Reading the past across space and time : receptions and world literature
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Reading the past across space and time : receptions and world literature
（Geocriticism and spatial literary studies）
Palgrave Macmillan, c2016
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-379) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Featuring leading scholars in their fields, this book examines receptions of ancient and early modern literary works from around the world (China, Japan, Ancient Maya, Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient India, Ancient Mesopotamia) that have circulated globally across time and space (from East to West, North to South, South to West). Beginning with the premise of an enduring and revered cultural past, the essays go on to show how the circulation of literature through translation and other forms of reception in fact long predates modern global society; the idea of national literary canons have existed just over a hundred years and emerged with the idea of national educational curricula. Highlighting the relationship of culture and politics in which canons are created, translated, promulgated, and preserved, this book argues that such nationally-defined curricula were challenged by critics and writers in the wake of the Second World War.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction: "Reading the Past Across Space and Time: Receptions and World Literature"
Brenda Deen Schildgen and Ralph Hexter
Epic Receptions
Chapter 1 "Epic Worlds"
Ralph Hexter
Chapter 2 "Recycling the Epic: Gilgamesh on Three Continents"
Wai Chee Dimock
Chapter 3 "Wheels Working Together: The Popol Wuj and Time Commences in Xibalba as Markers of a Maya Cosmovision"
Arturo Arias
Chapter 4 "Reception Configurations: The case of European Epic in India"
Brenda Deen Schildgen
Chapter 5 "Formal Experiments in Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad"
Zina Giannopoulou
Greek Philosophical Receptions
Chapter 6 "Disagreement and Reception: Peripatetics Responding to the Stoic Challenge"
Jan Szaif<
Chapter 7 " 'Now we must consider that some of the ancients discovered the truth'": Reception and Antiquity in Ancient Neoplatonism" Michael Griffin Chapter 8 "Reading and Commenting on Aristotle's Rhetoric in Arabic"
Uwe Vagelpohl
Drama and Receptions
Chapter 9 "A Third Antike: Hans Henny Jahnn's Medea and the Introduction of the 'Sumerian' to Modern German Literature"
Adam Siegel
Chapter 10 "American Bushido: A Kabuki Play Transplanted"
Robert Borgen
Chapter 11 "Tamil Translation, French Orientalism, and Indian Dramatic Traditions in Louis Jacolliot's La Devadassi (1868)"
Kristen Bergman Waha
Lyric Receptions
Chapter 12 "Goethe's Chinesisch-deutsche Jahres- und Tageszeiten: Vernacular Universal, Erotica Sinica, and the Temporality of Nachtraglichkeit" Chunjie Zhang Chapter 13 "The Mediterranean Metaphor"
Kevin Batton
Chapter 14 "Inventing China: The American Tradition of Translating Chinese Poetry"
Michelle Yeh
Politics and Sociology of Reception
Chapter 15 "Meaning, Reception, and the Use of the Classics: Theoretical Considerations in the Chinese Context"
Zhang Longxi
Chapter 16 "The Sociology of Reception"
Gisele Sapiro
Bibliography
Index
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