Routledge Literature Companions: The Routledge Companion to World Literature
Routledge Literature Companions: The Routledge Companion to World Literature
Editors: D'haen, Theo, Damrosch, David and Kadir, Djelal
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Routledge
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-0-415-82795-9
Category: Language & Literature - Literature
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
In the age of globalization, the category of "World Literature" is increasingly important to academic teaching and research. The Routledge Companion to World Literature offers a comprehensive pathway into this burgeoning and popular field.
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Table of Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Preface: Weltliteratur, littérature universelle, vishwa sahitya ... - THEO D'HAEN, DAVID DAMROSCH AND DJELAL KADIR
- PART I The historical dimension
- 1 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: origins and relevance of Weltliteratur - JOHN PIZER
- 2 Hugo Meltzl and “the principle of polyglottism” - DAVID DAMROSCH
- 3 Georg Brandes: the telescope of comparative literature - SVEND ERIK LARSEN
- 4 Richard Moulton and the “perspective attitude” in world literature - SARAH LAWALL
- 5 Rabindranath Tagore’s comparative world literature - BHAVYA TIWARI
- 6 Richard Meyer’s concept of world literature - MONIKA SCHMITZ-EMANS
- 7 Albert Guérard: reworking humanism for a troubled century - DOMINIQUE VAUGEOIS
- 8 Erich Auerbach and the death and life of world literature - AAMIR R. MUFTI
- 9 Qian Zhongshu as comparatist - ZHANG LONGXI
- 10 René Etiemble: defense and illustration of a “true literary comparatism” - SAMIRA SAYEH
- 11 Dionýz Ďurišin and a systemic theory of world literature - CÉSAR DOMÍNGUEZ
- 12 Claudio Guillén: (world) literature as system - DARÍO VILLANUEVA
- 13 Edward W. Said: the worldliness of world literature - JONATHAN ARAC
- 14 Pascale Casanova and the Republic of Letters - HELENA CARVALHÃO BUESCU
- 15 Franco Moretti and the global wave of the novel - MADS ROSENDAHL THOMSEN
- PART II The disciplinary dimension
- 16 World literature and philology - MICHAEL HOLQUIST
- 17 World literature and national literature(s) - JING TSU
- 18 World literature and comparative literature - SANDRA BERMANN
- 19 World literature and translation studies - LAWRENCE VENUTI
- 20 World literature between history and theory - VILASHINI COOPPAN
- 21 World literature and postmodernism - HANS BERTENS
- 22 World literature and postcolonialism - ROBERT J.C. YOUNG
- 23 World literature and globalization - ERIC HAYOT
- 24 World literature and diaspora studies - JASON FRYDMAN
- 25 World literature and cosmopolitanism - CÉSAR DOMÍNGUEZ
- PART III The theoretical dimension
- 26 Teaching worldly literature - MARTIN PUCHNER
- 27 The canon(s)of world literature - PETER CARRAVETTA
- 28 The great books - JOHN T. KIRBY
- 29 Bibliomigrancy: book series and the making of world literature - B. VENKAT MANI
- 30 World literature and the internet - THOMAS O. BEEBEE
- 31 World literature and the library - REINGARD NETHERSOLE
- 32 World literature and the book market - ANN STEINER
- 33 World literature, francophonie, and Creole cosmopolitics - FRANÇOISE LIONNET
- 34 World literature and popular literature: toward a wordless literature? - JAN BAETENS
- 35 The genres of world literature: the case of magical realism - MARIANO SISKIND
- 36 The poetics of world literature - ZHANG LONGXI
- 37 The ethics of world literature - PETER HITCHCOCK
- 38 The politics of world literature - SANJA BAHUN
- 39 Uses of world literature - BRUCE ROBBINS
- 40 Gender and sexuality in world literature - DEBRA A. CASTILLO
- 41 World literature and the environment - URSULA K. HEISE
- 42 Mapping world literature - THEO D'HAEN
- PART IV The geographical dimension
- 43 World literature and European literature - ROBERTO M. DAINOTTO
- 44 World literature and Latin American literature - DJELAL KADIR
- 45 World literature and US American literature - LAWRENCE BUELL
- 46 African roads - NIRVANA TANOUKHI
- 47 World literature and East Asian literature - RED CHAN
- 48 Constructions of world literature in colonial and postcolonial India - VINAY DHARWADKER
- 49 The Thousand and One Nights as world literature - SANDRA NADDAFF
- 50 World literature and Muslim Southeast Asia - RONIT RICCI