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The ESL ACADEMY...
🌹What Is “Literature”?
A first challenge in reading world literature is that the very idea of literature has meant many different things over the centuries and around the world. Beyond the varied norms associated with individual literary genres, different cultures have often had distinctive patterns of belief concerning the nature of literature and its role in society. If different cultures have different understandings of the world that a literary text engages, they also diverge in their conception of the ways in which texts are created to begin with. In the western tradition going back to Plato and Aristotle, literature is something a poet or a writer makes up ‐ an assumption built into our very terms poetry and fiction. Beyond the level of individual works, the relations among genres vary in different cultures literary ecosystems. Western readers, for example, have long been accustomed to think of poetry and prose as clearly distinct modes of writing.
👉🏻🌹What is taught in world literature?
Medieval Literature. Students explore major works of literature, usually European, penned between the 8th century and the 14th century, in this elective class. Coursework focuses on common themes, genres and writing styles. Students study primary texts like Beowulf and writers like Chaucer and Dante.
👉🏻👉🏻🌹What is the meaning of the world literature?
World literature is sometimes used to refer to the sum total of the world's national literatures, but usually it refers to the circulation of works into the wider world beyond their country of origin.
👉🏻👉🏻🌹Who coined the term world literature?
Although the term "world literature" was coined by Goethe in 1827 in the small duchy of Weimar, it was developed in Istanbul during World War II by German Jews such as Erich Auerbach and Leo Spitzer who were seeking refuge from Hitler.
👉🏻👉🏻🌹World literature was long defined in North America as an established canon of European masterpieces, but an emerging global perspective has challenged both this European focus and the very category of "the masterpiece." The first book to look broadly at the contemporary scope and purposes of world literature, What Is World Literature? probes the uses and abuses of world literature in a rapidly changing world.
In case studies ranging from the Sumerians to the Aztecs and from medieval mysticism to postmodern metafiction, David Damrosch looks at the ways works change as they move from national to global contexts. Presenting world literature not as a canon of texts but as a mode of circulation and of reading, Damrosch argues that world literature is work that gains in translation. When it is effectively presented, a work of world literature moves into an elliptical space created between the source and receiving cultures, shaped by both but circumscribed by neither alone. Established classics and new discoveries alike participate in this mode of circulation, but they can be seriously mishandled in the process.
✋🏼🌹Prepared by SirRana
The ESL ACADEMY...
🌹What Is “Literature”?
A first challenge in reading world literature is that the very idea of literature has meant many different things over the centuries and around the world. Beyond the varied norms associated with individual literary genres, different cultures have often had distinctive patterns of belief concerning the nature of literature and its role in society. If different cultures have different understandings of the world that a literary text engages, they also diverge in their conception of the ways in which texts are created to begin with. In the western tradition going back to Plato and Aristotle, literature is something a poet or a writer makes up ‐ an assumption built into our very terms poetry and fiction. Beyond the level of individual works, the relations among genres vary in different cultures literary ecosystems. Western readers, for example, have long been accustomed to think of poetry and prose as clearly distinct modes of writing.
👉🏻🌹What is taught in world literature?
Medieval Literature. Students explore major works of literature, usually European, penned between the 8th century and the 14th century, in this elective class. Coursework focuses on common themes, genres and writing styles. Students study primary texts like Beowulf and writers like Chaucer and Dante.
👉🏻👉🏻🌹What is the meaning of the world literature?
World literature is sometimes used to refer to the sum total of the world's national literatures, but usually it refers to the circulation of works into the wider world beyond their country of origin.
👉🏻👉🏻🌹Who coined the term world literature?
Although the term "world literature" was coined by Goethe in 1827 in the small duchy of Weimar, it was developed in Istanbul during World War II by German Jews such as Erich Auerbach and Leo Spitzer who were seeking refuge from Hitler.
👉🏻👉🏻🌹World literature was long defined in North America as an established canon of European masterpieces, but an emerging global perspective has challenged both this European focus and the very category of "the masterpiece." The first book to look broadly at the contemporary scope and purposes of world literature, What Is World Literature? probes the uses and abuses of world literature in a rapidly changing world.
In case studies ranging from the Sumerians to the Aztecs and from medieval mysticism to postmodern metafiction, David Damrosch looks at the ways works change as they move from national to global contexts. Presenting world literature not as a canon of texts but as a mode of circulation and of reading, Damrosch argues that world literature is work that gains in translation. When it is effectively presented, a work of world literature moves into an elliptical space created between the source and receiving cultures, shaped by both but circumscribed by neither alone. Established classics and new discoveries alike participate in this mode of circulation, but they can be seriously mishandled in the process.
✋🏼🌹Prepared by SirRana
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