Reading the Past Across Space and Time: Receptions and World Literature

ISBN-13: 9781349720149 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 392 str.

Brenda Deen Schildgen;Ralph Hexter

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Featuring leading scholars in their fields, this book examines receptions of ancient and early modern literary works from around the world (China, Japan, Ancient Maya, Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient India, Ancient Mesopotamia) that have circulated globally across time and space (from East to West, North to South, South to West). Beginning with the premise of an enduring and revered cultural past, the essays go on to show how the circulation of literature through translation and other forms of reception in fact long predates modern global society; the idea of national literary canons have existed just over a hundred years and emerged with the idea of national educational curricula. Highlighting the relationship of culture and politics in which canons are created, translated, promulgated, and preserved, this book argues that such nationally-defined curricula were challenged by critics and writers in the wake of the Second World War.

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Table of Contents

 

 

Introduction: “Reading the Past Across Space and Time: Receptions and World Literature”

Brenda Deen Schildgen and Ralph Hexter

 

Epic Receptions

Chapter 1 “Epic Worlds”

Ralph Hexter

 

Chapter 2 “Recycling the Epic: Gilgamesh on Three Continents”

Wai Chee Dimock

 

Chapter 3 “Wheels Working Together: The Popol Wuj and Time Commences in Xibalbá as Markers of a Maya Cosmovision”

Arturo Arias

 

Chapter 4 “Reception Configurations: The case of European Epic in India”

Brenda Deen Schildgen

 

Chapter 5 “Formal Experiments in Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad”

Zina Giannopoulou

 

Greek Philosophical Receptions

Chapter 6 “Disagreement and Reception: Peripatetics Responding to the Stoic Challenge”

Jan Szaif<

 

Chapter 7 “ ‘Now we must consider that some of the ancients discovered the truth’”: Reception and Antiquity in Ancient Neoplatonism” Michael Griffin

Chapter 8 “Reading and Commenting on Aristotle’s Rhetoric in Arabic”

Uwe Vagelpohl

 

Drama and Receptions

Chapter 9 “A Third Antike: Hans Henny Jahnn’s Medea and the Introduction of the ‘Sumerian’ to Modern German Literature”

Adam Siegel

Chapter 10 “American Bushido: A Kabuki Play Transplanted”

Robert Borgen

 

Chapter 11 “Tamil Translation, French Orientalism, and Indian Dramatic Traditions in Louis Jacolliot’s La Devadassi (1868)”

Kristen Bergman Waha

 

Lyric Receptions

Chapter 12 “Goethe’s Chinesisch-deutsche Jahres- und Tageszeiten: Vernacular Universal, Erotica Sinica, and the Temporality of Nachträglichkeit” Chunjie Zhang

Chapter 13 “The Mediterranean Metaphor”

Kevin Batton

 

Chapter 14 “Inventing China: The American Tradition of Translating Chinese Poetry”   

Michelle Yeh

 

Politics and Sociology of Reception

Chapter 15 “Meaning, Reception, and the Use of the Classics: Theoretical Considerations in the Chinese Context”

Zhang Longxi

 

Chapter 16 “The Sociology of Reception”

Gisèle Sapiro

 

Bibliography

Index 

O autorze

Brenda Deen Schildgen is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis, USA. The author of more than fifty articles focused on Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, as well as Chaucer, Augustine, and biblical hermeneutics, her most recent books include Divine Providence, A History: Bible, Virgil, Orosius, Augustine, and Dante; Heritage or Heresy: Destruction and Preservation of Art and Architecture in Europe; and Other Renaissances: A New Approach to World Literature.

Ralph Hexter is Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Caliornia, Davis, USA, where he also serves as Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor. He has published on Homer’s Odyssey, Virgil’s Aeneid, the reception of Ovid, and the intersections of the history of scholarship and sexuality.