1st Edition
Transformative Fictions World Literature and Personal Change
By Daniel Just
Copyright 2023
236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
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Transformative Fictions: World Literature and Personal Change engages with current debates in world literature over the past twenty years, addressing the nature of literary influence in centers and peripheries, the formation of transnational literary and pedagogical canons, and the role of translation and regionalism in how we relate to texts from around the globe.
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- Acknowledgments
- Note on Translations
- Introduction: The World, the Region, and the Uses of Literature
- Milan Kundera and the Transformative Poetics of the Novel
- Speculative Explorations: Milan Kundera’s Essays
- Disruption and Agitation in Novels by Witold Gombrowicz
- Witold Gombrowicz’s Autobiographical Provocations
- Bohumil Hrabal, Literary Narrative, and Adaptive Change
- Strategic Self-Stylizations: Bohumil Hrabal’s Autofictions and Essays
- Conclusion: World Literature, Literacy, and New Geographies
- Bibliography
Biography
Daniel Just is Associate Professor at Bilkent University. He is the author of Literature, Ethics, and Decolonization in Postwar France: The Politics of Disengagement (Cambridge, 2015) and articles in journals including New Literary History, Poetics Today, MLN, Comparative Literature, Modern Language Review, and Philosophy and Literature.
