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 cosmopo...

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.