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This book contributes to the prominent interdisciplinary domain of
Cosmopolitan Studies with 20 innovative essays by humanities
scholars from all over the world that re-examine theories and
practices of cosmopolitanism from a variety of perspectives. The
volume satisfies the need for a stronger involvement of Comparative
and World Literatures and Cultures, Translation, and Education
Theories in this crucial debate, and also proposes an experimental
way to explore in depth the necessity of a cosmopolitan method as
well as the riches of cosmopolitan representations. The essays
follow a logical progression from the situated philosophical and
political foundations of the debate to interdisciplinary
propositions for a pedagogy of cosmopolitanism through studies of
modern and contemporary cosmopolitan cultural practices in
literature and the arts and the concurrent analysis of prototypes
of cosmopolitan identities. This trajectory allows readers to
appreciate new historical, theoretical, aesthetic, and practical
implications of cosmopolitanism that pertain to multiple genres and
media, under different modes of production and reception. In the
deterritorialized landscape of Migrating Minds, mental and
sentimental mobility, rather than the legacy of place, is the key
to an efficient, humanist response to deadening globalization.
Proposing an elaborate interdisciplinary approach to literary
reading of any provenance based on "experimental cosmopolitanism,"
that is de- and recontextualizing the texts from the points of view
of multiple cultural formations and historical moments, this book
will help innovative teachers and students to rediscover
dialogically and creatively the potential of literature as a life
experiment. Comparative, Postcolonial and World Literature programs
as well as programs in Cultural Anthropology will find abundant
food for seminar discussion and essay topics in the wide range of
theories and philosophies covered by the book and its extensive and
up to date bibliography. Supported by a thorough critique of local
and overarching theories, this novel method will profit from the
singularity of each professional or apprentice reader without
giving in to cultural essentialism or relativism. Learning to
recognize the fundamental plurilingualism of the literary
experience through translations and versions of literary texts is
enlightening at all levels of a humanist literary education.
Theory, here, is not an abstract and rigid superimposition but the
dynamic condition of emergence of unforeseen meanings.
This treatise on narrative and narrative theory uses all of the
analytic tools developed in the last 20 years. It defines narrative
discourse, distinguishing it from other discourses, and analyzes
what it entails.
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