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Author: Walter Cohen 

Walter Cohen argues that the history of European literature and each of its standard periods can be illuminated by comparative consideration of the different literary languages within Europe and by the ties of European literature to world literature. World literature is marked by recurrent, systematic features, outcomes of the way that language and literature are at once the products of major change and its agents. Cohen tracks these features from ancient times to the present, distinguishing five main overlapping stages. Within that framework, he shows that European literatures ongoing internal and external relationships are most visible at the level of form rather than of thematic statement or mimetic representation. European literature emerges from world literature before the birth of Europe — during antiquity, whose Classical languages are the heirs to the complex heritage of Afro-Eurasia. This legacy is later transmitted by Latin to the various vernaculars. The uniqueness of the process lies in the gradual displacement of the learned language by the vernacular, long dominated by Romance literatures. That development subsequently informs the second crucial differentiating dimension of European literature: the multicontinental expansion of its languages and characteristic genres, especially the novel, beginning in the Renaissance. This expansion ultimately results in the reintegration of European literature into world literature and thus in the creation of todays global literary system. The distinctiveness of European literature is to be found in these interrelated trajectories.

A history of European literature : the West and the world from antiquity to the present 1st table of contents:

1: Introduction
1. Argument
2. Inferences
3. Assumptions
Part 1: Antiquity
2: The Old World Literary System
1. Introduction
2. The Near Eastern Invention of Literature, 3000-1200 BCE
3. Literacy and Literature, 1200-500 BCE: Chinese, Hebrew, Greek
4. Imperial Literary Languages, 550 BCE-750 CE
5. Conclusion
3: Empire and Its Discontents in Classical Latin
1. Introduction
2. Plautus and the Early Republic
3. The Late Republic and Golden Age / Augustan Age
a. Introduction
b. Horace, the Cleopatra Ode
c. Virgil, Aeneid
4. The Silver Age / Early Empire / Principate
a. Introduction
b. Lucan, Civil War
c. Tacitus, Annals
5. Late Classical Latin Literature / Later Empire / Dominate
a. Apuleius and the Later Empire
b. Christianity and the Revival of Latin Literature
c. Augustine and Late Antiquity
6. Rome in Antiquity
Part 2: The Vernacular
4: The Vernacular
1. The Spoken Vernacular
2. The Written Vernacular
3. The Medieval European Written Vernacular
5: Medieval Epic
1. Latin and the Vernacular Epic
2. Celtic Epic
3. Germanic Epic
4. Romance Epic
5. Epic beyond Western Europe
6. Conclusion
6: Medieval Lyric
1. Introduction
2. Greek and Latin
3. Celtic and Germanic Poetry
4. Semitic Lyric
5. Occitan Lyric and Its Influence
7: Medieval Narrative after 1100
1. Romance
2. Allegory
3. Frame-Tale Collection
4. Conclusion
8: Language, Literature, and Popular Culture in the Age of the Reformation
1. Literature
a. The Continental Sonnet
b. The English Sonnet
c. Epic and Drama
2. Religion
a. The Language of the Reformation
b. Luther
c. Milton
3. Western Europe and South Asia
Part 3: Early Modernity
9 The Representation of Empire in the Renaissance, 1: Europe and the Mediterranean
1. Nation and Empire
2. Europe
a. Introduction
b. Shakespeare, Hamlet
3. The Mediterranean
a. Shakespeare and the Mediterranean
b. Shakespeare, Othello
c. Cervantes, Don Quijote
10 The Representation of Empire in the Renaissance, 2: Global Perspectives
1. The Old World: Camões
2. The New World
a. America and the Renaissance
b. The Literature of America
c. Shakespeare and Overseas Expansion
3. Conclusion
11 Eurasian Literature through the Eighteenth Century
1. Literature and Empire in Western Europe, 1650-1800
2. The Realist Novel in Europe before 1800
3. Asian Fiction
4. Drama
5. Epic and Drama
6. Drama and Novel
7. Literature and History
Part 4: Modernity
12 Nineteenth-Century Poetry: Romanticism and After
1. Europe
a. Introduction
b. Pushkin and Mickiewicz
2. Beyond Europe
a. Introduction
b. Leopardi
3. Conclusion
13 Nineteenth-Century Fiction
1. The Realist Novel
2. Alternatives to Realism
3. The European Periphery
a. Russia
b. The United States
i. Introduction
ii. Melville, Moby-Dick
4. Beyond the European Periphery
5. The Legacy of Tristram Shandy
14 Jewishness and Modernist Fiction
1. Jewishness and Fiction
2. Modernism
3. Proust
4. Kafka
5. Joyce
6. Conclusion
15 World Literature and Contemporary Fiction
1. Introduction
2. Narrators
3. Writing
a. Introduction
b. Nabokov, Pale Fire
4. Coherence
5. The Supernatural
6. History
7. Conclusion
16 Conclusion
1. The Critical Heritage
2. Culture
3. World Literature

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