Download or read book Mapping World Literature written by Mads Rosendahl Thomsen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-06-21 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mapping World Literature explores the study of literature and literary history in light of global changes, looking at what defines world literature in the 21st century. Surveying ideas of literature from Goethe to the present, Thomsen devises a compelling concept of literary constellations. He discusses a wide-range of critical positions, identifies the limits of comparative and post-colonial approaches and examines two specific cases: literature written by migrant writers and the literature of genocide, war and disaster. Mapping World Literature captures new ways of understanding the patterns and trends that emerge in literature, opening up and inspiring research to map patterns in the field.