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Book SynopsisPascale Casanova’s World of Letters and Its Legacies proposes a wide-ranging appraisal of the work, influence and intellectual profile of a major figure in the humanities and social sciences, from sociology to literary theory and criticism. Both a tribute to the life and work of Pascale Casanova and a critical examination of the dissemination of her theoretical ideas around the world and in fields as diverse as world literature, comparative literature, translation studies, and the sociology of literature, the essays selected here are signed by leading scholars in these disciplines including David Damrosch, Claire Ducournau, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Tiphaine Samoyault and Jing Tsu among others.
Table of Contents1 Introduction Gisèle Sapiro and Delia Ungureanu 2 Critical Writing: The Value and Cost of Pascale Casanova’s Combative Ethos Claire Ducournau 3 Preface to the 2008 Edition of La République mondiale des lettres Pascale Casanova; translated by David Damrosch 4 La République mondiale des lettres in the World Republic of Scholarship David Damrosch 5 Reading Pascale Casanova’s World Republic of Letters in Eastern Europe Magdalena Răduță; translated by Oana Fotache-Dubălaru 6 Heralded Heroes Mads Rosendhal Thomsen 7 Pascale Casanova’s Exiles Laurent Jeanpierre 8 Samuel Beckett and the World Republic of Letters Thirthankar Chakraborty 9 For a Theory of Relay Translations Tiphaine Samoyault; translated by Paul Chouchana 10 Linguistic Areas of Literature: Between the World and the Nations Tristan Leperlier 11 A Rare Pearl Passed from Hand to Hand: Cosmopolitan Orders and Pre-modern Forms of Literary Domination Michiel Leezenberg 12 When Literary Relations End Jing Tsu 13 Prizing Francophonie into Existence: The Usurpation of World Literature by the Prix des Cinq Continents Madeline Bedecarré
