Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / Spectrum literature, Bd. 10: Studying transcultural literary history

In our globalised world, literature is less and less confined to national spaces. Europe-centred frameworks for literary studies have become insufficient; academics are increasingly called upon to address matters of cultural difference. In this unique volume, leading scholars discuss the critical and methodical challenges that these developments pose to the writing of literary history. What is the object of literary history? What is the meaning of the term “world literature”? How do we compare different cultural systems of genres? How do we account theoretically for literary transculturation? What are the implications of postcolonial studies for the discipline of comparative literature? Ranging in focus from the Persian epic of Majnun Layla and Zulu praise poetry to South Korean novels and Brazilian __antropofagismo__, the essays offer a concise overview of these and related questions. Their aim is not to reach a consensus on these matters. They show instead what is at stake in the emergent field of global comparatism. Studying Transcultural Literary History : Introduction / Gunilla Lindberg-wada -- Possibilities For Transcultural Literary History / Anders Pettersson -- Naming Of Parts, Or, How Things Shape Up In Transcultural Literary History / Leon De Kock -- The World As India : Some Models Of Literary History / Harish Trivedi -- Iron Square Memoranda (mutatis Mutandis) : For A World Literary History / Djelal Kadir -- A 'culture-sensitive Approach' To Transcultural Literary History / Vera Nunning -- Two Questions For Global Literary History / Zhang Longxi -- Delimiting The Objects Of Literary History / Tord Olsson -- African Histories Of Textuality / Karin Barber -- Re-membering The Present : Placing The Praise Poet/imbongi In A Transcultural Literary History / Liz Gunner -- Rhetorical Uses Of Folk Poetry In Nineteenth-century East-central Europe / John Neubauer -- Historical Change Of The Conceptions Of 'literature' And The Formation Of 'japanese Literature' In The Late Nineteenth-century Japan / Suzuki Sadami -- Rethinking World Literature / Stefan Helgesson -- Evolution, World-systems, Weltliteratur / Franco Moretti -- Arguments And Further Conjectures On World Literature / Eileen Julien -- A Little Pact With The Devil? : On Franco Moretti's Conjectures On World Literature / Yoo Hui-sok -- Glocalizing The Novel / Theo D'haen -- The Practise Of Writing Transnational And Translingual Literary History / Margareta Petersson -- On The Englishness Of English Literary Histories As A Challenge To Transcultural Literary History / Ansgar Nunning -- Drawing A Map Of A Literary History Of Europe / Remo Ceserani -- Writing Literary History : A Perspective From The South Of The Globe / Michael Chapman -- Fugitive Modernities : Black Writing And Transnational Theory In South African Literature / David Attwell -- Transnational Approaches In Post-1989 Comparative Literary History : Writing The History Of East-central European Literary Cultures / Marcel Cornis-pope -- Literature In Circulation / Gunilla Lindberg-wada -- Where Is World Literature? / David Damrosch -- The Gitagovinda : A Twelfth-century Sanskrit Poem Travels West / Kapila Vatsyayan -- The Story Of Majnun Layla In Transcultural Perspectives / As'ad E. Khairallah -- Migrant Writers And Cosmopolitan Readers / Mads Rosendahl Thomsen -- Translating Cultures And Literatures / Bo Utas -- A Cognitive Model Of Cross-cultural Literary Influence / Patrick Colm Hogan -- Intercultural Literary Studies In An Age Of Globalisation / Mineke Schipper -- Jenus Came And Never Left : Writing Literary History In The Face Of The Other / Wiebke Denecke -- The Concrete And The Universal In Renaissance Arabic Thought / Nadeem Naimy -- Translation And Ethnography In Literary Transaction / Stephanos Stephanides. Edited By Gunilla Lindberg-wada. Proceedings Of A Symposium Held Nov. 4-6, 2004 In Stockholm. Includes Bibliographical References. Contents Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION Studying Transcultural Literary History: Introduction POSSIBILITIES FOR TRANSCULTURAL LITERARY HISTORY Possibilities for Transcultural Literary History Naming of Parts, or, How Things Shape Up in Trans cultural Literary History The World as India: Some Models of Literary History Iron Square Memoranda (Mutatis Mutandis): For a World Literary History A ‘Culture-Sensitive Approach’ to Transcultural Literary History Two Questions for Global Literary History DELIMITING THE OBJECTS OF LITERARY HISTORY Delimiting the Objects of Literary History African Histories of Textuality Re-Membering the Present: Placing the Praise Poet/imbongi in a Transcultural Literary History Rhetorical Uses of Folk Poetry in Nineteenth-Century East-Central Europe Historical Change of the Conceptions of ‘Literature’ and Formulation of ‘Japanese Literature’ in the Late Nineteenth-Century Japan RETHINKING WORLD LITERATURE Rethinking World Literature Evolution, World-Systems, Weltliteratur Arguments and Further Conjectures on World Literature A Little Pact with the Devil?: On Franco Moretti's Conjectures on World Literature Glocalizing the Novel THE PRACTICE OF WRITING TRANSNATIONAL AND TRANSLINGUAL LITERARY HISTORY The Practice of Writing Transnational and Translingual Literary History On the Englishness of English Literary Histories as a Challenge to Transcultural Literary History Drawing a Map of a Literary History of Europe Writing Literary History: A Perspective from the South of the Globe Fugitive Modernities: Black Writing and Transnational Theory in South African Literature Transnational Approaches in post-1989 Comparative Literary History: Writing the History of East-Central European Literary Cultures LITERATURE IN CIRCULATION Literature in Circulation Where Is World Literature? The Gītagovinda: A Twelfth-Century Sanskrit Poem Travels West The Story of Majnūn Laylā in Transcultural Perspectives Migrant Writers and Cosmopolitan Readers TRANSLATING CULTURES AND LITERATURES Translating Cultures and Literatures A Cognitive Model of Cross-Cultural Literary Influence Intercultural Literary Studies in an Age of Globalisation Janus Came and Never Left: Writing Literary History in the Face of the Other The Concrete and the Universal in Renaissance Arabic Thought Translation and Ethnography in Literary Transaction Notes on Contributors

In our globalised world, literature is less and less confined to national spaces. Europe-centred frameworks for literary studies have become insufficient; academics are increasingly called upon to address matters of cultural difference. In this unique volume, leading scholars discuss the critical and methodical challenges that these developments pose to the writing of literary history. What is the object of literary history? What is the meaning of the term “world literature”? How do we compare different cultural systems of genres? How do we account theoretically for literary transculturation? What are the implications of postcolonial studies for the discipline of comparative literature? Ranging in focus from the Persian epic of Majnun Layla and Zulu praise poetry to South Korean novels and Brazilian antropofagismo, the essays offer a concise overview of these and related questions. Their aim is not to reach a consensus on these matters. They show instead what is at stake in the emergent field of global comparatism.

Main description: In our globalised world, literature is less and less confined to national spaces. Europe-centred frameworks for literary studies have become insufficient; academics are increasingly called upon to address matters of cultural difference. In this volume, leading scholars discuss the critical and methodical challenges that these developments pose to the writing of literary history