Mapping World Literature (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781441173546)

Mapping World Literature explores the study of literature and literary history in light of global changes, looking at what defines world literature in the 21st century.

Surveying ideas of literature from Goethe to the present, Thomsen devises a compelling concept of literary constellations. He discusses a wide-range of critical positions, identifies the limits of comparative and post-colonial approaches and examines two specific cases: literature written by migrant writers and the literature of genocide, war and disaster.

Mapping World Literature captures new ways of understanding the patterns and trends that emerge in literature, opening up and inspiring research to map patterns in the field.

Author: Mads Rosendahl Thomsen
ISBN-10: 1441173544
ISBN-13: 9781441173546
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 10/06/2010
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.40d