
Worldmaking
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- 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
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