Contextualizing world literature

by Bessière, Jean Gillespie, Gerald

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Full title :Contextualizing world literature / Jean Bessière & Gerald Gillespie (eds.).

Summary

This book revisits the notion of World Literature and its applications in Comparative Literature. It suggests the notion not as a means to sift out international paradigms for reading literatures, but as a set of guidelines for the construction of interlocking and/or reciprocally illuminating multilingual literary clusters. These ensembles are of very diverse shapes: the world, a region, a country, a language block, a network of cross-cultural ±interferences; while the so-called minor literatures invite to question the use of these ensembles. Within this frame, fourteen essays respond to the basic paradox of World Literature: how may specific methodological and critical outlooks allow expression of the universal? The answers to this question can be arranged in three groups: 1. Recognition of the need to break loose from European or Western critical perspectives; 2. Presentation of macro- and microcosmic dimensions connectedness and its processes; 3. Definitions of the methodological efforts and hermeneutic orientations to be applied.0.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2015

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):P.I.E. Peter Lang
Place of Publication:Bruxelles [Belgium]
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2015

Notes

Sponsored by the International Comparative Literature Association.

The Physical Object

Description:163 pages ; : 22 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9782875742834, 2875742833
oclc:ocn922929357
LC Classification:PN865
Dewey Decimal:809

Henry James à la quête des universaux / Lisa Block de Behar -- "World literature" : a view from outside the window / Ipshita Chanda -- "Salut au monde": the world as envisioned by world literature / Dorothy Figueira -- A moving target / Eva Kushner -- By land or sea : models of world literature / Haun Saussy -- De la Weltliteratur en temps de guerre et de crise : Romain Rolland et Thomas Mann, un maillage international / Manfred Schmeling -- L'effet-monde et le particulier littéraire / Maria Alzira Seixo -- Goethe, China, and world literature / Steven Sondrup -- The well-tempered relativism, or, How to compare the imcomparable / Monica Spiridon -- World literature and minor literatures / Micéala Symington -- Translation and comparative literature / Mario J. Valdés -- Caught in complex webs : world literature -- a South African perspective / Hein Viljoen.