This approach to literary reading of any provenance based on an "experimental cosmopolitan" epistemology. It recontextualizes the texts from the multiple cultures' viewpoint and historical moments, enriching interpretation and aesthetic experience beyond the backgrounds of the present reader
This approach to literary reading of any provenance based on an "experimental cosmopolitan" epistemology. It recontextualizes the texts from the multiple cultures' viewpoint and historical moments, enriching interpretation and aesthetic experience beyond the backgrounds of the present reader
Didier Coste is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Université Bordeaux Montaigne. After studying Law, he received PhDs in French (Interarts) Studies from the University of Sydney and in Hispanic Studies from the University of Provence, and his Habilitation in Comparative Literature from the University of Lille. He has taught in Belgium, Australia, France, the United States, Canada, and Tunisia. He was twice a fellow of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has published some 150 articles in English, French, and Spanish in the fields of Literary Aesthetics, Poetics, Cultural and Translation Theory, and Narratology. His book Narrative as Communication (1989) was considered as a landmark contribution to Narrative Theory. He is now working on Conversations with Hanuman: Studies in Modern Indian Literature and Culture. Coste is also a trilingual novelist and poet; his latest books of poetry in English were published in Sydney (2015) and Calcutta (2019). As a literary translator, he was the recipient of a major French award in 1977.
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Acknowledgments Introduction: Cosmopolitan Reading, How and Why? PART 1 Theory in Motion 1 "Power Failure in Paris": Against Local Theory 2 Locations and Dis-Locations of Theory: Toward a Theory without a Fixed Address PART 2 Universals and World Literature 3 Universals in Theory and Practice 4 The World Literature Controversy 5 Worlding and Localizing Fiction PART 3 Cosmopolitanism Revisited 6 Cross-Cultural Negotiation, Comparison, Comprehension 7 Cultural Cosmopolitanism as Experiment 8 The Literary Construction of Cosmopolitan Consciousness PART 4 Elusive Identities, Deceptive Origins and Destinations 9 Unselfing Literary Studies: Against "Idemtity" 10 The Ironies of Authenticity 11 Ambiguous Mobilities: How Cosmopolitan is Nomadism? 12 A Labyrinth of Margins: Mimetic Desire and Native Impersonation PART 5 The Pragmatics of Outgoing and Incoming 13 Exos as Eros, and Vice Versa 14 Heteroglossia as Experiment and Cosmopolitan Performance Excipit: The Personal Touch Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments Introduction: Cosmopolitan Reading, How and Why? PART 1 Theory in Motion 1 "Power Failure in Paris": Against Local Theory 2 Locations and Dis-Locations of Theory: Toward a Theory without a Fixed Address PART 2 Universals and World Literature 3 Universals in Theory and Practice 4 The World Literature Controversy 5 Worlding and Localizing Fiction PART 3 Cosmopolitanism Revisited 6 Cross-Cultural Negotiation, Comparison, Comprehension 7 Cultural Cosmopolitanism as Experiment 8 The Literary Construction of Cosmopolitan Consciousness PART 4 Elusive Identities, Deceptive Origins and Destinations 9 Unselfing Literary Studies: Against "Idemtity" 10 The Ironies of Authenticity 11 Ambiguous Mobilities: How Cosmopolitan is Nomadism? 12 A Labyrinth of Margins: Mimetic Desire and Native Impersonation PART 5 The Pragmatics of Outgoing and Incoming 13 Exos as Eros, and Vice Versa 14 Heteroglossia as Experiment and Cosmopolitan Performance Excipit: The Personal Touch Bibliography Index
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