Mapping World Literature: International Canonization and Transnational Literatures (Continuum Literary Studies)

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pp. 170, “”Rosendahl Thomsen’s book offers us, for the first time, a both comprehensive and systematic overview of the history, and of the different phenomena and the semantic layers of `World Literature’ today. This would already make his work truly important. But Thomsen goes one decisive step further: he not only points to the traumatic conditions that, in addition to the process of ‘globalization’, have permeated and founded the experience of ‘World Literature’; he also proposes a new concept of literary ‘constellations’ that has the capacity to trigger and to orient future empirical research. Altogether, this is an amazing début by a young Danish scholar within the English-speaking scene of Literary Criticism and Literary Theory.”

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ISBN 1847061230
Published Date 2008
Book Condition Very Good
Jacket Condition No Dj
Binding Hardcover
Size 8vo
Place of Publication U.S.A.
Edition First Edition
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pp. 170, “”Rosendahl Thomsen’s book offers us, for the first time, a both comprehensive and systematic overview of the history, and of the different phenomena and the semantic layers of `World Literature’ today. This would already make his work truly important. But Thomsen goes one decisive step further: he not only points to the traumatic conditions that, in addition to the process of ‘globalization’, have permeated and founded the experience of ‘World Literature’; he also proposes a new concept of literary ‘constellations’ that has the capacity to trigger and to orient future empirical research. Altogether, this is an amazing début by a young Danish scholar within the English-speaking scene of Literary Criticism and Literary Theory.”

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Weight 0.85 kg