Worldmaking
Literature, language, culture
Published on 19. January 2017
Book
Hardback
235 pages
978-90-272-0132-4 (ISBN)
Description
In 1978, Nelson Goodman explored the relation of "worlds" to language and literature, formulating the term, "worldmaking" to suggest that many other worlds can as plausibly exist as the "world" we know right now. We cannot catch or know "the world" as such: all we can catch are the world versions - descriptions, views or workings of the world - that are expressed in symbolic systems (words, music, dancing, visual representations). Over the twenty-five years since then, creative works have played a crucial role in realigning, reshaping and renegotiating our understandings of how worlds can be made and preserved in the face of globalizing trends.
The volume is divided into three sections, each engaging with worlds as malleable constructs. 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?
The volume is divided into three sections, each engaging with worlds as malleable constructs. 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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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Weight
605 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-0132-4 (9789027201324)
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Content
1. Series editor's preface; 2. Acknowledgements; 3. Contributors; 4. Worldmaking: An Introduction (by Clark, Tom); 5. Part I: Case Studies in Time: Towards a Poetics of Worldmaking; 6. New worlds in Lanval and Sir Launfal (by Shaw, Jan); 7. Women's Worldmaking in the subtext of Malory's Morte D'Arthur (by Knowles, Emma); 8. Unsilencing Elizabeth Cary: Worldmaking in The Tragedy of Mariam, Fair Queen of Jewry (by Schafer, Elizabeth); 9. The Wor(l)d-Making of Centenarian Poets: Mado Michio and Shibata Toyo (by Aoyama, Tomoko); 10. All the Presidents' poems: USA Presidents Quoting Poems in their Speeches since 1860 (by Henriss-Anderssen, Sasha); 11. Part II: Reconfiguring Boundaries: Philosophy, Literature, and Worldmaking in the Arts; 12. Of Private Selves and Public Morals: Rorty on Philosophy and Literature in Modernity (by Llanera, Tracy); 13. My World or Yours? Otherness and the Construction of Culture: Hegel, Levinas, Blanchot (by Finlay, Emily); 14. Earthing the World: The Artwork of Lorraine Connelly-Northey (by Mules, Warwick); 15. Australian Indigenous Art and Literature (by Butler, Sally); 16. Art, Detritus and Global Change (by Holland, Allison); 17. The Sadness of the City: Reflections on Shanghai and Istanbul (by Cain, Deborah); 18. Part III: Breaking Boundaries: Worldmaking and World Literatures; 19. Katherine Mansfield and World Literature (by During, Simon); 20. Creating the French world of the Channel Islands in "Note Viaer Lingo" (by Goodall, Peter); 21. Geocriticism and fictional worlds of Jhumpa Lahiri and Kazuo Ishiguro (by Wong, Cynthia F.); 22. Rethinking hybridity: Amputated Selves in Asian Diasporic Identity Formation (by Yu Zong, Emily); 23. Humanitarian Scripts in the World Novel (by Ganguly, Debjani); 24. Bibliography; 25. Index