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World Literature as a research field has seen a remarkable growth over the last twenty-five years since the publication of Pascale Casanova’s, Franco Moretti’s, and David Damrosch’s important foundational texts. Today, there is a solid academic infrastructure in place that underpins the internationalisation of the field: a preeminent research journal (Journal of World Literature); the Institute for World Literature (IWL) founded by Damrosch at Harvard University; a number of publication series; flagship conferences, amongst them the DFG-sponsored conference on world literature, held in October 2018 and convened by Dieter Lamping and the editor of this volume, in collaboration with Matthias Bormuth. Scholars in Germany, or writing in German, have made significant contributions to the study of world literature: the history of the discourse (Dieter Lamping, Hendrik Birus, Christian Moser; Peter Goßens); the sociocultural shifts, intertextuality and genres of world literature (Ottmar Ette; Monika Schmitz-Emans; Elke Sturm-Trigonakis); world literature, folklore, and orality (Erhard Schüttpelz; Annette Werberger), to mention but a few areas and names.
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Cf. the proceedings of the conference, Vergleichende Weltliteraturen/Comparative World Literatures. DFG-Symposion 2018, ed. Dieter Lamping and Galin Tihanov, Berlin and Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 2020 (material from my introduction to Section 3 in that volume features in an edited and updated version in the current preface).
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Isländische Litteratur und Geschichte. Erster Teil. Göttingen and Gotha: Dieterich, 1773 (unpaginated “Vorrede”).
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See above all Michael J. Franklin, Orientalist Jones: Sir William Jones, Poet, Lawyer, and Linguist, 1746–1794, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011.
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See on this also Ton van Kalmthout, “Scientification and Popularization in the Historiography of World Literature, 1850–1950. A Dutch Case Study”, in The Making of the Humanities, Vol. 3: The Modern Humanities, ed. Rens Bod, Jaap Maat and Thijs Weststeijn, Amsterdam: Amsterdam UP, 2014, pp. 299–311.
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On Gorky’s project, see, most recently, Galin Tihanov, “World Literature, War, Revolution: The Significance of Viktor Shklovskii’s A Sentimental Journey,” in Transnational Russian Studies, ed. A. Byford et al., Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2020, pp. 112–26, as well as the literature cited there.
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Lamping, Dieter, and Galin Tihanov, Eds. 2020. Vergleichende Weltliteraturen/Comparative World Literatures. DFG-Symposion 2018. Berlin: Metzler.
Schlözer, August von. 1773. Isländische Litteratur und Geschichte. Erster Teil. Göttingen and Gotha: Dieterich.
Tihanov, Galin. 2020. World literature, War, Revolution: The Significance of Viktor Shklovskii’s “A Sentimental Journey”. In Transnational Russian Studies, Eds. A. Byford et al., 112–26. Liverpool: Liverpool UP.
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Tihanov, G. (2022). Preface. In: Tihanov, G. (eds) Universal Localities. Schriften zur Weltliteratur/Studies on World Literature, vol 13. J.B. Metzler, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-62332-9_1
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