1st Edition

Globalizing Literary Genres Literature, History, Modernity

Edited By Jernej Habjan, Fabienne Imlinger Copyright 2016
290 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Focused on the relation between processes of globalization and literary genres, this volume intervenes in the prevalent notions of globalization, literary history, genre, and the novel. Using both close reading and world history, both literary criticism and political theory, the book is a timely intervention in the debates about world, postcolonial, and transnational literature as they have been... Read more

Introduction: Globalizing Literary Genres Jernej Habjan  Part I: From Here to Early Modernity  1. A Globe of Sinful Continents: Shakespeare Thinks the World Richard Wilson  2. The Art of Deception: L’Isle des Hermaphrodites in the Context of the Age of Discoveries Fabienne Imlinger  Part II: To the Enlightenment and Its Limits  3. Uncles and Nephews: Menippean Satire in the Capital of Modernity Jernej Habjan  4. Novel Cosmopolitan Writing: On the Genus and the Genre of Mankind (in Kant and Wieland) Robert Stockhammer  5. Arcadia Goes Overseas: Pastoral and Planetary Consciousness in Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s Paul and Virginia Karin Peters  Part III: To the Long Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries  6. The World as Network and Tableau: Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days Jörg Dünne  7. Orientalist Poetics, Autobiographical Fiction, and History-Defying Words: Sarkiz Torossian Inscribing Himself into World War I Christoph K. Neumann  8. Recording Remnants of Judeo-Spanish: On Language Memoirs and Translated Wor(l)ds Elisabeth Güde  9. Concretely Global: Concrete Poetry against Translation Andrea Bachner  10. The Literariness of Sport: Roger Kahn’s The Boys of Summer and C. L. R. James’ Beyond A Boundary In Search of a Genre Grant Farred  11. The Mozambican Ghost Story: Global Genre or Local Form? Peter Joost Maurits  Part IV: And Back  12. On the Tropes of Literary Ecology: The Plot of Globalization Alexander Beecroft  13. On Mapping Genre: Literary Fiction/Genre Fiction and Globalization Processes Suman Gupta  14. "A living death, life inside-out": The Postcolonial Toxic Gothic in Robert Barclay’s Meļaļ: A Novel of the Pacific Hanna Straß  15. World-Literature, World-Systems, and Irish Chick Lit Sorcha Gunne  16. The Form of Resistance: Literary Narration and Contemporary Radical Political Experience Hrvoje Tutek

Biography

Jernej Habjan is Research Fellow at the Literary Institute of the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia.

Fabienne Imlinger is Research Associate in the research training group "Globalization and Literature" at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.