Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2009.

xvi, 442 p. ; 24 cm.

Translation/transnation

Translation/transnation.

Results of a comparison of different peoples' poetry in ancient and modern times (1797) / Johann Gottfried Herder -- Of the general spirit of modern literature (1800) / Germaine de Staël -- Conversations on world literature (1827) / J.W. von Goethe and J.P. Eckermann -- From The birth of tragedy (1872) / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Present tasks of comparative literature (1877) / Hugo Meltzl -- The comparative method and literature (1886) / Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett -- World literature (1899) / Georg Brandes -- From what is comparative literature? (1903) / Charles Mills Gayley -- The epic and the novel (1916) / Georg Lukács -- Chaos in the literary world (1934) / Kobayashi Hideo -- From epic and novel (1941) / Mikhail Bakhtin -- Preface to European literature and the Latin Middle Ages (1948) / Ernst Robert Curtius -- Philology and Weltliteratur (1952) / Erich Auerbach -- From Minima Moralia (1951) / Theodor Adorno -- Poetry, society, state (1956) / Octavio Paz -- Preface to La littérature comparée (1951) / Jean-Marie Carré -- The crisis of comparative literature (1959) / René Wellek -- The structuralist activity (1963) / Roland Barthes -- Women's time (1977) / Julia Kristeva -- Semiology and rhetoric (1973) / Paul de Man -- Writing (1990) / Barbara Johnson -- The position of translated literature within the literary polysystem (1978) / Itamar Even-Zohar -- Cross-cultural poetics: national literatures (1981) / Édouard Glissant -- The world, the text, and the critic (1983) / Edward W. Said -- The quest for relevance (1986) / Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o -- Comparative cosmopolitanism (1992) / Bruce Robbins -- Literature, nation, and politics (1999) / Pascale Casanova -- Comparative literature in China (2000) / Zhou Xiaoyi and Q.S. Tong -- From translation, community, utopia (2000) / Lawrence Venuti -- Crossing borders (2003) / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- Evolution, world-systems, Weltliteratur (2006) / Franco Moretti -- A new comparative literature (2006) / Emily Apter.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Comparative literature.

Comparative literature -- Methodology.

Comparative literature -- Theory, etc.

Damrosch, David.

Melas, Natalie.

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