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 minor literatu…

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

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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.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2015.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):P.I.E. Peter Lang
  • Place of Publication:Brussels
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2015.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9783035265545, 3035265542
  • oclc:ocn917888905
  • LC Classification:PN865
  • Dewey Decimal:801/.95

Table of Contents

Cover; Table of Contents; Introduction (Jean Bessière and Gerald Gillespie); 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 Incomparable (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); Afterword I (Jean Bessière); Afterword II (Gerald Gillespie); Contributors/Contributeurs.

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Subjects

Comparative literature LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory

Writers

Bessière, Jean Gillespie, Gerald

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