Born Translated - The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature

Informationen zum Autor Rebecca L. Walkowitz is professor and director of graduate studies in English and affiliate faculty in comparative literature at Rutgers University. She is the author of Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation (Columbia, 2006), and she has edited or coedited several books, including A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism (Columbia, 2016, with Eric Hayot). She is past president of the Modernist Studies Association. Klappentext A new understanding of the novel¿s cultural and political significance in the age of the global audience. Zusammenfassung A new understanding of the novel’s cultural and political significance in the age of the global audience. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Theory of World Literature Now 1. Close Reading at a Distance 2. The Series, the List, and the Clone 3. Sampling, Collating, and Counting 4. This Is Not Your Language 5. Born Translated and Born Digital Epilogue: Multiples Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Walkowitz, Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Walkowitz Rebecca L.
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.08.2017
• EAN: 9780231165952
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16595-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Literature Now; Literature Now
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Education, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / World, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000