Studying Transcultural Literary History / Gunilla Lindberg-Wada.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lindberg-Wada, Gunilla, editor.

Series:

spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum Literature

spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum Literature ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comparative literature--Congresses.

Comparative literature.

Literature and society--Congresses.

Literature and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In our globalised world, literature is less and less confined to national spaces. Europe-centred frameworks for literary studies have become insufficient; academics are increasingly called upon to address matters of cultural difference. In this unique volume, leading scholars discuss the critical and methodical challenges that these developments pose to the writing of literary history. What is the object of literary history? What is the meaning of the term "world literature"? How do we compare different cultural systems of genres? How do we account theoretically for literary transculturation? What are the implications of postcolonial studies for the discipline of comparative literature? Ranging in focus from the Persian epic of Majnun Layla and Zulu praise poetry to South Korean novels and Brazilian antropofagismo, the essays offer a concise overview of these and related questions. Their aim is not to reach a consensus on these matters. They show instead what is at stake in the emergent field of global comparatism.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTION

Studying Transcultural Literary History: Introduction / LINDBERG-WADA, GUNILLA

POSSIBILITIES FOR TRANSCULTURAL LITERARY HISTORY

Possibilities for Transcultural Literary History / PETTERSSON, ANDERS

Naming of Parts, or, How Things Shape Up in Trans cultural Literary History / DE KOCK, LEON

The World as India: Some Models of Literary History / TRIVEDI, HARISH

Iron Square Memoranda (Mutatis Mutandis): For a World Literary History / KADIR, DJELAL

A 'Culture-Sensitive Approach' to Transcultural Literary History / NÜNNING, VERA

Two Questions for Global Literary History / LONGXI, ZHANG

DELIMITING THE OBJECTS OF LITERARY HISTORY

Delimiting the Objects of Literary History / OLSSON, TORD

African Histories of Textuality / BARBER, KARIN

Re-Membering the Present: Placing the Praise Poet/imbongi in a Transcultural Literary History / GUNNER, LIZ

Rhetorical Uses of Folk Poetry in Nineteenth-Century East-Central Europe / NEUBAUER, JOHN

Historical Change of the Conceptions of 'Literature' and Formulation of 'Japanese Literature' in the Late Nineteenth-Century Japan / SADAMI, SUZUKI

RETHINKING WORLD LITERATURE

Rethinking World Literature / HELGESSON, STEFAN

Evolution, World-Systems, Weltliteratur / MORETTI, FRANCO

Arguments and Further Conjectures on World Literature / JULIEN, EILEEN

A Little Pact with the Devil?: On Franco Moretti's Conjectures on World Literature / HUI-SOK, YOO

Glocalizing the Novel / D'HAEN, THEO

THE PRACTICE OF WRITING TRANSNATIONAL AND TRANSLINGUAL LITERARY HISTORY

The Practice of Writing Transnational and Translingual Literary History / PETERSSON, MARGARETA

On the Englishness of English Literary Histories as a Challenge to Transcultural Literary History / NÜNNING, ANSGAR

Drawing a Map of a Literary History of Europe / CESERANI, REMO

Writing Literary History: A Perspective from the South of the Globe / CHAPMAN, MICHAEL

Fugitive Modernities: Black Writing and Transnational Theory in South African Literature / ATTWELL, DAVID

Transnational Approaches in post-1989 Comparative Literary History: Writing the History of East-Central European Literary Cultures / CORNIS-POPE, MARCEL

LITERATURE IN CIRCULATION

Literature in Circulation / LINDBERG-WADA, GUNILLA

Where Is World Literature? / DAMROSCH, DAVID

The Gītagovinda: A Twelfth-Century Sanskrit Poem Travels West / VATSYAYAN, KAPILA

The Story of Majnūn Laylā in Transcultural Perspectives / KHAIRALLAH, AS'AD Ε.

Migrant Writers and Cosmopolitan Readers / THOMSEN, MADS ROSENDAHL

TRANSLATING CULTURES AND LITERATURES

Translating Cultures and Literatures / UTAS, BO

A Cognitive Model of Cross-Cultural Literary Influence / HOGAN, PATRICK COLM

Intercultural Literary Studies in an Age of Globalisation / SCHIPPER, MINEKE

Janus Came and Never Left: Writing Literary History in the Face of the Other / DENECKE, WIEBKE

The Concrete and the Universal in Renaissance Arabic Thought / NAIMY, NADEEM

Translation and Ethnography in Literary Transaction / STEPHANIDES, STEPHANOS

Notes on Contributors

Notes:

Proceedings of a symposium held Nov. 4-6, 2004 in Stockholm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9783110920550

3110920557

OCLC:

1013937110