![]() ![]() ![]() Theo D’haen, “How Many Canons Do We Need? World Literature, National Literature, European Literature”, in: The Canonical Debate Today: Crossing Disciplinary and Cultural Boundaries, ed. Horace Engdahl, “Canonization and world literature: the Nobel experience (2008),” in: World Literature: A Reader, ed. Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages, New York, San Diego, London: Harcourt Brace & Co. Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914: Global Connections and Comparisons, Oxford: Blackwell 2004.Īdam McKeown, “Periodizing Globalization,” in: History Workshop Journal 63 (2007). Dona Geyer, Princeton: Princeton UP 2005.Ĭ. Jürgen Osterhammel / Niels Petersson, Globalization: A Short History, transl. Session 3: Globalization and Its Cultural Aspects D’haen, Damrosch and Kadir.Īlexander Beecroft, “World Literature Without a Hyphen: Towards a Typology of Literary Systems,” in: New Left Review, Sec. Jing Tsu, “World literature and national literature(s),” in: The Routledge Companion to World Literature, ed. ![]() Hendrik Birus, “On the Complementarity of National Literature(s) and World Literature,“ in: Literature as Cultural Memory (= Proceedings of the 15th Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association. Svend Erik Larsen, “Georg Brandes: the telescope of comparative literature,” in: The Routledge Companion to World Literature, ed. Georg Brandes, “World Literature,” in: World Literature: A Reader, ed. Session 2: World Literature and National Literatures John Pizer, “Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Origins and relevance of Weltliteratur,” in: The Routledge Companion to World Literature, ed. ICLA '94 Edmonton).ĭavid Damrosch, What is World Literature? Princeton, Oxford: Princeton UP 2003, esp. Dimić with Irene Sywenky, Paris: Honoré Champion 1999 (= Proceedings of the 14th Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association. Hendrik Birus, “Main Features of Goethe’s Concept of World Literature,” in: Comparative Literature Now: Theories and Practice, ed. Johann Wolfgang (von) Goethe, “On World Literature (1827),” in: World Literature: A Reader, ed. Session 1: Goethe’s Coining of the Concept World Literature Mann, Proust, Joyce, and Celan as well as Schleiermacher, Nietzsche, Freud, Jakobson, Adorno, Foucault, and Derrida. His publications include work on literary theory, literary onomastics, and hermeneutics several studies on Comparative Literature dealing with various authors and philosophers from the 18th, 19th and 20th century, esp. Louis) and Yale (New Haven), as well as at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales Paris he was named a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study) of Berlin in 1995. He has taught as a visiting professor at the universities of Vienna, Rome, Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), Indiana (Bloomington), Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) and Washington (Seattle), at Washington University (St. He was previously Professor of General and Comparative Literature at the University of Munich (1987-2008) and then Vice President and Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Jacobs University Bremen (2006-2012). Hendrik Birus is Professor of Comparative Literature at the Jacobs University Bremen, Germany. Aim of the course is to give students an understanding of the usefulness of theoretical debates in the humanities and of their applicability to actual problems in Literary and Cultural Studies. Instruction focuses on the theoretical potential of this concept by discussing actual theoretical texts as well as those from its founding period. ![]() At last it casts a light on the historical roots of this concept which was coined by the late Johann Wolfgang Goethe and propagated by his liberal contemporaries in France as well as e.g. In a next step it asks for the connection of the rise of world literature with the socio-economical as well as ideological advance of globalization. The course deals with the most important exponents of the current debate and its preconditions and results. During the 19th and 20th century it was nearly exclusively a ‘European affair’, but since the turn of the century there is a fruitful discussion of this concept especially in the United States. The course offers an introduction to the concept of world literature as a key term of Comparative Literature as well as Cultural Studies. Hendrik Birus, "Debating World Literature" ![]()
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