Literature for Europe? / / edited by Theo D'haen and Iannis Goerlandt.

• Superior document: Textxet, 61
• Author: European Science Foundation
• TeilnehmendeR: Haen, Theo d'.; Goerlandt, Iannis.; European Science Foundation
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Rodopi,, 2009.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature 61.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (437 pages).
• Notes: Papers presented at a joint research conference of the European Science Foundation and Linköping University held in Vadstena, Sweden, May 12-16, 2007.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Introduction /; European Literature: Simply a Higher Degree of Universality? /; Toward a Literary Community? /; What is Wrong with National Literature Departments? /; On the “Topographical Turn”: Concepts of Space in Cultural Studies and Kulturwissenschaften /; What is a European?: Letters from a European Americanist /; From Atavism to Creolization: “Europeanness” in Contemporary Caribbean Discourse /; European Literature(s) in the Global Context: Literatures for Europe /; English and the Language of Others /; Multicultural or Multilingual Literature: A Swedish Dilemma? /; Turning East /; Voices from Exile: A Literature for Europe? /; A Gentleman Writer and His Sister: The Alternative Worlds of Beppe and Marisa Fenoglio /; Writing ex patria: W.G. Sebald and the Construction of a Literary Identity /; Constructing European Identity in Fiction: Three Strategies /; Did we Stop Reading Poetry?: An Optimistic Approach to Cultural Pessimism /; Spanish Literature and the Recovery of Historical Memory /; Marginalization and Paradoxes of Identity Formation /; Europeanization and Regional Particularity: The Northern Lights Route and the Writings of Bengt Pohjanen /; Byzantine Literature for Europe?: From Karelia to Istanbul with the Swedish Modernist Poet Gunnar Ekelöf /; Memories of the City: The Metropole as Significant Other in Elif Şafak’s Flea Palace and Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul /; On Literary Amnesia: Facing the Future /; Literature and the Symbolic Engineering of the European Self /; Contributors.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 9042027177
• ISSN: 0927-5754
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Theo D'haen and Iannis Goerlandt.

In Literature for Europe? leading scholars from around Europe reflect on the role played by literature, and by the study of literature, in the constant re-negotiation and re-construction of cultural identities in Europe implied by the accession to the European Union, in the early years of the twenty-first century, of fifteen new member states, with the accession of a number of Balkan states impending, and Turkey waiting in the wings, while at the same time transatlantic relations of the EU to the USA are hotly debated, in politics as in culture, China and India awake as economic giants, and globalization is upon us. At the same time, two of the earliest signatories to the treaties eventually leading to the European Union rejected a proposal for a European Constitution, and linguistic, religious, and ethnic dividing lines show even in some of Europe’s oldest nation states. How do literary texts, genres, and forms, thinking about them and teaching them, respond to and shape ongoing processes of European self-understanding in our era of globalization? The volume seeks to answer these questions by charting key developments in a number of fields crucial to the emergence of a European common literary “space”: literature and cultural value systems, literature and cultural memory, literary history, translation, the impact of the new media and the information age on matters of literature and identity, and the impact of the postcolonial. Literature for Europe? is a thought-provoking tour d’horizon of cutting-edge developments in the relationship between literary studies and “the matter of Europe,” and suggesting an exciting agenda for literary studies in Europe. It will be of interest to everyone working in European studies and/or European literature.