How to Read World Literature notes (2nd edition)

This is a comprehensive overview of the week 10 lecture on globalisation from a comparative literature module. It analyses the problem of canon in world literature & literature studies, discussing three distinct proposals on how canon should be constructed more inclusively. The notes provide a summary of Damrosch's "Going Global" which discusses globalization of literature, problems of cultural translation and delocalization of literature, as well as lecture and seminar notes which analyze po...

This is a comprehensive overview of the week 10 lecture on globalisation from a comparative literature module. It analyses the problem of canon in world literature & literature studies, discussing three distinct proposals on how canon should be constructed more inclusively. The notes provide a summary of Damrosch's "Going Global" which discusses globalization of literature, problems of cultural translation and delocalization of literature, as well as lecture and seminar notes which analyze po...