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Vom Gilgamesch-Epos bis zu Milan Kunderas Unerträglicher Leichtigkeit des Seins - Bernhard Lang untersucht religiöse Motive wie Weisheit, Religionskritik, Biographie oder Heilsgeschichte in 100 Werken der Weltliteratur. Damit entsteht sowohl eine theologische Literaturgeschichte wie auch eine Geschichte des religiösen Denkens und Empfindens.Hesses Siddhartha wird ebenso untersucht wie Brochs Schlafwandler, die Kairo-Trilogie von Machfus, Platons Apologie des Sokrates, die Göttliche Komödie oder eine heilige Schrift wie das Buch der Psalmen oder das Daodejing. Jedes der Werke wird durch Inhaltsangabe, Interpretation und Beurteilung durch Leser und Kritiker vorgestellt und erschlossen. Schriften, die als religionsfeindlich gelten, wie Nietzsches Zarathustra, fehlen ebenso wenig wie prominente theologische und religionsphilosophische Essays. So entsteht ein gewaltiges Panorama der Religions- und Literaturgeschichte für jeden, der sich mit Weltliteratur und Weltreligionen beschäftigt.

comparative literature --- encyclopedia --- world religions --- world literature --- Weltreligionen --- heilige Schriften --- history of literature --- Komparatistik --- literarische Interpretationen --- literary interpretations --- Literaturgeschichte --- reception history --- Rezeptionsgeschichte --- sacred scriptures --- school classics --- Schulklassiker --- Theologie --- theology --- Weltliteratur

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The idea of world literature has garnered much attention recently as a discipline that promises to move humanistic study beyond postcolonial theory and antiquated paradigms of “national” literary traditions. In Forget English! Aamir Mufti scrutinizes the claims made on behalf of world literature by its advocates. The notion of a borderless, egalitarian global literature has obvious appeal, he notes, but behind it lurks the continuing dominance of English as a literary language and a cultural system of international reach.The cultural logic of what Edward Said identified as Orientalism continues to structure world literature discourse, Mufti says—although in updated ways that conceal the persistence of the continental and civilizational inequalities of the colonial past. From the beginning, world literature has been an eminently Orientalist idea, one made possible by the translation labors of European Orientalist scholars and the canonizing of Orientalist concepts of cultural difference.World literature has always been a border regime, an implicit set of regulations governing the mobility of various national and local literatures across the world. Mufti explores how English historically achieved its literary preeminence, and he deepens our understanding of how the hegemony of English affects non-European languages—particularly those of India and South Asia—as vessels of literary expression. At the center of the very possibility of world literature is the dominance of English, as both a literary vernacular and the undisputed language of global capitalism.

Littérature asiatique de langue anglaise --- Littérature anglaise --- Politique et littérature --- Littérature et société --- Histoire et critique --- Literature and society. --- Politics and literature. --- English literature --- Literature --- Oriental literature (English) --- English literature. --- Intellectual life. --- Literature. --- Oriental literature (English). --- Orientalisierende Literatur. --- Englisch. --- Weltsprache. --- Weltliteratur. --- World literature. --- Orientalism --- Globalization in literature. --- English language --- History and criticism. --- History --- Globalization. --- Developing countries --- Developing countries. --- Politique et littérature. --- Littérature et société. --- Histoire et critique. --- Comparative literature