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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction: The (re)turn of world literature | |
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| Naming world literature | |
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| Overview | |
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| Goethe's Weltliteratur | |
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| Weltliteratur, "letters" and literature | |
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| World literature versus national literature | |
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| Heine and world literature in nineteenth-century Germany | |
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| Philar�te Chasles and world literature in nineteenth-century France | |
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| Histories of world literature | |
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| World literature and comparative literature | |
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| World literature, European literature | |
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| Rabindranath Tagore and Maxim Gorky on world literature | |
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| World literature beyond Europe | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Goethe's Weltliteratur and the humanist ideal | |
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| Overview | |
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| Humanit�t and humanism | |
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| Goethe in Italy | |
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| World literature and philology | |
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| Ernst Robert Curtius | |
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| Erich Auerbach | |
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| Edward Said | |
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| Leo Spitzer | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| World literature and comparative literature | |
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| Overview | |
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| Intimations of comparative literature | |
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| Comparative literature: the early years | |
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| Beyond France: Hugo Meltzl and Max Koch | |
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| Comparative literature: the French school | |
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| The changing of the guard: comparative literature after 1945 | |
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| Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett | |
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| Comparative literature in the United States: the early years | |
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| The crisis of comparative literature | |
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| Ren� Etiemble | |
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| Re-thinking comparative literature in the United States | |
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| In Europe, meanwhile... | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| World literature as an American pedagogical construct | |
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| Overview | |
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| Higher education in the United States | |
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| Richard Moulton | |
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| The Great Books | |
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| World literature courses | |
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| The crisis of world literature | |
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| Anthologizing world literature: the "Norton" | |
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| The Norton's competitors | |
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| Worlding world literature | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| World literature as system | |
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| Overview | |
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| The "free trade" of literature | |
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| Systemic world literature | |
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| Pascale Casanova and the world republic of letters | |
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| Criticism of Casanova | |
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| Franco Moretti conjectures on world literature | |
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| Against Moretti | |
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| Other world literature systems | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| World literature and translation | |
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| Overview | |
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| The indispensable instrument | |
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| Walter Benjamin and translation | |
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| The rise of translation studies | |
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| Translation, postcolonialism and feminism | |
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| World literature and translation | |
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| Translation studies and the "new" comparative literature | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| World literature, (post)modernism, (post)colonialism, litt�rature-monde | |
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| Overview | |
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| Postcolonial literature as world literature | |
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| Postcolonialism and postmodernism | |
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| Postcolonialism as Western projection | |
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| World literature and "Anglophony" | |
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| Litterature-monde | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| World literature and the literatures of the world | |
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| Overview | |
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| Europe's semi-periphery | |
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| Scandinavia | |
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| Spain and Portugal | |
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| Global South and Chinese world literature | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Guide to further reading | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |