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...María Soledad Barbón How to Write the History of the New World: Histories,Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World . By Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press,2001. xviii + 450 pp. © 2004 University of Washington 2004...

...Peter Höyng In Beethoven’s last symphony one encounters a prototype in which music serves as a powerful catalyst for literature. It is his music that transported Schiller’s poem “An die Freude” (“Ode to Joy”) beyond its temporal, linguistic, and geographic origin. If one dubs this phenomenon “world...

...Robert C. Jones Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 THE STAGE WORLD AND THE “REAL” WORLD IN MEDWALL’S FULGENS AND LUCRES By ROBERTC. JONES Descriptions of Henry Medwall’s Fulgens und Lucres sometimes give...

... them and their kin” (p. 459). JUSTINE C. RONDEAU Marylhurst, Oregon Chaucer‘s World. Compiled by EDITHRICKERT. Edited by CLAIRC. OLSONand MARTINM. CROW.Illustrations selected by MARGARETRICKERT. New York: Columbia University...

... Hiline were, apparently, composed after December, 1572- January, 1573. MARCELFRANCON HarzJard Unizwsity Ait Age of Crisis: Man and World in Eighteenth Century French Thought. By LESTERG. CROCKER.Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins...

...Jack P. Greene Stephen Greenblatt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. xiv + 202 pp. $24.95. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 110 MLQI March 1994 Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World. By Stephen...

.... At the same time, primitive dance and ceremony served in such films as metonymies for the living yet evanescent primitive, whose culture film was to capture before it might disappear forever. Like ethnographic film, the ethnographic exhibit (in the World's Fair and elsewhere) gave primitive performance...

...Wang Ning Although the term world literature encompasses texts composed in multiple languages, translation makes possible a body of literature from many linguistic and cultural backgrounds that circulates in international critical discourse and is broadly recognized as world literature. Thus...

...Christopher L. Hill In the decades following the publication of Emile Zola's novel Nana (1880), “Nana figures” resembling Zola's heroine appeared in fiction around the world. The history of the Nana figure contradicts current models for the study of world literature, based on the diffusion of forms...

... Elizabeth Bowen’s text within the context of an international cultural and economic world-system. It argues that two historical narratives inform Bowen’s Court : a gothic chronicle of decline and a protoprofessional story of detached expertise. These narratives correspond to two visions of Anglo-Ireland’s...

... on a book on modernism, empire, and world-systems. © 2012 by University of Washington 2012 Realism after Modernism and the Literary World- System Joe Cleary e need, but lack, comprehensive theories and historical atlases Wof twentieth- century realism. Many of the magisterial...

...Caroline Levine; B. Venkat Mani Caroline Levine is professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is an editor of the newly revised Norton Anthology of World Literature (2012) and author of two books: The Serious Pleasures of Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative...

...David Damrosch This essay considers the shifting valences of “world” and “literature” in the American academic context of the past half century. The first part of the essay, which takes up the debates during the 1950s and 1960s on the teaching of world literature in translation, looks particularly...

... his forthcoming projects are a critical edition of the Ernest Fenollosa - Ezra Pound essay “The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry” and a translation of Jean Métellus's Au pipirite chantant . China and the World: The Tale of a Topos Haun Saussy...

... with Freedom: Indonesia after Suharto (2007). He is writing a comparative study of Javanese, Dutch, and Malay literature during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and a book on identity and freedom in Southeast Asia. Locating Indonesian Literature in the World Tony Day n 1975 the Indonesian...

...David Damrosch University of Washington 2007 David Damrosch is professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University and is a past president of the American Comparative Literature Association. His books include What Is World Literature? (2003) and The Buried Book...

...William Egginton The Inordinate Eye: New World Baroque and Latin American Fiction. By Lois Parkinson Zamora. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxvi + 420 pp. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 William Egginton is professor of German and Romance languages...

...Paulo de Medeiros World literature can be seen as one of Friedrich Nietzsche’s “good things,” a great idealization of the capacities of the human spirit and at the same time a fierce contest for power and dominance. In this contest the question of minor literature invariably surfaces in relation...

... the World Became Modern . By Greenblatt Stephen . New York : Norton , 2011 . 356 pp . The Lucretian Renaissance: Philology and the Afterlife of Tradition . By Passannante Gerard . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2011 . 250 pp . © 2013 by University of Washington 2013...

...Djelal Kadir This essay explores three aspects of the phenomenon of world literature in its resurgence in critical discourse: (1) world literature as allophone, or as heteroglossic alterity emanating from discrete geographic points with particular and would-be exclusive traditions; (2) world...