Literature and the Experience of Globalization - Texts Without Borders

How does literature represent, challenge and help us understand our experience of globalization? Taking literary globalization studies beyond its traditional political focus, Literature and the Experience of Globalization explores how writers from Shakespeare through Goethe to Isak Dinesen, J.M. Coetzee, Amitav Ghosh and Bruce Chatwin engage with the human dimensions of globalization. Through a wide range of insightful close readings, Svend Erik Larsen brings contemporary world literature approaches to bear on cross-cultural experiences of migration and travel, translation, memory, history and embodied knowledge. In doing so, this important intervention demonstrates how literature becomes an essential site for understanding the ways in which globalization has become an integral part of everyday experience.>

About the author

Svend Erik Larsen is Professor Emeritus at Aarhus University, Denmark and Honorary Professor at University College London, UK. His previous books include, as co-author, Signs in Use: An Introduction to Semiotics (2002).

Product details

• Authors: Professor Svend Erik (Aarhus University Larsen, Svend Erik Larsen, Svend Erik (Aarhus University Larsen
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781350007567
• ISBN: 978-1-350-00756-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000