Literary History: Towards a Global Perspective : : Volume 1: Notions of Literature Across Cultures. Volume 2: Literary Genres: An Intercultural Approach. Volume 3+4: Literary Interactions in the Modern World 1+2 / / ed. by Gunilla Lindberg-Wada, Stefan Helgesson, Margareta Petersson, Anders Pettersson.
Literary History entwirft in systematischer Geschlossenheit eine neue Literaturgeschichtsschreibung mit komparatistischer Perspektive. Die Beiträge der vier englischsprachigen Bände erproben neue Möglichkeiten eines „globalisierten“ Literatur-Begriffs und schließen vergleichend die Literaturen aller...
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Table of Contents:
- VOLUME 1: NOTIONS OF LITERATURE ACROSS TIMES AND CULTURES
- i-iv
- Contents
- General Preface to the Series Literary History: Towards a Global Perspective
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Concepts of Literature and Transcultural Literary History
- Becoming Literature: Views of Popular Fiction in Twentieth-Century China
- One Lucky Bastard: On the Hybrid Origins of Chinese “Literature”
- Japanese Literary History Writing: The Beginnings
- The Pleasure of Poetry–Sanskrit Poetics and kāvya
- Adab and Arabic Literature
- Let the House Be Dead Silent: A Discussion of Literariness in East African Oral Literature
- Experiences of Orature in Sahelian West Africa
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- VOLUME 2: LITERARY GENRES: AN INTERCULTURAL APPROACH
- i-iv
- Contents
- Introduction: Genji monogatari and the Intercultural Understanding of Literary Genres
- The Autobiographical Novel/Short Story Watakushishōsetsu in Japanese Literature
- The Theory of Ancient Chinese Genres
- Drama for Learning and Pleasure: Japan, China and India in a Comparative Perspective
- Genre in Early Arabic Poetry
- “Genres” in Persian Literature 900-1900
- Byzantine Saints’ Lives as a Literary Genre
- Conclusion: A Pragmatic Perspective on Genres and Theories of Genre
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- VOLUME 3: LITERARY INTERACTIONS IN THE MODERN WORLD 1
- i-iv
- Contents
- Introduction: Cultural Encounters Between Literary Cultures. The Example of the Novel
- Inventing Traditions: A Comparative Perspective on the Writing of Literary History
- African Literature, or African Literatures? Reflections on a Terminological Problem
- The Role of Western Literature in the Formation of the Modern Japanese Novel
- Transculturating the Epic: The Arab Awakening and the Translation of the Iliad
- Euro-African Dialogue Some Examples of African Hypertexts of European Hypotexts
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- VOLUME 4: LITERARY INTERACTIONS IN THE MODERN WORLD 2
- i-iv
- Contents
- “Something Very Light, Perhaps a Little Educative”: Negotiations of Cultural Hierarchies in the Ghanaian Novel in English between Nkrumah and Armah
- Amerindian and European Narratives in Interaction
- Hybridity in Indian English Literature
- Modernism under Portuguese Rule: José Craveirinha, Luandino Vieira and the Doubleness of Colonial Modernity
- The Detective in the Service of the Emperor, the Republic, and the Communist Party
- Appropriations of European Theatre in Japan, China and India
- Globalisation and Cross-Cultural Writing in the United Arab Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman
- Cultural Encounters in Contemporary Turkish Children’s Literature: Victims or Heroes?
- Going Global: An Afterword
- Notes on Contributors
- Index