Studying Transcultural Literary History / / ed. by Gunilla Lindberg-Wada.

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• MitwirkendeR: ATTWELL, DAVID,; BARBER, KARIN,; CESERANI, REMO,; CHAPMAN, MICHAEL,; CORNIS-POPE, MARCEL,; DAMROSCH, DAVID,; DE KOCK, LEON,; DENECKE, WIEBKE,; D’HAEN, THEO,; GUNNER, LIZ,; HELGESSON, STEFAN,; HOGAN, PATRICK COLM,; HUI-SOK, YOO,; JULIEN, EILEEN,; KADIR, DJELAL,; KHAIRALLAH, AS’AD Ε.,; LINDBERG-WADA, GUNILLA,; LONGXI, ZHANG,; MORETTI, FRANCO,; NAIMY, NADEEM,; NEUBAUER, JOHN,; NÜNNING, ANSGAR,; NÜNNING, VERA,; OLSSON, TORD,; PETERSSON, MARGARETA,; PETTERSSON, ANDERS,; SADAMI, SUZUKI,; SCHIPPER, MINEKE,; STEPHANIDES, STEPHANOS,; THOMSEN, MADS ROSENDAHL,; TRIVEDI, HARISH,; UTAS, BO,; VATSYAYAN, KAPILA,
• HerausgeberIn: Lindberg-Wada, Gunilla,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum Literature : Komparatistische Studien / Comparative Studies , 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (316 p.)

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 an...

Table of Contents

• i-iv
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• INTRODUCTION
• Studying Transcultural Literary History: Introduction
• POSSIBILITIES FOR TRANSCULTURAL LITERARY HISTORY
• Possibilities for Transcultural Literary History
• Naming of Parts, or, How Things Shape Up in Trans cultural Literary History
• The World as India: Some Models of Literary History
• Iron Square Memoranda (Mutatis Mutandis): For a World Literary History
• A ‘Culture-Sensitive Approach’ to Transcultural Literary History
• Two Questions for Global Literary History
• DELIMITING THE OBJECTS OF LITERARY HISTORY
• Delimiting the Objects of Literary History
• African Histories of Textuality
• Re-Membering the Present: Placing the Praise Poet/imbongi in a Transcultural Literary History
• Rhetorical Uses of Folk Poetry in Nineteenth-Century East-Central Europe
• Historical Change of the Conceptions of ‘Literature’ and Formulation of ‘Japanese Literature’ in the Late Nineteenth-Century Japan
• RETHINKING WORLD LITERATURE
• Rethinking World Literature
• Evolution, World-Systems, Weltliteratur
• Arguments and Further Conjectures on World Literature
• A Little Pact with the Devil?: On Franco Moretti's Conjectures on World Literature
• Glocalizing the Novel
• THE PRACTICE OF WRITING TRANSNATIONAL AND TRANSLINGUAL LITERARY HISTORY
• The Practice of Writing Transnational and Translingual Literary History
• On the Englishness of English Literary Histories as a Challenge to Transcultural Literary History
• Drawing a Map of a Literary History of Europe
• Writing Literary History: A Perspective from the South of the Globe
• Fugitive Modernities: Black Writing and Transnational Theory in South African Literature
• Transnational Approaches in post-1989 Comparative Literary History: Writing the History of East-Central European Literary Cultures
• LITERATURE IN CIRCULATION
• Literature in Circulation
• Where Is World Literature?
• The Gītagovinda: A Twelfth-Century Sanskrit Poem Travels West
• The Story of Majnūn Laylā in Transcultural Perspectives
• Migrant Writers and Cosmopolitan Readers
• TRANSLATING CULTURES AND LITERATURES
• Translating Cultures and Literatures
• A Cognitive Model of Cross-Cultural Literary Influence
• Intercultural Literary Studies in an Age of Globalisation
• Janus Came and Never Left: Writing Literary History in the Face of the Other
• The Concrete and the Universal in Renaissance Arabic Thought
• Translation and Ethnography in Literary Transaction
• Notes on Contributors