Worldmaking : literature, language, culture / edited by Tom Clark , Emily Finlay, Philippa Kelly.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clark, Tom, 1973- editor.

Finlay, Emily, editor.

Kelly, Philippa, editor.

Series:

FILLM studies in languages and literatures ; v. 5.

FILLM studies in languages and literatures, 2213-428X ; volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiotics--Psychological aspects.

Semiotics.

Language and culture.

Communication and culture.

Literature and society.

Culture--Semiotic models.

Culture.

Symbolism (Psychology).

Psycholinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]

Summary:

Central to all of the contributions is the question: how can we understand the relationships between natural, political, cultural, fictional, literary, linguistic and virtual worlds, and why does this matter?.

Contents:

Intro

Worldmaking

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Series editor's preface

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Worldmaking: An introduction

A foreign language

I. Case studies in time: Towards a poetics of worldmaking

II. Reconfiguring boundaries: Philosophy, literature, and worldmaking in the arts

III. Breaking boundaries: Worldmaking and world literatures

Part I. Case studies in time Towards a poetics of worldmaking

Chapter 1. New worlds in Lanval and Sir Launfal

Introduction

The king's world

The queen in the king's world

The queen's complaint

Gwennere's complaint

Chapter 2. Women's worldmaking in the subtext of Malory's Morte D'Arthur

Chapter 3. Unsilencing Elizabeth Cary: Worldmaking in The Tragedy of Mariam, Fair Queen of Jewry

Chapter 4. The wor(l)dmaking of centenarian poets: Mado Michio and Shibata Toyo

Mado Michio

Shibata Toyo

Chapter 5. All the presidents' poems: USA presidents quoting poems in their speeches since 1860

Theory and method of speech attitudes

Flights of poetic fancy

Discrepancies between transcript and performance

The diplomatic turn

Part II. Reconfiguring boundaries: Philosophy, literature, and worldmaking in the arts

Chapter 6. Of private selves and public morals: Rorty on philosophy and literature in modernity

Philosophy, literature, and the articulation of modernity

The alliance of philosophy and literature

Rorty: The private and the public

Chapter 7. My world or yours? Otherness and the construction of culture: Hegel, Levinas, Blanchot

Passivity or activity? Levinas and Kojève

Passivity's bind: Blanchot and Eurydice

Chapter 8. Earthing the world: The artwork of Lorraine Connelly-Northey

The wire bowl.

Chapter 9. Australian indigenous art and literature

Chapter 10. Art, detritus and global change

Collective trauma, universal language

Doubt in the aftermath

Resonating trauma

The southern currents

Possibilities for the future

Chapter 11. The sadness of the city: Reflections on Shanghai and Istanbul

Reflections on Istanbul

"Achievements"

Conclusion

Part III. Breaking boundaries: Worldmaking and world literatures

Chapter 12. Katherine Mansfield and world literature

Chapter 13. Creating the French world of the Channel Islands in "Note Viaer Lingo"

Chapter 14. Geocriticism and the fictional worlds of Jhumpa Lahiri and Kazuo Ishiguro

Negative capability of multiple perspective narratives

Variable time in varied spaces

An evocative world through introspection and fiction

Chapter 15. Rethinking hybridity: Amputated selves in Asian diasporic identity formation

The "curse" of hybridity: Imposition and complicity

Two selves - The World Waiting to Be Made

Chapter 16. Humanitarian scripts in the world novel

Orpheus and Guantanamo

The sensorium of torture

Remediating humanitarian witnessing

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.