| Literature, Geography, Translation: Studies in World Writing Contributor(s): Helgesson, Stefan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1443830100 ISBN-13: 9781443830102 Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing OUR PRICE: $67.27 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 809 |
| LCCN: 2011508566 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.1" W x 8.3" (1.05 lbs) 255 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The present volume connects three academic fields that share central concerns but remain surprisingly isolated from each other: world literature studies, postcolonial studies, and translation studies. It approaches translation not as a vague metaphor but as a distinct and socially embedded practice that connects literatures. In similar vein, it interrogates the smoothness of many versions of global theory by insisting on the specificity of place and the resistance to translatibility among languages, oeuvres and genres. The topics covered in the chapters include the formation of world literature as a progamme of study, the French concept of litterature-monde, the rise of English in nineteenth-century Sweden, the translation of Arabic literature in Europe, and the transnationalism of the avant-garde. Through such case studies, and by drawing on the theoretical frameworks of Edouard Glissant, Pierre Bourdieu and David Damrosch, among others, the international group of contributors add substantially to the theoretical and methodological consolidation of world literature as a field of research. |