Schildgen / Hexter Reading the Past Across Space and Time

Receptions and World Literature
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-137-55885-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 383 Seiten

Reihe: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies

Featuring leading scholars in their fields, this book examines receptions of ancient and early modern literary works from around the world (China, Japan, Ancient Maya, Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient India, Ancient Mesopotamia) that have circulated globally across time and space (from East to West, North to South, South to West). Beginning with the premise of an enduring and revered cultural past, the essays go on to show how the circulation of literature through translation and other forms of reception in fact long predates modern global society; the idea of national literary canons have existed just over a hundred years and emerged with the idea of national educational curricula. Highlighting the relationship of culture and politics in which canons are created, translated, promulgated, and preserved, this book argues that such nationally-defined curricula were challenged by critics and writers in the wake of the Second World War. 

Brenda Deen Schildgen is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis, USA. The author of more than fifty articles focused on Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, as well as Chaucer, Augustine, and biblical hermeneutics, her most recent books include Divine Providence, A History: Bible, Virgil, Orosius, Augustine, and Dante; Heritage or Heresy: Destruction and Preservation of Art and Architecture in Europe; and Other Renaissances: A New Approach to World Literature. Ralph Hexter is Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Caliornia, Davis, USA, where he also serves as Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor. He has published on Homer's Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid, the reception of Ovid, and the intersections of the history of scholarship and sexuality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schildgen, Brenda Deen

Hexter, Ralph

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Acknowledgments;6
2;Contents;8
3;Reading the Past Across Space and Time: Receptions and World Literature;11
3.1;Introduction;11
3.2;Notes;27
4;Part I: Epic Receptions;30
4.1;Epic Worlds;31
4.1.1;Notes;44
4.2;Recycling the Epic: Gilgamesh on Three Continents;47
4.2.1;Staging;47
4.2.2;Mashup;49
4.2.3;Corruptible Body;51
4.2.4;Macro and Micro;53
4.2.5;The Maggot and the Biosphere;56
4.2.6;Epic DNA;57
4.2.7;Variation and Mutation;60
4.2.8;Another Continent;63
4.2.9;Notes;64
4.3;“Wheels Working Together: The Popol Wuj and Time Commences in Xibalbá as Markers of a Maya Cosmovision”;66
4.3.1;Maya Cosmovision;66
4.3.1.1;The Popol Wuj and De Lión’s Time Commences in Xibalbá;70
4.3.1.2;The Popol Wuj;73
4.3.1.3;Luis de Lión, Time Commences in Xibalbá;77
4.3.2;Notes;85
4.4;Reception Configurations: The Case of European Epic in India;89
4.4.1;Argument;89
4.4.2;Background;90
4.4.3;The Indian Epic in the Nineteenth Century;93
4.4.3.1;Aurobindo Ghose;97
4.4.3.2;Aurobindo and Savitri;100
4.4.4;Conclusion;103
4.4.5;Notes;104
4.5;Formal Experiments in Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad;109
4.5.1;The Setting: The Underworld;112
4.5.2;Framing The Penelopiad;114
4.5.3;Notes;121
5;Part II: Greek Philosophical Receptions;125
5.1;Disagreement and Reception: Peripatetics Responding to the Stoic Challenge;126
5.1.1;Part 1: A Schematization of Some Basic Forms of Critical Engagement Between Philosophical Positions3;127
5.1.2;Part 2: Late Hellenistic Peripatetics Responding to the Stoic Challenge;133
5.1.3;Notes;145
5.2;“Now We Must Consider That Some of the Ancients Discovered the Truth”: Reception and Antiquity in Ancient Neoplatonism;153
5.2.1;The Early Empire;155
5.2.2;Commentary in Neoplatonism;156
5.2.3;Developing ennoiai: Plotinus and Simplicius;158
5.2.3.1;Plotinus;158
5.2.4;Simplicius;160
5.2.5;Notes;162
5.3;Reading and Commenting on Aristotle’s Rhetoric in Arabic;168
5.3.1;Aristotle’s Rhetoric in antiquity;168
5.3.2;Aristotle’s Rhetoric in Arabic;169
5.3.3;The Arabic Reception of the Rhetoric;174
5.3.4;The Afterlife of the Arabic Rhetoric;178
5.3.5;Conclusion: Misunderstanding and Inspiration;179
5.3.6;Notes;181
6;Part III: Drama and Receptions;188
6.1;A Third Antike: Hans Henny Jahnn’s Medea and the Introduction of the “Sumerian” to Modern German Literature;189
6.1.1;Notes;201
6.2;American Bushido: A Kabuki Play Transplanted;205
6.2.1;Origins;205
6.2.2;Literary and Artistic Responses;207
6.2.2.1;Terakoya;208
6.2.3;Terakoya Translated into European Languages;211
6.2.4;Reception of Bushido in the USA;213
6.2.5;Notes;220
6.3;Tamil “Translation,” French Orientalism, and Indian Dramatic Traditions in Louis Jacolliot’s La Devadassi (1868);224
6.3.1;Jacolliot: Orientalist Popularizer;226
6.3.2;Drama as Ethnography: European Orientalism and Sanskrit Studies;227
6.3.3;Marriage and Legitimacy in Colonial Contexts and La Devadassi;231
6.3.4;Conclusion;238
6.3.5;Notes;238
7;Part IV: Lyric Receptions;243
7.1;Goethe’s Chinesisch-deutsche Jahres- und Tageszeiten: Vernacular Universal, Erotica Sinica, and the Temporality of Nachträglichkeit;244
7.1.1;Erotica Sinica or the European Representation of the Chinese Garden;248
7.1.2;Autumn of Renunciation or the Temporality of Nachträglichkeit;254
7.1.3;Conclusion;259
7.1.4;Notes;259
7.2;The Mediterranean Metaphor;264
7.2.1;The California Sublime;272
7.2.1.1;Facing West;276
7.2.2;Notes;280
7.3;Inventing China: The American Tradition of Translating Chinese Poetry;283
7.3.1;I. Ezra Pound Revisited;283
7.3.2;II. Critical Discourse on Pound and China;284
7.3.3;III. From Poetry to Language;285
7.3.4;IV. Chinese Poetry and Nature;286
7.3.5;V. Gary Snyder and the Poetics of Wilderness;288
7.3.6;VII. Conclusion;291
7.3.7;Notes;292
8;Part V: Politics and Sociology of Reception;294
8.1;Meaning, Reception, and the Use of Classics: Theoretical Considerations in a Chinese Context;295
8.1.1;Greek and Roman Classics in China: From the Late Ming to the 1980s;298
8.1.2;Classical Studies in China Today;304
8.1.3;The Classical and the Limitations of Reception Theory;308
8.1.4;Notes;312
8.2;The Sociology of Reception;316
8.2.1;Stages and Stakes in the Reception Process;317
8.2.2;Literary Trials;321
8.2.3;Critical Reception;322
8.2.4;The Effects of Reception on the Author;323
8.2.5;The Transnational Circulation of Literary Works;325
8.2.6;The Sociology and History of Reading;327
8.2.7; Conclusion;329
8.2.8;Notes;331
8.3;Afterword;335
8.3.1;Notes;340
9;Notes on Contributors;342
10;Selected Bibliography;347
10.1;Primary Texts;366
11;Index;372