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Die in den Kulturwissenschaften intensiv geführte Debatte um Weltliteratur kreist immer wieder um Fragen des Prozess- und Konstruktionscharakters weltliterarischer Kanonisierung. Um Aufschluss darüber zu erhalten, welche Faktoren dazu beitragen, ob ein Autor oder eine Autorin als Weltliteratur kanonisiert wird, ist die Arbeit am konkreten Material von zentraler Bedeutung. Die vorliegende Studie widmet sich in diesem Zusammenhang insbesondere den Bruchstellen, die anhand der verzögerten Weltliteratur-Werdung der brasilianischen Autorin Clarice Lispector (1920-1977) anhand von Dokumenten zu Übersetzungs- und Zirkulationsprozessen sichtbar werden. Erst im 21. Jahrhundert erfährt das literarische Werk Lispectors breite internationale Anerkennung, nachdem es zuvor immer wieder in Vergessenheit geraten war. Welche Rolle spielte dabei das brasilianische Portugiesisch als Ausgangssprache, welche die so eigene Ästhetik Clarice Lispectors im Übersetzungskontext und welche ihre Rolle als Frau? In der Analyse des komplexen Zusammenwirkens solcher Faktoren ermöglicht der Band eine neue Perspektive auf die Problematiken weltliterarischer Kanonisierungsprozesse im 20. und beginnenden 21. Jahrhundert. It has only been in the 21st century that the literary oeuvre of the Brazilian author Clarice Lispector (1920-1977) has received international recognition, after being repeatedly forgotten in the past. This volume traces its belated transformation into world literature using specific materials from the history of Lispector's translation and reception, providing a new perspective on the problems of canonization in the field of world literature.

LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American. --- Lispector, Clarice. --- Literary Canon. --- Reception History. --- World Literature.

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The Canonical Debate Today. Crossing Disciplinary and Cultural Boundaries re-enacts the canonical issues current in the ’90s from a new perspective, triggered by the changes that occurred worldwide in understanding the concepts and the status of theory, in the legacy of literary studies within the field of humanities, and in cultural production and reception. During the last decade discussions of globalization mostly took into account its impact on the status of academic disciplines such as comparative literature or cultural studies, or the reconfiguration of national literary fields. These debates do not dispense with canonicity altogether but make it more urgent and necessary. Canons seen as sets of norms or regulatory practices are central to the formation of disciplines, to the recognition and transmission of values, even to the articulation of discourses on identity on various levels. The three sections of the volume deal with three interrelated subjects: theories and applicable contexts of the canon ( Canons and Contexts ); recent transformations in the area of literary studies in response to the task of canon formation ( Reshaping Literary Studies ); and the challenges brought to the understanding of the canon(s) by the current process of re-defining literary and cultural boundaries ( Transgressing Literary and Cultural Boundaries ). This volume will appeal to researchers, teachers, and students of cultural studies, comparative literature, and literary theory.

Canon (Literature). --- Canon (Literature) --- Classics, Literary --- Literary canon --- Literary classics --- Best books --- Criticism --- Literature --- History and criticism --- Bible --- Canon.

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Growing Out of Communism explores the rise of a new body of literature for children and teens following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the subsequent transformation of the publishing industry. Lanoux, Herold, and Bukhina first consider the Soviet foundations of the new literature, then chart the influx of translated literature into Russia in the 1990s. In tracing the development of new literature that reflects the lived experiences of contemporary children and teens, the book examines changes to literary institutions, dominant genres, and archetypal heroes. Also discussed are the informal networks and online reader responses that reflect the views of child and teen readers.

Jugendkultur --- youth culture --- Kindheit --- childhood --- post-Soviet Russian culture --- post-sowjetische Kultur --- Literaturkanon --- literary canon --- Leseverhalten --- reading practices --- Indoktrinierung --- indoctrination

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Artistic creativity is fuelled by the permanent interaction among artistic forms, cultures, societies, and eventually different individuals, in the form of an all-inclusive intertextuality. The dialogues between the past and the present help the artist examine his own art, making him conscious of his position in the field, whether through self-evaluation, renewal or experiment with new textualities. This book explores how the strategies reflecting the exchanges between past and present modes ...

English literature --- Canon (Literature) --- Intertextuality. --- Criticism --- Semiotics --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Classics, Literary --- Literary canon --- Literary classics --- Best books --- Literature --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism

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The canon of Russian poetry has been reshaped since the fall of the Soviet Union. A multi-authored study of changing cultural memory and identity, this revisionary work charts Russia's shifting relationship to its own literature in the face of social upheaval. Literary canon and national identity are inextricably tied together, the composition of a canon being the attempt to single out those literary works that best express a nation's culture. This process is, of course, fluid and subject to significant shifts, particularly at times of epochal change. This volume explores changes in the canon of twentieth-century Russian poetry from the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union to the end of Putin's second term as Russian President in 2008. In the wake of major institutional changes, such as the abolition of state censorship and the introduction of a market economy, the way was open for wholesale reinterpretation of twentieth-century poets such as Iosif Brodskii, Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandel'shtam, their works and their lives. In the last twenty years many critics have discussed the possibility of various coexisting canons rooted in official and non-official literature and suggested replacing the term “Soviet literature” with a new definition - “Russian literature of the Soviet period”. Contributions to this volume explore the multiple factors involved in reshaping the canon, understood as a body of literary texts given exemplary or representative status as “classics”. Among factors which may influence the composition of the canon are educational institutions, competing views of scholars and critics, including figures outside Russia, and the self-canonising activity of poets themselves. Canon revision further reflects contemporary concerns with the destabilising effects of emigration and the internet, and the desire to reconnect with pre-revolutionary cultural traditions through a narrative of the past which foregrounds continuity. Despite persistent nostalgic…

Russian poetry --- Soviet poetry --- History and criticism. --- Soviet literature --- twentieth-century --- literary canon --- Soviet Union --- poetry --- Russia --- Russian poetry. --- 1900-1999.