{"product_id":"foundational-texts-of-world-literature-9781433112690","title":"Foundational Texts of World Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat makes a world author? How did Homer become a cosmopolitan author? How does a Mayan creation narrative challenge our Western logocentric ideas of foundational texts? What might world literature look like to a fourth-century Roman reader? How do past and more recent translations of Dante's \u003ci\u003eCommedia\u003c\/i\u003e help us to rethink the changing definitions of world literature? How did the Alexander romance adapt to an Islamic context? How did Tasso's epic adapt to a later cultural context dominated by the Turkish Fear? What shaped the West's first impression of \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of Genji\u003c\/i\u003e? How does the Ovidian myth of Arachne migrate from Japan to the Caribbean? What are the foundational metaphors at the root of Goethe's \u003ci\u003eweltliteratur\u003c\/i\u003e paradigm? What happens when cultures import canonical texts for lack of their own? By what process does an eccentric writer reconstruct a new foundational text from heterogeneous fragments of other cultures? How did literary criticism contribute to the can\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: Dominique Jullien: Introduction – Piero Boitani: World Literature Two Thousand Years Ago: Reflections of a Senator in 306 A.D. – Suzanne Saïd: Homer, or How to Create a World Writer – Gerardo Aldana: On Deciphering Ancient Mesoamerican Foundational Texts: The Challenges of a Non-Logos-Based Creation Narrative – Ulrich Marzolph: The Creative Reception of the \u003ci\u003eAlexander Romance \u003c\/i\u003ein Iran – Sandra Bermann: In the Light of Translation: on Dante and World Literature – Richard Van Leeuwen: The Canonization of the \u003ci\u003eThousand and One Nights\u003c\/i\u003e in World Literature: The Role of Literary Criticism – Peter Madsen: Epic Encounters - from Torquato Tasso’s \u003ci\u003eGerusalemme Liberata\u003c\/i\u003e to Miklós Zrinyi’s \u003ci\u003eObsidio Szigetiana\u003c\/i\u003e – Paulo Lemos Horta: \u003ci\u003eThe Lusiads\u003c\/i\u003e as World Literature: The Romantic Hypothesis of Eastern Influence on Camões – Azadeh Yamini Hamedani: Foundational Metaphors: Goethe’s World Literature; Posnett’s Comparative Literature – Evanghelia Stead: Worldwide Tales and the Latin Tradition: The Myth of Arachne in Jan Havlasa’s \u003ci\u003eFour Japanese Tales\u003c\/i\u003e (1919) and Grace Hallworth’s \u003ci\u003eA Web of Stories\u003c\/i\u003e (1990) – Michael Emmerich: A New Planet: \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of Genji\u003c\/i\u003e as World Literature – Stefan Helgesson: «… A casement opening on the spectacle of the world …»: Post-European Texts in Translation – Mads Rosendahl Thomsen: Subversive Foundations: Renaissance Classics and the Imported Canon – Juan Pablo Lupi: (Mis)Reading as Engagement: Some Thoughts on World Literature and José Lezama Lima.","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039531270487,"sku":"9781433112690","price":61.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433112690.jpg?v=1750943982","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/foundational-texts-of-world-literature-9781433112690","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}