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Literature and the World Stefan Helgesson 9780815384656
RRP: $72.13Booksplease Price: $69.11Literature and the World presents a broad and multifaceted introduction to world literature and globalization. The book provides a brief background and history of the field followed by a wide... -
The Ethos of History: Time and Responsibility Stefan Helgesson 9781785338847
RRP: $202.80Booksplease Price: $166.06At a time when rapidly evolving technologies, political turmoil, and the tensions inherent in multiculturalism and globalization are reshaping historical consciousness, what is the proper role for... -
The Ethos of History: Time and Responsibility by Stefan Helgesson 9781805393207
RRP: $54.50Booksplease Price: $47.50At a time when rapidly evolving technologies, political turmoil, and the tensions inherent in multiculturalism and globalization are reshaping historical consciousness, what is the proper role for... -
World Literatures: Exploring the Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Exchange by Stefan Helgesson 9789176350799
Booksplease Price: $40.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789176350799Author Stefan HelgessonFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint
Institutions of World Literature: Writing, Translation, Markets Stefan Helgesson 9781138547728
RRP: $116.98Booksplease Price: $108.89This volume engages critically with the recent and ongoing consolidation of "world literature" as a paradigm of study. On the basis of an extended, active, and ultimately more literary sense of what...
Exit: Endings and New Beginnings in Literature and Life by Stefan Helgesson 9789042032514
Booksplease Price: $218.48If anything is certain in human existence, it is the exit. Before the universal yet radically singular event of death, however, history leaves its mark on us by determining which exits are possible,...
Transnationalism in Southern African Literature: Modernists, Realists, and the Inequality of Print Culture by Stefan Helgesson
RRP: $74.08Booksplease Price: $70.75Considering the growing interest in South African Literature at the moment, this study looks at both the Anglophone literature of South Africa and the lusophone literature of Angola and Mozambique...
Transnationalism in Southern African Literature: Modernists, Realists, and the Inequality of Print Culture by Stefan Helgesson 9780415462396
RRP: $194.98Booksplease Price: $176.83Considering the growing interest in South African Literature at the moment, this study looks at both the Anglophone literature of South Africa and the lusophone literature of Angola and Mozambique...
Literature and the Making of the World: Cosmopolitan Texts, Vernacular Practices by Professor or Dr. Stefan Helgesson 9781501374159
Booksplease Price: $199.89This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Positioning itself at the intersection of world literature...
Decolonisations of Literature: Critical Practice in Africa and Brazil after 1945 Stefan Helgesson 9781802070095
Booksplease Price: $87.93An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. This book sets out to understand how the meaning of 'literature' was transformed in...
Literature and the Making of the World: Cosmopolitan Texts, Vernacular Practices by Professor or Dr. Stefan Helgesson 9781501374197
Booksplease Price: $61.46This open access book positions itself at the intersection of world literature studies, literary anthropology and philosophical critiques of ‘world’ and ‘globe’ concepts. Doing so, it investigates...
Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace by Sarah Brouillette 9780230507845
Booksplease Price: $90.25Combining analysis with detailed accounts of authors' careers and the global trade in literature, this book assesses how postcolonial writers respond to their own reception and niche positioning,...
Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace by Sarah Brouillette 9780230346437
Booksplease Price: $90.25Combining analysis with detailed accounts of authors' careers and the global trade in literature, this book assesses how postcolonial writers respond to their own reception and niche positioning,...
Minor Universality / Universalité mineure: Rethinking Humanity After Western Universalism / Penser l’humanité après l’universalisme occidental by Markus Messling 9783110798487
RRP: $206.70Booksplease Price: $140.38The circulation and entanglements of human beings, data, and goods have not necessarily and by themselves generated a universalising consciousness. The "global" and the "universal", in other words,...
Minor Universality / Universalité mineure: Rethinking Humanity After Western Universalism / Penser l’humanité après l’universalisme occidental by Markus Messling 9783112214756
RRP: $44.85Booksplease Price: $32.04The circulation and entanglements of human beings, data, and goods have not necessarily and by themselves generated a universalising consciousness. The "global" and the "universal", in other words,...
Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis by Sarah Nuttall 9780822342625
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $157.60Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis is a pioneering effort to insert South Africa’s largest city into urban theory, on its own terms. Johannesburg is Africa’s premier metropolis. Yet theories of...
Into Our Labours: Work and its Representation in World-Literary Perspective Neil Lazarus 9781835537077
Booksplease Price: $60.76Into our Labours explores the literary representation of work across the globe since 1850, setting out to show that the literature of modernity is best understood in the light of the worlding of...
Post-National Worlds in Contemporary European Literature Jesse van Amelsvoort 9781350595194
Booksplease Price: $167.02Using works by Hafid Bouazza, Najat El Hachmi, Tsjebbe Hettinga, Emine Sevgi OEzdamar, Leila Slimani, Zadie Smith, and Kjell Westoe, this book looks at post-national feelings of belonging in...
Foundational Texts of World Literature by Dominique Jullien 9781433112690
RRP: $133.38Booksplease Price: $118.76What makes a world author? How did Homer become a "cosmopolitan" author? How does a Mayan creation narrative challenge our Western logocentric ideas of foundational texts? What might world literature...
The Worlds of Mia Couto by Kristian Van Haesendonck 9781788745949
RRP: $92.63Booksplease Price: $83.67Mia Couto has been recognised internationally as one of the most important African authors of our times. His rapidly growing opus shifts fluidly between various modes of writing, mixing historical...
Into Our Labours: Work and its Representation in World-Literary Perspective by Neil Lazarus
Booksplease Price: $230.51Into our Labours explores the literary representation of work across the globe since 1850, setting out to show that the literature of modernity is best understood in the light of the worlding of...
Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis by Sarah Nuttall
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $52.47Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis is a pioneering effort to insert South Africa's largest city into urban theory, on its own terms. Johannesburg is Africa's premier metropolis. Yet theories of...
Multilingual Literature as World Literature by Dr Jane Hiddleston 9781501371424
Booksplease Price: $61.46Multilingual Literature as World Literature examines and adjusts current theories and practices of world literature, particularly the conceptions of world, global and local, reflecting on the ways...
The Nobel Prize and the Formation of Contemporary World Literature Paul Tenngart 9781501382161
Booksplease Price: $59.55An exploration of the history, ambitions, and impact of the Nobel Prize in literature as it gained a central position in 20th-century global literary culture. Few scholars would deny that the...