Contextualizing world literature

Contextualizing world literature

by Bessière, Jean Gillespie, Gerald

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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 min…

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  • Full title :Contextualizing world literature. / Jean Bessière; Gerald Gillespie.

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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.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2015.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:163 pages.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9782875742834, 2875742833
  • oclc:ocn919192077
  • LC Classification:PN
  • Dewey Decimal:800

Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: Henry James a la quete 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 litteraire / Maria Alzira Seixo -- Goethe, China, and World Literature / Steven Sondrup -- The Well-Tempered Relativism, Or How to Compare the Incomparable / Monica Spiridon -- World Literature and Minor Literatures / Miceala Symington -- Translation and Comparative Literature / Mario J. Valdes -- Caught in Complex Webs: World Literature -- a South African Perspective / Hein Viljoen.

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Comparative literature

Writers

Bessière, Jean Gillespie, Gerald

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