Northern Crossings - Translation, Circulation and the Literary Semi-periphery (Paperback)

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. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures
Release date:	August 2023
Authors:	Chatarina Edfeldt (Senior Lecturer) • Erik Falk (Senior Researcher) • Andreas Hedberg (Lecturer) • Yvonne Lindqvist (Professor) • Cecilia Schwartz (Associate Professor) • Paul Tenngart (Associate Professor)
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-1-5013-7428-9
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-5013-7428-1
Barcode:	9781501374289

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