World Republic of Letters

Name: World Republic of Letters
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ISBN: 9780674010215

ISBN-10: 0674010213

ISBN-13: 9780674010215

Edition: 2004 (Annotated)

Authors: Pascale Casanova, Malcolm DeBevoise

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The "world of letters" has always seemed a matter more of metaphor than of global reality. In this book, Pascale Casanova shows us the state of world literature behind the stylistic refinements--a world of letters relatively independent from economic and political realms, and in which language systems, aesthetic orders, and genres struggle for dominance. Rejecting facile talk of globalization, with its suggestion of a happy literary "melting pot," Casanova exposes an emerging regime of inequality in the world of letters, where minor languages and literatures are subject to the invisible but implacable violence of their dominant counterparts. Inspired by the writings of Fernand Braudel…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 440
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.05" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Pascale Casanova is an associated researcher at the Center for Research in Arts and Language and a literary critic in Paris. She is the author of Beckett the Abstractor (Paris, 1997), winner of the Grand Prix de lï¿½e(tm)Essai de la SociÃ©tÃ© des Gens de Lettres.



Preface to the English-Language Edition


Introduction: The Figure in the Carpet



The Literary World



Principles of a World History of Literature


The Bourse of Literary Values Literature, Nation, and Politics



The Invention of Literature How to ""Devour"" Latin


The Battle over French


The Cult of Language


The Empire of French


The Herderian Revolution



World Literary Space Roads to Freedom


The Greenwich Meridian of Literature


Literary Nationalism National versus Inte