Premises and Problems : Essays on World Literature and Cinema.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moreira, Luiza Franco.

Series:

SUNY Series, Fernand Braudel Center Studies in Historical Social Science

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Motion pictures--History.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2021.

Summary:

Discusses world literature and cinema from the perspective of literary languages and film traditions that do not hold a hegemonic position.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Notes

Works Cited

1 In Search of Universal Laws: Averroes' Interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics

Between Logic and Literature: Matta's Translation

Translation without a Shared Frame of Reference

The Arabic Poetics in Context

Language versus Thought

From Theatrical Laws to Literary Ethics: Averroes' Reading of the Poetics

Toward a New Horizon

2 Lost in Transliteration: Morisco Travel Writing and the Coplas del hijante de Puey Monçón

Travel, Translation, and Transliteration

Travel Bans and the Kamino

The Hijante's Pilgrimage

3 Modern Hebrew Literature as "World Literature": The Political Theology of Dov Sadan

Dov Sadan, Modern Hebrew Literature, and the "Jewish Question"

Hebrew Literature and Jewish Sovereignty

Dov Sadan in the Footsteps of Nahman Krochmal

The Political Theology of the Sanctity of the Language of Hebrew Literature

Hebrew Literature as World Literature

Translation from Hebrew as the Sacred Language

4 Islam in the Theory and Practice of World Literature: Translating Adab in the Middle Eastern Novel

Introduction: Critical Valences of The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters

Articulations and Disarticulations of Adab in World Literature

Toward a "Muslim World Literature"?

The Black Book (I): Modernity, Religion, and Secularism in Translation

The Black Book (II): A Translational Counterreading

Conclusion

5 Selective Invisibility: Elizabeth Bishop, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and World Literature

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II

III

IV

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6 Latin America and the World: Borges, Bolaño, and the Inconceivable Universal

The Universal in the Particular: On Literature as Revelation in Borges.

The Secret of the World: Global Capital and the Crisis of the Political Reason of Modernity

7 Analysis of the Socio-Culture in the Study of the Modern World-System

8 Ethics of Skepticism: A Case Study in Contemporary World Cinema

Cavell's Film Philosophy

Ethics of Skepticism

Cinematic Skepticism

The Changing World of Cinema

Case Study

The Headless Woman and Three Monkeys

The Accidents

The Virtual Point of View in The Headless Woman

The Virtual Point of View in Three Monkeys

Conclusion: Ethics of Cinematic Skepticism, the Virtual POV, and the Global Turn

9 Polycentrism, Periphery, and the Place of Brazilian Cinema in World Cinema

A Polycentric Approach

An Atlas of World Cinema

Back to the Periphery

The World of Cinema

Brazil's Rarefied Dialectic

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

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ISBN:

9781438482484

1438482485

OCLC:

1226073939