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www.peterlang.com Peter Lang
GOETHE SOCIETY OF INDIA
ACROSS LITERARY AND
Comparative literary studies faces new challenges today in a EA
sC LINGUISTIC DIVERSITIES
world marked by the migration of people, languages, ideas and saR
texts across diverse and increasingly porous borders. The field yO
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is restricted by conventional notions of comparativism born in oSS
the era of nationalism and colonialism. However, scholars are n L ESSAYS ON COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
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now provoked to rethink these notions as a result of the social, oT
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economic and political forces that drive the contemporary R
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world, which simultaneously draw it into an ever tighter global a
rR
network and create new, or reassert persisting, lines of division. aY
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What are the conceptual and methodological questions that LD
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must engage our attention if comparativism, as recent debates te L
suggest, has to revive its critical potential and chart afresh the raIN
tG
future of literary studies? The essays in this volume attempt to u
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rethink comparison in this context through theoretical reflections IS
and concrete comparative analyses. They investigate similarities T
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and differences, connections and references, across diverse
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literary and linguistic cultures in Indian, German and other
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European literatures. E
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This volume is the 2014 Yearbook of the Goethe Society of India. IT
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www.peterlang.com Peter Lang
ACROSS LITERARY AND
LINGUISTIC DIVERSITIES
ACROSS LITERARY AND
LINGUISTIC DIVERSITIES
ESSAYS ON COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
GOETHE SOCIETY OF INDIA
YEARBOOK 2014
PETER LANG
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President Pawan Surana (Jaipur)
Vice-Presidents Shaswati Mazumdar (Delhi)
B. Subramanian (Mandi)
Secretary Madhu Sahni (Delhi)
Treasurer M.S. Joshi (Delhi)
Executive Milind Brahme (Chennai)
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Swati Acharya (Pune)
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Contents
Preface ix
Shaswati Mazumdar and Madhu Sahni
Introduction 1
Romit Roy
‚Weltliteratur‘ heute. Begriffswandel im Zeichen
neuer Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten 11
Dorothee Kimmich
Myths of culture: Notes on theory and practice
of transculturality 31
Dirk Wiemann
World literary spacing: Contemporary verse novels
across the Anglosphere 45
Judhajit Sarkar
‘Doing’ comparativism: Some reflections on the
works of two Indian comparatists 63
Soma Mukherjee
‘World Literature’ and the methodology of Comparative
Literature: An analysis 85
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Julia Afifi
Handelsgeschäfte und Revolte. Indien-Bezüge in
Ludwig Tiecks Novelle Des Lebens Überfluß 97
Vaibhav Abnave
The location of the spiritual: Narcissus in an
early fragment of Mahesh Elkunchwar 109
Anu Pande
Von gewalttätigen Vätern und systematischer Gewalt.
Bernward Vespers Die Reise und Bret Easton Ellis᾽
Lunar Park 121
Jyoti Sabarwal
Das Erinnern und das Schreiben über das
Fremde in der Fremde in einem komparatistischen
Rahmen. Die Literarische Welt, Erinnerungen 143
Swati Acharya
Die Bilder der Macht und die Macht der
Bilder. Muslime als indische Minderheit im
Spiegel der Politik und des Kinos 165
Shambhavi Prakash
Gegensätze in Ingeborg Bachmanns Der Gute
Gott von Manhattan 185
Notes on Contributors 197
Index 199
