Search Results for world literature

... of language. In the last twenty to twenty-five years, the return to philology has been a dominant part of the Anglo-Saxon discourse of “world literature,” which has turned away from theory. The return to philology is captured in a market-based adaptation of literature in terms of globalization...

... and translatability that literary theory continues to exist today, but it does so only as a discreet background in the contemporary discourse of world literature, linked to the contemporary processes of signifying art only through its market and entertainment value. Using Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of exotopy...

... twenty years or so, responding to world-historical transitions like those of 1989-91 and 2001, the discipline of comparative literature has reexamined some of its key concepts (world, comparison, translation) as well as what is probably the most distinctive aspect of its method, acquired professional...

... women to embrace their power and desirability in American society. At the same time, the literature reveals a nostalgic desire for a world where men were providers, women could afford to be the weaker sex, and traditional marriage could be a path to both personal and group advancement. Advocates offer...

... what has been violently erased from history and asks how this erasure is inscribed in new possibilities for writing, sexuality, and being in the world. In particular, the essay stresses two central characteristics of feminist aesthetic practice in modernity. First, it reinterprets the endlessly...

... with Muslims, especially after the 1990s, the honor crime does significant political work in the world today. Through an examination of popular literature, human rights reports, and anthropological and sociological studies, this article uncovers the forces that produce and maintain this category of spectacular...

...Emmanuel Bouju This paper argues that the “debt narrative,” quite like the Rosetta Stone, is a historical, symbolic, and aesthetic way for us to decipher the interfaces between the three languages of economy, politics, and ethics. Debt narrative is not a simple figure of speech, literature...

...Kris Cohen In Leo Bersani’s essay “Sociality and Sexuality,” bracketing emerges as a critical procedure for sensing and for practicing nonsovereign forms of sociality. Following Foucault’s desire to discover modes of relation, forms of the homosexual, that do not yet have a world...

... representation of nonnormative gender presentation also evidences a significant reconfiguring of conceptions of the body, the self, and the family in a world in which money was increasingly able to purchase anything. The author shows that during this tumultuous period, in which men and women grappled...

...: Horizons of World Literature] . Ed. Bormuth Matthias . Berlin : Berenberg , 2017 . 130 – 34 . Auerbach Erich . “ Philology and ‘World Literature’ ”. Trans. Said Maire Said Edward . Centennial Review 13 . 1 ( 1969 ): 1 – 17 . Comaroff Jean Comaroff John L...

... and Language: Bakhtin, Translation, World Literature .” Modern Languages Open 1 ( 2018 ): 1 – 10 . Weed Elizabeth Rooney Ellen . Editors’ note . What’s the Difference? The Question of Theory . Spec. issue of differences 21 . 1 ( 2010 ): iii . I have tried to outline the frontiers...

... that, unlike communist regimes, capitalism allows itself to be criticized. As an overall result, it is a double-edged critique of both systems for their dehumanizing effects: There is hardly another example in world literature for a character as inert as Kafka’s protagonist. He is moved, pushed, tortured...

... in Bulgarian literary theory by Todor Hristov in his 2009 monograph Literaturnostta ( Literariness ). 10 World literature “usually refer[s] to a particular liberal Anglo-Saxon discourse grounded in assumptions of mobility, transparency, and a recontextualizing (but also decontextualizing) circulation...

... Literature across Deep Time (Princeton University Press, 2006) and coeditor, with Lawrence Buell, of Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature (Princeton University Press, 2007). Balibar, Étienne. “ The Nation Form: History and Ideology .” Balibar and Wallerstein 86 -106...

... to the attention of all because it is an example of how, because theoretical development in North America has reached such an advanced stage that awareness of cultural diversity means it is no longer adequate for us simply to focus on "literature," someone from the third world with a project about a third world...

... to a historical archive and displaced by the statistical operations of “distant reading,” the strong emphasis on the therapeutic effects of engagements with literary narratives, and the mobility through literary and cultural translation under the reconceived heading of “world literature.” Nevertheless, Tihanov...

... for its autonomy and uniqueness as a discourse that is unlike other discourses, breaks with previous regimes of relevance in which literature’s significance is linked to its capacity to convey ideas, emotions, or knowledge of the world, or to instigate socially and politically oriented actions” ( Tihanov...

... that it is such a displacement that constitutes the rationale of a classic such as Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis: The Represen- tation of Reality in Western Literature, which for many readers remains an authoritative founding text in the post–Second World War...

... Yansımaları [The Latest Developments in eu Competition Law and Their Potential Reflections on the Turkish Competition Law] . Ankara : Turkish Competition Authority , 2000 . 47 – 52 . Jameson Fredric . `` Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism .'' Social Text 15 ( 1986...

... (University of Illinois Press, 2006) and The Blackwell Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture (Blackwell, 2006). Her current project is entitled “Class Acts.” Abel, Elizabeth, ed. Introduction. Writing and Sexual Difference. Spec. issue of Critical Inquiry 8.2 ( 1981 ): 173 -78. Abrams...