World Literatures is an academic discipline dedicated to the comparative study of literary works produced across diverse cultures and geographical regions through critical analysis of genre, theme, and cultural context.
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Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays
George Whalley, Northrop Frye · The Modern Language Review · 1959 · 2.2K citations
Elliott Rabin, David Damrosch · World Literature Today · 2004 · 876 citations
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Nolan Miller, Milán Kundera · The Antioch Review · 1981 · 544 citations
An ecology of world literature: from antiquity to the present day
Choice Reviews Online · 2015 · 321 citations
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- JTJoseph T. Shipley
5 publications · 128 citations
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- LZLaetitia Zecchini
Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique (CNRST), Morocco
4 publications · 66 citations
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SOAS University of London
London, United Kingdom
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12 publications
483 citations
University of London
London, United Kingdom
8 h-index
12 publications
483 citations
Universidad de Londres
Mexico City, Mexico
7 h-index
11 publications
465 citations
Purdue University West Lafayette
West Lafayette, United States
5 h-index
5 publications
103 citations
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, United States
5 h-index
6 publications
330 citations
Stockholm University
Stockholm, Sweden
4 h-index
6 publications
113 citations
Central China Normal University
Wuhan, China
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7 publications
134 citations
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Moscow, Russia
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4 publications
106 citations
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- Choice Reviews Online
CRO · 44 publications · 2.7K citations
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- World Literature Today
WLT · 14 publications · 1.8K citations
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- PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America
11 publications · 473 citations
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- World Literature Written in English
WLWE · 10 publications · 530 citations
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- Journal of World Literature
10 publications · 224 citations
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See also World Literatures | |
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Core Methods | Translation Studies Comparative Method Distant Reading Close Reading Data Visualization Cross-regional Comparison Quantitative Research Methods |
Regional Traditions | American Literature African Literature European Literature African Philosophy Poetry |
Major Themes | Postcolonial Studies Intercultural Transfer Transcultural Competence Displacement Cross-cultural Exchange |
Translation Studies | Literary Circulation Reception Studies Textual Interpretation |
Historical Periods | Renaissance Literature Middle Ages Islamic History Abbasid History Classical Antiquity |