... of the Ancient Mariner,” as well as other literary texts, to transform the failure of his quest for a transantarctic crossing into a glorious triumph. Shackleton's allusions and structural borrowings substitute the truth of literature for the reality of the polar experience. While this substitution is typical...

... in European literature exile literature cross-cultural borrowing In November 1948 the naval officer and photographer Aleksandr Brodsky (1903–84) returned home from a long absence. First mobilized for the war against Finland in 1940, he had served in World War II and was later posted to China. An award...

..., and literary reasons for the formation of a literary canon, and to a degree literary production is inseparable from cross-cultural (re)production. The literary canon appropriates and is also appropriated by translations. Many modern Chinese literary concepts derive from translations, especially of Western...

... momen- tarily, will go on to write and publish improving stories for children. Eliot’s multiplot novel is niche marketed, instead, for the adult literary crowd. Bildungsroman crossed with spiritual biography, for several characters in tandem. Plot with social and philosophical rumination. Culture...

... (1885) are in effect collections of meticulously gathered historical and literary detail. Poised as if at the end of history, decadent writers distinguish themselves by sorting through the materials of the cultural past, collecting and arranging ostentatiously borrowed parts. The image...

... tongue.” World literature is characterized by what I call “borrowing privileges.” These privileges are defined by access: to basic literacy, to the production and reception of literature as a cultural artifact, to books and other media of public dissemination, and to a specific kind of linguistic...

... cultural tradition which is that of Europe as a whole. Literatures which have developed on the European periphery may thus show similar characteristics to those which are of the center, both as a result of their common Indo-European inheritance of belief and custom, and as a result of the fact...

... was extremely 3  Claude J. Rawson, Henry Fielding and the Augustan Ideal under Stress: “Nature’s Dance of Death” and Other Studies (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972). 4  J. Paul Hunter, Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-­Century English Fiction (New York: Norton, 1990...

... into missed opportunities or crossed paths, as Jameson’s Chinese reception shows, may help us rethink the ongoing battle between universalism and exceptionalism. State-sanctioned Chinese exceptionalism appears to be a return to, or a reaffirmation of, cultural essentialism rather than a rearticulation...

... Ricardo Piglia, Nombre falso [Assumed name] (1975) and La ciudad ausente [The absent city] (1992): I was translating texts that were them- selves translations, inasmuch as they were full of citations, references, allusions, and characters borrowed from other writers; yet...

... to its figures of speech, a trophy Marxism (REF. the Marxist code). The point we won’t want to miss is that the book in which Barthes describes the cultural codes is itself shot through with such codes—that Barthes’s writing, I mean, is an unweeded bed of borrowed wisdom and pilfered idioms. A few...

... to our understanding of the mechanism of reading translation, while it adds a translingual and cross-cultural dimension to our understanding of enchanted reading. Chinese readers, like Emma Bovary, were obsessed with reading works of literature. But these were not just any literary works; they were...

... and skill. ALPHOKSER. FAVREAU Unirlersity of Michigan The Life and Noziels of Lkon Gozlan: A Rcprcsentative of Literary Cross Cwrents in tlze Generation of Balzac. By MARTHAKATH- ERIKE LODER.Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania, 1943...

... that constitute New World languages are shown to develop into creative and contestatory games of “languaging,” those transgressive borrowings across cultural bor- ders. Jose Antonio Mazzotti shows an important subtlety of the game played by the first mestizo chronicler, El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, who...

... into the man. Thomas A. Perry 443 is not original in every particular building, in every statue, in every tune, paint- ing, poem, or harangue !-whatever is national or usual ; as the usage of building all Roman churches in the form of a cross...

... across literary-historical landscapes no longer emplotted but “a phenomenal register more or less ad hoc, more or less episodic, namely, the impromptu meetings occasioned by citations and cross-references, and the proliferating threads of association that result.” This is weak theory —glossed as “shaky...

... themselves were sufficient verification: “This new political phase of his life . . . came to him as a ‘surprise,’ a ‘heavy burden’ that he felt he must try to bear” (p. 178). Although Axelrod borrows freely from letters, manuscripts, and past criticism, he rarely provides a sense of a quotation’s...

... internalized principle of self-renunciation. What we find in The Faerie Queene is, after all, romance- the genre of unconstrained fabulation-in love with didactic allegory. The fiction has intro- jected a powerful cultural demand for truth, and can meet this demand only...

... University of North Texas Jocosm*ousJqce: The Fate of Fol& in “UZysses.” By ROBERTH. BELL.Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1991. xii t 233 pp. $24.95. Jocoserious, the Joycean coinage that Robert Bell borrows for his title, suggests the thesis of this admirable book: UZysses...

... and the amplification of techno­ 144 MLQ June 2013 logical, financial, and commercial interdependence between nations. The intensification of cross-­cultural and transnational dialogues and conflicts — captured in innumerable genres and forms of aesthetic expression...