Outline of seminar
Monday August 11
Introduction and basic definitions
- What is “World Literature”?
Milan Kundera, Die Weltliteratur The New Yorker, January 18, 2007
Harvard Institute for World Literature
ACLA Statement on World Literature
World Literature Today
World Literature (Wikipedia) - What is “Untranslatable”? What is “Equivalence”?
Entries on Translatability and Equivalence from the Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies, ed. Mona Baker - Post Colonial Translation, Bassnett/Trivedi, Introduction, Chapters Introduction, 1, 2 ,4, 8
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Tuesday, August 12
Discussion of Emily Apter, Against World Literature, Part One: Chapters 1, 2, 3
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Wednesday, August 13–Nick
- Discussion of Emily Apter, Against World Literature, Part Two, Chapters 1, 2, 4, 5
- Selected entries from “Dictionary of Untranslatables” Translation edited by Apter et al… PDFs to be supplied
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Thursday, August 14–Slava
Franco Moretti, Atlas of the European Novel, Introduction, Chapter 1
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Friday, August 15–John
Franco Moretti, Distant Reading, “Conjectures on World Literature”, “Evolution, World-Systems, Weltliteratur”, “Style, Inc” “Network Theory: Plot Analysis”