World Literature in Theory

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World Literature in Theory offers a comprehensive examination of the key issues confronting the study of world literature. Structured in four parts, it explores the discipline's origins, its development amid globalization, current debates, and localized interpretations. Featuring over 30 essential essays by influential scholars like Goethe, Said, Moretti, Borges, and Spivak, the book provides substantial introductions and an annotated bibliography to deepen understanding.
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This collection is ideal for students, academics, and readers interested in literary theory, global literature, and cultural studies. It supports engagement with complex theoretical discussions and scholarly debate on world literature.

World Literature in Theory provides a definitive exploration of the pressing questions facing those studying world literature today.

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World Literature in Theory provides a definitive exploration of the pressing questions facing those studying world literature today.

Coverage is split into four parts which examine the origins and seminal formulations of world literature, world literature in the age of globalization, contemporary debates on world literature, and localized versions of world literature.

Contains more than 30 important theoretical essays by the most influential scholars, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Hugo Meltzl, Edward Said, Franco Moretti, Jorge Luis Borges, and Gayatri Spivak.

Includes substantive introductions to each essay, as well as an annotated bibliography for further reading.

Allows students to understand, articulate, and debate the most important issues in this rapidly changing field of study.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781118407691

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 January 2014

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Contributors:

Edited by David Damrosch

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 173.0mm

Height: 245.0mm

Weight: 821g

Pages: 544

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About the Author

David Damrosch is Professor and Department Chair ofComparative Literature at Harvard University. He is the foundinggeneral editor of the six-volume Longman Anthology of WorldLiterature (2004), the editor of Teaching WorldLiterature (2009), and co-editor of the Princeton Sourcebookin Comparative Literature (2009). He is also the author ofHow to Read World Literature (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008) andThe Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic ofGilgamesh (2007). His current research projects include a bookon the discipline of comparative literature and a book on the roleof global scripts in the formation of national literatures. He is the founding director of the Institute for World Literatureat Harvard University.