About this title: In the continuing debates about the cultural dimensions of globalization the question of "literature" has been something of a poor relation. This volume seeks to redress the balance, with a starting point of Goethe's idea of Weltliteratur, from which it travels out to various parts of the globe at different historical junctures. The book's ...
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Description: New in no jacket. pp. 353. This book starts at Goetheís idea of ìWeltliteratur, î from which it then travels to various places at different historical junctures. It is concerned with the legacies of Goetheís idea, cross-cultural encounters, variable understandings of the term ëliteratureí itself, the nature of ësmall literaturesí, and the cultural politics of literary genres. It seeks to transcend the pieties and simplifications of polemic in search for the complexity embodied in the linking ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Verso Books
Date Published: 16/01/2004
ISBN-13:9781859844588ISBN:1859844588
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