World Literature. World Culture.

In a global age where people, goods and cultural products transcend the boundaries of geography and temporality as never before, it is only natural that literary and cultural studies turn their attention to Goethe's nineteenth-century notion of a Weltliteratur. Offering their own twenty-first-c...

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Main Author: Simonsen, Karen-Margrethe.
Other Authors: Stougaard-Nielsen, Jakob.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara : Aarhus University Press, 2008.
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Online Access:Ebook Central Academic Complete
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Summary:In a global age where people, goods and cultural products transcend the boundaries of geography and temporality as never before, it is only natural that literary and cultural studies turn their attention to Goethe's nineteenth-century notion of a Weltliteratur. Offering their own twenty-first-century perspectives - across generations, nationalities and disciplines, the contributors to this anthology explore the idea of world literatur for what it may add of new connections and itineraries to the study of literature and culture today. Covering a vast historical material from witness accounts of.
Physical Description:1 online resource (283 pages)
ISBN:9788779349902
8779349900