Literature and the making of the world : : cosmopolitan texts, vernacular practices / / edited by Stefan Helgesson, Helena Bodin and Annika Mörte Alling.

• Superior document: Cosmopolitan-vernacular dynamics in world literatures
• TeilnehmendeR: Helgesson, Stefan,; Bodin, Helena, 1964-; Mörte Alling, Annika,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : Bloomsbury Publishing,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Cosmopolitan-vernacular dynamics in world literatures.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxvi, 326 pages) :; 6 black and white illustrations

"Positioning itself at the intersection of world literature studies, literary anthropology, and philosophical critiques of "world" and "globe" concepts, this volume investigates how literature imagines and shapes worlds for its readers through linguistically specific cosmopolitan-vernacular dynamics, both at the level of textual engagement and on a material level of textual production and circulation. Moving from textual analyses in Part One-"Worlds in Texts"-to combined analyses of texts, media, and agents in the literary field in Part Two-"Texts in Worlds"-the concerns of these 9 chapters range from multilingualism, genre, and style, to material forms such as the little magazine or the scrapbook archive, and finally to activities such as travel (as a writing profession) and literary promotion. With this focus on practice-which geographically engages with Constantinople, China, Russia, western Europe, North America, southern Africa, and India-the volume's contributors demonstrate methodologically how world literature studies can bring the empirically specific detail to bear on global modes of analysis. It is precisely through such a dual optic that the world-making capacity of literature becomes apparent"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Worlds in Texts: Languages and Narrative -- 1. Narrating the Crisis of Constantinople 1908-1922: A Lost World in Greek, Armenian, Turkish and Russian -- Helena Bodin (Stockholm University, Sweden) -- 2. The Worlds of Multiglossia in Modern Chinese Fiction: Lu Xun's 'A Madman's Diary' and the 'Shaky House' -- Lena Rydholm (Uppsala University, Sweden) -- 3. Writing Vulnerable Worlds: Siberian Exile and the Anthropology of World-Making -- Mattias Viktorin (Stockholm University, Sweden) -- 4. The Making of Paris in Novels by Balzac and Flaubert -- Annika Mörte Alling (Lund University, Sweden) -- 5. Joseph Brodsky's Returns to Venice in Watermark: Old-World Cosmopolitanism Revisited -- Anna Ljunggren (Stockholm University, Sweden) -- Part 2 Texts in Worlds: Production and Material Practices -- 6. A Homemade History: Documenting the Harlem Renaissance in Alexander Gumby's Scrapbooks -- Irina Rasmussen (Stockholm University, Sweden) -- 7. The Little Magazine as a World-Making Form: Literary Distance and Political Contestation in Southern African Journals -- Stefan Helgesson (Stockholm University, Sweden) -- 8. Worlds in a Tangle: The Promotion of Writing in India between the Vernacular and the Global -- Per Ståhlberg (Södertörn University, Sweden) -- 9. Loss of Words and End of Worlds: Transitions and Troubles of Travel Writing -- Anette Nyqvist (Stockholm University, Sweden) -- Afterword - World Literature in the Making -- Co-written by the contributors -- Index.