128th MLA Annual Convention Boston, 3–6 January 2013#
Perspectivizing World Literature
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A special sessionSunday, 06 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 202, Hynes
Presiding: Marko Juvan, Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Acad. of Sciences and Arts
Speakers: David Damrosch, Harvard Univ.; Theo L. D’haen, Leuven Univ.; Jeanne E. Glesener, Univ. of Luxembourg; Kristine Kotecki, Univ. of Texas, Austin; Sowon S. Park, Univ. of Oxford, Corpus Christi Coll.; Galin Tihanov, Univ. of London; Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, Purdue Univ. Press
As a glocalized network, world literature has been produced, disseminated, perceived, used, and canonized through multiple geocultural perspectives. How were particular literary practices (imperial, metropolitan, peripheral, or transnational) positioned and circulated in the asymmetrical system of world literature? How do we study literature’s globalism from a truly comparative perspective? PerspectivizingWL_MLA_abstracts_3.pdf