Daniel Just

Transformative Fictions (eBook, ePUB)

World Literature and Personal Change

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Transformative Fictions engages with current debates in world literature over the past twenty years, addressing the nature of literary influence in centers and peripheries, the formation of transnational literary and pedagogical canons, and the role of translation and regionalism in how we relate to texts from around the globe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000608007
• Artikelnr.: 64121992

Autorenporträt

Daniel Just is Associate Professor at Bilkent University. He is the author of Literature, Ethics, and Decolonization in Postwar France: The Politics of Disengagement (Cambridge, 2015) and articles in journals including New Literary History, Poetics Today, MLN, Comparative Literature, Modern Language Review, and Philosophy and Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Acknowledgments
2. Note on Translations
3. Introduction: The World, the Region, and the Uses of Literature
4. Milan Kundera and the Transformative Poetics of the Novel
5. Speculative Explorations: Milan Kundera's Essays
6. Disruption and Agitation in Novels by Witold Gombrowicz
7. Witold Gombrowicz's Autobiographical Provocations
8. Bohumil Hrabal, Literary Narrative, and Adaptive Change
9. Strategic Self-Stylizations: Bohumil Hrabal's Autofictions and Essays
10. Conclusion: World Literature, Literacy, and New Geographies
11. Bibliography