Debating World Literature

Christopher Prendergast is Professor of Modern French Literature at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King’s College Cambridge. He is the co-editor of World Reader , an anthology of world literature. Benedict Anderson is Aaron L. Binenkorp Professor of International Studies Emeritus at Cornell University. He is editor of the journal Indonesia and author of Java in a Time of Revolution, The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the World and Imagined Communities . Emily Apter is Professor of Comparative Literature and French at New York University. Her published works include The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature and Continental Drift: From National Characters to Subjects. Stanley Corngold is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He is translator and editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Metamorphosis , author of Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka , Franz Kafka: The Necessity of Form , Complex Pleasure: Forms of Feeling in German Literature , The Fate of the Self: German Writers and French Theory , and Thomas Mann, 1875–1955 . He is the recipient of Literary Paternity, Literary Friendship: Essays in Honor of Stanley Corngold . Franco Moretti teaches English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of Signs Taken for Wonders , The Way of the World and Modern Epic , all from Verso.

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