Avangardele naţionale formează comunităţi la distanţă, pe care însă nu le-aş numi, aşa cum face autorul cărţii la p. 128, "postnaţionale", cu termenul lui Jürgen Habermas, de vreme ce raportul pe ...care îl stabilesc cu cultura naţională din care fac parte este unul încă tensionat şi presupune, aşa cum chiar autorul arată, o negociere a specificului local. De fapt, cercetarea lui Emanuel Modoc are în întregimea ei un caracter vădit metacritic, urmărind cu mult spirit disociativ nu doar literatura secundară despre avangarda română şi central-esteuropeană, ci şi dezbaterile în jurul conceptelor de "spaţiu", "comunitate", "reţea" şi formulând tema sa de lucru ca pe un studiu al receptării încrucişate a avangardelor centralest-europene în ţările regiunii. Este de apreciat că autorul înscrie această metodologie, a studiilor cantitative, în categoria mai largă a studiilor de World Literature, înţelegându-i utilitatea într-un context global, ca supunere la un obiect extrem de cuprinzător, care cu greu poate fi explorat altfel. Tot o corecţie a clişeului critic al influenţei unidirecţionale de la "centru" la "periferie" este făcută prin evidenţierea cazului suprarealismelor central-est-europene din timpul celui de-Al Doilea Război Mondial, care acţionează separat de centrul parizian, la acea dată dizlocat în Statele Unite, funcţionând la rândul lor ca centre alternative.
Resumo O artigo apresenta um panorama conceitual sobre weltliteratur e world literature - em suas diversas articulações -, evidenciando a diversidade conceitual e metodológica que pauta estes ...conceitos a serem entendidos como paradigmas discursivos historicamente determinados (Pizer, 2006). Observando as transformações destes discursos, a partir de uma perspectiva diacrónica, é possível estabelecer um contraponto com os mais recentes desenvolvimentos do debate em torno da world literature, evidenciando suas potencialidade críticas e metodológicas para o estudo do romance africano contemporâneo.
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In his forthcoming book Literature for a Changing Planet (Princeton University Press, 2022), scholar Martin Puchner situates Gilgamesh in a broader comparative history that characterizes world ...literature as "an archive of environmental exploitation and a product of a way of life responsible for climate change," depending on "millennia of intensive agriculture, urbanization, and resource extraction, from the clay of ancient tablets to the silicon of e-readers." What strikes me as revelatory in Puchner's book is his convincing claim that literature itself is coeval-and in certain senses complicit-with the rise of cities and their role in exacerbating climate change. In the central episodes, Gilgamesh befriends Enkidu, and they embark on a quest to murder Humbaba, the keeper of the sacred Cedar Forest, then kill the Bull of Heaven sent to punish them.
Nel presente intervento Remo Ceserani riflette sui concetti di «canone» e «antologia» in relazione alle istituzioni che li determinano. Dopo una premessa in cui è discussa la funzione ‘canonizzante’ ...di Chiesa e scuola già a partire dall’antichità, la riflessione si sposta verso la contemporaneità e si concentra in particolare sull’idea di canone sottesa alle antologie scolastiche, sia nordamericane che italiane. Nel caso delle prime, Ceserani sottolinea fra l’altro come l’affermazione della world literature abbia portato a rivedere la forma stessa delle antologie; nel caso delle seconde, l’autore argomenta invece intorno al canone desanctisiano su cui ancora oggi molte di esse sono costruite, e suggerisce come una possibile via alternativa sia rappresentata da un’impostazione di tipo tematico.
The World Turn’d Upside Down Chaudhuri, Rosinka
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Picking a single influential book, this essay asks whose world it is that occurs in Emily Apter’s Against World Literature and speculates on what the argument looks like when seen from ...Calcutta/Kolkata. From there, crucially, it engages in a close encounter with Rabindranath Tagore’s Viśvasāhitya (1907), contrasting it with Goethe’s Weltliteratur, not just because it originated in a colonized country from a position without comparable status or authority in concept formation, but to see if Rabindranath’s was a fundamentally different reading of World Literature to Goethe’s. His advice here, to find the world in the self, is one that may, perhaps, be mined for its emphasis on particularity and attention to the individual as it exists in relation to the whole.
The Jewish struggle for admission into the European canon puts a spotlight on precisely those tensions within cosmopolitan literature that are debated in contemporary scholarship: the continuum ...between unity and multiplicity, the nature of intersectionality and the (im)possibility of cosmopolitan aesthetics, always against the background of persistent foundational notions (this is typically German/Jewish/…) and the dialectic of inclusion and exclusion that these notions trigger. This article demonstrates how in the shadow of Goethe’s Weltliteratur the nineteenth-century Jewish philologists developed a parallel programme with, hardly surprising, “eine schöne Rolle” for Jewish literature. In this paper, I would like to briefly introduce that programme, specify the role played by Jewish literature, and draw out some lessons for the current attempt at creating an inclusive, egalitarian canon.
In this book, the term “postsecular” does not denote a rejection of secularism; rather, it parallels the “post” in “post-modern” or “post-structuralist.” Vescovi argues that secularism has helped ...Indian fiction to reach an international audience but, at the same time, has forestalled the recognition of Hindu elements covertly woven into the narrative fabric of several modern Indian classics. His close reading is an attempt at tracing traditional elements, such as plot patterns, naming, ethics in otherwise secular narratives, countering the hegemony of rationalistic interpretive paradigms often employed by postcolonial criticism.
The figures with whom he sympathizes refuse the call of the tribe, even now when just about any idea, or critic, can be hastily canceled, criticized, or censured. ...the most representative essay in ...this part is "Intelectuales, los franceses," focused on Bernard-Henri Levy and Houellebecq, Badiou, and Finkielkraut, and comparing the Frenchmen's lively sparring to the "tiresome" exchanges between Coetzee and Auster. Because the Spanish novelist Juan Bonilla's Prohibido entrar sinpantalones rewrites that poets life emphasizing why, not how, one is taken in by antiheroic figures, another foundational question for Dominguez Michael. Examining global English in Professing Criticism (2022), John Guillory avers that "global Anglophone is a force that does not answer simply to the demands of the West, much less to the imperial authority of Britain or America," stressing that the resulting contradictions assume that "teaching world Anglophone is more politically progressive than the transmission of the national or imperial-or let us say, 'traditional'-canon."
Tribute to a Grand Lady Davis-Undiano, Robert Con
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...settling and raising their family in Ardmore, Oklahoma, they prospered with the Neustadt Land and Development Company and embarked on a philanthropic journey to support the University of Oklahoma ...in epic ways. ...there would be no World Literature Today organization, in the sense that we know it now, if Dottie and Walter Neustadt had not created endowments that to this day help pay many of its expenses and keep it going during rough financial times. University of Oklahoma Robert Con Davis Undiano is executive director for the World Literature Today organization, Neustadt Professor in Literature, and director of the Latino Studies Program at the University of Oklahoma.
