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Epistolarity and World Literature, 1980-2010

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215 Seiten
Englisch
Springererschienen am18.10.20171st ed. 2017
This book examines the striking resurgence of the literary letter at the end of the long twentieth century. It explores how authors returned to epistolary conventions to create dialogue across national, linguistic and cultural borders and repositions a range of contemporary and postcolonial authors never considered together before, including Monica Ali, John Berger, Amitav Ghosh, Michael Ondaatje and Alice Walker. Through a series of situated readings, the book shows how the return to epistolarity is underpinned by ideals relating to dialogue and human connection. Several of the works use letters to present non-anglophone material to the anglophone reader. Others use letters to challenge policed borders: the prison, occupied territory, the nation state. Elsewhere, letters are used to connect correspondents in different cultural and linguistic contexts. Common to all of the works considered in this book is the appeal that they make to us, as readers, and the responsibility they place on us to respond to this address.By taking the epistle as its starting point and pursuing Auerbach´s speculative ideal of weltliteratur, this book turns away from the dominant trend of distant reading´ in world literature, and shows that it is in the close situated analysis of form and composition that the concept of world literature emerges most clearly. This study seeks to re-think the ways in which we read world literature and shows how the literary letter, in old and new forms, speaks powerfully again in this period.mehr
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KlappentextThis book examines the striking resurgence of the literary letter at the end of the long twentieth century. It explores how authors returned to epistolary conventions to create dialogue across national, linguistic and cultural borders and repositions a range of contemporary and postcolonial authors never considered together before, including Monica Ali, John Berger, Amitav Ghosh, Michael Ondaatje and Alice Walker. Through a series of situated readings, the book shows how the return to epistolarity is underpinned by ideals relating to dialogue and human connection. Several of the works use letters to present non-anglophone material to the anglophone reader. Others use letters to challenge policed borders: the prison, occupied territory, the nation state. Elsewhere, letters are used to connect correspondents in different cultural and linguistic contexts. Common to all of the works considered in this book is the appeal that they make to us, as readers, and the responsibility they place on us to respond to this address.By taking the epistle as its starting point and pursuing Auerbach´s speculative ideal of weltliteratur, this book turns away from the dominant trend of distant reading´ in world literature, and shows that it is in the close situated analysis of form and composition that the concept of world literature emerges most clearly. This study seeks to re-think the ways in which we read world literature and shows how the literary letter, in old and new forms, speaks powerfully again in this period.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-3-319-58165-1
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2017
Erscheinungsdatum18.10.2017
Auflage1st ed. 2017
ReiheNew Comparisons in World Literature
Seiten215 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht390 g
IllustrationenXII, 215 p. 2 illus.
Artikel-Nr.42737768

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Chapter One: Prison Letters and Epistolary Encryption: John Berger´s From A to X (2008).- Chapter Two: Searching for Letters in the Archive: Amitav Ghosh´s In An Antique Land (1992) and Michael Ondaatje´s In the Skin of a Lion (1987).- Chapter Three: Writing to the Future: J.M. Coetzee´s Age of Iron (1990).- Chapter Four: The Limits of the Letter: Alice Walker´s The Color Purple (1982).- Chapter Five: Crossing the seven seas: transnational and cross-linguistic dialogue in Monica Ali´s Brick Lane (2003).- Conclusion.- Notes.- Bibliography.mehr
Kritik
"Rachel Bower's Epistolarity and World Literature maintains a sustained focus on the resurgence of epistolary elements in recent Anglophone fiction. This turns out to be a remarkably productive methodological choice. ... The book is a masterful performance of comparative generosity, a generosity it shares with the some of the best world literature scholarship out there, or indeed with the cosmopolitan intellectual tradition the field updates." (Pieter Vermeulen, English Studies, November 27, 2018)mehr

Schlagworte

Autor

Rachel Bower is Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, UK. She is currently writing a book entitled Transcultural Collaboration: Poets of Leeds and Nigeria Unite, 1950-1970. She has a PhD from the University of Cambridge. She writes regularly for academic journals and magazines and publishes her poetry widely. She is currently co-editing a Special Issue of English Studies on Tony Harrison with Jacob Blakesely, and co-ediitng a poetry anthology with Helen Mort (Moons on Glass, 2017).