Introduction
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Ganguly, Debjani. (2021). Introduction. In In Ganguly, Debjani (Ed.). The Cambridge history of world literature ; volume 1 pp. 1-46 Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009064446.001
Authors | Ganguly, Debjani |
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Editors | Ganguly, Debjani |
Abstract | World literature dwells in our time and in times past. As a treasured heritage of artistic expression in oral, visual, and written forms, it is an indelible part of the story of evolution of human civilization. As a scholarly field, however, world literature has had a rather sporadic presence in the disciplinary landscape of modern universities, surging and receding in accordance with political and sociocultural transformations. The contemporary era is witnessing one such resurgence. The term world appears to have made a spectacular reentry as a literary critical rubric in the twenty-first century. One hears of the “world” all too frequently in academic circles, and in ways that mark our current global conjuncture as, perhaps, the most apposite moment for its articulation. One is reminded of Walter Benjamin’s phrase “the now of knowability” when certain historical periods offer just the right temporal traction for an idea to gain rhetorical currency. |
Page range | 1-46 |
Year | 2021 |
Book title | The Cambridge history of world literature ; volume 1 |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Place of publication | Cambridge, United Kingdom |
New York, New York | |
Port Melbourne, Victoria | |
New Delhi, India | |
Singapore, Singapore | |
ISBN | 9781009064446 |
9781108557269 | |
9781108493581 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009064446.001 |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 17 Aug 2021 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 20 Oct 2023 |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/8zwx5/introduction
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