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From the perspective of Latin American Studies, this volume offers a critical contribution to the current debate on world literature. It is structured around three conceptual blocks: gatekeepers, as the dispositives and actors mediating the international circulation of literature translation, as an unavoidable but always problematic mechanism and local literatures, as modes of writing that remain intrinsically tied to their contexts.
World Literature --- Latin American literatures --- Gatekeepers --- Translation
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The three concepts mentioned in the title of this volume imply the contact between two or more literary phenomena; they are based on similarities that are related to a form of 'travelling' and imitation or adaptation of entire texts, genres, forms or contents. Transfer comprises all sorts of 'travelling', with translation as a major instrument of transferring literature across linguistic and cultural barriers. Transfer aims at the process of communication, starting with the source product and its cultural context and then highlighting the mediation by certain agents and institutions to end up with inclusion in the target culture. Reception lays its focus on the receiving culture, especially on criticism, reading, and interpretation. Translation, therefore, forms a major factor in reception with the general aim of reception studies being to reveal the wide spectrum of interpretations each text offers. Moreover, translations are the prime instrument in the distribution of literature across linguistic and cultural borders; thus, they pave the way for gaining prestige in the world of literature. The thirty-eight papers included in this volume and dedicated to research in this area were previously read at the ICLA conference 2016 in Vienna. They are ample proof that the field remains at the center of interest in Comparative Literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature. --- Transfer. --- reception. --- translation. --- world literature.
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text --- literary theory --- ukrainian literature --- world literature --- linguistics --- media
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Welcome to Chain-Gang All-Stars, the popular and highly controversial programme inside America's private prison system. In packed arenas, live-streamed by millions, prisoners compete as gladiators for the ultimate prize: their freedom.Fan favourites Loretta Thurwar and Hamara 'Hurricane Staxxx' Stacker are teammates and lovers. Thurwar is nearing the end of her time on the circuit, free in just a few matches, a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. As she prepares for her final encounters, as protestors gather at the gates, and as the programme's corporate owners stack the odds against her - will the price be simply too high?
Dystopies. --- Fiction --- World Literature --- Dystopias --- Dystopian --- Cultural Heritage --- American
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17.76 history of world literature. --- Bellettrie. --- Letterkunde.
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17.76 history of world literature. --- Bellettrie. --- Ontwikkelingslanden.
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Parole entre vérité et folie : cette monographie, pionnière sur le sujet, analyse l’importance littéraire de la somniloquie – les paroles pronon – cées en dormant – comme un moyen de communication qui ouvre des perspectives nouvelles, au carrefour de la littérature, de la médecine et de la ociété. Les textes dramatiques de Shakespeare, Diderot, Scribe et Wagner sont liés par des liens intertextuels: les auteurs emploient la somniloquie comme le moyen d’expression et de mise en scène des voix marginalisées. Ces situations de communication sont analysées à la lumière du discours médical contemporain des textes (notamment le mesmérisme et les analyses psychiatriques du XIXe siècle) mais aussi en montrant ce que disent obliquement ces textes de la situation sociale des femmes et de la réception de leur parole.
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Wenn Georg Lukács, Walter Benjamin, Michail Bachtin oder Robert Musil im frühen 20. Jahrhundert in der Jenaer Romantik das Labor einer neuen Art des Schreibens und Denkens über Literatur entdecken, so liegt dies darin begründet, dass der Roman um 1800 zum spekulativen Begriff einer Literatur- und Kulturtheorie geworden ist. Hinter der vermeintlichen Formlosigkeit des Romans hatten Friedrich Schlegel und Friedrich von Hardenberg das Vermögen der Literatur entdeckt, aus sich selbst ihre Form zu entwickeln und von ihrer Eigengesetzmäßigkeit ausgehend theoriefähig zu werden. Um diesen Vorstoß zu wagen, so argumentiert die Studie, griff die Jenaer Romantik auf das Gespräch zurück: Als Inbegriff der Geselligkeit, als literarischer Präzedenzfall und als epistemologisches Modell wurde es zum Medium der literarischen Reflexion par excellence . Die Voraussetzungen für die Allgegenwart des Gesprächs um 1800 findet die Studie in der dialogischen, aus der Literatur- und Kunstkritik hervorgegangenen Erzählliteratur Denis Diderots angelegt; den Folgen spürt sie nach bis hin zur Konzeption des Gesprächs als Formkonstituens und Figur einer nicht-genealogischen Herleitung von Literatur in Musils Mann ohne Eigenschaften .
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While the contemporary era has witnessed a series of spectacular failures with severe and widespread global consequences, failure is still broadly understood on an individual level, while its broader causes and consequences receive little attention. This book reconceptualises failure as a method for characterising and critiquing systems and institutions on both a global and a local level. It defines global failure as comprising global inequality, economic crisis, and ecological disaster, and as a condition which informs and is informed by localised failure. It examines the negotiation between global and local failure in narratives of failed quests by four contemporary authors: Cormac McCarthy, Julia Kristeva, Michael Ondaatje, and Basma Abdel Aziz. As a genre, the quest narrative is associated with the idea of hard-won success. The failed quest narrative, or the narrative of the failed quest, is therefore the ideal vehicle through which to examine the socio-political and institutional conditions of failure. Primarily a contribution to the field of world literature, this book is also relevant to those with an interest in the contemporary novel, failure studies, and the quest narrative.
Developing countries --- World literature. --- contemporary literature. --- failure studies. --- quest.
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Der Paradigmenwechsel in Bezug auf die Wahrnehmung der Tiere lässt das Tier auch in der literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Forschung in seinem Sosein - ,verkörpert' - in Erscheinung treten. Das den Anthropozentrismus verdrängende theoriezentrierte Paradigma im Blick, setzt sich der Band zum Ziel, den kulturgeschichtlich bedingten Wandel der Tier-Bilder im Spiegel der deutschen Literatur der Neuzeit zu verfolgen: vom Mittelalter bis hin zur Gegenwart. Die Reihe der Tierfigurationen reicht von den Tier-Bildern in der Literatur des Mittelalters und der Aufklärung über die Tier-Figuren der klassischen Moderne (Friedrich Nitzsche, Franz Kafka) bis hin zu Texten der neueren und neuesten Gegenwartsliteratur (Christa Wolf, Peter Turrini, Thomas Hürlimann, Peter Suter, Tamara Ramsay).