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Transformative Fictions - World Literature and Personal Change (Hardcover)
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Transformative Fictions - World Literature and Personal Change (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature
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Transformative Fictions: World Literature and Personal Change
engages with current debates in world literature over the past
twenty years, addressing the nature of literary influence in
centers and peripheries, the formation of transnational literary
and pedagogical canons, and the role of translation and regionalism
in how we relate to texts from around the globe. The author, Daniel
Just, argues for a supranational but sub-global perspective of
regions that emphasizes practical reasons for reading and focuses
on the potential of literary texts to stimulate personal
transformation in readers. One of the recurring dilemmas in these
debates is the issue of delimitation of world literature. The
trouble with the world as a frame of reference is that no single
researcher is bound to have the in-depth knowledge and linguistic
skills to discuss works from all countries. In response, this book
revives literary theory and recasts it for the purposes of world
literature, by making a case for the continuing relevance of
literature in the age of new media. With the examples of fictional
and nonfictional writings by Milan Kundera, Witold Gombrowicz and
Bohumil Hrabal, Just shows that regional literatures offer
differing methods of activating readers and thereby prompting
personal change. This book would be of general interest to anyone
who wants to explore personal change through literature but is
particularly indispensable for literary professionals, researchers,
and postgraduate and graduate students.
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