Major Histories, Minor Literatures, and World Authors

World Literatures in Temporal Perspective

In his article "World Literature vexed problem of how to shape a literary history in projecting old Western patterns onto new ages and distant areas of the world. This problem becomes acute when one seeks to create a genuinely global literary history. Damrosch surveys some early periodizations according to patterns of infancy, growth, maturity, and decline, and discusses the often unrealized pe...

Translation, Cross-cultural Interpretation, and World Literatures

In their article "Translation, Cross-cultural interpretation, and World Literatures" Qingben Li and Jinghua Guo discuss how to make what is national literature become part of world literatures and posit that there are at least two ways by this can be done: translation and crosscultural interpretation. Translation covers not only the conversion of language, but also the selection and variation o...

World Literatures, Comparative Literature, and Glocal Cosmopolitanism

In his article "World Literature Paolo Bartoloni reflects on the topos of the crisis of literature and the humanities. An urge to question the status and the relevance of literature; to investigate the relation between literature and literary studies; and the location of literature within the context of a transf last three decades. Assuming that a bond exists between literature and the world, w...

Identifying Authors that Link Disparate Literatures

The Pan-Asian Empire and World Literatures

In her article "The Pan-As world literature studies have been been an increasing preoccupation with literary networks the last century, the investigations have been restricted to the colonial world and the postcolonial states of the Western powers. The non Imperial Japan, colonial Korea, semi the margins as just passed over. Park recalibrates "center/periphery" models of world literature and pr...