Book contents
- The Cambridge History of World Literature
- The Cambridge History of World Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Genealogies
- Part II Thinking the World
- Part III Transregional Worlding
- Part IV Cartographic Shifts
- Part V World Literature and Translation
- Part VI Poetics, Genre, Intermediality
- Part VII Scales, Polysystems, Canons
- 36 Spatial Scale and the Urban Everyday: The Physiology as a Traveling Genre (Paris, St. Petersburg, Tiflis)
- 37 Imaginative Geographies in the Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters
- 38 The Anthology as the Canon of World Literature
- 39 Data Worlds: Patterns, Structures, Libraries
- Part VIII Modes of Reading and Circulation
- Part IX The Worldly and the Planetary
- Index
- References
38 - The Anthology as the Canon of World Literature
from Part VII - Scales, Polysystems, Canons
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Book contents
- The Cambridge History of World Literature
- The Cambridge History of World Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Genealogies
- Part II Thinking the World
- Part III Transregional Worlding
- Part IV Cartographic Shifts
- Part V World Literature and Translation
- Part VI Poetics, Genre, Intermediality
- Part VII Scales, Polysystems, Canons
- 36 Spatial Scale and the Urban Everyday: The Physiology as a Traveling Genre (Paris, St. Petersburg, Tiflis)
- 37 Imaginative Geographies in the Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters
- 38 The Anthology as the Canon of World Literature
- 39 Data Worlds: Patterns, Structures, Libraries
- Part VIII Modes of Reading and Circulation
- Part IX The Worldly and the Planetary
- Index
- References
Summary
Taking the six-volume Longman Anthology of World Literature as an exemplary instance of the canonisation of world literature, this chapter examines the portability of world thoughts through the medium of the anthology piece. Framing the discussion with definitions of canon and anthology, it focuses on the twentieth-century volume of the Longman Anthology to understand world literature's negotiation of the universal and the particular. With the help of examples drawn from the literary works showcased in volume F, the chapter offers an overview of debates in the field of world literary studies around questions of translatability, literary comparatism, the public value of arts and letters, and the language of literature as a mode of cross-cultural contact.
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