| Acknowledgements |
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| Introduction: The (re)turn of world literature |
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1 Naming world literature |
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5 | (22) |
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5 | (1) |
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6 | (1) |
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Weltliteratur, "letters" and literature |
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6 | (3) |
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World literature versus national literature |
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9 | (3) |
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Heine and world literature in nineteenth-century Germany |
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12 | (1) |
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Philarete Chasles and world literature in nineteenth-century France |
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13 | (3) |
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Histories of world literature |
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16 | (2) |
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World literature and comparative literature |
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18 | (2) |
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World literature, European literature |
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20 | (1) |
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Rabindranath Tagore and Maxim Gorky on world literature |
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21 | (3) |
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World literature beyond Europe |
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24 | (2) |
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26 | (1) |
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2 Goethe's Weltliteratur and the humanist ideal |
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27 | (20) |
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27 | (1) |
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27 | (3) |
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30 | (4) |
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World literature and philology |
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34 | (3) |
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37 | (3) |
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40 | (1) |
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41 | (3) |
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44 | (2) |
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46 | (1) |
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3 World literature and comparative literature |
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47 | (27) |
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47 | (1) |
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Intimations of comparative literature |
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48 | (3) |
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Comparative literature: the early years |
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51 | (1) |
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Beyond France: Hugo Meltzl and Max Koch |
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52 | (7) |
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Comparative literature: the French school |
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59 | (2) |
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The changing of the guard: comparative literature after 1945 |
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61 | (1) |
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Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett |
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61 | (2) |
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Comparative literature in the United States: the early years |
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63 | (1) |
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The crisis of comparative literature |
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64 | (3) |
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67 | (1) |
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Re-thinking comparative literature in the United States |
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68 | (3) |
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71 | (2) |
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73 | (1) |
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4 World literature as an American pedagogical construct |
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74 | (22) |
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74 | (1) |
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Higher education in the United States |
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74 | (5) |
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79 | (3) |
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82 | (1) |
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83 | (2) |
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The crisis of world literature |
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85 | (2) |
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Anthologizing world literature: the "Norton" |
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87 | (3) |
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90 | (2) |
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Worlding world literature |
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92 | (3) |
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95 | (1) |
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5 World literature as system |
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96 | (21) |
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96 | (1) |
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The "free trade" of literature |
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96 | (4) |
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Systemic world literature |
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100 | (1) |
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Pascale Casanova and the world republic of letters |
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101 | (3) |
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104 | (4) |
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Franco Moretti conjectures on world literature |
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108 | (3) |
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111 | (2) |
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Other world literature systems |
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113 | (3) |
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116 | (1) |
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6 World literature and translation |
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117 | (16) |
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117 | (1) |
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The indispensable instrument |
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117 | (3) |
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Walter Benjamin and translation |
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120 | (2) |
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The rise of translation studies |
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122 | (3) |
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Translation, postcolonialism and feminism |
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125 | (1) |
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World literature and translation |
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126 | (3) |
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Translation studies and the "new" comparative literature |
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129 | (3) |
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132 | (1) |
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7 World literature, (post)modernism, (post)colonialism, litterature-monde |
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133 | (19) |
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133 | (1) |
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Postcolonial literature as world literature |
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133 | (4) |
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Postcolonialism and postmodernism |
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137 | (4) |
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Postcolonialism as Western projection |
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141 | (3) |
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World literature and "Anglophony" |
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144 | (2) |
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146 | (4) |
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150 | (2) |
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8 World literature and the literatures of the world |
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152 | (22) |
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152 | (1) |
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152 | (1) |
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153 | (7) |
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160 | (6) |
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Global South and Chinese world literature |
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166 | (7) |
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173 | (1) |
| Guide to further reading |
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174 | (6) |
| Bibliography |
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180 | (14) |
| Index |
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