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.

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...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Introduction / Theo D’haen
• European Literature: Simply a Higher Degree of Universality? / Pascale Casanova
• Toward a Literary Community? / Vladimir Biti
• What is Wrong with National Literature Departments? / Françoise Meltzer
• On the “Topographical Turn”: Concepts of Space in Cultural Studies and Kulturwissenschaften / Sigrid Weigel
• What is a European?: Letters from a European Americanist / Thomas Claviez
• From Atavism to Creolization: “Europeanness” in Contemporary Caribbean Discourse / Kristian Van Haesendonck
• European Literature(s) in the Global Context: Literatures for Europe / Ottmar Ette
• English and the Language of Others / Robert J.C. Young
• Multicultural or Multilingual Literature: A Swedish Dilemma? / Satu Gröndahl
• Turning East / Stephanos Stephanides
• Voices from Exile: A Literature for Europe? / John Neubauer
• A Gentleman Writer and His Sister: The Alternative Worlds of Beppe and Marisa Fenoglio / Mara Cambiaghi
• Writing ex patria: W.G. Sebald and the Construction of a Literary Identity / Gerhard Fischer
• Constructing European Identity in Fiction: Three Strategies / Christoph Parry
• Did we Stop Reading Poetry?: An Optimistic Approach to Cultural Pessimism / Wiljan van den Akker and Gillis Dorleijn
• Spanish Literature and the Recovery of Historical Memory / José M. González García
• Marginalization and Paradoxes of Identity Formation / Lisbeth Stenberg
• Europeanization and Regional Particularity: The Northern Lights Route and the Writings of Bengt Pohjanen / Anne Heith
• Byzantine Literature for Europe?: From Karelia to Istanbul with the Swedish Modernist Poet Gunnar Ekelöf / Helena Bodin
• Memories of the City: The Metropole as Significant Other in Elif Şafak’s Flea Palace and Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul / Nagihan Haliloğlu
• On Literary Amnesia: Facing the Future / Reet Sool
• Literature and the Symbolic Engineering of the European Self / Monica Spiridon
• Contributors.