Reconsidering Karl Marx’S Concept Of World Literature,
2026
Leeds International Study Centre
Reconsidering Karl Marx’S Concept Of World Literature, Kenneth Cheng
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It is widely assumed that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels regarded world literature as an epiphenomenal product of the capitalist world market, and therefore as a symptom of rather than potential cure to the crisis of modern society. However, this conflicts with the fact that they designated the Communist Manifesto itself as a world-literary production—the joint work of communists of various nationalities—and opposed it to the national limitations of German socialist literature. This article challenges existing interpretations by outlining how Marx and Engels incorporated the humanistic idealism of the Goethean Weltliteratur tradition into the theoretical framework of historical materialism. It …
World Literature: From Perpetual War To Perpetual Peace (And Back Again),
2026
ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities
World Literature: From Perpetual War To Perpetual Peace (And Back Again), Sándor Hites
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In this article, I address the relationship between world literature theories and questions of peace and war. I argue that the genesis of the concept of world literature in the 1790s was informed by profound transformations, in political theory, of the issue of the relevance and meaning of war and peace and their public perception. Theorists such as Wieland, Novalis, Jean Paul, and Fichte offered their concepts in response to the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, adjusting them to shifting frontlines and the change of military fortune. Goethe’s notion of Weltliteratur already reflected on the geopolitics of the post-Napoleonic age, …
Introduction: World Literature As World Crisis,
2026
Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Introduction: World Literature As World Crisis, Jernej Habjan
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Book Review: Yamin Hu, The Contemporary Construction Of The Chinese Form Of Marxist Literary Criticism ,
2026
University of New South Wales
Book Review: Yamin Hu, The Contemporary Construction Of The Chinese Form Of Marxist Literary Criticism , Paul R. Patton
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Worldbuilding,
2026
Trent University
Worldbuilding, Brent Ryan Bellamy
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Substantialism,
2026
University of Calgary
Substantialism, David Janzen
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Style,
2026
Simon Fraser University
Style, Clint Burnham
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Spectrality,
2026
Goethe University Frankfurt
Spectrality, Marlon Lieber
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Secularization,
2026
University of California, Berkeley
Secularization, Jake Orbison
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Rhetoric,
2026
King's College London
Rhetoric, Fintan Calpin
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Representation,
2026
San Francisco State University
Representation, Douglas Spielman
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Real,
2026
University of California, Berkeley
Real, Colleen Lye, Rumur Dowling
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Praxis,
2026
Aarhus University
Praxis, Tobias Dias
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Nature,
2026
École Normale Supérieure
Nature, Christina Chalmers
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Metonymy,
2026
University of Wyoming
Metonymy, Rob Jackson
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Metabolism,
2026
Pennsylvania State University
Metabolism, Christian P. Haines
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Mediation,
2026
Cardiff University
Mediation, Josh Robinson
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Language,
2026
University of California, Irvine
Language, Richard Godden
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Labor,
2026
University College Dublin
Labor, Thomas Waller
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Inversion,
2026
Emerson College
Inversion, Tavid Mulder, Matthew Gannon
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