World literature as discovery : expanding the world literary canon /
The rise of world literature is the most noticeable phenomenon in literary studies in the twenty-first century. However, truly well-known and globally circulating works are all canonical works of European or Western literature, while non-European and even "minor" European literatures remai...
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
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Table of Contents:
- Goethe and Weltliteratur
- The return to (world) literature
- Circulation and value judgment
- Canon and the classic
- World literature as discoveries
- Language, (un)translatability and world literature
- The challenge of writing a world literary history
- Literary universals
- The mirror of enigma and the mirror of magic
- Potion and poison : Chinese and Shakespearean dialectics
- Conclusion : world literature and cosmopolitanism.