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The study of world literature is on the rise. Until recently, the term "world literature" was a misnomer in comparative literature scholarship, which typically focused on Western literature in European languages. In an increasingly globalized era, this is beginning to change. In this colle...

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Autor principal: Zhang, Longxi (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Comparative literature > Western and Oriental.
Comparative literature > Oriental and Western.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Litterature comparee > Occidentale et orientale.
Litterature comparee > Orientale et occidentale.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 Crossroads, Distant Killing, and Translation: On the Ethics and Politics of Comparison
  • Crossroads and Parallelism
  • Killing a Chinese Mandarin
  • A Critique of Untranslatability
  • Concluding Remarks: The Inevitability of Comparison
  • 2 The Complexity of Difference: Individual, Cultural, and Cross-Cultural
  • 3 Difference or Affinity? A Methodological Issue in Comparative Studies
  • 4 Heaven and Man: From a Cross-Cultural Perspective
  • 5 The True Face of Mount Lu: On the Significance of Perspectives and Paradigms
  • 6 History and Fictionality: Insights and Limitations of a Literary Perspective7 In Search of a Land of Happiness: Utopia and Its Discontents
  • 8 Qian Zhongshu and World Literature
  • 9 The Poetics of World Literature
  • 10 The Changing Concept of World Literature
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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