Pub Date : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.31577/wls.2023.15.3.11
Charles Sabatos
{"title":"HERBERT E. CRAIG: Assessing the English and Spanish Translations of Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu","authors":"Charles Sabatos","doi":"10.31577/wls.2023.15.3.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/wls.2023.15.3.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41525,"journal":{"name":"World Literature Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135031920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.31577/wls.2023.15.3.4
Fatima Festić
{"title":"Gender as a mediation between world literature and national literature","authors":"Fatima Festić","doi":"10.31577/wls.2023.15.3.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/wls.2023.15.3.4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41525,"journal":{"name":"World Literature Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135031926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.31577/wls.2023.15.3.8
Benedikts Kalnačs
In 1879, the storyline of the first original Latvian novel, Mērnieku laiki (The times of the surveyors) by*Reinis and Matīss Kaudzīte, begins with a walk through the countryside. An aging woman, Annuža, accompanies a small orphan girl as they stroll toward a parish school which the little one is about to enter. This walk and its context provide a useful background for the reflection of bygone years that is further developed in their conversation with the teacher where some important events of the recent decades are touched upon retrospectively. In its turn the next chapter introduces the main plot line that follows those earlier events which are picked up once again at the moment when the peasant family to which Annuža belongs slowly wends its way towards its new household. The opening chapters of the novel thus directly link future prospects with a recollection of past experiences, employing the rhythm of walking through the countryside as the narrative basis. The two walks are also crucial for the framing of the plot as they span two different moments in time. Many social and economic transformations happen in the course of the action, while in reality they do not bring any major changes into the lives of some characters. This is the principal tension of the novel that is built on the reflection of different roles played by various social and ethnic groups amidst the change. 19th-century Latvian literature traces this complexity from various angles with some characters fluctuating among several identities and quite often finding themselves somewhere in-between, thus making these cases especially fascinating. The surveyors’ times in the title of the Kaudzītes’s novel refer to the 1850s, when there are major transformations taking place in the rural region of Piebalga (today’s northeast Latvia). The previous borders are being radically redrawn as peasants are provided an opportunity to start the long process of buying out farmsteads for themselves from the local landlords. This is accompanied by a radical change in morals as for some people any means to acquire better parts of the land now appear to be ac-
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Pub Date : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.31577/wls.2023.15.3.7
David Pan
{"title":"The end of world literature?","authors":"David Pan","doi":"10.31577/wls.2023.15.3.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/wls.2023.15.3.7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41525,"journal":{"name":"World Literature Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135032908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.31577/wls.2023.15.3.10
Miloslav Szabó
{"title":"Literarischer Antisemitismus? Diskussionsbeitrag anhand einer Analyse von Thomas Manns Novelle Der Tod in Venedig","authors":"Miloslav Szabó","doi":"10.31577/wls.2023.15.3.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/wls.2023.15.3.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41525,"journal":{"name":"World Literature Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135031746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.31577/wls.2023.15.3.2
Michael Steppat
One of the foremost critics in recent decades, Harold Bloom, has asserted that “Shakespeare is to the world’s literature what Hamlet is to the imaginary domain of literary character: a spirit that permeates everywhere, that cannot be confined”, also calling him “the center of the embryo of a world canon, not Western or Eastern” (1994, 52, 62–63). Is this “world’s literature” that which others call world literature? In major discussions of the latter, Shakespeare is mentioned only occasionally and briefly, as if his work and status do not lend themselves to the agenda of such concepts; his prominence in the “world’s literature” does not transfer to world literature. Is this just a play on words? Or is there an underlying epistemological problem owing to which world literature is, for some reason, hardly concerned with Shakespeare? * Another approach to the world/Shakespeare nexus declares him to be an “omnipresence worldwide”: he is able to “transcend any barrier or class, language, colour or creed”, perhaps a symbol of sociologist Zygmunt Bauman’s “liquid modernity” with the “fluid, ideas-based economy of the global web”, or “a ‘rhizomatic’ figure – decentered, uncontainable, his roots erupting from many different locations simultaneously” (Dickson 2016). Uncontainable, unconfinable: a dialectic appears to operate between the imprint of Shakespeare on the world and the reverse. It is traceable, too, in the “MIT Global Shakespeare Project”, which likewise uses world terminology when it offers information about “international performances that are varying how we understand Shakespeare’s plays and the world” (emphasis added). Globe and world are often treated as near-synonyms, apparent in the way “global Shakespeare” is explained by his presence in “many world cultures” (Dickson 2016). Yet The Oxford English Dictionary defines world prominently as “[t]he state or realm of human existence on earth” (I.1.a.), with a temporal dimension (5.b.); globe is “[a] spherical representation of the earth” (I.2.) (http://www.oed.com; see also Cheah 2014, 307–308). Accordingly, a geographically global or international Shakespeare is not coterminous with his position vis-à-vis world literature. Does that matter? I will
{"title":"Nation vs. world? Global imprints on Shakespeare and the orientation of world literature","authors":"Michael Steppat","doi":"10.31577/wls.2023.15.3.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/wls.2023.15.3.2","url":null,"abstract":"One of the foremost critics in recent decades, Harold Bloom, has asserted that “Shakespeare is to the world’s literature what Hamlet is to the imaginary domain of literary character: a spirit that permeates everywhere, that cannot be confined”, also calling him “the center of the embryo of a world canon, not Western or Eastern” (1994, 52, 62–63). Is this “world’s literature” that which others call world literature? In major discussions of the latter, Shakespeare is mentioned only occasionally and briefly, as if his work and status do not lend themselves to the agenda of such concepts; his prominence in the “world’s literature” does not transfer to world literature. Is this just a play on words? Or is there an underlying epistemological problem owing to which world literature is, for some reason, hardly concerned with Shakespeare? * Another approach to the world/Shakespeare nexus declares him to be an “omnipresence worldwide”: he is able to “transcend any barrier or class, language, colour or creed”, perhaps a symbol of sociologist Zygmunt Bauman’s “liquid modernity” with the “fluid, ideas-based economy of the global web”, or “a ‘rhizomatic’ figure – decentered, uncontainable, his roots erupting from many different locations simultaneously” (Dickson 2016). Uncontainable, unconfinable: a dialectic appears to operate between the imprint of Shakespeare on the world and the reverse. It is traceable, too, in the “MIT Global Shakespeare Project”, which likewise uses world terminology when it offers information about “international performances that are varying how we understand Shakespeare’s plays and the world” (emphasis added). Globe and world are often treated as near-synonyms, apparent in the way “global Shakespeare” is explained by his presence in “many world cultures” (Dickson 2016). Yet The Oxford English Dictionary defines world prominently as “[t]he state or realm of human existence on earth” (I.1.a.), with a temporal dimension (5.b.); globe is “[a] spherical representation of the earth” (I.2.) (http://www.oed.com; see also Cheah 2014, 307–308). Accordingly, a geographically global or international Shakespeare is not coterminous with his position vis-à-vis world literature. Does that matter? I will","PeriodicalId":41525,"journal":{"name":"World Literature Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135032535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.31577/wls.2023.15.3.6
Tao Huang
{"title":"The state’s role in “worlding” a popular national genre: The case of China and Liu Cixin","authors":"Tao Huang","doi":"10.31577/wls.2023.15.3.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/wls.2023.15.3.6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41525,"journal":{"name":"World Literature Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135031752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.31577/wls.2023.15.3.5
Zhenling Li
As defined by Michel Hockx, Chinese online literature is “Chinese-language writing, either in established literary genres or in innovative literary forms, written especially for publication in an interactive online context and meant to be read on-screen” (2015, 22). Since its birth in the 1990s, it has grown rapidly to become a new form of Chinese literature, with genre fiction as its mainstream. It not only has a large number of loyal fan-readers in China, but has also become increasingly popular among international readers by being translated into many languages and circulated in different countries.1 Some scholars have even pointed out that, following Hollywood movies, Japanese animation and Korean dramas, it has become the fourth largest cultural phenomenon in the world (Ouyang and He 2019, 180). In order to address the relevance of Chinese online literature to the topic of world literature and national literature, this article will sort out its origin and history, its translation and circulation, and its doings with the concept of canon. It argues that Chinese online literature is a representation of cross-cultural writing in the Internet era, a web-based world literature with translation and circulation as its fundamental premise, and a heterotopian and post-aesthetic model deconstructing the idea of canon, which together creates a literary space of challenging, breaking through and transcending the literary theories and ideological values of traditional world literature, and rewriting the existing order and standards of world literature. The study of Chinese online literature will help us better understand the relationship between world literature and national literature in this changing world.
{"title":"Cross-culture, translation and post-aesthetics: Chinese online literature in/as world literature in the Internet era","authors":"Zhenling Li","doi":"10.31577/wls.2023.15.3.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/wls.2023.15.3.5","url":null,"abstract":"As defined by Michel Hockx, Chinese online literature is “Chinese-language writing, either in established literary genres or in innovative literary forms, written especially for publication in an interactive online context and meant to be read on-screen” (2015, 22). Since its birth in the 1990s, it has grown rapidly to become a new form of Chinese literature, with genre fiction as its mainstream. It not only has a large number of loyal fan-readers in China, but has also become increasingly popular among international readers by being translated into many languages and circulated in different countries.1 Some scholars have even pointed out that, following Hollywood movies, Japanese animation and Korean dramas, it has become the fourth largest cultural phenomenon in the world (Ouyang and He 2019, 180). In order to address the relevance of Chinese online literature to the topic of world literature and national literature, this article will sort out its origin and history, its translation and circulation, and its doings with the concept of canon. It argues that Chinese online literature is a representation of cross-cultural writing in the Internet era, a web-based world literature with translation and circulation as its fundamental premise, and a heterotopian and post-aesthetic model deconstructing the idea of canon, which together creates a literary space of challenging, breaking through and transcending the literary theories and ideological values of traditional world literature, and rewriting the existing order and standards of world literature. The study of Chinese online literature will help us better understand the relationship between world literature and national literature in this changing world.","PeriodicalId":41525,"journal":{"name":"World Literature Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135031932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.31577/wls.2023.15.3.12
Rafael Ruiz Andrés
{"title":"ANTONIO BARNÉS — MAGDA KUČERKOVÁ (eds.): The Figurativeness of the Language of Mystical Experience: Particularities and Interpretations","authors":"Rafael Ruiz Andrés","doi":"10.31577/wls.2023.15.3.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/wls.2023.15.3.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41525,"journal":{"name":"World Literature Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135032710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.31577/wls.2023.15.3.13
Yujuan Zou
{"title":"YIFENG SUN: Translational Spaces: Towards a Chinese-Western Convergence","authors":"Yujuan Zou","doi":"10.31577/wls.2023.15.3.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/wls.2023.15.3.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41525,"journal":{"name":"World Literature Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135032907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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