Worlding a Peripheral Literature

• Main Author: Juvan, Marko (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Canon and World Literature
• Subjects: Comparative literature.; Literature-Translations.; Culture-Study and teaching.; Balto-Slavic languages.; Comparative Literature.; Translation Studies.; Regional and Cultural Studies.; Slavic and Baltic Languages.

Bringing together the analyses of the literary world-system, translation studies, and the research of European cultural nationalism, this book contests the view that texts can be attributed global importance irrespective of their origin, language, and position in the international book market. Focus...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Canonicity of World Literature and National Poets
• Perspectivizing World Literature (in Translation)
• The Birth of National Literature from the Spirit of the Classical Canon
• World Literature in Carniola
• A Compromise "World Text"
• Worlding the National Poet in the World-System of Translation.