To browse Academia. This volume delves into Italian literature throughout history, exploring significant works, authors, and events that shaped the literary landscape. It provides a comprehensive chronology of relevant events, touching on key themes such as social disparities, cultural movements, and the evolution of literary forms within Italy.
By showcasing various authors and their contributions, the book contextualizes Italian literature within a broader literary framework. Literature and the World presents a broad and multifaceted introduction to world literature and globalization.
The book provides a brief background and history of the field followed by a wide spectrum of exemplary readings and case studies from around the world. Amongst other aspects of World Literature, the authors look at: New approaches to digital humanities and world literature Ecologies of world literature Rethinking geography in a globalized world Translation Race and political economy Offering state of the art debates on world literature, this volume is a superb introduction to the field.
Its critically thoughtful approach makes this the ideal guide for anyone approaching World Literature. Although the concept can be traced back to the nineteenth century or earlier, world literature has become an increasingly significant part of English and comparative literature in the past two decades.
Drawing upon earlier visions of Goethe, Marx, Auerbach, and Said, along with recent critics such as Franco Moretti, Pascale Casanova, and David Damrosch, Tally traces the trajectory of his postnationalist vision of a world literature that may simultaneously preserve cultural specificity without fetishizing it and engender transcultural connections without effacing difference, thus serving comparative literary studies in an age of globalization.
