The idea of world literature
Subtitle: history and pedagogical practice
By: John Pizer.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: Literature -- Study and teaching.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is Weltliteratur and why teach it in a World Literature in English Translation course?; title: The emergence of Weltliteratur : Goethe and the Romantic school; title: The mediation and contestation of Weltliteratur : Heine and young Germany; title: Nationalism and revival : Weltliteratur from 1848 to the present; title: Canonicity/great works/multiculturalism : world literature in America; title: The dialectical filter of Weltliteratur : reading Rafik Schami through Goethe and Goethe through Rafik Schami; title: A metatheoretical approach to teaching world literature.