Reading for the planet : toward a geomethodology / Christian Moraru.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moraru, Christian, author.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intercultural communication in literature.

Literature and globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 p.)

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor [Michigan] : University of Michigan Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In his new book, Christian Moraru argues that post-Cold War culture in general and, in particular, the literature, philosophy, and theory produced since 9/11 foreground an emergent "planetary" imaginary--a "planetarism"--binding in unprecedented ways the world's peoples, traditions, and aesthetic practices. This imaginary, Moraru further contends, speaks to a world condition ("planetarity") increasingly exhibited by human expression worldwide. Grappling with the symptoms of planetarity in the arts and the human sciences, the author insists, is a major challenge for today's scholars--a challenge Reading for the Planet means to address. Thus, Moraru takes decisive steps toward a critical methodology--a "geomethodology"--for dealing with planetarism's aesthetic and philosophical projections. Here, Moraru analyzes novels by Joseph O'Neill, Mircea Cartarescu, Sorj Chalandon, Zadie Smith, Orhan Pamuk, and Dai Sijie, among others, as demonstration of his paradigm.

Contents:

Prologue : a well-tempered manifesto

part 1. World, globe, planet

part 2. Geomethodology : theory and practice

Epilogue. Criticism as planetary stewardship.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-223) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472121328

0472121324

OCLC:

930443962

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.6977087