Polish and American literature of the XIX, XX, XXI centuries in the context of World Literature 3001-C0K-LK1
The discussion class will reframe the topic of national literary traditions by considering them from a worldly optic. The course will consider theoretical and methodological approaches to the question of world literature from the past two decades, which will be confronted with concrete literary examples. As our case studies we will examine works belonging to Polish and American literature, considering in a broad context how the texts ordinarily subsumed under these national traditions present themselves anew following a phenomenological “bracketing” of national borders and adoption of a transnational, intercontinental framework of analysis. Tracing a critical genealogy of the concept from Goethe’s formulation of world literature as Weltliteratur to more recent formulations of the world republic of letters (Pascale Casanova), distant reading (Franco Moretti), circulation (David Damrosch), to the critical interventions manifested in ideas of planetarity (Gayatri Spivak) and untranslatability (Emily Apter), the class will apply these notions to consider the worldliness of American and Polish literature.
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