Undertaken at the interface of critical theory and world literature, Moments of Capital sets out to grasp the unity and heterogeneity of global capital in the postcolonial present. Eli Jelly-Schapiro argues that global capital is composed of three synchronous moments: primitive accumulation, expanded reproduction, and the "synthetic dispossession" facilitated by financializatio...(展开全部)

Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. At the core of the book's discussion is a series of underlying questions: What is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose? Fry engages with the majo...(展开全部)

In What Is a World? Pheng Cheah, a leading theorist of cosmopolitanism, offers the first critical consideration of world literature’s cosmopolitan vocation. Addressing the failure of recent theories of world literature to inquire about the meaning of world, Cheah articulates a normative theory of literature’s world-making power by creatively synthesizing four philosophical acc...(展开全部)

World literature was long defined in North America as an established canon of European masterpieces, but an emerging global perspective has challenged both this European focus and the very category of "the masterpiece." The first book to look broadly at the contemporary scope and purposes of world literature, What Is World Literature? probes the uses and abuses of world literat...(展开全部)

大卫·丹穆若什，1980年获耶鲁大学比较文学博士学位，随后曾在哥伦比亚大学比较文学系任教三十年。历任哥伦比亚大学比较文学系主任、美国比较文学学会会长、哈佛大学比较文学系主任。现任哈佛大学厄内斯特·伯恩鲍姆讲席教授，比较文学教授。

In the late twentieth century, the common sense approach to literature was deemed naïve. Roland Barthes proclaimed the death of the author, and Hillis Miller declared that all interpretation is theoretical. In many a literature department, graduate students spent far more time on Derrida and Foucault than on Shakespeare and Milton. Despite this, common sense approaches to lit...(展开全部)

The Literary Absolute is the first authoritative study of the emergence of the modern concept of literature in German romanticism. The authors trace this concept from the philosophical crisis bequeathed by Kant to his successors, to its development by the central figures of the Athenaeum group: the Schlegel brothers, Schelling, and Novalis. This study situates the Jena romantic...(展开全部)

大卫·达姆罗什（David Damrosch），哈佛大学厄内斯特·伯恩鲍姆比较文学讲席教授，比较文学系主任。曾任美国比较文学学会会长、哥伦比亚大学比较文学系主任。他著述颇丰，出版的学术专著有《埋藏之书：吉尔伽美什史诗的消失与重现》《什么是世界文学？》《如何阅读世界文学》《比较文学：全球时代的文学研究》《八十本书环游地球》等；主编的世界文学教材和原典选读有《朗文世界文学选集》（六卷）《朗文英国文学选集》《普林斯顿比较文学文库》《劳特里奇比较文学论文集》等。同时担任多家比较文学与世界文学杂志主编或编委。他曾在五十个国家做过文学演讲，作品被翻译成多种语言，是一位在国际上颇具影响力的学者。 译者简介 陈广琛，哈佛大学比较文学博士。现任埃默里大学中国文学副教授。曾获选为普林斯顿大学人文学会成员，并在该校比较文学系任教。主要研究方向为古器物学收藏与文学史之关系、...(展开全部)

In Lu Xun and World Literature, Xiaolu Ma, Carlos Rojas, and other contributors examine various aspects of Lu Xun, who is known as the father of modern Chinese literature. Essays in this book focus on Lu Xun’s works in relation to the notions of world literature and processes of literary worlding. The contributors offer detailed analyses of Lu Xun’s own literary oeuvre and of f...(展开全部)