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There is a global hermeneutic at work here, one that has so much more at play than what today goes by ""globalisation"". Literature - its translation, its interpretation, its cultural appropriation - provokes a sometimes uneasy reciprocity of tradition, value, and truth that, under Einboden's meticulous and lucid scholarship, ripens and enriches what we mean by a global text and reader. -- ""Dr Andrew W. Hass, School of Languages, Cultures and Religions, University of Stirling"" This is an ingenious examination of the global circulations of American literature. Einboden's erudite analysis of what happens when works by Longfellow, Irving, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman are translated into Hebrew, Arabic, and Persian moves transnational studies in dynamically expansive directions. His masterful exploration of the multiple dimensions of cross-cultural appropriation will attract admiration. --Professor Timothy Marr, Department of American Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"There is a global hermeneutic at work here, one that has so much more at play than what today goes by ""globalisation"". Literature - its translation, its interpretation, its cultural appropriation - provokes a sometimes uneasy reciprocity of tradition, value, and truth that, under Einboden's meticulous and lucid scholarship, ripens and enriches what we mean by a global text and reader. -- ""Dr Andrew W. Hass, School of Languages, Cultures and Religions, University of Stirling"" This is an ingenious examination of the global circulations of American literature. Einboden's erudite analysis of what happens when works by Longfellow, Irving, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman are translated into Hebrew, Arabic, and Persian moves transnational studies in dynamically expansive directions. His masterful exploration of the multiple dimensions of cross-cultural appropriation will attract admiration. --Professor Timothy Marr, Department of American Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"

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Jeffrey Einboden (Ph.D, Cambridge) is Associate Professor of American Literature at Northern Illinois University. His research has appeared in Translation and Literature, Milton Quarterly, Middle Eastern Literatures, Journal of Qur’anic Studies, and the co-translated The Tangled Braid: Ninety-Nine Poems by Hafiz of Shiraz (Fons Vitae, 2009). Einboden’s ‘The Genesis of Weltliteratur’ (Literature and Theology, 2005) was named one of the 100 seminal articles published by Oxford University Press during the past century.

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