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Reading World Literature : Theory, History, Practice / ed. by Sarah Lawall.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1994Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9780292763418
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Reading World Literature -- Part I. Initial Perspectives: Teaching the Unfamiliar; Locating Canonical Values -- Introduction -- 1. Misunderstanding Poetry: Teaching outside the Western Canon -- 2. Classical Criticism and the Canon, or, Why Read the Ancient Critics? -- Part 2. Canonical Variations: Working with Texts and Their Countertexts -- Introduction -- 3. Men Working: Community under Construction -- 4. Playing Caliban: Cesaire's Tempest -- 5. Celtic Literature and the European Canon -- 6. Love and Country: Allegorical Romance in Latin America -- 7. Reading Genres across Cultures: The Example of Autobiography -- Part 3. Languages of Community: Reading the Language(s) of the Text -- Introduction -- 8. The Many "Worlds" in World Literature: Pound and Waley as Translators of Chinese -- 9. Under the Palimpsest and Beyond: The World, the Reader, and the Text in the Nigerian Novel in English -- Part 4. Literacies: Patterns of Understanding -- Introduction -- 10. The Phonograph behind the Door: Some Thoughts on Musical Literacy -- 11. Informing Adult Readers: Symbolic Experience in Children's Literature -- 12. In the Canon's Mouth: Being Lucid about the Local -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: As teachers and readers expand the canon of world literature to include writers whose voices traditionally have been silenced by the dominant culture, fundamental questions arise. What do we mean by "world"? What constitutes "literature"? Who should decide? Reading World Literature is a cumulative study of the concept and evolving practices of "world literature." Sarah Lawall opens the book with a substantial introduction to the overall topic. Twelve original essays by distinguished specialists run the gamut from close readings of specific texts to problems of translation theory and reader response. The sequence of essays develops from re-examinations of traditional canonical pieces through explorations of less familiar works to discussions of reading itself as a "literacy" dependent on worldview. Reading World Literature will open challenging new vistas for a wide audience in the humanities, from traditionalists to avant-garde specialists in literary theory, cultural studies, and area studies.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Reading World Literature -- Part I. Initial Perspectives: Teaching the Unfamiliar; Locating Canonical Values -- Introduction -- 1. Misunderstanding Poetry: Teaching outside the Western Canon -- 2. Classical Criticism and the Canon, or, Why Read the Ancient Critics? -- Part 2. Canonical Variations: Working with Texts and Their Countertexts -- Introduction -- 3. Men Working: Community under Construction -- 4. Playing Caliban: Cesaire's Tempest -- 5. Celtic Literature and the European Canon -- 6. Love and Country: Allegorical Romance in Latin America -- 7. Reading Genres across Cultures: The Example of Autobiography -- Part 3. Languages of Community: Reading the Language(s) of the Text -- Introduction -- 8. The Many "Worlds" in World Literature: Pound and Waley as Translators of Chinese -- 9. Under the Palimpsest and Beyond: The World, the Reader, and the Text in the Nigerian Novel in English -- Part 4. Literacies: Patterns of Understanding -- Introduction -- 10. The Phonograph behind the Door: Some Thoughts on Musical Literacy -- 11. Informing Adult Readers: Symbolic Experience in Children's Literature -- 12. In the Canon's Mouth: Being Lucid about the Local -- Contributors -- Index

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As teachers and readers expand the canon of world literature to include writers whose voices traditionally have been silenced by the dominant culture, fundamental questions arise. What do we mean by "world"? What constitutes "literature"? Who should decide? Reading World Literature is a cumulative study of the concept and evolving practices of "world literature." Sarah Lawall opens the book with a substantial introduction to the overall topic. Twelve original essays by distinguished specialists run the gamut from close readings of specific texts to problems of translation theory and reader response. The sequence of essays develops from re-examinations of traditional canonical pieces through explorations of less familiar works to discussions of reading itself as a "literacy" dependent on worldview. Reading World Literature will open challenging new vistas for a wide audience in the humanities, from traditionalists to avant-garde specialists in literary theory, cultural studies, and area studies.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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