A History of World Literature

A History of World Literature is a fully revised and expanded edition of The Routledge Concise History of World Literature (2012). This remarkably broad and informative book offers an introduction to "World Literature."

Autorentext

Theo D'haen is Emeritus Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Leuven University and Emeritus Professor of English and American Literature at Leiden University. He has published widely on (post)modernism, (post)colonialism, and world literature. His publications include World Literature in an Age of Geopolitics (2021) and The Routledge Companion to World Literature, Second Edition (co-edited with David Damrosch and Djelal Kadir; Routledge, 2022).

Klappentext

A History of World Literature is a fully revised and expanded edition of The Routledge Concise History of World Literature (2012). This remarkably broad and informative book offers an introduction to "World Literature."

Inhalt

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The (Re)Turn of World Literature

Chapter 1. Naming World Literature

Chapter 2. Goethe's Weltliteratur and The Humanist Ideal

Chapter 3. World Literature and Comparative Literature

Chapter 4. World Literature as an American Pedagogical Construct

Chapter 5. World Literature in European Academe

Chapter 6. World Literature as System

Chapter 7. World Literature and Translation

Chapter 8. World Literature, (Post)Modernism, (Post)Colonialism, Littérature-Monde, Decoloniality

Chapter 9. Asian, African, and Oceanian Perspectives on World Literature

Chapter 10. World Literature and Planetary Materialities

Bibliography

Index