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Baumgartner, the author of "Weltliteratur", assigns to Latin
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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But I started thinking about it again while reading, of all things, Milan Kundera's The Curtain, particularly "Part Two: Die Weltliteratur," in which the author makes an impassioned plea for world literature -- for literature studied in the large context (aesthetically, as part of one world literature) rather than in the small context (geographically, as part of one's country's literature).
Erik Lundegaard: Reframing the War on Terror with Milan Kundera 2008
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Herder und die Weltliteratur, Frankfurt am Main, 1984.
Johann Gottfried von Herder Forster, Michael 2007
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Georg Lukacs's essay in his book Der russiche Realismus in der Weltliteratur is illuminating, though too limited in scope to allow for anything like the full development of a Marxist perspective.
A Special Supplement: The Other Dostoevsky Rahv, Philip 1972
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There is a well-known poem by Goethe, “Weltliteratur” (1827), which rehearses rather the delights of folk poetry and actually got its title erroneously from the editor of the
LITERATURE AND ITS COGNATES REN 1968
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The term “world literature,” Weltliteratur, was used in 1827 by Goethe commenting on a translation of his drama Tasso into French, and then several times, sometimes in slightly different senses: he thought mainly of a single unified world literature in which differences between the individual literatures would disappear, though he knew that this would be quite remote.
LITERATURE AND ITS COGNATES REN 1968
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J. (Brussels, 1890-1900); BAUMGARTNER, Gesch. der Weltliteratur
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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His numerous articles in the "Stimmen aus Maria-Laach", which were collected and issued in 1912 as a supplementary volume to his "Geschichte der Weltliteratur", were all written with the intent that they should form part of his larger history and life work.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 16 [Supplement] 1840-1916 1913
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We may here mention the monumental undertakings, the "Geschichte der Weltliteratur" of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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For other translations, editions and commentaries see Kaufmann, "Der 'Führer' Maimûnis in der Weltliteratur," Archiv für
A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Isaac Husik 1907
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