Literature and the Making of the World: Cosmopolitan Texts, Vernacular Practices by Helgesson, Stefan

Literature and the Making of the World: Cosmopolitan Texts, Vernacular Practices (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781501374197)

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Literature and the Making of the World: Cosmopolitan Texts, Vernacular Practices by Helgesson, Stefan

Literature and the Making of the World: Cosmopolitan Texts, Vernacular Practices

$39.95
Literature and the Making of the World: Cosmopolitan Texts, Vernacular Practices by Helgesson, Stefan

Literature and the Making of the World: Cosmopolitan Texts, Vernacular Practices

$39.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

Author: Stefan Helgesson
ISBN-10: 1501374192
ISBN-13: 9781501374197
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 06/29/2023
Pages: 350
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d
By Stefan Helgesson
By Stefan Helgesson
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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 Mte Alling is Associate Professor of French Literature at ﾘstfold University College, Norway.

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