A History of World Literature

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English | ISBN: 1032433043 | 2024 | 294 pages | PDF | 3 MB
A History of World Literature is a fully revised and expanded edition of The Routledge Concise History of World Literature (2012). This remarkably broad and informative book offers an introduction to "world literature."

Tracing the term from its earliest roots and situating it within a number of relevant contexts from postcolonialism, decoloniality, ecocriticism, and book circulation, Theo D’haen in ten tightly-argued but richly-detailed chapters examines:
the return of the term "world literature" and its changing meaning;
Goethe’s concept of Weltliteratur and how this relates to current debates;
theories and theorists who have had an impact on world literature; and
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