Habjan / Imlinger Globalizing Literary Genres

Literature, History, Modernity
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-317-48343-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 290 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Focused on the relation between processes of globalization and literary genres, this volume intervenes in the prevalent notions of globalization, literary history, genre, and the novel. Using both close reading and world history, both literary criticism and political theory, the book is a timely intervention in the debates about world, postcolonial, and transnational literature as they have been intensified by critical globalization studies, world-systems analysis, Bourdieuan sociology, and cosmopolitanism studies. It contends that globalization, far from starting in recent decades, has a long and complex history, not unlike the history of literature itself, meaning that when we speak of globalization and literature, we in effect invoke the entire history of literature. Essays examine literary genres in relation to broader historical processes, connecting the present state of globalization to such key world-historic events as the early modern geographical and scientific explorations, the Enlightenment, the expansions of modernity in the long nineteenth and twentieth centuries, postmodernity and postcoloniality, and contemporary counter-hegemonic movements. The book offers innovative readings of the pastoral from Saint-Pierre to Carpentier; the novel in Kant and Wieland, and in Diderot and Marx; travel writing from Verne to Cortázar; sports writing in James and Kahn; entrelacement in Bolaño, Ghosh, and Soderbergh; and also the Mozambican ghost story, Indian genre fiction, "fake" autobiographies, Sephardic "language memoirs," the postcolonial Gothic, Irish "chick lit," and counter-hegemonic novels. Making important theoretical contributions to a renewed discussion about genre, especially genres of narrative fiction, this volume addresses global studies, the history of the novel, and debates over periodization and nationalism in literary history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Habjan, Jernej

Imlinger, Fabienne

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Globalisierung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Jernej Habjan and Fabienne Imlinger Part I. From Here To Early Modernity 1. La Pastorale mondialisée: The Cultural Semiotics of Market Circulation in Paul and Virginia and The Kingdom of this World Karin Peters 2. The Art of Deception: L’Isle des Hermaphrodits in the Context of Early Modern Globalization Fabienne Imlinger 3. The Travel Narrative Genre in the Early Modern Period Daniel Vitkus Part II. To The Enlightenment and its Limits 4. Novel Cosmopolitan Writing: On Genus and Genre of Mankind (in Kant and Wieland) Robert Stockhammer 5. Uncles and Nephews: Socratic Satire in the Capital of Modernity Jernej Habjan Part III. To The Long Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries 6. The World as Network and Tableau: Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days between Novel and Play Jörg Dünne 7. Orientalist Poetics, Autobiographical Fiction, and History Defying Words: Sarkiz Torossian Inscribing Himself into World War I Christoph K. Neumann 8. On Language Memoirs and Translated Wor(l)ds Elisabeth Güde 9. The Literariness of Sport: Roger Kahn’s The Boys of Summer and CLR James’ Beyond A Boundary In Search of a Genre Grant Farred 10. The Mozambican Ghost Story: Global Genre or Local Form? Peter J. Maurits Part IV. And Back 11. On the Tropes of Literary Ecology: The Plot of Globalization Alexander Beecroft 12. Indian Genre Fiction in English and the Global Publishing Template Suman Gupta 13. "A living death, life inside-out": The Postcolonial Toxic Gothic in Robert Barclay’s Melal: A Novel of the Pacific Hanna Straß 14. Reading Irish "Chick Lit" as World-Literature Sorcha Gunne 15. The Form of Resistance: Literary Narration and Contemporary Radical Political Experience Hrvoje Tutek

Über Autor(innen)

Jernej Habjan is Research Fellow at the Literary Institute of the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia.

Fabienne Imlinger is Research Associate in the research training group "Globalization and Literature" at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany.