Taking Stock - Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Literary Research

Bachleitner, Norbert (EDT)/ Hölter, Achim (EDT)/ McCarthy, John A. (EDT)

Brill（2023/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 558 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004546714
• DDC分類 809

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Read an interview with Norbert Bachleitner.

In this 200th volume of Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft the editors Norbert Bachleitner, Achim H. Hölter and John A. McCarthy 'take stock' of the discipline. It focuses on recurrent questions in the field of Comparative Literature: What is literature? What is meant by 'comparative'? Or by 'world'? What constitute 'transgressions' or 'refractions'? What, ultimately, does being at home in the world imply? When we combine the answers to these individual questions, we might ultimately reach an intriguing proposition: Comparative Literature contributes to a sense of being at home in a world that is heterogeneous and fractured, rather than affirming a monolithic canon marked by territory and homogeneity. The volume unites essays on world literature, literature in the context of the history of ideas, comparative women and gender studies, aesthetics and textual analysis, and literary translation and tradition.

Contents

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part 1

Comparative and World Literature

1 Comparative Literature: Being at Home in the World

 John A. McCarthy

2 An On/Off Affair. Voltaire in Eighteenth-Century Vienna

 Norbert Bachleitner

3 Ludwig Tieck's Book Collection: the Holdings of the Austrian National Library (önb)

 Achim Hölter and Paul Ferstl

Part 2

Literature and History (of Ideas)

4 Pride and Conviviality - Pride in Conviviality. The Rise and Recognition of a Prospective Force

 Ottmar Ette

5 Enlightened Citizenship in Lessing's Emilia Galotti and Mozart's Lucio Silla

 Carl Niekerk

6 Good Comrades for Young Readers: the First World War in the Fiction of Boys' Periodicals in Britain and Germany

 Barbara Korte

7 Fighting the 'Freudian Farce': Vladimir Nabokov's Portrayal of America's Post-War Infatuation with Psychoanalysis

 Juliane Werner


Part 3

Women and Gender Studies

8 Enlightenment Angst: James Parsons' A Mechanical and Critical Enquiry into the Nature of Hermaphrodites

 Stephanie M. Hilger

9 Writing the Nation, Writing the Self: Discourses of Identity in Fanny Lewald's Italienisches Bilderbuch and George Sand's Un hiver à Majorque

 Sandra Vlasta

10 'Jewish Mothers' by Jenny Erpenbeck, Julia Franck, and Adriana Altaras

 Agnes C. Mueller

11 Theorising Central European Postcoloniality: a Postcommunist Reading of 21st Century Literature from Slovakia

 Dobrota Pucherová


Part 4

Aesthetics and Textual Analysis

12 Aesthetic Illusion and the Breaking of Illusion in Ancient Literature?

 Werner Wolf

13 Intermediality in Twentieth Century Animal Poetry. Guillaume Apollinaire - Ted Hughes - Durs Grünbein

 Annette Simonis

14 Autofiction and Its (Involuntary) Protagonists: A Comparison of Autofictional Novels by Mario Vargas Llosa, Javier Cercas, Karl Ove Knausgård, and Navid Kermani

 Stefan Kutzenberger

15 'Sometimes things begin with the wrong book': Images and Intertexts in Darryl Pinckney's Black Deutschland

 Gianna Zocco

Part 5

Translation and Tradition

16 Translation, Transmission, Irony: Benoît de Sainte-Maure and the Trope of the Fictional Source Text in Western Literature before Cervantes

 Daniel Syrovy

17 Of 'Conversion' and 'Reversal': Georg Philipp Harsdörffer and His Adoptions of Jean Pierre Camus in the Context of the Counter-Reformation, Reform Catholicism, and Jansenism

 Christoph Schmitt-Maaß

18 The Romes of Titus Andronicus

 Manfred Pfister

19 Towards a Global South Literary Genealogy: M. G. Vassanji and Joseph Conrad as Secret Sharers in The Book of Secrets and Heart of Darkness

 Russell West-Pavlov


Index