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Worldmaking : literature, language, culture / edited by Tom Clark, Emily Finlay, Philippa Kelly

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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]
Physical Description
xv, 235 pages ; 25 cm.
Additional Creators
Clark, Tom, 1973-, Finlay, Emily, and Kelly, Philippa

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Part I: Case studies in time: towards a poetics of worldmaking -- 1 New worlds in Lanval and Sir Launfal / Jan Shaw -- Women's worldmaking in the subtext of Malory's Morte D'Arthur / Emma Knowles -- 3 Unsilencing Elizabeth Cary: worldmaking in The Tradgedy of Mariam, Fair Queen of Jewry Elizabeth Schafer -- 4 The wor(l)dmaking of centenarian poets: Mado Michi and Shibata Toyo / Tomoko Aoyama -- 5 All the presidents' poems: USA presidents quoting poems in their speeches since 1860 / Sasha Henriss-Anderssen and Tom Clark -- Part II: Reconfiguring boundaries: philosophy, literature and worldmaking in the arts -- 6 Of private selves and public morals: Rorty on philosophy and literature in modernity / Tracy Llanera -- 7 My world or yours? Othernesss and the construction of culture: Hegel, Levinas, Blanchot / Emily Finlay -- 8 Earthing the world: the artwork of Lorraine Connelly-Northey / Warwick Mules -- 9 Australian indigenous art and literature / Sally Butler -- 10 Art, detritus and global change / Allison Holland -- 11 The sadness of the city: reflections on Shanghai and Istanbul / Deborah Cain -- Part III: Breaking boundaries: worldmaking and world literatures -- 12 Katherine Mansfield and world literature / Simon During -- 13 Creating the French world of the Channel Islands in "Note Viaer Lingo" / Peter Goodall -- 14 Geocriticism and fictional worlds of Jhumpa Lahiri and Kazuo Ishiguro / Cynthia F. Wong -- 15 Rethinking hybridity: amputated selves in Asian diasporic identity formation / Emily Yu Zong -- 16 Humanitarian scripts in the world novel / Debjani Ganguly.
Summary
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?
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9789027201324 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
9027201323 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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