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8 Comparative Literature · Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft · Littérature comparée W Dominique Jullien (ed .) hat makes a world author? How did Homer become a «cosmopolitan» author? How does a Mayan creation narrative challenge our Western logocentric ideas of foundational texts? What might world literature look like to a fourth-century Roman reader? How do past and more recent translations of Dante’s Commedia help us to rethink the changing definitions of world literature? How did the Alexander romance adapt to an Islamic context? How did Tasso’s epic adapt to a later cultural context dominated by the «Turkish Fear»? What shaped the West’s first impression of The Tale of Genji? How does the Ovidian myth of Arachne migrate from Japan to the Caribbean? What are the foundational metaphors at the root of Goethe’s weltliteratur paradigm? What happens when cultures import canonical texts for lack of their own? By what process does an eccentric writer reconstruct a new foundational text from heterogeneous fragments of other cultures? How did literary criticism contribute to the canonization of the Thousand and One Nights in Western literature? What is left of the primacy of the national language when writers are published simultaneously in various translations? How do modern misreadings shape our understanding of national epics and ensure their survival? World literature, first intuited in Goethe’s foundational idea of weltliteratur as literature that seeks to transcend national boundaries, is viewed here in its essential mobility and migratory capacity, which relies on the centrality of the reading act . This volume focuses on foundational texts as they are read across cultures, languages and historical contexts . Its goal is to reflect on canonical texts – from Homer’s Odyssey to Murakami’s Genji, from Cervantes to Mayan hieroglyphs, from Dante to Coetzee, from Goethe to Lezama Lima, from the Thousand and One Nights to Jorge Luis Borges – in a global perspective: how they are translated, appropriated, transformed, how they travel across different cultures and languages, their foundational status evolving accordingly in a post-European world . Foundational Texts of World Literature New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2011 . VI, 231 pp . Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures . Vol . 184 General Editors: Tamara Alvarez-Detrell and Michael G . Paulson hb . ISBN 978-1-4331-1269-0 CHF 79 .– / € D 54 .40 / € A 55 .90 / € 50 .80 / £ 45 .70 / US-$ 78 .95 € D includes VAT – valid for Germany · € A includes VAT – valid for Austria Foundational Texts of World Literature includes contributions by Gerardo Aldana, Sandra Bermann, Piero Boitani, Michael Emmerich, Azadeh Yamini Hamedani, Stefan Helgesson, Paulo Lemos Horta, Juan Pablo Lupi, Peter Madsen, Ulrich Marzolph, Suzanne Saïd, Evanghelia Stead, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, and Richard Van Leeuwen . Contents: Dominique Jullien: Introduction • Piero Boitani: World Literature Two Thousand Years Ago: Reflections of a Senator in 306 A .D . • Suzanne Saïd: Homer, or How to Create a World Writer • Gerardo Aldana: On Deciphering Ancient Mesoamerican Foundational Texts: The Challenges of a Non-Logos-Based Creation Narrative • Ulrich Marzolph: The Creative Reception of the Alexander Romance in Iran • Sandra Bermann: In the Light of Translation: on Dante and World Literature • Richard Van Leeuwen: The Canonization of the Thousand and One Nights in World Literature: The Role of Literary Criticism • Peter Madsen: Epic Encounters – from Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata to Miklós Zrinyi’s Obsidio Szigetiana • Paulo Lemos Horta: The Lusiads as World Literature: The Romantic Hypothesis of Eastern Influence on Camões • Azadeh Yamini Hamedani: Foundational Metaphors: Goethe’s World Literature; Posnett’s Comparative Literature • Evanghelia Stead: Worldwide Tales and the Latin Tradition: The Myth of Arachne in Jan Havlasa’s Four Japanese Tales (1919) and Grace Hallworth’s A Web of Stories (1990) • Michael Emmerich: A New Planet: The Tale of Genji as World Literature • Stefan Helgesson: «… A casement opening on the spectacle of the world …»: Post-European Texts in Translation • Mads Rosendahl Thomsen: Subversive Foundations: Renaissance Classics and the Imported Canon • Juan Pablo Lupi: (Mis)Reading as Engagement: Some Thoughts on World Literature and José Lezama Lima . DoMinique Jullien is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara . Ana Raquel Lourenço Fernandes What about the Rogue? Survival and Metamorphosis in Contemporary British Literature and Culture Followed by an interview with David Lodge Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2011 . 284 pp . Comparatism and Society . Vol . 15 General Editor: Hubert Roland pb . ISBN 978-90-5201-733-4 T CHF 54 .– / € D 36 .90 / € A 38 .– / € 34 .50 / £ 31 .10 / US-$ 53 .95 his book gives an account of the significance of the rogue in contemporary British literature and culture, focusing on this character’s survival and metamorphosis from the second half of the 20th century onwards . While the character of the rogue is most often associated with the 16th and 17th centuries, the author focuses on contemporary literary texts, as well as cinematographic adaptations . She discusses the revival of the rogue mainly in the 1950s, adopting a comparative approach, establishing connections to other fields of representation besides literature . Thus, the originality of this book lies in its interdisciplinary nature . The focus on contemporary writers who have put the character of the rogue at the forefront in their works, particularly Martin Amis and Irvine Welsh, and the author’s awareness of the socio-political circumstances in which the books were written, adds substantially to our understanding of the rogue character . «Ana Raquel Lourenco Fernandes’s book is a superb piece of work. Rooted in very thorough scholarship, the book is also written in a very clear and accessible language, as well as being playful in its arrangement of texts and paratexts. [...] The book is an excellent toolbox for any reader interested in literature that tackles the subversive, as it simply touches on all the significant aspects worth paying attention to in this genre.» (Camelia Elias, Cercles) ana raquel lourenço FernanDes received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Lisbon in 2008 . Currently she is a researcher in the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies . She also holds the position of Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music, University of Birmingham, UK .
T his critical anthology seeks to reassess the complex cultural and literary negotiations taking place between Europe and its margins in an increasingly globalized age . The somewhat paradoxical title of this volume playfully reverses traditional views of the relationship between Europe and its «Others», reflecting the awareness that former European cultural centers could become tomorrow’s new literary margins . This collection reevaluates the enduring impact of European cultural and literary traditions on various postcolonial and contemporary literatures, not only in world regions that used to be called the new margins of Europe but also in the former center, i .e . Europe itself . As the contributions gathered in this book suggest, the current relationship between European culture and its previous «Others» is no longer marked by unilateral opposition . Contents: Marc Maufort: Old Margins and New Centers: The Legacy of European Literatures in an Age of Globalization • Haun Saussy : Zhuangzi, ce décentré, et l’ouverture de la littérature chinoise sur l’ailleurs • Gerald Gillespie: Internal Liminalities, Transcultural Complexities: Expanding Frontiers for Comparative Literature • Anders Pettersson/ Theo D’Haen: Towards a Non-Eurocentric World History of Literature • Hans Bertens: Same Old Centers, Same Old Margins • Steven Shankman: Reading for Peace: Iliad 24 . 477-84 • Vladimir Biti: The Divided Legacy of the Enlightenment: Herder’s Cosmopolitanism as Suppressed Eurocentrism • Hubert Roland : Images, transferts et historiographie de la littérature : « À qui appartient le romantisme ? » • John Burt Foster: Doubting the West: Negotiations with Eurocentrism in Dostoevsky’s The Gambler and Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina • Stéphane Michaud : L’Europe comme fabrique de la différence • Steven P . Sondrup: On the Margin of the Margin • Dorota Walczak : Le « Nouveau poème multicul- Littérature comparée · Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft · Comparative Literature Marc Maufort • Caroline De Wagter (eds ./dir .) Old Margins and New Centers The European Literary Heritage in an Age of Globalization Anciennes marges et nouveaux centres L’héritage littéraire européen dans une ère de globalisation Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2011 . 346 pp . New Comparative Poetics/Nouvelle poétique comparatiste . Vol . 9 General Editor/Directeur de collection : Marc Maufort pb . ISBN 978-90-5201-745-7 CHF 58 .– / € D 39 .50 / € A 40 .60 / € 36 .90 / £ 33 .20 / US-$ 57 .95 eBook ISBN 978-3-0352-6090-8 turel » de Julia Hartwig et de Tadeusz Różewicz : deux approches différentes d’une ère globale • Randolph D . Pope: A Writer for a Globalized Age: Roberto Bolaño and 2666 • K . Alfons Knauth : Le pourtour de Babel : esquisse du babélisme littéraire en Amérique latine • Laurence Denooz : Le patrimoine européen, vecteur des revendications nationalistes arabes : Le Nouveau Faust de ‘Alī Ah . mad Bākat - īr (1910-69) • Christophe Den Tandt: A New Local Color? Mapping the Strategies of Realism at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century • Thomas Figueira/Dorothy M . Figueira: Travels with Herodotus: At Home and Abroad • Micéala Symington: Did the Irish Become White? Writing the Great Famine – Post-colonial and Post-post-colonial Paradigms • Stéphanie Loriaux : La littérature allochtone néerlandaise : trait d’union culturel d’une société en construction • Isabelle Meuret: A Tale of Mutual Fascination: Salman Rushdie’s The Enchantress of Florence • Franca Bellarsi: Mythical Margins in the Poetic Expression of the «Nothingness/Somethingness» of the Canadian Prairie • Sylvie Vranckx: The Ambivalence of Cultural Syncreticity in Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen and Van Camp’s The Lesser Blessed • Caroline De Wagter: Old Margins, New Centres: (W)righting History in August Wilson’s Radio Golf and Tomson Highway’s Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout • David O’Donnell: Beyond Post-Colonialism? Transactions of Power and Marginalisation in Contemporary Australasian Drama . MarC MauFort is Professor of English, American and postcolonial literatures at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and currently serving as European Secretary of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) . He has recently authored a book entitled Labyrinth of Hybridities: Avatars of O’Neillian Realism in Multi-ethnic American Drama (1972-2003) (2010) . Caroline De waGter obtained her PhD in Modern Languages and Literatures at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium . She has co-edited Signatures of the Past: Cultural Memory in Contemporary Anglophone North American Drama (2008) and is currently working on her forthcoming book, «Mouths on fire with songs»: Negotiating Multiethnic Identities on the Contemporary North American Stage (2012) . Dudley M . Marchi Baudelaire, Emerson, and the French-American Connection Contrary Affinities New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2011 . XVIII, 134 pp . Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures . Vol . 195 General Editors: Tamara Alvarez-Detrell and Michael G . Paulson T hb . ISBN 978-1-4331-1442-7 CHF 69 .– / € D 47 .50 / € A 48 .80 / € 44 .40 / £ 40 .– / US-$ 68 .95 his book enhances our understanding of France and the United States by focusing on their intercultural relations . Baudelaire and Emerson have at the core of their thinking the very notion of how to reconcile individual and collective experience, a theme that is pervasive in French-American relations . A historical perspective to contemporary issues regarding the French-American connection helps us to come to terms with some of the pressing problems currently facing France and the United States and to view some key literary texts in a new light . DuDley M. MarCHi received his PhD in comparative literature from Columbia University . He has been a faculty member of North Carolina State University since 1989 and is currently Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature and Associate Department Head of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures . His research focuses on European and American literature in historical and cultural contexts . He has published articles and book reviews on such authors as Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Charles Baudelaire and Michel de Montaigne and a book, Montaigne among the Moderns: Receptions of the Essais . His teaching focuses on masterpieces of Western literature, French literature, history and culture and secondlanguage acquisition . Order online at www.peterlang.com 9
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