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German Literature as World Literature

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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This new collection investigates German literature in its international dimensions. While no single volume can deal comprehensively with such a vast topic, the nine contributors cover a wide historical range, with a variety of approaches and authors represented. Together, the essays begin to adumbrate the systematic nature of the relations between German national literature and world literature as these have developed through institutions, cultural networks, and individual authors.In the last two decades, discussions of world literature—literature that resonates beyond its original linguistic and cultural contexts—have come increasingly to the forefront of theoretical investigations of literature. One reason for the explosion of world literature theory, pedagogy and methodology is the difficulty of accomplishing either world literature criticism, or world literary history. The capaciousness, as well as the polylingual and multicultural features of world literature present formidable obstacles to its study, and call for a collaborative approach that conjoins a variety of expertise. To that end, this collection contributes to the critical study of world literature in its textual, institutional, and translatorial reality, while at the same time highlighting a question that has hitherto received insufficient scholarly attention: what is the relation between national and world literatures, or, more specifically, in what senses do national literatures systematically participate in (or resist) world literature?

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Utgivningsdatum2016-01-28
Mått148 x 226 x 16 mm
Vikt220 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieLiteratures as World Literature
Antal sidor232
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781501317712

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Thomas Oliver Beebee is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Comparative Literature and German at Penn State University, USA. He is the author of Millennial Literatures of the Americas, 1492-2002 (Oxford University Press, 2008), Epistolary Fiction in Europe (Cambridge University Press, 1999), The Ideology of Genre: A Comparative Study of Generic Instability (Penn State Press, 1994) and Clarissa on the Continent: Translation and Seduction (Penn State Press, 1990).

ContributorsAcknowledgmentsNote on the TextIntroduction: Departures, Emanations, IntersectionsPart One: Goethe’s Weltliteratur/World LiteratureChunjie Zhang, University of California, Davis, USA, “Reading Goethe’s Elective Affinities (Die Wahlverwandtschaften) through The Story of the Stone (Hong Lou Meng): Immanent Divinity, Vegetative Femininity, and the Mood of Transience”Daniel Purdy, Penn State University, USA, “Goethe, Rémusat and the Chinese Novel: Translation and the Circulation of World Literature”Part Two: Ausstrahlungen/EmanationsSimona Moti, Kalamazoo College, USA, “Between Political Engagement and Political Unconscious: Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Slavic East”Kathleen L. Komar, University of California, Los Angeles, USA “Rainer Maria Rilke: German Speaker, World Author”Martina Kolb, Pennsylvania State University, USA “Bertolt Brecht — Homme du Monde: Exile, Verfremdung, and Weltliteratur”David Kim, Michigan State University, USA “Militant Melancholia, or Remembering Historical Traumas: W. G. Sebald’s Die Ringe des Saturn”Part Three: Schnittmengen/IntersectionsThomas O. Beebee, Pennsylvania State University, USA “From Nobel to Nothingness: The Negative Monumentality of Rudolf C. Eucken and Paul Heyse”Paul Nissler, Stanford University, USA “A Short Survey of the Creation and Development of Common German-Latin American Space: Humboldt, Emigration, Exile and Contemporary Interaction”Elke Sturm-Trigonakis, University of Heidelberg, Germany “Contemporary German-Based Hybrid Texts as a New World Literature”BibliographyIndex

Part 1 is recommended particularly for Goethe scholars and is of interest more generally as an exploration of the tradition of intersections that Beebee discusses in his “World-Literature Model” … the second part offers a wealth of expertise on how individual modern authors helped shape the concept of world literature … German Literature as World Literature is a must read for Germanists who study modern literature and other scholars interested in the concepts of national literary canons and world literature. Readers will benefit greatly from this highly rewarding collection.