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oapen-20.500.12657-524862022-01-19T02:49:18Z Literature and the Making of the World Helgesson, Stefan Bodin, Helena Alling, Annika Mörte Literary Studies Comparative Literature (Lit Studies) Literary Theory (Lit Studies) Cultural Anthropology (Anth) bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSA Literary theory bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography This open access book positions itself at the intersection of world literature studies, literary anthropology and philosophical critiques of 'world' and 'globe' concepts. Doing so, it investigates how literature imagines and shapes worlds for its readers through linguistically specific cosmopolitan-vernacular dynamics, both at the level of textual engagement and on a material level of textual production and circulation. Moving from textual analyses in Part One – 'Worlds in Texts' – to combined analyses of texts, media and agents in the literary field in Part Two – 'Texts in Worlds' – the concerns of these nine chapters range from multilingualism, genre and style to material forms such as the little magazine or the scrapbook archive and finally to activities such as travel (as a writing profession) and literary promotion. With this focus on practice – which geographically engages with Constantinople, China, Russia, western Europe, North America, southern Africa and India – contributors demonstrate methodologically how world literature studies can bring the empirically specific detail to bear on global modes of analysis. It is precisely through such a dual optic that the world-making capacity of literature becomes apparent. 2022-01-18T13:08:05Z 2022-01-18T13:08:05Z 2021 book ONIX_20220118_9781501374173_18 9781501374173 9781501374159 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52486 eng Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures application/pdf application/epub+zip n/a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781501374173.pdf 9781501374166.epub Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic 10.5040/9781501374180 10.5040/9781501374180 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b 9781501374173 9781501374159 Bloomsbury Academic 352 New York open access
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This open access book positions itself at the intersection of world literature studies, literary anthropology and philosophical critiques of 'world' and 'globe' concepts. Doing so, it investigates how literature imagines and shapes worlds for its readers through linguistically specific cosmopolitan-vernacular dynamics, both at the level of textual engagement and on a material level of textual production and circulation. Moving from textual analyses in Part One – 'Worlds in Texts' – to combined analyses of texts, media and agents in the literary field in Part Two – 'Texts in Worlds' – the concerns of these nine chapters range from multilingualism, genre and style to material forms such as the little magazine or the scrapbook archive and finally to activities such as travel (as a writing profession) and literary promotion. With this focus on practice – which geographically engages with Constantinople, China, Russia, western Europe, North America, southern Africa and India – contributors demonstrate methodologically how world literature studies can bring the empirically specific detail to bear on global modes of analysis. It is precisely through such a dual optic that the world-making capacity of literature becomes apparent.
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