Taking on the globe’s output of literature is a difficult task, but one that David Damrosch exhorts scholars to attempt. In What Is World Literature? (Princeton University Press), the professor ...

David Damrosch, What Is World Literature?, Princeton UP, 2003, 336 p. ISBN: 0-691-04986-6. Description de l'éditeur: World literature was long defined in North America as an established canon of ...

T here’s a new definition of literature in town. It has been slouching toward us for some time now but may have arrived officially in 2009, with the publication of Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors’s A ...

It is through literature that one may compare and gain a greater understanding of other civilizations. This anthology comprises of three comprehensive collections that provide samples of literature ...

Netflix Is Gobbling Up World Literature. ... It has, in fact, been Hoovering up the rights to major novels from around the world, spending millions to transform them into prestige programming.

Han Kang's Nobel Prize was a surprise to many in South Korea. Here's what you need to know about 'her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life' ...