Studying Transcultural Literary History

Published by De Gruyter 2006

Studying Transcultural Literary History

Edited by: Gunilla Lindberg-Wada

Volume 10 in the series spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum Literature

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110920550

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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.

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Gunilla Lindberg-Wada, University of Stockholm, Sweden.

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INTRODUCTION
Studying Transcultural Literary History: Introduction GUNILLA LINDBERG-WADA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
POSSIBILITIES FOR TRANSCULTURAL LITERARY HISTORY
Possibilities for Transcultural Literary History ANDERS PETTERSSON Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Naming of Parts, or, How Things Shape Up in Trans cultural Literary History LEON DE KOCK Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
The World as India: Some Models of Literary History HARISH TRIVEDI Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Iron Square Memoranda (Mutatis Mutandis): For a World Literary History DJELAL KADIR Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
A ‘Culture-Sensitive Approach’ to Transcultural Literary History VERA NÜNNING Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Two Questions for Global Literary History ZHANG LONGXI Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
DELIMITING THE OBJECTS OF LITERARY HISTORY
Delimiting the Objects of Literary History TORD OLSSON Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
African Histories of Textuality KARIN BARBER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
Re-Membering the Present: Placing the Praise Poet/imbongi in a Transcultural Literary History LIZ GUNNER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
Rhetorical Uses of Folk Poetry in Nineteenth-Century East-Central Europe JOHN NEUBAUER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
Historical Change of the Conceptions of ‘Literature’ and Formulation of ‘Japanese Literature’ in the Late Nineteenth-Century Japan SUZUKI SADAMI Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
RETHINKING WORLD LITERATURE
Rethinking World Literature STEFAN HELGESSON Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Evolution, World-Systems, Weltliteratur FRANCO MORETTI Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Arguments and Further Conjectures on World Literature EILEEN JULIEN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
A Little Pact with the Devil?: On Franco Moretti's Conjectures on World Literature YOO HUI-SOK Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Glocalizing the Novel THEO D’HAEN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
THE PRACTICE OF WRITING TRANSNATIONAL AND TRANSLINGUAL LITERARY HISTORY
The Practice of Writing Transnational and Translingual Literary History MARGARETA PETERSSON Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
On the Englishness of English Literary Histories as a Challenge to Transcultural Literary History ANSGAR NÜNNING Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
Drawing a Map of a Literary History of Europe REMO CESERANI Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Writing Literary History: A Perspective from the South of the Globe MICHAEL CHAPMAN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
Fugitive Modernities: Black Writing and Transnational Theory in South African Literature DAVID ATTWELL Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
Transnational Approaches in post-1989 Comparative Literary History: Writing the History of East-Central European Literary Cultures MARCEL CORNIS-POPE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
LITERATURE IN CIRCULATION
Literature in Circulation GUNILLA LINDBERG-WADA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Where Is World Literature? DAVID DAMROSCH Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
The Gītagovinda: A Twelfth-Century Sanskrit Poem Travels West KAPILA VATSYAYAN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
The Story of Majnūn Laylā in Transcultural Perspectives AS’AD Ε. KHAIRALLAH Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
Migrant Writers and Cosmopolitan Readers MADS ROSENDAHL THOMSEN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
TRANSLATING CULTURES AND LITERATURES
Translating Cultures and Literatures BO UTAS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
A Cognitive Model of Cross-Cultural Literary Influence PATRICK COLM HOGAN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Intercultural Literary Studies in an Age of Globalisation MINEKE SCHIPPER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Janus Came and Never Left: Writing Literary History in the Face of the Other WIEBKE DENECKE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	278
The Concrete and the Universal in Renaissance Arabic Thought NADEEM NAIMY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Translation and Ethnography in Literary Transaction STEPHANOS STEPHANIDES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	300
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Institutes, Libraries, Research Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 316
Keywords: Comparative studies; literature

eBook

Published: March 12, 2012
ISBN: 9783110920550

Hardcover

Published: September 19, 2006
ISBN: 9783110189551