5 ‘ROMANCE AND RATIONAL ORTHODOXY’

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. NOTE ON THE TEXTS ix
4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS x
5. PUBLISHER’S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xi
6. INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS TRANSATLANTIC LITERARY STUDIES? 1
7. PART I THE NATION AND COSMOPOLITANISM
8. THE NATION AND COSMOPOLITANISM: INTRODUCTION 17
9. 1 ‘COPYRIGHTING AMERICAN HISTORY: INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT AND THE PERIODIZATION OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY’ 23
10. 2 ‘THE TRANSNATIONAL TURN: REDISCOVERING AMERICAN STUDIES IN A WIDER WORLD’ 31
11. 3 ‘NINETEENTH-CENTURY UNITED STATES LITERARY CULTURE AND TRANSNATIONALITY’ 35
12. 4 ‘NATIONAL NARRATIVES, POSTNATIONAL NARRATION’ 39
13. 5 ‘TRANSNATIONALISM AND CLASSIC AMERICAN LITERATURE’ 44
14. 6 ‘THE LIMITS OF COSMOPOLITANISM AND THE CASE FOR TRANSLATION’ 53
15. 7 ‘BETWEEN EMPIRES: FRANCES CALDERÓN DE LA BARCA’S LIFE IN MEXICO’ 58
16. 8 ‘PRINCIPLES OF A HISTORY OF WORLD LITERATURE’ 65
17. PART II THEORIES AND PRACTICE OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
18. THEORIES AND PRACTICE OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: INTRODUCTION 75
19. 1 ‘GENERAL, COMPARATIVE, AND NATIONAL LITERATURE’ 80
20. 2 ‘NOTES TOWARDS A COMPARISON BETWEEN EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN ROMANTICISM’ 82
21. 3 ‘ENGLISH ROMANTICISM, AMERICAN ROMANTICISM: WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?’ 89
22. 4 ‘CULTURAL TIME IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA’ 97
23. 5 ‘NATURE AND WALDEN’ 105
24. 6 ‘ON BEGINNING TO TELL A “BEST-KEPT SECRET”’ 111
25. 7 ‘NETWORK ANALYSIS: A REAPPRAISAL’ 115
26. PART III IMPERIALISM AND THE POSTCOLONIAL
27. IMPERIALISM AND THE POSTCOLONIAL: INTRODUCTION 121
28. 1 ‘PROSPERO AND CALIBAN’ 126
29. 2 ‘CULTURAL IDENTITY AND DIASPORA’ 131
30. 3 ‘THE BLACK ATLANTIC AS A COUNTERCULTURE OF MODERNITY’ 139
31. 4 ‘AMERICAN LITERARY EMERGENCE AS A POSTCOLONIAL PHENOMENON’ 147
32. 5 ‘EUROPEAN PEDIGREES/AFRICAN CONTAGIONS: NATIONALITY, NARRATIVE, AND COMMUNITY IN TUTUOLA, ACHEBE, AND REED’ 156
33. 6 ‘DEEP TIME: AMERICAN LITERATURE AND WORLD HISTORY’ 160
34. PART IV TRANSLATION
35. TRANSLATION: INTRODUCTION 167
36. 1 ‘THE TASK OF THE TRANSLATOR’ 172
37. 2 ‘ON LINGUISTIC ASPECTS OF TRANSLATION’ 182
38. 3 ‘THE HERMENEUTIC MOTION’ 184
39. 4 ‘THE TROPICS OF TRANSLATION’ 189
40. 5 ‘GENDER AND THE METAPHORICS OF TRANSLATION’ 194
41. 6 ‘JACK SPICER’S AFTER LORCA: TRANSLATION AS DECOMPOSITION’ 201
42. 7 ‘THE FRENCH CARIBBEANIZATION OF PHILLIS WHEATLEY: A POETICS OF ANTICOLONIALISM’ 207
43. PART V STYLE AND GENRE
44. STYLE AND GENRE: INTRODUCTION 215
45. 1 ‘ELOQUENCE AND TRANSLATION’ 221
46. 2 ‘INTRODUCTION: RHIZOME’ 226
47. 3 ‘TRAVELING GENRES’ 232
48. 4 ‘INTRODUCTION: HISTORY, MEMORY, AND PERFORMANCE’ 236
49. 5 ‘ROMANCE AND RATIONAL ORTHODOXY’ 249
50. 6 ‘THE FAILURE OF GENRE CRITICISM’ 256
51. 7 ‘EMPIRE AND OCCASIONAL CONFORMITY: DAVID FORDYCE’S COMPLETE BRITISH LETTER-WRITER’ 263
52. 8 ‘THE AMERICANIZATION OF CLARISSA’ 272
53. PART VI TRAVEL
54. TRAVEL: INTRODUCTION 281
55. 1 ‘REFLECTIONS ON EXILE’ 285
56. 2 ‘ETHNO-GRAPHY: SPEECH, OR THE SPACE OF THE OTHER: JEAN DE LÉRY’ 291
57. 3 ‘INTRODUCTION’ TO SEA CHANGES 298
58. 4 ‘THE REWARDS OF TRAVEL’ 303
59. 5 ‘INTRODUCTION’ TO IMPERIAL EYES AND ‘HUMBOLDT AS TRANSCULTURATOR’ 312
60. 6 ‘TRAVEL WRITING AND ITS THEORY’ 316
61. GLOSSARY OF TERMS 329
62. INDEX 341