An Ecology of World Literature

From Antiquity to the Present Day

von Alexander Beecroft

Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

What is a literature? How do literatures of different countries interact with each other? In this groundbreaking study, Alexander Beecroft develops a new way of thinking about world literature. Drawing on a series of examples and case studies, the book ranges from ancient epic to the contemporary fiction of Roberto Bolaño and Amitav Ghosh. Beecroft identifies a series of literary ecologies, from small-scale societies to the planet as a whole, within which literary texts are produced and circulated. An Ecology of World Literature places in dialogue scholarship on ancient and modern, western and non-western texts, producing new and unexpected demands for literary study.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturtheorie
• ISBN: 9781781685730
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 06.01.2015
• Größe: 233 x 154 mm
• Verlag: Verso