While the very existence of "Global Literary Studies" as an institutionalized field is not yet evident, the growing interest in questions that involve a global perspective of study is overwhelming. This impulse has led literary critics and cultural historians to find new concepts, new methodologies and to face serious challenges both concerning the conceptualization of their object of study as global and the adoption of a global critical approach. Within this framework, this book responds to a double demand: on the one hand, it discusses these notions (global, globalization, world, cosmopolitan) within an historical perspective, providing a thorough intervention in the state of the art. On the other hand, it proposes different case studies that help develop the global perspective further in four key research avenues global translation flows, the global novel, global literary environments and global cinema. Gathering contributions from international scholars with expertise in various areas of research, the volume reflects on the current and future paths of global literary studies from an interdisciplinary perspective, structured around five target concepts: space, scale, time, connectivity and agency. weiterlesen