The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature

From the European Enlightenment to the Global Present
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-691-13285-3
Verlag: Princeton University Press

Buch, Englisch, 458 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 777 g

Reihe: Translation/Transnation

As comparative literature reshapes itself in today's globalizing age, it is essential for students and teachers to look deeply into the discipline's history and its present possibilities. The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature is a wide-ranging anthology of classic essays and important recent statements on the mission and methods of comparative literary studies. This pioneering collection brings together thirty-two pieces, from foundational statements by Herder, Madame de Staël, and Nietzsche to work by a range of the most influential comparatists writing today, including Lawrence Venuti, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Franco Moretti. Gathered here are manifestos and counterarguments, essays in definition, and debates on method by scholars and critics from the United States, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America, giving a unique overview of comparative study in the words of some of its most important practitioners. With selections extending from the beginning of comparative study through the years of intensive theoretical inquiry and on to contemporary discussions of the world's literatures, The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature helps readers navigate a rapidly evolving discipline in a dramatically changing world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Damrosch, David

Melas, Natalie

Buthelezi, Mbongiseni

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

INTRODUCTION ix

PART ONE: ORIGINS

CHAPTER 1: Results of a Comparison of Different Peoples? Poetry in Ancient and Modern Times (1797) 3

by Johann Gottfried Herder

CHAPTER 2: Of the General Spirit of Modern Literature (1800) 10

by Germaine de Sta?l

CHAPTER 3: Conversations on World Literature (1827) 17

by J. W. von Goethe and J. P. Eckermann

CHAPTER 4: From The Birth of Tragedy (1872) 26

by Friedrich Nietzsche

CHAPTER 5: Present Tasks of Comparative Literature (1877) 41

by Hugo Meltzl

CHAPTER 6: The Comparative Method and Literature (1886) 50

by Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett

CHAPTER 7: World Literature (1899) 61

by Georg Brandes

CHAPTER 8: From What Is Comparative Literature? (1903) 67

by Charles Mills Gayley

PART TWO: THE YEARS OF CRISIS

CHAPTER 9: The Epic and the Novel (1916) 81

by Georg Luk?cs

CHAPTER 10: Chaos in the Literary World (1934) 92

by Kobayashi Hideo

CHAPTER 11: From Epic and Novel (1941) 104

by Mikhail Bakhtin

CHAPTER 12: Preface to European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (1948) 120

by Ernst Robert Curtius

CHAPTER 13: Philology and Weltliteratur (1952) 125

by Erich Auerbach

CHAPTER 14: From Minima Moralia (1951) 139

by Theodor Adorno

CHAPTER 15: Poetry, Society, State (1956) 150

by Octavio Paz

CHAPTER 16: Preface to La Litt?rature compar?e (1951) 158

by Jean-Marie Carr?

CHAPTER 17: The Crisis of Comparative Literature (1959) 161

by Ren? Wellek

PART THREE: THE THEORY YEARS

CHAPTER 18: The Structuralist Activity (1963) 175

by Roland Barthes

CHAPTER 19: Women?s Time (1977) 183

by Julia Kristeva

CHAPTER 20: Semiology and Rhetoric (1973) 208

by Paul de Man

CHAPTER 21: Writing (1990) 227

by Barbara Johnson

CHAPTER 22: The Position of Translated Literature within the Literary Polysystem (1978) 240

by Itamar Even-Zohar

CHAPTER 23: Cross-Cultural Poetics: National Literatures (1981) 248

by ?douard Glissant

CHAPTER 24: The World, the Text, and the Critic (1983) 259

by Edward W. Said

CHAPTER 25: The Quest for Relevance (1986) 284

by Ngugi wa Thiong?o

PART FOUR: CONTEMPORARY EXPLORATION S

CHAPTER 26: Comparative Cosmopolitanism (1992) 309

by Bruce Robbins

CHAPTER 27: Literature, Nation, and Politics (1999) 329

by Pascale Casanova

CHAPTER 28: Comparative Literature in China (2000) 341

by Zhou Xiaoyi and Q. S. Tong

CHAPTER 29: From Translation, Community, Utopia (2000) 358

by Lawrence Venuti

CHAPTER 30: Crossing Borders (2003) 380

by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

CHAPTER 31: Evolution, World-Systems, Weltliteratur (2006) 399

by Franco Moretti

CHAPTER 32: A New Comparative Literature (2006) 409

by Emily Apter

BIBLIOGRAPHIES 421

CREDITS 431

INDEX 435

Über Autor(innen)

David Damrosch is professor of comparative literature at Harvard University and a past president of the American Comparative Literature Association. His books include "How to Read World Literature" and "What Is World Literature?" (Princeton). Natalie Melas is associate professor of comparative literature at Cornell University and the author of" All the Difference in the World: Postcoloniality and the Ends of Comparison". Mbongiseni Buthelezi is a doctoral student in English and comparative literature at Columbia University.