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In the Shadow of World Literature : Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt /
We have grown accustomed to understanding world literature as a collection of national or linguistic traditions bound together in the universality of storytelling. Michael Allan challenges this way of thinking and argues instead that the disciplinary framework of world literature, far from serving a...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover ; Title ; Copyright ; CONTENTS ; Acknowledgments ; Notes on Transliteration ; INTRODUCTION ; Of Words and Worlds ; Literary Modernity in Colonial Egypt ; Reading Beyond Representation ; The Moral Universe of a Secular World ; A User's Guide.
- 1 WORLD The World of World Literature The Constraints of Democratic Criticism ; International Standards of Excellence? ; World Literary Space ; The Saidian Grounds of Worldliness ; The Force of a Secular World ; 2 TRANSLATION The Rosetta Stone from Object to Text.
- Making Stones Speak Leveling Languages, or The Conditions of Equivalence ; Entextualization and the Purely Literary ; The Contours of a Literary Empire ; 3 EDUCATION The Moral Imperative of Modernization ; Failure's Success: Securing the Imagined Future ; From Prejudice to Opinion.
- Governing Hermeneutics, Producing Subjects The Colonial Cultivation of Character ; Immanently Modern and Uncritically Civilized ; 4 LITERATURE How Adab Became Literary ; A World in Words: Philology as Pedagogy ; Literary Institutions and the Instantiation of World Literature.
- Footnoting Literature, or The Literary Footnote Orientalism, or Literature for Its Own Sake ; Disciplines and Frames of Reading ; 5 CRITIQUE Debating Darwin ; Soundness and the Poetics of the Appropriate ; The Force of the Illiterate Reader.