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Re-Thinking Europe Literature and (Trans)National Identity

Heftet / 2008 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9789042023529
Publisert
2008-01-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Editions Rodopi B.V.
Vekt
463 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Volume editor
Bemong Nele
Truwant Mirjam
Vermeulen Pieter

Om bidragsyterne

Nele Bemong is currently a postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (Belgium) at the K.U.Leuven. She has published articles on the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novel in Belgium (mainly on the historical novel and the work of the novelist Stijn Streuvels) and on the contemporary novel. Mirjam Truwant is a research assistant at the K.U.Leuven and is currently pursuing a PhD degree in German Literature. Her research focus is on nineteenth and early twentieth century German biographies by and of women writers. She has published articles on Ödön von Horváth, biographical writing and women’s literature. Pieter Vermeulen is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the K.U.Leuven. He has published articles on contemporary critical theory and on the contemporary novel. He is also the co-editor, with Theo D’haen, of Cultural Identity and Postmodern Writing (Rodopi, 2006).

Re-Thinking Europe Literature and (Trans)National Identity

Heftet / 2008 / Engelsk
Heftet / 2008 / Engelsk
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Re-Thinking Europe sets out to investigate the place of the idea of Europe in literature and comparative literary studies. The essays in this collection turn to the past, in which Europe became synonymous with a tradition of peace and tolerance beyond national borders, and enter into a critical dialogue with the present, in which Europe has increasingly become associated with a history of oppression and violence. The different essays together demonstrate how the idea of Europe cannot be thought apart from the tension between the regional and the global, between nationalism and pluralism, and can therefore be re-thought as an opportunity for an identity beyond national or ethnic borders. Engaging contemporary discourses on hybrid, postcolonial, and transnational identity, this volume shows how literature can function as both a vital tool to forge new identities and a power subversive of such attempts at identity-formation. Like Europe, it is always marked by the tension between integration and resistance. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of modern literature, comparative literature, and European studies, as well as people concerned with cultural memory and the relation between literature and cultural identity.
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Nele BEMONG, Mirjam TRUWANT, and Pieter VERMEULEN: Introduction: Europe, in Comparison Part I. Beyond the Nation? Inter-, Trans-, and Hypernational Identities Matthijs DE RIDDER: Europeanism in One Country: August Vermeylen, Paul van Ostaijen, and the International Approach to Nationalism Beatrijs VANACKER: The Histoire anglaise: Towards a Cosmopolitan View of the Other? David DAMROSCH: Global Regionalism Michael BOYDEN: Why the World Is Never Enough: Re-Conceptualizing World Literature as a Self-Substitutive Order Lieven D’HULST: Translation and Its Role in European Literatures: Some Questions and Answers Ben VAN HUMBEECK: The (Im)Possibilities of a European Literary History: The Case of Flanders Part II. Performing Transnational Identity Nagihan HALILOĞLU: Re-Thinking Ottoman Empire: East-West Collaboration in Orhan Pamuk’s The White Castle Mary STEVENS: Kader Attia’s Arabesque: Inscribing Islam in a Provincialized Europe Reindert DHONDT: The Old World through a Baroque Mirror: Europe in the Work of Alejo Carpentier Silvana MANDOLESSI: Cultural Hierarchies, Secondary Nations: The Tension between Europe and “Minor” Cultures in Witold Gombrowicz and Jorge Luis Borges Kari VAN DIJK: Arriving in Eurasia: Yoko Tawada Re-Writing Europe Part III. Conjuring the Past, Imagining Europe Iannis GOERLANDT: Staging a European Republic of Letters: (Supra-) National Concepts of Literature in Arno Schmidt’s Early Prose Ortwin DE GRAEF: Epistle to the Europeans (On Not Reading Kipling) Herbert GRABES: Prodesse et Delectare: The World of National Literatures and the World of Literature Jeppe ILKJÆR: The Late Europe: Elias Canetti and the Ordering of Time and Space in Auto Da Fé Iulius HONDRILA: Praque in Victorian Fiction: An Imagological Approach Bart KEUNEN: European Identity from Normality to Immanence Notes on Contributors
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Re-Thinking Europe sets out to investigate the place of the idea of Europe in literature and comparative literary studies. The essays in this collection turn to the past, in which Europe became synonymous with a tradition of peace and tolerance beyond national borders, and enter into a critical dialogue with the present, in which Europe has increasingly become associated with a history of oppression and violence. The different essays together demonstrate how the idea of Europe cannot be thought apart from the tension between the regional and the global, between nationalism and pluralism, and can therefore be re-thought as an opportunity for an identity beyond national or ethnic borders. Engaging contemporary discourses on hybrid, postcolonial, and transnational identity, this volume shows how literature can function as both a vital tool to forge new identities and a power subversive of such attempts at identity-formation. Like Europe, it is always marked by the tension between integration and resistance. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of modern literature, comparative literature, and European studies, as well as people concerned with cultural memory and the relation between literature and cultural identity.
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Nele BEMONG, Mirjam TRUWANT, and Pieter VERMEULEN: Introduction: Europe, in Comparison Part I. Beyond the Nation? Inter-, Trans-, and Hypernational Identities Matthijs DE RIDDER: Europeanism in One Country: August Vermeylen, Paul van Ostaijen, and the International Approach to Nationalism Beatrijs VANACKER: The Histoire anglaise: Towards a Cosmopolitan View of the Other? David DAMROSCH: Global Regionalism Michael BOYDEN: Why the World Is Never Enough: Re-Conceptualizing World Literature as a Self-Substitutive Order Lieven D’HULST: Translation and Its Role in European Literatures: Some Questions and Answers Ben VAN HUMBEECK: The (Im)Possibilities of a European Literary History: The Case of Flanders Part II. Performing Transnational Identity Nagihan HALILOĞLU: Re-Thinking Ottoman Empire: East-West Collaboration in Orhan Pamuk’s The White Castle Mary STEVENS: Kader Attia’s Arabesque: Inscribing Islam in a Provincialized Europe Reindert DHONDT: The Old World through a Baroque Mirror: Europe in the Work of Alejo Carpentier Silvana MANDOLESSI: Cultural Hierarchies, Secondary Nations: The Tension between Europe and “Minor” Cultures in Witold Gombrowicz and Jorge Luis Borges Kari VAN DIJK: Arriving in Eurasia: Yoko Tawada Re-Writing Europe Part III. Conjuring the Past, Imagining Europe Iannis GOERLANDT: Staging a European Republic of Letters: (Supra-) National Concepts of Literature in Arno Schmidt’s Early Prose Ortwin DE GRAEF: Epistle to the Europeans (On Not Reading Kipling) Herbert GRABES: Prodesse et Delectare: The World of National Literatures and the World of Literature Jeppe ILKJÆR: The Late Europe: Elias Canetti and the Ordering of Time and Space in Auto Da Fé Iulius HONDRILA: Praque in Victorian Fiction: An Imagological Approach Bart KEUNEN: European Identity from Normality to Immanence Notes on Contributors
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9789042023529
Publisert
2008-01-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Editions Rodopi B.V.
Vekt
463 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Volume editor
Bemong Nele
Truwant Mirjam
Vermeulen Pieter

Om bidragsyterne

Nele Bemong is currently a postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (Belgium) at the K.U.Leuven. She has published articles on the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novel in Belgium (mainly on the historical novel and the work of the novelist Stijn Streuvels) and on the contemporary novel. Mirjam Truwant is a research assistant at the K.U.Leuven and is currently pursuing a PhD degree in German Literature. Her research focus is on nineteenth and early twentieth century German biographies by and of women writers. She has published articles on Ödön von Horváth, biographical writing and women’s literature. Pieter Vermeulen is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the K.U.Leuven. He has published articles on contemporary critical theory and on the contemporary novel. He is also the co-editor, with Theo D’haen, of Cultural Identity and Postmodern Writing (Rodopi, 2006).

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