Studying Transcultural Literary History

In our globalised world, literature is less and less confined to national spaces. Europe-centred frameworks for literary studies have become insufficient; academics are increasingly called upon to address matters of cultural difference. In this unique volume, leading scholars discuss the critical and methodical challenges that these developments pose to the writing of literary history. What is the object of literary history? What is the meaning of the term "world literature"? How do we compare different cultural systems of genres? How do we account theoretically for literary transculturation? What are the implications of postcolonial studies for the discipline of comparative literature? Ranging in focus from the Persian epic of Majnun Layla and Zulu praise poetry to South Korean novels and Brazilian antropofagismo, the essays offer a concise overview of these and related questions. Their aim is not to reach a consensus on these matters. They show instead what is at stake in the emergent field of global comparatism.

About the author

Gunilla Lindberg-Wada, University of Stockholm, Sweden.

Product details

• Assisted by: Gunill Lindberg-Wada (Editor), Gunilla Lindberg-Wada (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2006
• EAN: 9783110189551
• ISBN: 978-3-11-018955-1
• No. of pages: 316
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 26 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 591 g
• Series: spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum Literature; spectrum Literaturwissenschaft; spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum Literature; spectrum Literaturwissenschaft; ISSN
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literaturwissenschaft, Literaturgeschichte, Asien, Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Vergleichende Literatur- u. Sprachwissenschaft, Komparatistik, Sprachwissenschaft / Komparatistik, Literaturwissenschaft (vergleichende), Schreiben - Schreibunterricht