Mapping World Literature: International Canonization and Transnational Literatures (Continuum Literary Studies)

<div><em>Mapping World Literature</em> explores the study of literature and literary history in light of global changes, looking at what defines world literature in the 21st century. <br/><br/>Surveying ideas of literature from Goethe to the present, Thomsen devises a compelling concept of literary constellations. He discusses a wide-range of critical positions, identifies the limits of comparative and post-colonial approaches and examines two specific cases: literature written by migrant writers and the literature of genocide, war and disaster. <br/><br/><em>Mapping World Literature</em> captures new ways of understanding the patterns and trends that emerge in literature, opening up and inspiring research to map patterns in the field. </div>>