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This book revisits the notion of World Literature and its applications in Comparative Literature. It suggests the notion not as a means to sift out international paradigms for reading literatures, but as a set of guidelines for the construction of interlocking and/or reciprocally illuminating multilingual literary clusters. These ensembles are of very diverse shapes: the world, a region, a country, a language block, a network of cross-cultural «interferences» - while the so-called minor literatures invite to question the use of these ensembles. Within this frame, fourteen essays respond to the basic paradox of World Literature: how may specific methodological and critical outlooks allow expression of the universal? The answers to this question can be arranged in three groups: 1. Recognition of the need to break loose from European or Western critical perspectives; 2. Presentation of macro- and microcosmic dimensions connectedness and its processes; 3. Definitions of the methodological efforts and hermeneutic orientations to be applied.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Contextualizing World Literature
• Author: Jean Bessi?re, Gerald Gillespie
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 166
• EAN: 9782875742834
• ISBN: 9782875742834
• ID: 10020334
• Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Weight: 244 g
• Dimensions: 153 × 221 × 9 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. August 2015

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