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By Svend Erik Larsen

How does literature symbolize, problem and support us comprehend our event of globalization? Taking literary globalization stories past its conventional political concentration, Literature and the adventure of Globalization explores how writers from Shakespeare via Goethe to Isak Dinesen, J.M. Coetzee, Amitav Ghosh and Bruce Chatwin interact with the human dimensions of globalization. via a variety of insightful shut readings, Svend Erik Larsen brings modern international literature techniques to endure on cross-cultural reports of migration and commute, translation, reminiscence, background and embodied wisdom. In doing so, this crucial intervention demonstrates how literature turns into a vital website for figuring out the ways that globalization has develop into an essential component of daily experience.

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