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2022 (English)Book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
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.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. p. 280 Edition: 1
Series
Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures ; 4
Keywords
Translation and Interpretation in Literary Studies, Literary Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Comparative Literature, European Literature
National Category
General Literature Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:du-39219 (URN)10.5040/9781501374272 (DOI)9781501374241 (ISBN)9781501374289 (ISBN)9781501374272 (ISBN)
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
Note
Paperback edition, ISBN 9781501374289, 304 pages, was published Aug 24 2023.
2021-12-272021-12-272024-01-25Bibliographically approved