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Taking Stock â Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Literary Research
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In this 200th volume of Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft the editors Norbert Bachleitner, Achim H. Hölter and John A. McCarthy âtake stockâ of the discipline. It focuses on recurrent questions in the field of Comparative Literature: What is literature? What is meant by âcomparativeâ? Or by âworldâ? What constitute âtransgressionsâ or ârefractionsâ? 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.
In this 200th volume of Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft the editors Norbert Bachleitner, Achim H. Hölter and John A. McCarthy âtake stockâ of the discipline. It focuses on recurrent questions in the field of Comparative Literature: What is literature? What is meant by âcomparativeâ? Or by âworldâ? What constitute âtransgressionsâ or ârefractionsâ? 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.
Norbert Bachleitner is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna/Austria. His fields of interest include the reception of English and French literature in the German speaking area; literary translation and transfer studies; social history of literature; censorship; literature in periodicals; intertextuality, and digital literature. His most recent book publication is Die literarische Zensur in Ãsterreich von 1751 bis 1848(2017).
Achim Hermann Hölter is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna/Austria. His thematic priorities are European Romanticism, the exploration of topics and discourses, the historiography of fine arts and literature, ritualisations around literature, aesthetics metareference, aesthetic completeness, comparative arts, comics, international reception studies, canon studies, libraries in literature, and multilingualism in comparative literature. He co-edited with Rüdiger Zymner: Handbuch Komparatistik. Theorien, Arbeitsfelder, Wissenspraxis (2013).
John A. McCarthy is Professor of German & Comparative Literature emeritus at Vanderbilt University. His interests range from the European Enlightenment, to readership studies, the history of Germanics, Romanticism, the relationship of social history, philosophy, science, and law to literature. He recently edited Shakespeare as German Author: Reception, Translation Theory, Cultural Transfer (2018).
Achim Hermann Hölter is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna/Austria. His thematic priorities are European Romanticism, the exploration of topics and discourses, the historiography of fine arts and literature, ritualisations around literature, aesthetics metareference, aesthetic completeness, comparative arts, comics, international reception studies, canon studies, libraries in literature, and multilingualism in comparative literature. He co-edited with Rüdiger Zymner: Handbuch Komparatistik. Theorien, Arbeitsfelder, Wissenspraxis (2013).
John A. McCarthy is Professor of German & Comparative Literature emeritus at Vanderbilt University. His interests range from the European Enlightenment, to readership studies, the history of Germanics, Romanticism, the relationship of social history, philosophy, science, and law to literature. He recently edited Shakespeare as German Author: Reception, Translation Theory, Cultural Transfer (2018).
"The volume Taking Stock offers a valuable overview of current trends in comparative literature [...]. Since this book is very broad in scope, nearly any scholar of literature and cultural history will find some topics, approaches, concepts, and references of interest. Given that the collected texts are for the most part, case studies, they can be viewed as heuristic examples as well."
-Igor Tyšš, Institute of World Literature SAS, Slovak Republic, in World Literature Studies, Vol. 13 Iss. 2, 2021, pp. 99-101
-Igor Tyšš, Institute of World Literature SAS, Slovak Republic, in World Literature Studies, Vol. 13 Iss. 2, 2021, pp. 99-101
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part 1
Comparative and World Literature
1 Comparative Literature:Â Being at Home in the World
âJohn A. McCarthy
2 An On/Off Affair. Voltaire in Eighteenth-Century Vienna
âNorbert Bachleitner
3 Ludwig Tieckâs Book Collection: the Holdings of the Austrian National Library (önb )
âAchim Hölter and Paul Ferstl
Part 2
Literature and History (of Ideas)
4 Pride and Conviviality â Pride in Conviviality. The Rise and Recognition of a Prospective Force
âOttmar Ette
5 Enlightened Citizenship in Lessingâs Emilia Galotti and Mozartâs Lucio Silla
âCarl Niekerk
6 Good Comrades for Young Readers:Â the First World War in the Fiction of Boysâ Periodicals in Britain and Germany
âBarbara Korte
7 Fighting the âFreudian Farceâ:Â Vladimir Nabokovâs Portrayal of Americaâs Post-War Infatuation with Psychoanalysis
âJuliane Werner
Part 3
Women and Gender Studies
8 Enlightenment Angst:Â James Parsonsâ A Mechanical and Critical Enquiry into the Nature of Hermaphrodites
âStephanie M. Hilger
9 Writing the Nation, Writing the Self: Discourses of Identity in Fanny Lewaldâs Italienisches Bilderbuch and George Sandâs Un hiver à Majorque
âSandra Vlasta
10 âJewish Mothersâ by Jenny Erpenbeck, Julia Franck, and Adriana Altaras
âAgnes C. Mueller
11 Theorising Central European Postcoloniality:Â a Postcommunist Reading of 21st Century Literature from Slovakia
âDobrota Pucherová
Part 4
Aesthetics and Textual Analysis
12 Aesthetic Illusion and the Breaking of Illusion in Ancient Literature?
âWerner Wolf
13 Intermediality in Twentieth Century Animal Poetry. Guillaume Apollinaire â Ted Hughes â Durs Grünbein
âAnnette Simonis
14 Autofiction and Its (Involuntary) Protagonists: A Comparison of Autofictional Novels by Mario Vargas Llosa, Javier Cercas, Karl Ove Knausgård, and Navid Kermani
âStefan Kutzenberger
15 âSometimes things begin with the wrong bookâ: Images and Intertexts in Darryl Pinckneyâs Black Deutschland
âGianna 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
âDaniel Syrovy
17 Of âConversionâ and âReversalâ: Georg Philipp Harsdörffer and His Adoptions of Jean Pierre Camus in the Context of the Counter-Reformation, Reform Catholicism, and Jansenism
âChristoph Schmitt-MaaÃ
18 The Romes of Titus Andronicus
âManfred 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
âRussell West-Pavlov
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part 1
Comparative and World Literature
1 Comparative Literature:Â Being at Home in the World
âJohn A. McCarthy
2 An On/Off Affair. Voltaire in Eighteenth-Century Vienna
âNorbert Bachleitner
3 Ludwig Tieckâs Book Collection:Â the Holdings of the Austrian National Library (
âAchim Hölter and Paul Ferstl
Part 2
Literature and History (of Ideas)
4 Pride and Conviviality â Pride in Conviviality. The Rise and Recognition of a Prospective Force
âOttmar Ette
5 Enlightened Citizenship in Lessingâs Emilia Galotti and Mozartâs Lucio Silla
âCarl Niekerk
6 Good Comrades for Young Readers:Â the First World War in the Fiction of Boysâ Periodicals in Britain and Germany
âBarbara Korte
7 Fighting the âFreudian Farceâ:Â Vladimir Nabokovâs Portrayal of Americaâs Post-War Infatuation with Psychoanalysis
âJuliane Werner
Part 3
Women and Gender Studies
8 Enlightenment Angst:Â James Parsonsâ A Mechanical and Critical Enquiry into the Nature of Hermaphrodites
âStephanie M. Hilger
9 Writing the Nation, Writing the Self: Discourses of Identity in Fanny Lewaldâs Italienisches Bilderbuch and George Sandâs Un hiver à Majorque
âSandra Vlasta
10 âJewish Mothersâ by Jenny Erpenbeck, Julia Franck, and Adriana Altaras
âAgnes C. Mueller
11 Theorising Central European Postcoloniality:Â a Postcommunist Reading of 21st Century Literature from Slovakia
âDobrota Pucherová
Part 4
Aesthetics and Textual Analysis
12 Aesthetic Illusion and the Breaking of Illusion in Ancient Literature?
âWerner Wolf
13 Intermediality in Twentieth Century Animal Poetry. Guillaume Apollinaire â Ted Hughes â Durs Grünbein
âAnnette Simonis
14 Autofiction and Its (Involuntary) Protagonists: A Comparison of Autofictional Novels by Mario Vargas Llosa, Javier Cercas, Karl Ove Knausgård, and Navid Kermani
âStefan Kutzenberger
15 âSometimes things begin with the wrong bookâ: Images and Intertexts in Darryl Pinckneyâs Black Deutschland
âGianna 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
âDaniel Syrovy
17 Of âConversionâ and âReversalâ: Georg Philipp Harsdörffer and His Adoptions of Jean Pierre Camus in the Context of the Counter-Reformation, Reform Catholicism, and Jansenism
âChristoph Schmitt-MaaÃ
18 The Romes of Titus Andronicus
âManfred 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
âRussell West-Pavlov
Index
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