عنوان

A Critique of 'Literary Worlds' in World Literature Theory

شماره

LA119440

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

A Critique of 'Literary Worlds' in World Literature Theory

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Ryan Johnson

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Recently, critics of world literature such as Alexander Beecroft, Eric Hayot, and Haun Saussy have argued that a multitude of possible literary worlds make up the world of world literature. Literary worlds theory provides a richer and more relativistic account of how literary production and analysis work than do similar models such as Franco Moretti's and Pascale Casanova's world literary systems. However, the theory runs into two difficulties: it downplays the socio-historical situation of the critic and the text; and it has difficulty accounting for the cross-world identity of characters and how logically inconsistent worlds access one another. To refine the theory, I modify G.E.R. Lloyd's concept of the "multidimensionality" of reality and literature. Strengthening Lloyd's concept through reference to recent work in comparative East-West philosophy, I contend that the addition of Lloyd's theory resolves the problems presented above while still allowing for a relativistic critical approach to world literature. Recently, critics of world literature such as Alexander Beecroft, Eric Hayot, and Haun Saussy have argued that a multitude of possible literary worlds make up the world of world literature. Literary worlds theory provides a richer and more relativistic account of how literary production and analysis work than do similar models such as Franco Moretti's and Pascale Casanova's world literary systems. However, the theory runs into two difficulties: it downplays the socio-historical situation of the critic and the text; and it has difficulty accounting for the cross-world identity of characters and how logically inconsistent worlds access one another. To refine the theory, I modify G.E.R. Lloyd's concept of the "multidimensionality" of reality and literature. Strengthening Lloyd's concept through reference to recent work in comparative East-West philosophy, I contend that the addition of Lloyd's theory resolves the problems presented above while still allowing for a relativistic critical approach to world literature.

تاريخ نشر

2018

توصيف ظاهري

354-372

عنوان

Journal of World Literature

شماره جلد

3/3

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

2405-6480

اصطلاح موضوعی

incommensurability

اصطلاح موضوعی

literary worlds

اصطلاح موضوعی

modality

اصطلاح موضوعی

ontological vagueness

اصطلاح موضوعی

World Literature

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Ryan Johnson

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/24056480-00303008

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y