Pascale 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.
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A wide-ranging appraisal of the work, influence and intellectual profile of Pascale Casanova, a major figure in the humanities and social sciences, from sociology to literary theory and criticism.
1 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
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9789004522862
Publisert
2022
Utgiver
Brill
Vekt
387 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
224

Biografisk notat

Gisèle Sapiro is Professor of Sociology at EHESS and at the CNRS, author of The French Writers’ War (2014), La Responsabilité de l’écrivain (2011), La Sociologie de la littérature (2014 ; forth. Stanford UP), Les Ecrivains et la politique en France (2018), and Peut-on dissocier l’œuvre de l’auteur? (2020).
Delia Ungureanu is Associate Director of Harvard’s Institute for World Literature and associate professor at the University of Bucharest. She is the author of Time Regained: World Literature and Cinema (2021), From Paris to Tlön: Surrealism as World Literature (2017), and of Poetica Apocalipsei: Războiul cultural în revistele literare românești (1944–1947) (2012).