David Damrosch
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 302114 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David Damrosch |
| NOMBRES | David |
| APELLIDO | Damrosch |
| FIRMA | DAMROSCH D |
| AFILIACIONES | Harvard University Press |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9012-0273 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 80 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Our Markets, Our Selves
Reflecting on several recurring themes in the contributions to this special issue, this essay discusses the interplay between an individual’s scholarly formation and the markets in which our work circulates, both within academia and beyond. The examples of Matthew Arnold and Michel Foucault can exemplify what Kenneth Burke described as “perspective by incongruity,” with which we can approach the widely disparate works now circulating within world…
Toward a History of Histories of Civilization
This essay discusses efforts to write non-Eurocentric histories if civilization, beginning with H. G. Wells's bestselling Outline of History, an early attempt to move beyond older European histories with their Western focus and ideas of linear progress over time.I then discuss several transitional works in the second half of the twentieth century, before turning to three contemporary works -one Japanese, one Chinese, and one American -that explic…
Epic traditions in Balkan world literature
Nights of Plague
The following is an edited transcript of the opening plenary session of the Institute for World Literature in July 2020 – held online as a result of Covid-19. In this conversation with IWL ’s director and associate director, Orhan Pamuk discusses his understanding of world literature and his place in it, and his ongoing work on his novel Nights of Plague , then nearing completion
Ancient World Literature
Though world literature is often considered a modern phenomenon, a range of world literatures developed in cosmopolitan cultures in antiquity, as was already recognized by the early comparatist Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett. This essay discusses examples of world literature created in the Hellenistic and imperial Roman world and the ancient Near East, looking in particular at relations between imperial centers and colonial peripheries.
Page, Stage, Location
The growth of globalization has greatly expanded the exposure of writers and now filmmakers to the wider world beyond their home country or region, offering new opportunities to bring elements of the outside world into their works, and in turn to take their works out to distant audiences. This essay discusses the increasing presence of foreign cultures in the progression from the literary detail to the stage prop and then the movie location, and …
Shahnameh
The Shahnameh: The Persian Epic as World Literature. By Hamid Dabashi. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. Pp. xvii + 249, illus. $35
Comparing the Literatures
Literary studies are being transformed today by the expansive and disruptive forces of globalization. More works than ever circulate worldwide in English and in translation, and even national traditions are increasingly seen in transnational terms. To encompass this expanding literary universe, scholars and teachers need to expand their linguistic and cultural resources, rethink their methods and training, and reconceive the place of literature a…
Anatomy of Criticism
Comparing the Literatures
La République mondiale des lettres in the World Republic of Scholarship
Pascale Casanova’s seminal book has had an enormous and continuing impact around the world in a dozen languages, and as a result La République mondiale des lettres has itself become subject to the processes described within the book itself, as it enters world scholarly space. Casanova herself reflected directly on the somewhat unsettling results of this process, and her subsequent work was shaped in various ways by the international response to h…
World Literature and Postcolonial Studies, Part II
Part two of the special issue of World Literature and Postcolonial Studies comes out during extraordinary times. The world is fighting a global pandemic. "I can't breathe" and "Black Lives Matter" are no longer expressions that are meaningful only in America. Rather, they have become calls to unite the world against bigotry, racism, and injustice. Meanwhile, Covid-19 has exposed racial, class, and economic inequalities all around the world. If in…
Frames for World Literature
Relocating Comparison
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Futures of Comparative Literature
Futures of Comparative Literature is a cutting-edge report on the state of the discipline in Comparative Literature. Offering a broad spectrum of viewpoints from all career stages, a variety of different institutions, and many language backgrounds, this collection is fully global and diverse. The book includes previously unpublished interviews with key figures in the discipline as well as a range of different essays - short pieces on key topics a…
Trying to Make It Real
Historian Takashi Shogimen, bioethicist Jing-Bao Nie, and I established this research group several years earlier to promote dialogue about theories and methodologies of comparison across diverse fields from psychology to anthropology, history to bioethics. Haun's talk itself followed a roundtable discussion in which Haun and Zhang Longxi joined with Otago colleagues from all these disciplines to discuss how each field's engagement with questions…
Against World Literature
It is surely a mark of some kind of success when a movement begins to be attacked by its own participants. We may recall the surrealist debates of the 1920s, with their rival manifestos, counterblasts, and excommunications, or Roland Barthes's irritated insistence in the mid-1970s that he was not after all a structuralist. Emily Apter's new book suggests that the resurgent study of world literature has achieved a comparable standing today. Hersel…
Quest of a Discipline
From the days of René Wellek s Crisis of Comparative Literature (1959) through the beginning of the twenty-first century that saw Gayatri Spivak s provocative Death of a Discipline (2003), Comparative Literature as an academic discipline has endured like no other. This pioneering volume, Quest of a Discipline, offers challenging new directions to this field urging the readers to see the practice of Comparative Literature as a quest. It showcases …
The Routledge companion to world literature
The Canonical Debate Today
The Canonical Debate Today. Crossing Disciplinary and Cultural Boundaries re-enacts the canonical issues current in the ’90s from a new perspective, triggered by the changes that occurred worldwide in understanding the concepts and the status of theory, in the legacy of literary studies within the field of humanities, and in cultural production and reception. During the last decade discussions of globalization mostly took into account its impact …
Comparative Literature/World Literature
The following is a discussion between two distinguished comparative literature scholars, David Damrosch and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. This is a transcription of their dialogue, delivered orally before a large audience at the 2011 American Comparative Literature Conference in Vancouver, Canada, on 2 April. It has been lightly edited to remove the natural redundancy inherent to oral communication, to eliminate asides regarding technical aspects o…
Mapping World Literature
Book Review| January 01 2010 Mapping World Literature: International Canonization and Transnational Literatures Mapping World Literature: International Canonization and Transnational Literatures. By Thomsen, Mads RosendahlLondon: Continuum, 2008. 172 pp. Paper $39.95. David Damrosch David Damrosch Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2010) 47 (3): 396–399. https://doi.org/10…
The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature
III The Best That Has Been Bought and Stolen
Toward a History of World Literature
he challenges entailed in writing a global literary history are threefold, involving problems of definition, design, and purpose. Can the field of inquiry be defined in such a way that a meaning- ful history can be conceived at all? If so, could an effective organization and a manageable plan of work be devised to give concrete shape to a project of global scope? Finally, and hardest of all, could a history of world literature be written that any…
What Is World Literature
Comparative Literature/World Literature
The following is a discussion between two distinguished comparative literature scholars, David Damrosch and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. This is a transcription of their dialogue, delivered orally before a large audience at the 2011 American Comparative Literature Conference in Vancouver, Canada, on 2 April. It has been lightly edited to remove the natural redundancy inherent to oral communication, to eliminate asides regarding technical aspects o…
We Scholars
Never before have so many scholars produced so much work--and never before have they seemed to have so little to say to one another, or to the public at large. This is the dilemma of the modern university, which today sets the pattern for virtually all scholarship. In his eloquent book, David Damrosch offers a lucid, often troubling assessment of the state of scholarship in our academic institutions, a look at how these institutions acquired thei…
Against World Literature
It is surely a mark of some kind of success when a movement begins to be attacked by its own participants. We may recall the surrealist debates of the 1920s, with their rival manifestos, counterblasts, and excommunications, or Roland Barthes's irritated insistence in the mid-1970s that he was not after all a structuralist. Emily Apter's new book suggests that the resurgent study of world literature has achieved a comparable standing today. Hersel…
Rebirth of a Discipline
In charting the forward trajectory of comparative literature, one way to get our bearings is to look to the past.We need to understand the ways our discipline's history has shaped and constrained our field of vision, while conversely we may also find alternative roads opened up by early comparatists and now ripe for further exploration.These alternative paths can be especially valuable as we seek to carry forward the tectonic shift now underway f…
Futures of Comparative Literature
Futures of Comparative Literature is a cutting-edge report on the state of the discipline in Comparative Literature. Offering a broad spectrum of viewpoints from all career stages, a variety of different institutions, and many language backgrounds, this collection is fully global and diverse. The book includes previously unpublished interviews with key figures in the discipline as well as a range of different essays - short pieces on key topics a…
Toward a History of World Literature
he challenges entailed in writing a global literary history are threefold, involving problems of definition, design, and purpose. Can the field of inquiry be defined in such a way that a meaning- ful history can be conceived at all? If so, could an effective organization and a manageable plan of work be devised to give concrete shape to a project of global scope? Finally, and hardest of all, could a history of world literature be written that any…
Global Regionalism
As the discipline of Comparative Literature expands beyond its traditional concentration on the literatures of a few European great powers, our expanded range of vision involves rethinking Europe itself as well as the larger global production of literature. Already in the 19th century, comparatists were deeply engaged in sorting out relations between major powers and minor literatures, as can be seen in the ambitious early journal Acta Comparatio…
The Aesthetics of Conquest
Research Article| January 01 1991 The Aesthetics of Conquest: Aztec Poetry before and after Cortés David Damrosch David Damrosch Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1991) 33: 101–120. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928759 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Sea…
Trying to Make It Real
Historian Takashi Shogimen, bioethicist Jing-Bao Nie, and I established this research group several years earlier to promote dialogue about theories and methodologies of comparison across diverse fields from psychology to anthropology, history to bioethics. Haun's talk itself followed a roundtable discussion in which Haun and Zhang Longxi joined with Otago colleagues from all these disciplines to discuss how each field's engagement with questions…
III The Best That Has Been Bought and Stolen
The Narrative Covenant
The Aesthetics of Conquest
Research Article| January 01 1991 The Aesthetics of Conquest: Aztec Poetry before and after Cortés David Damrosch David Damrosch Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1991) 33: 101–120. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928759 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Sea…
Story-Telling Techniques in the Arabian Nights
This work comprises a literary comparison of surviving alternative versions of selected narrative-cycles from the Nights. Pinault draws on the published Arabic editions - especially Bulaq, MacNaghten, and the fourteenth-century Galland text recently edited by Mahdi - as well as unpublished Arabic manuscripts from libraries in France and North Africa. The study demonstrates that significantly different versions have survived of some of the most fa…
We Scholars
The Ethnic Ethnographer
FIRST CONCEIVED IN 1939 and finally written in 1954-55, Tristes Tropiques ranks as one of the most powerful accounts of modernity in light of the experience of the Second World War. It is also, among Claude Levi-Strauss's writings, the work that most directly engages the issue of the anthropologist's ethnicity. He begins the story of his research travels with a voyage that he describes as extraordinarily symbolic of the future (23): his escape fr…
We Scholars
Never before have so many scholars produced so much work--and never before have they seemed to have so little to say to one another, or to the public at large. This is the dilemma of the modern university, which today sets the pattern for virtually all scholarship. In his eloquent book, David Damrosch offers a lucid, often troubling assessment of the state of scholarship in our academic institutions, a look at how these institutions acquired thei…
We Scholars. Changing the Culture of the University
What Is World Literature?
What Is World Literature
Rebirth of a Discipline
In charting the forward trajectory of comparative literature, one way to get our bearings is to look to the past.We need to understand the ways our discipline's history has shaped and constrained our field of vision, while conversely we may also find alternative roads opened up by early comparatists and now ripe for further exploration.These alternative paths can be especially valuable as we seek to carry forward the tectonic shift now underway f…
Global Regionalism
As the discipline of Comparative Literature expands beyond its traditional concentration on the literatures of a few European great powers, our expanded range of vision involves rethinking Europe itself as well as the larger global production of literature. Already in the 19th century, comparatists were deeply engaged in sorting out relations between major powers and minor literatures, as can be seen in the ambitious early journal Acta Comparatio…
Toward a History of World Literature
he challenges entailed in writing a global literary history are threefold, involving problems of definition, design, and purpose. Can the field of inquiry be defined in such a way that a meaning- ful history can be conceived at all? If so, could an effective organization and a manageable plan of work be devised to give concrete shape to a project of global scope? Finally, and hardest of all, could a history of world literature be written that any…
The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature
III The Best That Has Been Bought and Stolen
Mapping World Literature
Book Review| January 01 2010 Mapping World Literature: International Canonization and Transnational Literatures Mapping World Literature: International Canonization and Transnational Literatures. By Thomsen, Mads RosendahlLondon: Continuum, 2008. 172 pp. Paper $39.95. David Damrosch David Damrosch Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2010) 47 (3): 396–399. https://doi.org/10…
The Canonical Debate Today
The Canonical Debate Today. Crossing Disciplinary and Cultural Boundaries re-enacts the canonical issues current in the ’90s from a new perspective, triggered by the changes that occurred worldwide in understanding the concepts and the status of theory, in the legacy of literary studies within the field of humanities, and in cultural production and reception. During the last decade discussions of globalization mostly took into account its impact …
Comparative Literature/World Literature
The following is a discussion between two distinguished comparative literature scholars, David Damrosch and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. This is a transcription of their dialogue, delivered orally before a large audience at the 2011 American Comparative Literature Conference in Vancouver, Canada, on 2 April. It has been lightly edited to remove the natural redundancy inherent to oral communication, to eliminate asides regarding technical aspects o…
Quest of a Discipline
From the days of René Wellek s Crisis of Comparative Literature (1959) through the beginning of the twenty-first century that saw Gayatri Spivak s provocative Death of a Discipline (2003), Comparative Literature as an academic discipline has endured like no other. This pioneering volume, Quest of a Discipline, offers challenging new directions to this field urging the readers to see the practice of Comparative Literature as a quest. It showcases …
The Routledge companion to world literature
Against World Literature
It is surely a mark of some kind of success when a movement begins to be attacked by its own participants. We may recall the surrealist debates of the 1920s, with their rival manifestos, counterblasts, and excommunications, or Roland Barthes's irritated insistence in the mid-1970s that he was not after all a structuralist. Emily Apter's new book suggests that the resurgent study of world literature has achieved a comparable standing today. Hersel…
Trying to Make It Real
Historian Takashi Shogimen, bioethicist Jing-Bao Nie, and I established this research group several years earlier to promote dialogue about theories and methodologies of comparison across diverse fields from psychology to anthropology, history to bioethics. Haun's talk itself followed a roundtable discussion in which Haun and Zhang Longxi joined with Otago colleagues from all these disciplines to discuss how each field's engagement with questions…
Futures of Comparative Literature
Futures of Comparative Literature is a cutting-edge report on the state of the discipline in Comparative Literature. Offering a broad spectrum of viewpoints from all career stages, a variety of different institutions, and many language backgrounds, this collection is fully global and diverse. The book includes previously unpublished interviews with key figures in the discipline as well as a range of different essays - short pieces on key topics a…
Frames for World Literature
Relocating Comparison
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Comparing the Literatures
Literary studies are being transformed today by the expansive and disruptive forces of globalization. More works than ever circulate worldwide in English and in translation, and even national traditions are increasingly seen in transnational terms. To encompass this expanding literary universe, scholars and teachers need to expand their linguistic and cultural resources, rethink their methods and training, and reconceive the place of literature a…
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