INSTITUTIONS OF WORLD LITERATURE by Stefan Helgesson (Editor), Pieter Vermeulen (Editor) ( 9781317565581 )

Item Details

Title:

INSTITUTIONS OF WORLD LITERATURE
WRITING, TRANSLATION, MARKETS

By:

Stefan Helgesson (Editor), Pieter Vermeulen (Editor)

Format:

Electronic book text

List price:	£34.99
We believe that this item is permanently unavailable, and so we cannot source it.

ISBN 10:

1317565584

ISBN 13:

9781317565581

Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

19 June, 2015

Series:

Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Pages:

234

Synopsis:

This volume engages critically with the recent and ongoing consolidation of "world literature" as a paradigm of study. On the basis of an extended, active, and ultimately more literary sense of what it means to institute world literature, it views processes of institutionalization not as limitations, but as challenges to understand how literature may simultaneously function as an enabling and exclusionary world of its own. It starts from the observation that literature is never simply a given, but is always performatively and materially instituted by translators, publishers, academies and academics, critics, and readers, as well as authors themselves. This volume therefore substantiates, refines, as well as interrogates current approaches to world literature, such as those developed by David Damrosch, Pascale Casanova, and Emily Apter. Sections focus on the poetics of writers themselves, market dynamics, postcolonial negotiations of discrete archives of literature, and translation, engaging a range of related disciplines. The chapters contribute to a fresh understanding of how singular literary works become inserted in transnational systems and, conversely, how transnational and institutional dimensions of literature are inflected in literary works. Focusing its methodological and theoretical inquiries on a broad archive of texts spanning the triangle Europe-Latin America-Africa, the volume unsettles North America as the self-evident vantage of recent world literature debates. Because of the volume's focus on dialogues between world literature and fields such as postcolonial studies, translation studies, book history, and transnational studies, it will be of interest to scholars and students in a range of areas.

Illustrations:

11 Tables, black and white

Publication:

Imprint:

Routledge

Returns:

Non-returnable

Some other items by this author:

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AND THE END OF THE NOVEL

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AND THE END OF THE NOVEL (HB)

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AND THE END OF THE NOVEL (PB)

CULTURAL IDENTITY AND POSTMODERN WRITING (PB)