Tag Archives: world literature

Compared to What?

Posted on February 11, 2015 by Jacob Edmond

You can now download  in MP3 and MP4 formats the fourth and final talk delivered by the incomparable Haun Saussy as the as 2014 University of Otago De Carle Distinguished Lecturer. In “Compared to What?” Saussy argues that “comparative literature … Continue reading →

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Diffraction and World Literature

Posted on July 29, 2014 by Jacob Edmond

Parallax has just released a new special issue devoted to “Diffracted Worlds – Diffractive Readings: Onto-Epistemologies and the Critical Humanities,” edited by Birgit Mara Kaiser and Kathrin Thiele. The special has essays from Karen Barad, Kiene Brillenburg Wurth, and Johnny Golding, … Continue reading →

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Lucas Klein’s Foreign Echoes and Discerning the Soil

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Jacob Edmond

Dissertation Reviews has posted Brian Skerratt’s review of Lucas Klein’s dissertation, Foreign Echoes and Discerning the Soil: Dual Translation, Historiography, and World Literature in Chinese Poetry. Skerratt praises Klein’s dissertation for “its ambition and its erudition,” to which I can … Continue reading →

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