World Literature in Theory.

Intro -- World Literature in Theory -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction World Literature in Theory and Practice: World Literature In Theory And Practice -- Notes -- Part One Origins -- 1 Conversations with Eckermann on Weltliteratur (1827) -- Notes -- 2 The Emergence of Weltliteratur Goethe and the Romantic School (2006): Goethe And The Romantic School (2006) -- Notes -- 3 Present Tasks of Comparative Literature (1877) -- I -- II: The Principle of Polyglottism -- Notes -- 4 What Is World Literature? (1886) -- What Is World-Literature? -- Note -- 5 World Literature (1907) -- Notes -- 6 A View on the Unification of Literature (1922) -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- Notes -- Part Two World Literature in the Age of Globalization -- 7 Reflections on Yiddish World Literature (1938-1939): The "Quasi-Territorialism" Of Yiddish Literature -- Where Is the Center of Yiddish Literature Today? The Stem and the Branches -- Question and Answer -- Quality and Quantity -- On Stem, Axis, Pillar of Cloud and Pillar of Fire -- Geography and Statistics -- Where Is the Stem? -- The Lost Branches -- American Conclusion of a Jewish World Traveler -- Notes -- The "Quasi-Territorialism" of Yiddish Literature -- II. "Quasi-Territory in Place of Religion" -- III. "Artistic Equivalent to Religion" -- Notes -- 8 Should We Rethink the Notion of World Literature? (1974) -- Notes -- 9 Constructing Comparables (2000) -- 10 Traveling Theory (1982) -- Notes -- 11 Toward World Literary Knowledges: Theory In The Age of Globalization (2010) -- World Lit without World Lit Crit -- New Beginnings -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 12 Conjectures on World Literature (2000) and More Conjectures (2003): More Conjectures (2003) -- Conjectures on World Literature (2000) -- World Literature: One and Unequal -- Distant Reading -- The Western European Novel: Rule or Exception?.

Experiments with History -- Forms as Abstracts of Social Relationships -- Trees, Waves and Cultural History -- Notes -- More Conjectures (2003) -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- Notes -- 13 World Literature without a Hyphen: Towards A Typology of Literary Systems (2008) -- Literature and Power -- Six Modes -- The Sanskrit Example -- Vernacular to National -- Regional and Global -- Notes -- 14 Literature as a World (2005) -- Birth of a World -- Stockholm and Greenwich -- Temporalities -- Seeing through Borders -- World Space or World-System -- Accumulating Power -- Degrees of Autonomy -- Forms of Domination -- Modernismo as Re-expropriation -- Notes -- 15 Globalization and Cultural Diversity in the Book Market: The Case of Literary Translations in the US and In France (2010) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and Survey -- 3. Effects of Globalization in the Book Market -- 4. Large-Scale vs. Small-Scale Circulation -- 5. Literary Translation as a Factor of Cultural Diversity -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 16 From Cultural Turn to Translational Turn: A Transnational Journey (2011) -- Works Cited -- Part Three Debating World Literature -- 17 Stepping Forward and Back: Issues and Possibilities for "World" Poetry (2004) -- 18 To World, to Globalize: World Literature's Crossroads (2004) -- 19 For a World-Literature in French (2007) -- Notes -- 20 For a Living and Popular Francophonie (2007) -- Notes -- 21 Francophonie and Universality: The Ideological Challenges of Littérature-monde (2009) -- 'The World is an Amazing Place' -- Francophonie and Universality -- The Death of Francophonie -- Rehabilitating Francophonie -- Universality under Attack -- Alternative Modes of Universality -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 22 Universalisms and Francophonies (2009) -- National Capital, Transnational Prestige.

Citizens, Foreigners, and Literary Belonging, or the Paradoxes of Francophonie -- Performing Francophonies, Translating Universalisms -- Notes -- References -- 23 Orientalism and the Institution of World Literatures (2010) -- What Is World Literature? -- Orientalism and the Institution of Indian Literature -- Orientalism and "the Language of Hindoostan" -- Global English and the Vernaculars -- Notes -- 24 Against World Literature (2013) -- Notes -- 25 Comparative Literature/ World Literature: A Discussion (2011) -- Questions -- Notes -- Part Four World Literature in the World -- 26 The Argentine Writer and Tradition (1943) -- 27 Cultures and Contexts (2001) -- The Self / The Alien -- Two Meanings of the Cultural Exchanges -- Notes -- 28 An Idea of Literature: South Africa, India, the West (2001) -- Note -- Works Cited -- 29 The Deterritorialization of American Literature (2007) -- Notes -- 30 Islamic Literary Networks in South and Southeast Asia (2010) -- Introduction -- Islamization in the Indonesian Archipelago and Southeast India and Contacts between These Regions -- The Book of One Thousand Questions: An Introduction -- The One Thousand Questions: A Brief Translation History -- The One Thousand Questions: Forging a New Past for the Present -- Literary Networks and the Arabic Cosmopolis -- Shifting Cosmopolitanisms -- Concluding Thoughts -- Notes -- 31 Rethinking the World in World Literature: East Asia and Literary Contact Nebulae (2009) -- Negotiating Legitimacy 13 -- Building Community -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 32 Global Cinema, World Cinema (2010) -- Note -- Bibliography -- 33 The Strategy of Digital Modernism: Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries' Dakota (2008) -- Close Reading Dakota Close Reading Cantos I and II -- Locating Dakota -- Reading Against the Grain of YHCHI 's Claim -- Close Reading -- "So that:" -- Notes -- Works Cited.

Epilogue: The Changing Concept of World Literature -- Notes -- Index.

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