Taking stock : : twenty-five years of comparative literary research / / edited by Norbert Bachleitner, Achim Hölter, and John A. McCarthy.

• Superior document: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft; volume200
• TeilnehmendeR: Bachleitner, Norbert, 1954-; Hölter, Achim,; McCarthy, John A. 1942-2022,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden Boston : : Brill | Rodopi,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft; volume200.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (572 pages).

In this 200th volume of Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft the editors Norbert Bachleitner, Achim H. Hölter and John A. McCarthy ‘take stock’ of the discipline. It focuses on recurrent questions in the field of Comparative Literature: What is literature? What is meant by ‘comparative’? Or by ‘world’? What constitute ‘transgressions’ or ‘refractions’? What, ultimately, does being at home in the world imply? When we combine the answers to these individual questions, we might ultimately reach an intriguing proposition: Comparative Literature contributes to a sense of being at home in a world that is heterogeneous and fractured, rather than affirming a monolithic canon marked by territory and homogeneity. The volume unites essays on world literature, literature in the context of the history of ideas, comparative women and gender studies, aesthetics and textual analysis, and literary translation and tradition.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Comparative and World Literature -- Comparative Literature: Being at Home in the World / John A. McCarthy -- An On/Off Affair: Voltaire in Eighteenth-Century Vienna / Norbert Bachleitner -- Ludwig Tieck’s Book Collection: the Holdings of the Austrian National Library (önb) / Achim Hölter and Paul Ferstl -- Literature and History (of Ideas) -- Pride and Conviviality – Pride in Conviviality: The Rise and Recognition of a Prospective Force / Ottmar Ette -- Enlightened Citizenship in Lessing’s Emilia Galotti and Mozart’s Lucio Silla / Carl Niekerk -- Good Comrades for Young Readers: the First World War in the Fiction of Boys’ Periodicals in Britain and Germany / Barbara Korte -- Fighting the ‘Freudian Farce’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Portrayal of America’s Post-War Infatuation with Psychoanalysis / Juliane Werner -- Women and Gender Studies -- Enlightenment Angst: James Parsons’ A Mechanical and Critical Enquiry into the Nature of Hermaphrodites / Stephanie M. Hilger -- Writing the Nation, Writing the Self: Discourses of Identity in Fanny Lewald’s Italienisches Bilderbuch and George Sand’s Un hiver à Majorque / Sandra Vlasta -- ‘Jewish Mothers’ by Jenny Erpenbeck, Julia Franck, and Adriana Altaras / Agnes C. Mueller -- Theorising Central European Postcoloniality: a Postcommunist Reading of 21st Century Literature from Slovakia / Dobrota Pucherová -- Aesthetics and Textual Analysis -- Aesthetic Illusion and the Breaking of Illusion in Ancient Literature? / Werner Wolf -- Intermediality in Twentieth Century Animal Poetry: Guillaume Apollinaire – Ted Hughes – Durs Grünbein / Annette Simonis -- Autofiction and Its (Involuntary) Protagonists: A Comparison of Autofictional Novels by Mario Vargas Llosa, Javier Cercas, Karl Ove Knausgård, and Navid Kermani / Stefan Kutzenberger -- ‘Sometimes things begin with the wrong book’: Images and Intertexts in Darryl Pinckney’s Black Deutschland / Gianna Zocco -- Translation and Tradition -- Translation, Transmission, Irony: Benoît de Sainte-Maure and the Trope of the Fictional Source Text in Western Literature before Cervantes / Daniel Syrovy -- Of ‘Conversion’ and ‘Reversal’: Georg Philipp Harsdörffer and His Adoptions of Jean Pierre Camus in the Context of the Counter-Reformation, Reform Catholicism, and Jansenism / Christoph Schmitt-Maaß -- The Romes of Titus Andronicus / Manfred Pfister -- Towards a Global South Literary Genealogy: M. G. Vassanji and Joseph Conrad as Secret Sharers in The Book of Secrets and Heart of Darkness / Russell West-Pavlov.