Realities, Utopias, and Misconceptions Concerning the Globalisation of Literary Studies
Keywords:
comparative literature studies, globalisation, Casanova, Pascale, Spivak, Gayatri, Moretti, FrancoAbstract
Arjun Appadurai’s categories of “grassroots globalisation” (“optical challenge”, area studies, and research on globalisation) are applied to recent comparative literary studies: Pascale Casanova’s La république mondiale des lettres, Gayatri Spivak’s Death of a Discipline, and Franco Moretti’s “Conjectures on World Literature”.References
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