Debating World Literature keyword-nelson-mandela Despite the spread of democratic

Despite the spread of democratic debate and the growth of nationalist movements

they also include radical alterations in the relationship between the audience and the object of aesthetic consumption

and interrogates the functions of utopian thinking in a post-Communist age

Ernst Bloch and Hannah Arendt

Distinguished not only by its original analysis of events which have confounded so many analysts but also by the mass of information on Soviet economic problems

Debating World Literature keyword-nelson-mandela Despite the spread of democraticIn the continuing debates about the cultural dimensions of globalization, the question of literature has been something of a poor relation. This volume seeks to redress the balance. It takes as its starting point Goethes idea of Weltliteratur, from which it then travels out to various parts of the globe at different historical junctures. Among its many concerns are the legacies of Goethes idea, variable understandings of the term literature itself,