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World Literature and International American Studies: Convergence, Divergence, and Contest

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Giles P.

Review of International American Studies

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2017

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vol. 10

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Paul GilesDepartment of EnglishUS Studies Centre's International Academic Advisory CommitteeUniversity of Sidney World Literature and International American Studies: Convergence, Divergence, and Contest Abstract: This paper considers the relation between the institutional formations of World Literature and International American Studies. It compares and contrasts the association between World Literature and Comparative Literature to that between International American Studies and the American Studies movement emerging out of the United States. It goes on to argue that World Literature is anchored to a universalist teleology, one linked historically to an idealist intellectual genealogy. By contrast, International American Studies involves a more materialist, multidirectional emphasis that differentiates it from the U.S. appropriation of globalization to further its own strategic interests. Keywords: World Literature, Comparative Literature, International American Studies, Globalization

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Theories of the Global, Global Literature, and American Literature in a Globalizing Age

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Reichardt U.

Review of International American Studies

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2017

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vol. 10

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Ulfried ReichardtAmerikanistik, Universität Mannheim Theories of the Global, Global Literature, and American Literature in a Globalizing Age Abstract: The paper discusses theories of the global and approaches to the concept of the world, presents definitions of literature in a globalizing age, and examines proposals how to approach world literature in literary scholarship, including ones that regard world literature as a system and ones that focus on individual texts. Finally, the essay argues that in our digitally restructured knowledge world, contemporary novels reflecting on the transformations of media and of knowledge formation have to be considered as versions of world literature as well. Keywords: World Literature, globalization and literature, theories of the global, concepts of the “world,” digitalization

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The Long History of “Doublethink”: A Response to Djelal Kadir’s “Agnotology and the Know-Nothing Party: Then and Now”

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Broncano Rodríguez M.

Review of International American Studies

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2017

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vol. 10

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Manuel Broncano RodríguezTexas A&M International University The Long History of “Doublethink”: A Response to Djelal Kadir’s “Agnotology and the Know-Nothing Party: Then and Now” A Response to Djelal Kadir’s “Agnotology and the Know-Nothing Party: Then and Now.” (In the present issue of RIAS). Keywords: humanities, state control, ignorance, American Literature, World Literature, world culture, American Studies, Comparative Studies

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A Comparatist Perspective in Intercultural Research and Imagology

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Zelenka M.

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2016

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vol. 19

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Abandoning its exact subject and methodological delimitation, contemporary comparative literature rather takes the form of intellectual reflection whose interdisciplinary linkage lies in the aspect of comparison. Among major contemporary initiatives, the most prominent are two, known as intercultural research and imagology. Whereas intercultural comparative studies explore interlocution between cultures through understanding “otherness”, imagology deals with the themes and motifs of “other landscapes” in literary texts, using its own and other people´s images. Such images mostly originate in the form of stereotypes and myths representing concrete social and ethnic communities. Thus both methods which exploit emotional experience in literary communication can advance dialogue between nations (e.g. Czech-German or Slovak-Hungarian relations).

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Współczesna komparatystyka oddala się od swojej ścisłej, przedmiotowej i metodologicznej definicji, stając się bardziej intelektualną refleksją, która jest interdyscyplinarnie powiązana poprzez aspekt porównawczy. Do najbardziej znaczących współcześnie inicjatyw w tym względzie należą badania międzykulturowe oraz tzw. imagologia. Podczas gdy komparatystyka studiuje dialog pomiędzy kulturami za pośrednictwem badania „inności”, imagologia poprzez obraz „swojego” i „cudzego” zajmuje się tematami i motywami „innych” w tekstach literackich, wykorzystując do tego obrazy ludzi bliskich i obcych. Te obrazy w większości powstają w fomie stereotypu lub mitu, za którymi stoją konkretne grupy społeczne i etniczne. Obie metody, które wykorzystują emocjonalne doświadczenia w literackiej komunikacji, mogą przyczynić się do dialogu między narodami (np. stosunki czesko-niemieckie albo słowacko-węgierskie).

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World Literature and International American Studies: Convergence, Divergence, and Contest

Theories of the Global, Global Literature, and American Literature in a Globalizing Age

The Long History of “Doublethink”: A Response to Djelal Kadir’s “Agnotology and the Know-Nothing Party: Then and Now”

A Comparatist Perspective in Intercultural Research and Imagology