground, while at the same time arguing, through a specific theory of the art object, against the stability of the perceiving subject. The poem thus critiques the concentric circles of identity, nation, and culture by positing a transnational world literature built upon...
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World Literature, Postcolonial Studies, and Coolie Odysseys: J.-M.g. Le Clézio's and Amitav Ghosh's Indian Ocean Novels
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (3): 287–311.
Published: 01 September 2015
... , that is, as world-forming literature rather than world literature. Borrowing from Jean-Luc Nancy's philosophical discussion in The Creation of the World or Globalization , I propose a notion of world literature as a critical practice attentive to the mobilities within the texts. Theoretical considerations about...
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The Multilingual Local in World Literature
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (4): 345–374.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Francesca Orsini This essay questions the geographical categories used to underpin current theoretical and methodological approaches to “world literature,” which end up making nine-tenths of the world, and of literature produced in the world, drop off the world map or appear “peripheral.” Focusing...
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The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (1): 101–105.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Joshua S. Mostow The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature . By Emmerich Michael . New York : Columbia University Press , 2013 . 494 p. © 2016 by University of Oregon 2016 BOOK REVIEWS / 101...
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Spanish Bawds and Quixotic Libraries: Adventures and Misadventures in Early English Hispanism and World Literature
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (4): 370–388.
Published: 01 December 2016
...José María Pérez Fernández This essay focuses on two early English Hispanists, James Mabbe (1571/2–1642?) and Thomas Percy (1729–1811), who exemplify different stages in the pre-history of Comparative and World Literature. It explores their appropriation of La Celestina and Don Quijote as case...
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Cosmopolitan Desires: Global Modernity and World Literature in Latin America
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (3): 354–356.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Ximena Briceño Cosmopolitan Desires: Global Modernity and World Literature in Latin America . By Siskind Mariano . Evanston : Northwestern University Press , 2014 . 357 p. © 2016 by University of Oregon 2016 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 354
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Constructing a Case: Reflections on Comparative Studies, World Literature, and Theories of the Novel's Emergence
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (3): 271–287.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Katarzyna Bartoszyńska This essay uses a comparative reading of two novels, Jan Potocki's Manuscrit Trouvé à Saragosse ( Manuscript Found in Saragossa , 1804–15) and Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer (1820), to investigate the methodologies of comparative and world literature studies. Although...
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Recoding World Literature: Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany’s Pact with Books by B. Venkat Mani
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (1): 99–101.
Published: 01 March 2018
...John Pizer Recoding World Literature: Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany’s Pact with Books . By Mani B. Venkat . Fordham University Press , 2017 . 348 p. Copyright © 2018 University of Oregon 2018 BOOK REVIEWS / 99...
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Goethe's “World Literature” Paradigm and Contemporary Cultural Globalization
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (3): 213–227.
Published: 01 June 2000
...) Greene, Thomas, et al. “The Greene Report, 1975.” Bernheimer 28 -38. Guérard, Albert. Preface to World Literature . New York: Henry Holt, 1940 . Guillén, Claudio. The Challenge of Comparative Literature . Trans. Cola Franzen. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993 . Hohlfeld, A.R...
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Dead, or a Picture of Good Health? Comparatism, Europe, and World Literature
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (4): 418–435.
Published: 01 September 2006
... historia comparada das literaturas na Península ibérica . Ed. Anxo Abuín and Anxo Tarrío. Santiago de Compostela: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 2004 . 21 -43. Casanova, Pascale. “Literature as a World.” New Left Review 31 ( January /February 2005 ): 71 -90. ____. The World...
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