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Title Singularity and transnational poetics / edited by Birgit Mara Kaiser
Published New York : Routledge, 2015

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Description 1 online resource
Series Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 38
Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 38.
Contents pt. 1. Opening -- pt. 2. Literature in the transnation -- pt. 3. Singularity in/of/as transcultural poetics
Summary "Over the past decade 'singularity' has been a prominent term in a broad range of fields, ranging from philosophy to literary and cultural studies to science and technology studies. This volume intervenes in this broad discussion of singularity and its various implications, proposing to explore the term for its specific potential in the study of literature. Singularity and Transnational Poetics brings together scholars working in the fields of literary and cultural studies, translation studies, and transnational literatures. The volume's central concern is to explore singularity as a conceptual tool for the comparative study of contemporary literatures beyond national frameworks, and by implication, as a tool to analyze human existence. Contributors explore how singularity might move our conceptions of cultural identity from prevailing frameworks of self/other toward the premises of being as 'singular plural'. Through a close reading of transnational literatures from Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, France, and South Africa, this collection offers a new approach to reading literature that will challenge a reader's established notions of identity, individuality, communicability, and social cohesion"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Poetics.
Transnationalism in literature.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
Literature -- Philosophy.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
Literature -- Philosophy
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
Poetics
Transnationalism in literature
Literatur
Einzigkeit
Interkulturalität
Übersetzung
Form Electronic book
Author Kaiser, Birgit Mara, editor.
ISBN 9781317681984
1317681983
1138775789
9781138775787
9781315773629
1315773627