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香港中文大学研究人员 ( 现职)
| Professor Grant Andrew Roy HAMILTON (英文系) |
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| 数位物件识别号 (DOI) http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2014.936487 |
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摘要The definition of 'world literature' has been a keenly debated one ever since Goethe proclaimed in 1827 that the 'epoch of world literature is at hand'. This paper enters the debate by bringing the conclusion of Ludwig Boltzmann's work on entropy into conversation with contemporary ideas about literature - about Literature proper, national literature and, in the end, world literature. If entropy describes the inevitability of an organized system becoming disorganized over time, then my rather simple claim is that world literature is nothing more than a description of the entropy of national literature. Put another way, world literature is a description of the process by which texts inevitably escape the boundaries of national literature; it is the rush of 'disorder' that one witnesses as an ordered system is put to flight. In order to elucidate this idea, I draw on the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari.
着者Hamilton G
期刊名称Textual Practice
出版年份2http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/014
月份9
日期19
卷号28
期次6
出版社ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
页次1http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/015 - 1http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/033
国际标準期刊号http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/095http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/0-236X
电子国际标準期刊号147http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/0-13http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/08
语言英式英语
关键词Deleuze; entropy; globalization; Goethe; world literature
Web of Science 学科类别Literature
