World Literature in Theory

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Damrosch, David
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2014.
Series:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • World Literature in Theory
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Introduction World Literature in Theory and Practice: World Literature In Theory And Practice
  • Notes
  • Part One Origins
  • 1 Conversations with Eckermann on Weltliteratur (1827)
  • Notes
  • 2 The Emergence of Weltliteratur Goethe and the Romantic School (2006): Goethe And The Romantic School (2006)
  • Notes
  • 3 Present Tasks of Comparative Literature (1877)
  • I
  • II: The Principle of Polyglottism
  • Notes
  • 4 What Is World Literature? (1886)
  • What Is World-Literature?
  • Note
  • 5 World Literature (1907)
  • Notes
  • 6 A View on the Unification of Literature (1922)
  • I
  • II
  • III
  • IV
  • V
  • VI
  • Notes
  • Part Two World Literature in the Age of Globalization
  • 7 Reflections on Yiddish World Literature (1938-1939): The "Quasi-Territorialism" Of Yiddish Literature
  • Where Is the Center of Yiddish Literature Today? The Stem and the Branches
  • Question and Answer
  • Quality and Quantity
  • On Stem, Axis, Pillar of Cloud and Pillar of Fire
  • Geography and Statistics
  • Where Is the Stem?
  • The Lost Branches
  • American Conclusion of a Jewish World Traveler
  • Notes
  • The "Quasi-Territorialism" of Yiddish Literature
  • II. "Quasi-Territory in Place of Religion"
  • III. "Artistic Equivalent to Religion"
  • Notes
  • 8 Should We Rethink the Notion of World Literature? (1974)
  • Notes
  • 9 Constructing Comparables (2000)
  • 10 Traveling Theory (1982)
  • Notes
  • 11 Toward World Literary Knowledges: Theory In The Age of Globalization (2010)
  • World Lit without World Lit Crit
  • New Beginnings
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • 12 Conjectures on World Literature (2000) and More Conjectures (2003): More Conjectures (2003)
  • Conjectures on World Literature (2000)
  • World Literature: One and Unequal
  • Distant Reading
  • The Western European Novel: Rule or Exception?
  • Experiments with History
  • Forms as Abstracts of Social Relationships
  • Trees, Waves and Cultural History
  • Notes
  • More Conjectures (2003)
  • I
  • II
  • III
  • IV
  • V
  • Notes
  • 13 World Literature without a Hyphen: Towards A Typology of Literary Systems (2008)
  • Literature and Power
  • Six Modes
  • The Sanskrit Example
  • Vernacular to National
  • Regional and Global
  • Notes
  • 14 Literature as a World (2005)
  • Birth of a World
  • Stockholm and Greenwich
  • Temporalities
  • Seeing through Borders
  • World Space or World-System
  • Accumulating Power
  • Degrees of Autonomy
  • Forms of Domination
  • Modernismo as Re-expropriation
  • Notes
  • 15 Globalization and Cultural Diversity in the Book Market: The Case of Literary Translations in the US and In France (2010)
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Data and Survey
  • 3. Effects of Globalization in the Book Market
  • 4. Large-Scale vs. Small-Scale Circulation
  • 5. Literary Translation as a Factor of Cultural Diversity
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References