{"product_id":"world-literature-as-discovery-9781032504759","title":"World Literature as Discovery","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe rise of world literature is the most noticeable phenomenon in literary studies in the twenty-first century. However, truly well-known and globally circulating works are all canonical works of European or Western literature, while non-European and even minor European literatures remain largely unknown beyond their culture of origin. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWorld Literature as Discovery: Expanding the World Literary Canon\u003c\/em\u003e argues that world literature for our time must go beyond Eurocentrism and expand the canon to include great works from non-European and minor European literatures. As much of the world's literature remains untranslated and unknown, the expansion will be an exciting process of discovery. By discussing fundamental questions around canon, circulation, aesthetic values, translation, cosmopolitanism, and the literary universal, Zhang Longxi proposes a new and liberating concept of world literature that will shape world literature worthy of its name. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book speaks fo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Drawing on his deep knowledge of both Chinese and European literary traditions, Zhang Longxi advances a bracing vision of a non-Eurocentric canon of world literature, one that would build on the self-understandings of the world’s literary cultures rather than imposing Western values and concerns on them. \u003ci\u003eWorld Literature as Discovery\u003c\/i\u003e proposes both an expansive discovery of the world’s distinctive traditions and a rediscovery of the aesthetic pleasures that great works offer their readers.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Damrosch\u003c\/strong\u003e, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature and Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, USA, author of \u003cem\u003eWhat Is World Literature?\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eComparing the Literatures\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A brilliant reconceptualization of world literature by a scholar that over the past 40 years has been one of the most active, erudite, and at the same time common sensical contributors to the field. Arguing the need for a wider inclusion of non-Western works in world literature while at the same time refusing to side-step the issues of translation and value judgments, Zhang’s volume is a must-read for all scholars and students of literature wanting to keep abreast of what really is at stake in our fast-changing world.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTheo D’haen\u003c\/strong\u003e, Professor Emeritus of English, KU Leuven, Belgium, author of \u003cem\u003eWorld Literature in an Age of Geopolitics\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Zhang’s \u003ci\u003eWorld Literature as Discovery\u003c\/i\u003e is bound to invigorate the current debate on the importance of value judgements in the discourse of world literature. His is an impassioned and erudite intervention that urges us to reopen the question of the canon and argues for a truly plural world literature that draws its own sustainability from a body of texts far beyond the Western tradition.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGalin Tihanov\u003c\/strong\u003e, George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature, Queen Mary University of London, UK, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Birth and Death of Literary Theory: Regimes of Relevance in Russia and Beyond\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Is it possible to have a worldly conversation about literary value – to free discussions of literary merit from their Eurocentric confines and to open our minds to multiple standards of literary judgement? The question is an important one for readers in our time, and Zhang Longxi, equally at home in the European and Chinese traditions (and beyond) is just the scholar to lead us towards an answer.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlexander Beecroft\u003c\/strong\u003e, Jessie Chapman Alcorn Memorial Professor of Foreign Languages, University of South Carolina, USA, author of \u003cem\u003eAn Ecology of World Literature: From Antiquity to the Present Day\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface \u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGoethe and \u003ci\u003eWeltliteratur\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Return to (World) Literature \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCirculation and Value Judgment \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCanon and the Classic \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWorld Literature as Discoveries \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage, (Un)translatability and World Literature \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Challenge of Writing a World Literary History \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiterary Universals \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Mirror of Enigma and the Mirror of Magic \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePotion and Poison: Chinese and Shakespearean Dialectics \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion: World Literature and Cosmopolitanism \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019093016919,"sku":"9781032504759","price":36.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032504759.jpg?v=1750779281","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/world-literature-as-discovery-9781032504759","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}