id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ak5e7nnxvncgroevuhimqossoe Yuqian Cai Kirsch, Adam (2016). The Global Novel: Writing the World in the 21st Century. New York: Columbia Global Reports, 105 pp 2018 6 .pdf application/pdf 2236 117 54 "I am working myself up to writing a kind of epic global novel. The legitimacy of the global novel has been contested across the Atlantic, and Kirsch writes "World Literature and Its Discontents" as the Dissenters criticise world literature on aesthetic and political fronts, disparaging the global novel as "diluted and the rise of the global novel practiced by Ishiguro and others, and feels nostalgic for writers like Jane Austen who exemplify "culture-specific clutter In theory, Kirsch is largely correct to affirm the possibility and desirability of the global novel. but writing the global novel, as Kirsch says, means "a basic affirmation of turns to empirical evidence provided by supposedly 'representative' novels from the "pantheon of world literature": Pamuk's (2002), Murakami's that "other studies of world literature" would be incomplete without considering all these writers, Kirsch seems to equate his 'pantheon' with the of the Global Novel" (2017), one may infer that while Murakami's writing ./cache/work_ak5e7nnxvncgroevuhimqossoe.pdf ./txt/work_ak5e7nnxvncgroevuhimqossoe.txt