WORLD LITERATURE 2810 2711 Tuesday 12 14 aud

WORLD LITERATURE 28/10 -27/11 Tuesday 12 -14 aud IV, Thursday 1214 aud II (main building) Tyy 228 E, 346 E, 347 E

WORLD LITERATURE 28/10 Lecture 30/10 Lecture 04/10 Lecture 06/11 Lecture 11/11 Presentations 13/11 Presentations 18/11 Presentations 20/11 Presentations 25/11 Presentations 27/11 Essay writing

WORLD LITERATURE Essay by the end of December, 2014 (leena. eilitta@helsinki. fi)

WORLD LITERATURE PRESENTATIONS 11/11 René Étiemble: Do we have to revise the notion of World Literature? (1964) George Steiner: A Footnote to Weltliteratur (1979) A. Owen Aldrige: The Universal in Literature (1986)

WORLD LITERATURE PRESENTATIONS 13/11 Zhang Lonxi: Toward Interpretative Pluralism (1992) Claudio Guillén: Weltliteratur (1993) Dionýz ´Durisin: World Literature as a target literary-historical category (1993)

WORLD LITERATURE PRESENTATIONS 18/11 Franco Moretti: Conjectures on World Literature and More Conjectures (2000, 2003) Vilashi Cooppan: World literature and Global Theory: Comparative Literature for the New Millennium (2001) David Damrosch: What is World Literature (2003)

WORLD LITERATURE PRESENTATIONS 20/11 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Planetarity (2003) Gerard Holden: World Literature and World Politics: in Search of a Research Agenda (2003) Shu-mei Shih: Global Literature and the Technologies of Recognition (2004)

WORLD LITERATURE PRESENTATIONS 25/11 Pascale Casanova: Literature as a World (2005) Nirvana Tanoukhi: The Scale of World Literature (2008) Mariano Siskind: The Globalization of the Novel and the Novelization of the Global: A Critique of World Literature (2010)

Richard Green Moulton (18491924) World Literature and Its Place in General Culture, 1911: “I take a distinction between Universal Literature and World Literature. Universal Literature can only mean the sum total of all literatures. World Literature, as I use the term, is this Universal Literature seen in perspective from a given point of view, persumably the national

World Literature and Its Place in General Culture, 1911 “And theory on which a view of World Literature is to rest will resolve itself ultimately into two supplementary principles. One of these may be termed the National Literary Predigee, - the train of historic considerations that connects the reader’s nationality with its roots in the far past, and traces its relationship

World Literature and Its Place in General Culture, 1911 With other parts of the literary field. Here we are on the sure basis of history. But it will be history seen from the standpoint of literature: literary predigee may be very different from ethnological or linguistic descent. The other principle is Intrinsic Literary Interest. The individuality of the author. . or the accidental flowering of

World Literature and Its Place in General Culture, 1911 Some literary type may lift portions of a literature quite out of the position that would have been given them by their historical settings, ” (p. 31)

Fritz Strich (1883 -1963) World Literature and Comparative Literary History (1930) “But Europe is not the world, and the question should precisely be asked whether world literature does not really begin where the borders of Europe are being transcended. ” (p. 38)

World Literature and Comparative Literary History (1930) “When does a national literature gain entry to world literature so conceived, and why does it do so at that particular moment? What did one nation give to the others, what did it receive from these others, and on which basis did this exchange happen? ” (p. 39)

World Literature and Comparative Literary History (1930) “World literature in the sense we have just given to this ambigious concept is then the literature that on the basis of its national and general human dimension achieves a validity transcending space and time. ” (p. 44)

Albert Guérard (1880 -1959) Preface to World Literature, 1940: 1. Universal literature 2. World Literature 3. Comparative Literature 4. General Literature

Erich Auerbach (1892 -1957) Philology and Weltliteratur, 1952: History is the science of reality that affects us most immediately, stirs us most deeply and compels us most forcibly to a consciousness of ourselves. Under the rubric of history one is to understand not only the past, but the progression of events in general; history therefore includes the present. The inner history of the last

Philology and Weltliteratur, 1952 Thousand of years is the history of mankind achieving self-expression: this is what philology, a historicist discipline, treates. (p. 67)