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Pascale Casanovaâs World of Letters and Its Legacies
Series: - Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, Volume: 100
Pascale Casanovaâs World of Letters and Its Legacies proposes a wide-ranging appraisal of the work, influence and intellectual profile of a major figure in the humanities and social sciences, from sociology to literary theory and criticism. Both a tribute to the life and work of Pascale Casanova and a critical examination of the dissemination of her theoretical ideas around the world and in fields as diverse as world literature, comparative literature, translation studies, and the sociology of literature, the essays selected here are signed by leading scholars in these disciplines including David Damrosch, Claire Ducournau, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Tiphaine Samoyault and Jing Tsu among others.
Gisèle Sapiro is Professor of Sociology at EHESS and at the CNRS, author of The French Writersâ War (2014), La Responsabilité de lâécrivain (2011), La Sociologie de la littérature (2014 ; forth. Stanford UP), Les Ecrivains et la politique en France (2018), and Peut-on dissocier lâÅuvre de lâauteur? (2020).
Delia Ungureanu is Associate Director of Harvardâs Institute for World Literature and associate professor at the University of Bucharest. She is the author of Time Regained: World Literature and Cinema (2021), From Paris to Tlön: Surrealism as World Literature (2017), and of Poetica Apocalipsei: RÄzboiul cultural în revistele literare româneÈti (1944â1947) (2012).
Delia Ungureanu is Associate Director of Harvardâs Institute for World Literature and associate professor at the University of Bucharest. She is the author of Time Regained: World Literature and Cinema (2021), From Paris to Tlön: Surrealism as World Literature (2017), and of Poetica Apocalipsei: RÄzboiul cultural în revistele literare româneÈti (1944â1947) (2012).
1 Introduction
âGisèle Sapiro and Delia Ungureanu
2 Critical Writing: The Value and Cost of Pascale Casanovaâs Combative Ethos
âClaire Ducournau
3 Preface to the 2008 Edition of La République mondiale des lettres
âPascale Casanova; translated by David Damrosch
4 La République mondiale des lettres in the World Republic of Scholarship
âDavid Damrosch
5 Reading Pascale Casanovaâs World Republic of Letters in Eastern Europe
âMagdalena RÄduÈÄ; translated by Oana Fotache-DubÄlaru
6 Heralded Heroes
âMads Rosendhal Thomsen
7 Pascale Casanovaâs Exiles
âLaurent Jeanpierre
8 Samuel Beckett and the World Republic of Letters
âThirthankar Chakraborty
9 For a Theory of Relay Translations
âTiphaine Samoyault; translated by Paul Chouchana
10 Linguistic Areas of Literature: Between the World and the Nations
âTristan Leperlier
11 A Rare Pearl Passed from Hand to Hand: Cosmopolitan Orders and Pre-modern Forms of Literary Domination
âMichiel Leezenberg
12 When Literary Relations End
âJing Tsu
13 Prizing Francophonie into Existence: The Usurpation of World Literature by the Prix des Cinq Continents
âMadeline Bedecarré
âGisèle Sapiro and Delia Ungureanu
2 Critical Writing: The Value and Cost of Pascale Casanovaâs Combative Ethos
âClaire Ducournau
3 Preface to the 2008 Edition of La République mondiale des lettres
âPascale Casanova; translated by David Damrosch
4 La République mondiale des lettres in the World Republic of Scholarship
âDavid Damrosch
5 Reading Pascale Casanovaâs World Republic of Letters in Eastern Europe
âMagdalena RÄduÈÄ; translated by Oana Fotache-DubÄlaru
6 Heralded Heroes
âMads Rosendhal Thomsen
7 Pascale Casanovaâs Exiles
âLaurent Jeanpierre
8 Samuel Beckett and the World Republic of Letters
âThirthankar Chakraborty
9 For a Theory of Relay Translations
âTiphaine Samoyault; translated by Paul Chouchana
10 Linguistic Areas of Literature: Between the World and the Nations
âTristan Leperlier
11 A Rare Pearl Passed from Hand to Hand: Cosmopolitan Orders and Pre-modern Forms of Literary Domination
âMichiel Leezenberg
12 When Literary Relations End
âJing Tsu
13 Prizing Francophonie into Existence: The Usurpation of World Literature by the Prix des Cinq Continents
âMadeline Bedecarré
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