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Writing-between-Worlds

TransArea Studies and the Literatures-without-a-fixed-Abode
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2016
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Mimesis
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Volume 64 | Mimesis

About this book

This book proposes that there is no better, no more complex way to access a community, a society, an era and its cultures than through literature. For millennia, literature from a wide variety of geocultural areas has gathered knowledge about life, about survival, and about living together, without either falling into discursive or disciplinary specializations or functioning as a regulatory mechanism for cultural knowledge. Literature is able to offer its readers knowledge through direct participation in the form of step-by-step intellectual and affective experiences. Through this ability, it can reach and affect audiences across great spatial and temporal distances. Literature – what different times and cultures have been able to understand as such in a broad sense – has always been characterized by its transareal and transcultural origins and effects. It is the product of many logics, and it teaches us to think polylogically rather than monologically. Literature is an experiment in living, and living in a state of experimentation.

About the author

Ottmar Ette has been Chair of Romance Literature at the University of Potsdam, Germany, since 1995. He is Honorary Member of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) (elected in 2014), member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (elected in 2013), and regular member of the Academia Europaea (since 2010).

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Ottmar Ette, Potsdam University, Germany.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

    vii
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    Translator’s Introduction

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    Preface: What does literature know?

    xxi
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    1. Transit

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    2. Figurations

    40
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    3. Relations

    84
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    4. Incubations

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    5. Translations

    157
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    6. Oscillations

    181
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    7. Confrontations

    214
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    8. In(tro)spections

    255
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    9. Configurations

    289
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    Note on the Text and Acknowledgments

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    Bibliography

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    Name Index

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eBook published on:
February 22, 2016
eBook ISBN:
9783110462876
Hardcover published on:
March 7, 2016
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110461091
Paperback published on:
November 7, 2017
Paperback ISBN:
9783110578683
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
24
Main content:
339
Illustrations:
5
Coloured Illustrations:
2
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110462876
eBook ISBN: 9783110462876
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110461091
Paperback ISBN: 9783110578683
Keywords for this book
Transarea Studies; Translingual; Life-Knowledge
Audience(s) for this book
Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftler, Soziologen, Bibliotheken
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