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dc.contributor.editorMüller, Gesine
dc.contributor.editorLocane, Jorge J.
dc.contributor.editorLoy, Benjamin
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-03 23:55
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-07 16:47:06
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T12:36:51Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T12:36:51Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier1000214
dc.identifierOCN: 1048170951en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29732
dc.description.abstractThe concept at issue in this book is Weltliteratur, or World Literature. Theoretical frameworks usually view the now-famous epistolary exchange between Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the young Johann Peter Eckermann as the true foundation of the concept, (though earlier promoters of similar ideas, such as August Wilhelm Schlegel can be cited)1. Goethe wrote this to Eckermann in a well-known letter in 1827: “National literature is now a rather unmeaning term; the epoch of World Literature is at hand, and everyone must strive to hasten its approach”2. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as well as Richard Moulton and Erich Auerbach, among many others, also all contributed to the category from their respective historical moments and theoretical perspectives. Marx and Engels, of course, took a materialist point of view that emphasized the expansion of the capitalist economic project and its progressive conquest of the world as a market. Richard Moulton and Erich Auerbach, on the other hand, came from a humanistic philological perspective that, as Jérôme David has put it in his reflections on the different genealogies of World Literature, “derived from the anxious preoccupation with what the literary works mean” (2013: 14) and focused very early on the problems of translation and canonization that would become crucial for the conceptual debates of our time
dc.languageEnglish
dc.languageSpanish; Castilian
dc.relation.ispartofseriesLatin American Literatures in the World / Literaturas Latinoamericanas en el Mundo
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studiesen_US
dc.subject.otherWriting
dc.subject.otherBook markets
dc.subject.otherEpistemologies
dc.titleRe-mapping World Literature
dc.title.alternativeWriting, Book Markets and Epistemologies between Latin America and the Global South / Escrituras, mercados y epistemologías entre América Latina y el Sur Global
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1515/9783110549577
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy2b386f62-fc18-4108-bcf1-ade3ed4cf2f3
oapen.relation.isFundedBy178e65b9-dd53-4922-b85c-0aaa74fce079
oapen.relation.isbn9783110549577; 9783110598292; 9783110549522
oapen.collectionEuropean Research Council (ERC)
oapen.series.number1
oapen.pages326
oapen.grant.number646714
oapen.grant.acronymRG
oapen.grant.programH2020
oapen.grant.projectReading Global. Constructions of World Literature and Latin America
oapen.identifier.ocn1048170951


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