Northern Crossings : Translation, Circulation and the Literary Semi-periphery
(2022) In Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures- Abstract
- This open access book uses Swedish literature and the Swedish publishing field as recurring examples todescribe and analyse the role of the literary semi-peripheral position in world literature from various perspectives and on meso, micro and macro levels, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. This includes the role of translation in the semi-periphery and the conditions under which literature travels to and from that position. The focus is not on Sweden, as such, but rather on the semi-peripheral transitional space as exemplified by the Swedish case. Consisting of three co-written chapters, this study sheds light on what might be called the semi-peripheral condition or the semi-periphery as an area of transition. As part of the... (More)
- This open access book uses Swedish literature and the Swedish publishing field as recurring examples todescribe and analyse the role of the literary semi-peripheral position in world literature from various perspectives and on meso, micro and macro levels, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. This includes the role of translation in the semi-periphery and the conditions under which literature travels to and from that position. The focus is not on Sweden, as such, but rather on the semi-peripheral transitional space as exemplified by the Swedish case. Consisting of three co-written chapters, this study sheds light on what might be called the semi-peripheral condition or the semi-periphery as an area of transition. As part of the Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures series, it makes continuous use of the concepts of 'cosmopolitan' and 'vernacular' – or rather, the processual terms, cosmopolitanization and vernacularization – which provide an overall structure to the analysis of literature and literary phenomena. In this way, the authors show that the semi-periphery is an ideal point of departure to further the understanding of world literature, because it is a place where the cosmopolitan (the literary universal) and the vernacular (the rootedness in a particular culture or place) interact in ways that have not yet been thoroughly explored. (Less)
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- Edfeldt, Chatarina ; Falk, Erik ; Hedberg, Andreas ; Lindqvist, Yvonne ; Schwartz, Cecilia and Tenngart, Paul LU
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- 2022
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- Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures
- pages
- 276 pages
- publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
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- 978-1-5013-7424-1
- 978-1-5013-7428-9
- 978-1-5013-7426-5
- 978-1-5013-7425-8
- 978-1-5013-7427-2
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- 10.5040/9781501374272
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- Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures
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- English
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series = {{Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures}},
title = {{Northern Crossings : Translation, Circulation and the Literary Semi-periphery}},
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year = {{2022}},
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