Beecroft Alexander - An Ecology Of World Literature From Antiquity To The Present Day - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: What constitutes a nation's literature? How do literatures of different countries interact with one another? In this groundbreaking study Alexander Beecroft develops a new way of thinking about world literature. Drawing on a series of examples and case studies the book ranges from ancient epic to the contemporary fiction of Roberto Bola o and Amitav Ghosh. Moving across literary ecologies of varying sizes from small societies to the planet as a whole the environments in which literary texts are produced and circulated An Ecology of World Literature places in dialogue scholarly perspectives on ancient and modern western and non - western texts navigating literary study into new and uncharted territory.
Title: An Ecology Of World Literature From Antiquity To The Present Day
Author(s): Beecroft Alexander
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781781685730
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 1/6/2015
Category: Literary Studies: General