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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zhang, Longxi (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, [2024].
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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.