The Absent Cause of World Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12418093 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Folger (0000-0003-2404-1627, Utrecht University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 252-262 |
| Publication date | 2013-04-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1062-7987 • E-ISSN: 1474-0575 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1062798712000403 |
| OpenAlex | W2001362241 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
The resurgence of World Literature must be seen in relation to the economization of all spheres of life. Traditional, ‘specialized’ literary criticism replicates literature's power to interpellate subjects characterized by attention. Both literature and state funded literary criticism in research and teaching are currently under siege because they are counter-hegemonic in relation to a lifeworld shaped by a global attention deficit syndrome, which is the bedrock of a hypertrophic consumerism. Recent proposals for writing histories and systematic descriptions of World Literature are complicit with this move because they champion, to the detriment of deep attention, the relevance, mobility, exchange value, and translatability of texts, successfully competing with traditional ‘painstaking’ practices of literary criticism for ever dwindling institutional resources
Aesthetics · Art · Champion · Consumerism · Criticism · Hegemony · Lifeworld · Literary criticism · Literature · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Relation (database · Relevance (law · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Law · Philosophy · Political theory and Gramsci · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Translation Studies and Practices
The Translation Zone
What Is World Literature?
Sur la reproduction
Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism
Strukturen der Lebenswelt
Strukturen der Lebenswelt
Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism
Marxism, Ideology and Literature
Europe, or The Infinite Task
The Political Unconscious
Literary Structure, Evolution, and Value
To World, To Globalize--Comparative Literature's Crossroads
Who's Afraid of National Allegory? Jameson, Literary Criticism, Globalization
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |