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Author:   Professor or Dr. Stefan Helgesson (Professor, Stockholm University, Sweden) ,  Professor or Dr. Helena Bodin (Professor, Stockholm University, Sweden) ,  Professor or Dr. Annika Mörte Alling (Associate Professor, Østfold University College, Norway)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic USA
Weight:   0.640kg
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9781501374159

ISBN 10:   150137415
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   02 December 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Series Introduction – The Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Dynamic: Conjunctions of World Literature Stefan Helgesson (Stockholm University, Sweden), Christina Kulberg (Uppsala University, Sweden), Paul Tenngart (Lund University, Sweden) and Helena Wulff (Stockholm University, Sweden) Introduction – Literature and the Making of the World Stefan Helgesson (Stockholm University, Sweden) Part 1 Worlds in Texts: Languages and Narrative 1. Narrating the Crisis of Constantinople 1908–1922: A Lost World in Greek, Armenian, Turkish and Russian Helena Bodin (Stockholm University, Sweden) 2. The Worlds of Multiglossia in Modern Chinese Fiction: Lu Xun’s 'A Madman’s Diary' and the 'Shaky House' Lena Rydholm (Uppsala University, Sweden) 3. Writing Vulnerable Worlds: Siberian Exile and the Anthropology of World-Making Mattias Viktorin (Stockholm University, Sweden) 4. The Making of Paris in Novels by Balzac and Flaubert Annika Mörte Alling (Lund University, Sweden) 5. Joseph Brodsky’s Returns to Venice in Watermark: Old-World Cosmopolitanism Revisited Anna Ljunggren (Stockholm University, Sweden) Part 2 Texts in Worlds: Production and Material Practices 6. A Homemade History: Documenting the Harlem Renaissance in Alexander Gumby’s Scrapbooks Irina Rasmussen (Stockholm University, Sweden) 7. The Little Magazine as a World-Making Form: Literary Distance and Political Contestation in Southern African Journals Stefan Helgesson (Stockholm University, Sweden) 8. Worlds in a Tangle: The Promotion of Writing in India between the Vernacular and the Global Per Ståhlberg (Södertörn University, Sweden) 9. Loss of Words and End of Worlds: Transitions and Troubles of Travel Writing Anette Nyqvist (Stockholm University, Sweden) Afterword – World Literature in the Making Co-written by the contributors Index

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A tour de force in world literature studies. A brilliant, wide-ranging and deeply reflective account that opens up new vistas of theory and critical practice on the cosmopolitan-vernacular dynamics in world literature. * Debjani Ganguly, Professor of English, University of Virginia, USA, and Editor of The Cambridge History of World Literature (2021) *

A tour de force in world literature studies. A brilliant, wide-ranging and deeply reflective account that opens up new vistas of theory and critical practice on the cosmopolitan-vernacular dynamics in world literature. * Debjani Ganguly, Professor of English, University of Virginia, USA, and Editor of The Cambridge History of World Literature (2021) * This volume offers a fascinating insight into the interplay between the cosmopolitan and the vernacular in a wide-ranging group of examples from different cultures and periods. The series introduction provides an incisive overview of how this approach to literary studies relates to other theories of world literature, setting out its difference from theories of systems and circulation, as well as from other relational pairs, such as the centre and periphery or the global and local. The emphasis in this particular volume is on how the polysemic concept of the world embraces the linguistic, the anthropological and the cultural, among others; literature contributes to making these worlds on overlapping intratextual and extratextual levels. The nine essays collected here explore the cosmopolitan-vernacular dynamic through a mixture of close reading and cultural analysis, always sensitive to context, nuance and plurality. Literature and the Making of the World is warmly recommended not just to readers interested in the debates surrounding world literature, or to readers interested in the specific case studies, but also to those who are interested in how literature contributes to the ways that we create and make sense of the world around us. * Richard Hibbitt, Co-Director of the Centre for World Literatures, University of Leeds, UK *

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Stefan Helgesson is Professor of English Literary Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden, and a senior research associate at Rhodes University, South Africa. He currently leads the Swedish research initiative ‘Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures’. Helena Bodin is Professor of Literature in the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University, Sweden. Annika Mörte Alling is Associate Professor of French Literature at Østfold University College, Norway.

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