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Beginning with Erich Auerbach’s reflections on the Goethean concept of World Literature, Ottmar Ette unfolds the theory and practice of Literatures of the World. Today, only those literary theories that are oriented upon a history of movement are still capable of doing justice to the confusing diversity of highly dynamic, worldwide transformations. This is because they examine transareal pathways in the field of literature. This volume captures literary processes of exchange and transformation between the Mediterranean, Atlantic and Pacific as well as the interplay of different ways of narrating space and time. Thus, this volume speaks from a fractal point of view and unfolds multiple perspectives. Literatures of the World allows the reader to think in different logical frameworks at the same time, therefore shaping our future on the basis of the diversity of humankind.

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Ottmar Ette is Professor of Romance Literature at the University of Potsdam, Honorary Member of the Modern Language Association (MLA), and a Full Member of the Science and Humanities Class of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. He has published monographs, critical text editions, translations and many articles on TransArea Studies, Alexander von Humboldt, Roland Barthes, José Martí, Literature and Life Sciences. Recent publications include TransArea (2016), Writing-between-Worlds (2016).

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