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Book SynopsisBeginning with Erich Auerbach’s reflections on the Goethean concept of World Literature, Ottmar Ette unfolds the theory and practice of Literatures of the World. Today, only those literary theories that are oriented upon a history of movement are still capable of doing justice to the confusing diversity of highly dynamic, worldwide transformations. This is because they examine transareal pathways in the field of literature. This volume captures literary processes of exchange and transformation between the Mediterranean, Atlantic and Pacific as well as the interplay of different ways of narrating space and time. Thus, this volume speaks from a fractal point of view and unfolds multiple perspectives. Literatures of the World allows the reader to think in different logical frameworks at the same time, therefore shaping our future on the basis of the diversity of humankind.
Table of ContentsContents Preface: Beyond World Literature List of Figures Part 1 Theory – On the Way to a Philology of the Literatures of the World 1 “Mimesis”: Perspectives from Erich Auerbach’s Philology of World Literature toward a Coming Philology of the Literatures of the World In Dante’s World In Auerbach’s World In Woolf’s, Proust’s, and Joyce’s World The World of World History The World of World Literature The World of the Literatures of the World 2 From the Republic of World Literature to a Multilogical Philology of the Literatures of the World World Literature versus National Literature The World of the American World of Expression Life of (and in) World Literature Beyond World Literature: The Literatures of the World On the Multilogical Life of the Literatures of the World Part 2 Vectors – Political and Critical Potentials of Relational Philology 3 Before and after the “Happy Revolution”: Langsdorff, the Berlin Debate on the New World, and Its Impact on Scientific Expeditions Paradigm Shift: Plenty and Pitfalls (Fülle und Fallen) of the First Journeys of Exploration Complementary Epistemology: Seeing, Writing, Traveling Politics of Knowledge: The Berlin Debate on the New World Politics of Opposites: “New” Nature and “Old” Culture 4 Journey/Landscapes: (W)Orte (Words/Places) on the Transit of a Transareal Travel Literature Fleeing Landscapes Nomadic Knowledge Yearned-for Connections Landscapes of Theory Island Landscapes of the Tropics Endings and Beginnings of the Travel Report The Task of the Central Perspective 5 Carnival and Other Catastrophes: Nature as Culture and New Orleans as Global Archipelago On Setting and Un-seating the Opposition of Nature and Culture Political Ecology and Ecology of the Literatures of the World From Sustainability to the Laboratory of Life and the Living On That Which Is Natural in Natural Catastrophes Catastrophe, Festivity, and Carnival Between Continent and Caribbean: Landscapes of Theory New Orleans as Global Archipelago Part 3 Archipelago I – Occidentes-Orientes 6 Roland Barthes or the Multiplication of the East Hexagonal Cartographies European Cartographies Mediterranean Cartographies Far-Eastern Cartographies Multiplied Cartographies 7 The Transareality of the Mediterranean: The Mediterranean as Migratory Space Uruk: Cityscape and Migratory Space The Mediterranean as Island World and Transareal Projection Travel Landscapes between Orient and Occident In Greece: The Mobility of Literary Geography Origins: In the Tension-Field between the Mediterranean and the Caribbean Transit: The “Mid-Land Sea” and the Whole World Part 4 TimeSpaces – On the Life-Knowledge of the Literatures of the World 8 LebensMitte(l) Literatur – Midst of Life, Means of Life: On the Reading of Life as a Means of Living: Considerations in Connection to Honoré de Balzac’s “La Peau de Chagrin” Literatur Leben LebensMittel (Literature Life Means of Life) Leben Lesen Leben-Wollen (Life Reading Desire-to-Live) Leben Lebenswerk Totalität (Life Life’s-Work Totality) Leben-Wollen LebensMitte LebensMittel (Desire-to-Live Middle of Life Means of Living) Leben Lesen Literatur (Life Reading Literature) 9 Unrest as a Driving Force: On Vectoricity and Economy of a Monumental Feeling On the Mechanics of the Unruh(e) On the Dynamics of Unrest On the Maintenance of Unrest On the Choreography of Unrest On the Game of Unrest On the Hellish Paradise of Unrest On the Economy of Depletion in Unrest 10 Lyric as Concentrated Movement: Miniaturization and Archipelagization in Poetry: With the Example of a Poetic Writing without a Fixed Abode by José F. A. Oliver Lyrical Short Forms: Concentrated Movement Nanotheory: Modeling and Miniaturization Lyric Poetry: World-Model and Experimental Space of Origins and Futures Lyric Poetry: Languages beneath Languages This Side of the Digital: Formats of Compressed Movement Part 5 Archipelago II – America(s) Transareal 11 Modernism, Convivence, Postmodernity: On Grafting and “mestizaje” to Transarchipelagic Coexistence in the Americas War and Convivence Grafting, Unity, and Diversity Beyond Grafting, beyond Roots Poetic Perception and Knowledge for Living Further Archipelagos of Knowledge 12 TransArea Studies, TransAndean Studies Transandean Choreographies Transareal Global Histories The Literatures of the World and TransAndean Studies: But What DoesLiterature Know, of What Does It Tell, and of What Is It Capable? 13 Magische Wände/Magic Walls: Biombos, Namban Art, and the Art of Globalization between China, Japan, India, Spanish-America, and Europe in the 17th and 18th Centuries Bibliography Register of Names
