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LTST 551: World Literature Report a Broken Link

LTST 551 investigates an increasingly influential approach to literary studies—world literature.

Unit 1

D’haen, Theo, et al., editors. Preface. Routledge Literature Companions: The Routledge Companion to World Literature, Routledge, 2012, Credo Reference, 2019, http://0-search.credoreference.com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/content/entry/routworld/preface/0?institutionId=1122.
Pizer, John. “Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: Origins and Relevance of Weltliteratur.” Routledge Literature Companions: The Routledge Companion to World Literature, edited by Theo D’haen, et al., Routledge, 2012, Credo Reference, 2019, http://0-search.credoreference.com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/content/entry/routworld/johann_wolfgang_von_goethe/0?institutionId=1122.
Moretti, Franco. “Conjectures on World Literature.” New Left Review, vol. 1, no. 1, 2000, pp. 54–68, https://newleftreview.org/issues/II1/articles/franco-moretti-conjectures-on-world-literature.
Chesney, Duncan McColl. “An Essay against Global Literature: Literature and the Global Public.” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, vol. 43, no. 2, 2017, pp. 251–74, doi:10.6240/concentric.lit.2017.43.2.11.
Carravetta, Peter. “The Canon(s) of World Literature.” Routledge Literature Companions: The Routledge Companion to World Literature, edited by Theo D’haen, et al., Routledge, 2012, Credo Reference, 2019, http://0-search.credoreference.com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/content/entry/routworld/the_canon_s_of_world_literature/0?institutionId=1122.

Unit 2

Naddaff, Sandra. “The Thousand and One Nights as World Literature.” Routledge Literature Companions: The Routledge Companion to World Literature, edited by Theo D’haen, et al., Routledge, 2012, Credo Reference, 2019, http://0-search.credoreference.com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/content/entry/routworld/the_thousand_and_one_nights_as_world_literature/0?institutionId=1122.
Browse “Invitation to World Literature: The Thousand and One Nights.” Annenberg Learner, Annenberg Foundation, 2016

Unit 3

Bear, Rise S. Introduction. The Beggar's Opera, by John Gay. University of Oregon, 1992. https://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/resour/mirrors/rbear/beggar.html
Gay, John. The Beggar’s Opera. Ed. Claude Lovit Fraser. Heinemann, 1921. Project Gutenberg 2008, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25063/25063-h/25063-h.htm
Böker, Uwe, Ines Detmers, and Anna-Christina Giovanopoulos. “From Gay to Brecht and Beyond: Imitation and Re-Writing of The Beggar’s Opera — 1728 to 2004.” John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera 1728–2004: Adaptations and Re-Writings, edited by Uwe Böker, Ines Detmers, and Anna-Christina Giovanopoulos, Editions Rodopi, 2006, pp. 9–31, ProQuest Ebook Central, https://0-ebookcentral-proquest-com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/lib/athabasca-ebooks/reader.action?docID=556775&ppg=10.

Unit 4

Dugaw, D. “Ballad.” The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, edited by Roland Green, et al., Princeton UP, 4th edition, 2012, Credo Reference, http://0-search.credoreference.com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/content/entry/prpoetry/ballad/0?institutionId=1122.
Newman, Steve. “The Value of ‘Nothing’: Ballads in ‘The Beggar’s Opera.’” The Eighteenth Century, vol. 45, no. 3, 2004, pp. 265–83
Cheal, David. “The Life of a Song: ‘Mack the Knife.’” Financial Times, 15 January 2016, https://www.ft.com/content/90df12d6-b87f-11e5-b151-8e15c9a029fb.
“The Ballad of Mack the Knife.” SecondHandSongs, https://secondhandsongs.com/work/9119/originals#nav-entity.
“Traditional Ballads.” Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/collections/songs-of-america/articles-and-essays/musical-styles/traditional-and-ethnic/traditional-ballads.
Metzer, David. “The Power Ballad.” Popular Music, vol. 31, no. 3, 2012, pp. 437–59, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23325787.

Unit 5

Mani, B. Venkat. “Bibliomigrancy: Book Series and the Making of World Literature.” Routledge Literature Companions: The Routledge Companion to World Literature, edited by Theo D’haen, et al., Routledge, 2012, Credo Reference, 2019, http://0-search.credoreference.com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/content/entry/routworld/bibliomigrancy/0?institutionId=1122.
Sen, Mandira. “The Paperback Revolution.” India International Centre Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 4, 1983, pp. 443–65.
“Penguin Books at 80: A ‘Paperback Revolution’ that Helped Keep Britain’s Radical Conscience in Order.” Independent, 10 October 2015, https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/penguin-books-at-80-a-paperback-revolution-that-helped-keep-britain-s-radical-conscience-in-order-a6689321.html.
Menghan, Qian. “Penguin Classics and the Canonization of Chinese Literature in English Translation.” Translation & Literature, vol. 26, no. 3, 2017, pp. 295–316.

Unit 6

Tiwari, Bhavya. “Rabindranath Tagore’s Comparative World Literature.” Routledge Literature Companions: The Routledge Companion to World Literature, edited by Theo D’haen, et al., Routledge, 2012, Credo Reference, 2019, http://0-search.credoreference.com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/content/entry/routworld/rabindranath_tagore_s_comparative_world_literature/0?institutionId=1122.
Tagore, Rabindranath. “Visva Sahitya.” Rabindranath Tagore in the 21st Century, edited by D. Banerji, translated by Rijula Das and Makarand R. Paranjape, Springer India, 2015, pp. 277–88, https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bbm%3A978-81-322-2038-1%2F1.pdf.
Tagore, Rabindranath. Gitanjali (Song Offerings). Macmillan, 1914, Internet Archive, 2015, https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.97809/page/n7.
Sinclair, May. “The ‘Gitanjali’: Or Song-Offerings of Rabindra Nath Tagore.” The North American Review, vol. 197, no. 690, 1913, pp. 659–76, JSTOR, https://0-www-jstor-org.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/stable/25120002.

Unit 7

Baetens, Jan. “World Literature and Popular Literature: Toward a Wordless Literature?” Routledge Literature Companions: The Routledge Companion to World Literature, edited by Theo D’haen, et al., Routledge, 2012, Credo Reference, 2019, http://0-search.credoreference.com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/content/entry/routworld/world_literature_and_popular_literature/0?institutionId=1122.
Steiner, Ann. “World Literature and the Book Market.” Routledge Literature Companions: The Routledge Companion to World Literature, edited by Theo D’haen, et al., Routledge, 2012, Credo Reference, 2019, http://0-search.credoreference.com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/content/entry/routworld/world_literature_and_the_book_market/0?institutionId=1122.
Christie, Agatha. Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery. Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/MurderOnTheOrientExpress_201803/mode/2up

Unit 8

Unit 9

Johnson-Woods, Toni, editor. Introduction. Manga: An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives, Continuum, 2010, pp. 1–14, EBSCOhost, http://0-search.ebscohost.com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cat01422a&AN=aucat.b1378248&site=eds-live.
Bouissou, Jean-Marie. “Manga: A Historical Overview.” Manga: An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives, edited by Toni Johnson-Woods, Continuum, 2010, pp. 17–33, EBSCOhost, http://0-search.ebscohost.com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cat01422a&AN=aucat.b1378248&site=eds-live.
Schodt, Frederik L. “Translating Manga.” World Literature Today, March 2016, https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2016/march/translating-manga-frederik-l-schodt. (June 15th, 2020 - Updated to Web Archive link)
Prough, Jennifer. “Shōjo Manga in Japan and Abroad.” Manga: An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives, edited by Toni Johnson-Woods, Continuum, 2010, pp. 93–106, EBSCOhost, http://0-search.ebscohost.com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cat01422a&AN=aucat.b1378248&site=eds-live.
Bainbridge, Jason, and Craig Norris. “Hybrid Manga: Implications for the Global Knowledge Economy.” Manga: An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives, edited by Toni Johnson-Woods, Continuum, 2010, pp. 235–52, EBSCOhost, http://0-search.ebscohost.com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cat01422a&AN=aucat.b1378248&site=eds-live.
Goldberg, Wendy. “The Manga Phenomenon in America.” Manga: An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives, edited by Toni Johnson-Woods, Continuum, 2010, pp. 281–96, EBSCOhost, http://0-search.ebscohost.com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cat01422a&AN=aucat.b1378248&site=eds-live.
Wong, Wendy Suiyi. “Globalizing Manga: From Japan to Hong Kong and Beyond.” Manga: An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives, edited by Toni Johnson-Woods, Continuum, 2010, pp. 332–50, EBSCOhost, http://0-search.ebscohost.com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cat01422a&AN=aucat.b1378248&site=eds-live.

Unit 10

Tanoukhi, Nirvana. “African Roads.” Routledge Literature Companions: The Routledge Companion to World Literature, edited by Theo D’haen, et al., Routledge, 2012, Credo Reference, 2019, http://0-search.credoreference.com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/content/entry/routworld/african_roads/0?institutionId=1122.
Currey, James. “Chinua Achebe, the African Writers Series and the Establishment of African Literature.” African Affairs, vol. 102, no. 409, 2003, pp. 575–85, JSTOR, https://0-www-jstor-org.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/stable/3518514.
Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. Anchor, 2009. Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/AchebeChinuaThingsFallApart/mode/2up

Unit 11

Chute, Hillary. “The Texture of Retracing in Marjane Satrapi’s ‘Persepolis.’” Women’s Studies Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 1/2, 2008, pp. 92–110, JSTOR, https://0-www-jstor-org.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/stable/27649737.

Unit 12

Moran, Ry. “Truth and Reconciliation Commission.” The Canadian Encyclopedia, last edited 7 December 2017, https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/truth-and-reconciliation-commission.

Unit 13

Johnson, Miriam J. “The Rise of the Citizen Author: Writing Within Social Media.” Publishing Research Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 2, 2017, pp. 131–46, doi:10.1007/s12109-017-9505-8.
Vadde, Aarthi. “Amateur Creativity: Contemporary Literature and the Digital Publishing Scene.” New Literary History, vol. 48, no. 1, 2017, pp. 27–51, Project Muse, doi:10.1353/nlh.2017.0001.
Ferguson, Donna. “Poetry Sales Soar as Political Millennials Search for Clarity.” The Guardian, 21 January 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/21/poetry-sales-soar-as-political-millennials-search-for-clarity.