Literature for Europe? / / 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...
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Superior document: | Textxet, 61 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Rodopi,, 2009. |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature
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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. |
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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.