World Literature as Discovery: Expanding the World Literary Canon Longxi Zhang
World Literature as Discovery: Expanding the World Literary Canon Longxi Zhang The rise of world literature is the most noticeable phenomenon in literary studies in the twenty-first century. As much…
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World Literature as Discovery: Expanding the World Literary Canon Longxi Zhang
The rise of world literature is the most noticeable phenomenon in literary studies in the twenty-first century. As much of the world's literature remains untranslated and unknown, the expansion will be an exciting process of discovery. However, truly well-known and globally circulating works are all canonical works of European or Western literature, while non-European and even "minor" European literatures remain largely unknown beyond their culture of origin.World Literature as Discovery: Expanding the World Literary Canon argues that world literature for our time must go beyond Eurocentrism and expand the canon to include great works from non-European and "minor" European literatures.
By discussing fundamental questions around canon, circulation, aesthetic values, translation, cosmopolitanism and the literary universal, Zhang Longxi proposes a new and liberating concept of
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