TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clark,Tom
AU  - Finlay,Emily
AU  - Kelly,Philippa
TI  - Worldmaking: Literature, Language, Culture
T2  - FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures Series
SN  - 9789027266163
AV  - P99.4.P78 
U1  - 801.95 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Amsterdam/Philadelphia
PB  - John Benjamins Publishing Company
KW  - Semiotics--Psychological aspects
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Worldmaking -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Series editor's preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Worldmaking: An introduction -- A foreign language -- I. Case studies in time: Towards a poetics of worldmaking -- II.  Reconfiguring boundaries: Philosophy, literature, and worldmaking  in the arts -- III. Breaking boundaries: Worldmaking and world literatures -- Part I. Case studies in time Towards a poetics of worldmaking -- Chapter 1. New worlds in Lanval and Sir Launfal -- Introduction -- The king's world -- The queen in the king's world -- The queen's complaint -- Gwennere's complaint -- Worldmaking -- Chapter 2. Women's worldmaking in the subtext  of Malory's Morte D'Arthur -- Chapter 3. Unsilencing Elizabeth Cary: Worldmaking in The Tragedy of Mariam,  Fair Queen of Jewry -- Chapter 4. The wor(l)dmaking of centenarian poets: Mado Michio and Shibata Toyo -- Mado Michio -- Shibata Toyo -- Chapter 5. All the presidents' poems: USA presidents quoting poems  in their speeches since 1860 -- Introduction -- Theory and method of speech attitudes -- Flights of poetic fancy -- Discrepancies between transcript and performance -- The diplomatic turn -- Part II. Reconfiguring boundaries: Philosophy, literature, and worldmaking in the arts -- Chapter 6. Of private selves and public morals: Rorty on philosophy and literature in modernity -- Philosophy, literature, and the articulation of modernity -- The alliance of philosophy and literature -- Rorty: The private and the public -- Chapter 7. My world or yours? Otherness and the construction of culture: Hegel, Levinas, Blanchot -- Passivity or activity? Levinas and Kojève -- Passivity's bind: Blanchot and Eurydice -- Chapter 8. Earthing the world: The artwork of Lorraine Connelly-Northey -- The wire bowl; Chapter 9. Australian indigenous art and literature -- Chapter 10. Art, detritus and global change -- Collective trauma, universal language -- Doubt in the aftermath -- Resonating trauma -- The southern currents -- Possibilities for the future -- Chapter 11. The sadness of the city: Reflections on Shanghai and Istanbul -- Reflections on Istanbul -- "Achievements" -- Conclusion -- Part III. Breaking boundaries: Worldmaking and world literatures -- Chapter 12. Katherine Mansfield and world literature -- Chapter 13. Creating the French world of the Channel Islands in "Note Viaer Lingo" -- Chapter 14. Geocriticism and the fictional worlds of Jhumpa Lahiri and Kazuo Ishiguro -- Negative capability of multiple perspective narratives -- Variable time in varied spaces -- An evocative world through introspection and fiction -- Chapter 15. Rethinking hybridity: Amputated selves in Asian diasporic identity formation -- The "curse" of hybridity: Imposition and complicity -- Two selves - The World Waiting to Be Made -- Chapter 16. Humanitarian scripts in the world novel -- Orpheus and Guantanamo -- The sensorium of torture -- Remediating humanitarian witnessing -- Bibliography
N2  - Central to all of the contributions is the question: how can we understand the relationships between natural, political, cultural, fictional, literary, linguistic and virtual worlds, and why does this matter?
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