Pascale Casanova's World of Letters and Its Legacies.

• Superior document: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature
• Author: Sapiro, Gisèle.
• TeilnehmendeR: Ungureanu, Delia.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (223 pages)

"Pascale Casanova's World of Letters and Its Legacies proposes a wide-ranging appraisal of the work, influence and intellectual profile of a major figure in the humanities and social sciences, from sociology to literary theory and criticism. Both a tribute to the life and work of Pascale Casanova and a critical examination of the dissemination of her theoretical ideas around the world and in fields as diverse as world literature, comparative literature, translation studies, and the sociology of literature, the essays selected here are signed by leading scholars in these disciplines including David Damrosch, Claire Ducournau, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Tiphaine Samoyault and Jing Tsu among others"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Notes on Contributors -- ‎Chapter 1. Pascale Casanova's World of Letters and Its Legacies: Introduction (Sapiro and Ungureanu) -- ‎Chapter 2. Critical Writing: The Value and Cost of Pascale Casanova's Combative Ethos (Ducournau) -- ‎Chapter 3. Preface to the 2008 Edition of La République mondiale des lettres (Casanova) -- ‎Chapter 4. La République mondiale des lettres in the World Republic of Scholarship (Damrosch) -- ‎Chapter 5. Reading Pascale Casanova's World Republic of Letters in Eastern Europe (Răduță) -- ‎Chapter 6. Heralded Heroes (Rosendahl Thomsen) -- ‎Chapter 7. Pascale Casanova's Exiles (Jeanpierre) -- ‎Chapter 8. Samuel Beckett and the World Republic of Letters (Chakraborty) -- ‎Chapter 9. For a Theory of Relay Translations (Samoyault) -- ‎Chapter 10. Linguistic Areas of Literature: Between the World and the Nations (Leperlier) -- ‎Chapter 11. "A Rare Pearl Passed from Hand to Hand": Cosmopolitan Orders and Pre-modern Forms of Literary Domination (Leezenberg) -- ‎Chapter 12. When Literary Relations End (Tsu) -- ‎Chapter 13. Prizing Francophonie into Existence: The Usurpation of World Literature by the Prix des Cinq Continents (Bedecarré).