Sea of Literatures: Towards a Theory of Mediterranean Literature

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Sea of Literatures

Towards a Theory of Mediterranean Literature

Edited by: Angela Fabris , Albert Göschl and Steffen Schneider

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2023

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Volume 3 | Alpe Adria e dintorni, itinerari mediterranei

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Mediterranean Seminar Book Prize 2025

Mediterranean studies flourish in literary and cultural studies, but concepts of the Mediterranean and the theories and methods they use are very disparate. This is because the Mediterranean is not a simple geographical or historical unity, but a multiplicity, a network of highly interconnected elements, each of which is different and individual. Talking about Mediterranean literature raises the question of whether the connectivity of Mediterranean literature can or should be limited in some way by constructing an inside and an outside of the Mediterranean. What kind of connectivity and fragmentation do literary texts produce, how do they build and interrupt references (to the real, to fictional forms of representation, to history, but also to other texts and discourses), how do they create and deny communication, and how do they engage with and reflect literary and non-literary concepts of the Mediterranean? These and other questions are considered and discussed in the over twenty contributions gathered in this volume.

Winner of the 2025 Mediterranean Seminar Prize for the best essay collection

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Angela Fabris, Klagenfurt University, Austria; Albert Göschl and Steffen Schneider, Graz University, Austria.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction Mediterranean Literary Studies – Definitions, Purpose, and Applications Angela Fabris, Albert Göschl and Steffen Schneider Open Access Download PDF	1
Part I: Memories and Identities
Tales of the Adriatic Cristina Benussi Open Access Download PDF	19
Interconnected Histories and Construction of Collective Memory: Theoretical Approaches to the Perception of the Mediterranean Sea as a Palimpsestic noeud de mémoire in French and Italian Literature Sara Izzo Open Access Download PDF	33
A story of two Shores: Transnational Memory and Ottoman Legacy in Modern Greek Novels Charikleia Magdalini Kefalidou Open Access Download PDF	47
The Literary Construction of Mediterranean Identity: Memory and Myth in Maria Corti Elisabeth Stadlinger Open Access Download PDF	65
Elusive Mediterraneans. Reading Beyond Nation Adrian Grima Open Access Download PDF	85
The Forger as an Ambivalent Muse: Leonardo Sciascia’s Novel Il Consiglio d’Egitto and the Mediterranean Memory of Sicily Steffen Schneider Open Access Download PDF	103
Part II: Social and Linguistic Spaces
Latin-Arabic Literary Entanglement and the Concept of “Mediterranean Literature” Daniel G. König Open Access Download PDF	123
Mapping the Mediterranean with Language: Matvejević’s Mediterranean Breviary Marianna Deganutti Open Access Download PDF	145
Territory / Frontiers / Routes: Space, Place and Language in the Mediterranean Karla Mallette Open Access Download PDF	159
Part III: Fictional Spaces
“Avendo di servidori bisogno”: Decameron 5.7 and the Medieval Mediterranean Slave Trade Sharon Kinoshita Open Access Download PDF	175
For a Geo-Philology of the Sea. Writing Cartography, Mapping the Mediterranean Mare Historiarum, from Dante to Renaissance Islands Books Roberta Morosini Open Access Download PDF	193
Concepts of Mediterranean Islandness from Ancient to Early Modern Times: A Philological Approach Verena Ebermeier and Jonas Hock Open Access Download PDF	229
Marseille and the Mediterranean in the Writings of Yoko Tawada and Tahar Ben Jelloun Marília Jöhnk Open Access Download PDF	249
Heterotopic and Striated Spaces in the Mediterranean Crime Fiction of Amara Lakhous and Jean-Claude Izzo Angela Fabris Open Access Download PDF	261
Part IV: Conceptional Spaces
A Mediterranean Utopia. The Renaissance Fiction of Plusiapolis as an Ideal of Mediterranean Connectivity Albert Göschl Open Access Download PDF	283
The pensée de midi Revisited: Mediterranean Connectivity Between Paul Arène, Albert Camus, and Louis Brauquier Sophia Schnack and Daniel Winkler Open Access Download PDF	299
The Possibility of the Mediterranean and the Contribution of Poetic Cross-Cultural Philologies During the Twentieth Century. Al-Andalus in the Poetry of Federico García Lorca, Louis Aragon, and Maḥmūd Darwiš Stéphane Baquey Open Access Download PDF	317
Ďurišin’s Interliterary Mediterranean as a Model for World Literature Charles Sabatos and C. Ceyhun Arslan Open Access Download PDF	335
A Female Mediterranean South? Italian Women Writers Gendering Spaces of Meridione: Nadia Terranova’s Farewell ghosts (2018) Serena Todesco Open Access Download PDF	349
Learning from the Sea: Migration and Maritime Archives Iain Chambers Open Access Download PDF	381
Notes on Contributors Open Access Download PDF	395
Index nominum Open Access Download PDF	401

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Mediterranean Studies; Identity; Comparative Literary Studies; Cultural History

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Researchers working in the fields Mediterranean Studies, Literary Studies, Cultural History

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