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...Ranjana Khanna Continental Drift: From National Characters to Virtual Subjects . By Emily Apter. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xv + 285 pp.$49.00 cloth, $19.00 paper. © 2000 University of Washington 2000 MLQ 61.4-05Reviews.cs 11/13/00 2:08 PM Page 683...

... becoming” (116). Neil Lazarus, University of Warwick Continental Drift: From National Characters to Virtual Subjects. By Emily Apter. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xv + 285 pp. $49.00 cloth, $19.00 paper...

... becoming” (116). Neil Lazarus, University of Warwick Continental Drift: From National Characters to Virtual Subjects. By Emily Apter. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xv + 285 pp. $49.00 cloth, $19.00 paper...

... becoming” (116). Neil Lazarus, University of Warwick Continental Drift: From National Characters to Virtual Subjects. By Emily Apter. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xv + 285 pp. $49.00 cloth, $19.00 paper...

...Jocelyne Kolb Reference Apter Emily . 2006 . The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Tautz has a dizzying command of current trends and debates; she has given much thought to and assigned a dizzying number of meanings...

... University Press . Apter Emily . 2013 . Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability . London : Verso . Bassnett Susan , and Damrosch David . 2016 . “ Introduction: Translation Studies Meets World Literature .” In “Translation Studies Meets World Literature...

... Armağan Kitabi , edited by Warner Jayne L. , vol. 1 , 518 – 37 . Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press ; Istanbul : Yapı Kredi Yayınları . Apter Emily . 2005 . Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Benjamin Walter...

... tend to remain in local circulation (289). Damrosch’s position has generated a great deal of pushback from transnational literary scholars such as Emily Apter ( 2013 ), Brent Hayes Edwards ( 2003 ), Christopher GoGwilt ( 2010 ), Gayle Rogers ( 2016 ), and Rebecca L. Walkowitz ( 2015 ), who argue...

..., the pandemonium of the planet a reality to be welcomed” (xx). More in tune with David Damrosch and Emily Apter in terms of tracking its subject through translation in pursuit of global-literary circuits, the book veers from even these luminaries on the ultimate question of scale. Hill’s less grand approach...

... of daily practice, calculated curricular interventions in the humanities and, at the level of conceptual orientation, reckoning with geological time. It requires understanding the subject as “a provisional placeholder on this earth” (Apter 2005 : 204). Spivak’s call for responsible, in-depth language...

... References Apter Emily . 2001 . “ On Translation in a Global Market .” Public Culture 13 , no. 1 : 1 – 12 . doi:10.1215/08992363-13-1-1 . Casanova Pascale . 2005 . The World Republic of Letters , translated by DeBevoise M. B. . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press...

.... GERMANICS Apter, T. E. Thomas Mann: The Devil’s Advocate. New York: New York University Press, 1979. 165 pp. $15.00. Bassmann, Winfried. Siegfried Lenz: Sein Werk als Beispiel fur Weg und Standort der Literatur in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Bonn: Bouvier, Abhandlungen zur Kunst...

... own.” The challenge of maintaining such “detached engagement” inspires Emily Apter ( 2013 : 3–4) to write “against world literature.” Dover’s project provides historical justification for contemporary criticisms of what Apter calls “the expansionism and gargantuan scale of world-literary endeavor...

.... . London : Routledge and Kegan Paul . Apter Emily . 2013 . Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability . London : Verso . Arac Jonathan . 2011 . “ Edward W. Said: The Worldliness of World Literature .” In The Routledge Companion to World Literature , edited...

... into “knowledge” (and sometimes even knowledge) of the other that such texts provide and the epistemological and ethical risks inherent in the selection of texts for translation, as well as in the actual work of translating them (Apter 2013 ; Kadir 2010 ). We should also remember that this form of international...

... was valorized. In the last two decades a number of scholars—Emily Apter, Stephen Arata, Charles Bernheimer, Elaine Showalter, and David Weir, among others—have explored decadence in terms of turn-of-the-century disease, degeneration, hysteria, psychoanalysis, and anxieties about homosexuality, syphilis...

... postulates operating at some remove from the phenomenal world of particular texts,” because, she claims, “the loss of the detail is almost always unwarranted.” Emily Apter ( 2013 : 3, 177) argues that all attempts to work on a “gargantuan scale” must always turn us into “flimsy” and “superficial” readers...

... a point of educational and ethical theory, whereas Plutarch was describ- ing actual practice of the Spartans in battle, an apter reference of Milton’s lines, such as rais’d To hight of noblest temper Hero’s old Arming to Battel...

....” Emily Apter ( 2013 : 58) attributes the Oriental tale to “Eurocentric standards of literariness that class them [non-European literatures] closer to folklore and oral culture.” Unsurprisingly, the Oriental tale is not in fact an “Oriental,” “Eastern,” or “Indian” literary form. For those...

...-Strevens 2005 . 2 For collections devoted (at least tangentially) to the question of periodization in literary studies, see Apter 2009 , Brown 2001 , Felski and Tucker 2011 , Halpern and Rabinowitz 2018 , Jackson 2010 , and PMLA 2012. 3 Similar distinctions between “modern...