A cosmopolitan approach to literature : against origins and destinations /: against origins and destinations. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Didier Coste.
• Authors: Coste, Didier
• Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction: Cosmopolitan Reading, How and Why? PART 1 Theory in Motion 1 "Power Failure in Paris": Against Local Theory 2 Locations and Dis-Locations of Theory: Toward a Theory without a Fixed Address PART 2 Universals and World Literature 3 Universals in Theory and Practice 4 The World Literature Controversy 5 Worlding and Localizing Fiction PART 3 Cosmopolitanism Revisited 6 Cross-Cultural Negotiation, Comparison, Comprehension 7 Cultural Cosmopolitanism as Experiment 8 The Literary Construction of Cosmopolitan Consciousness PART 4 Elusive Identities, Deceptive Origins and Destinations 9 Unselfing Literary Studies: Against "Idemtity" 10 The Ironies of Authenticity 11 Ambiguous Mobilities: How Cosmopolitan is Nomadism? 12 A Labyrinth of Margins: Mimetic Desire and Native Impersonation PART 5 The Pragmatics of Outgoing and Incoming 13 Exos as Eros, and Vice Versa 14 Heteroglossia as Experiment and Cosmopolitan Performance Excipit: The Personal Touch Bibliography Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809.98; Cosmopolitanism in literature; Comparative literature; Literature -- History and criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000804508; 9781000804485
• Related ISBNs: 9781032267128
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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