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Westphal's Lecture: Geocriticism and Worldwide World Literature
World Literature has received much attention in the context of globalization in our days. However, due to the relatively dominant position of certain regions, the World Literature currently discussed is strongly influenced by a few cultures and languages, therefore cannot truly cover a worldwide scale. Letting literature have its voice from all over the world without falling into ethnocentrism requires a more macroscopic cultural vision towards Others. Such point of view leads to decentering, which is one of the keys-ideas of geocriticism. The latter encourages a spatial transgressi vity who dissolves barriers between cultural spaces. One shall keep a reasonable distance from his own identity to have a decentered vision towards the whole world, and that is where visual arts such as artistic maps come to help. Interdisciplinary studies among literature, geography and cartography could bring some new inspirations into World Literature.
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La sagesse du passage
The meanings of passage are so many. Most often, they reflect ways of inscribing ourselves in time and space. And since time and space are in constant flux, adapting to the very idea of passage eventually leads us to a wisdom that accommodates metamorphosis, ephemerality and incompleteness. Passages force us to interact. It is precisely this kind of transversal thinking, which defies the idea of fixity, that we will be reflecting on. Under the aegis of Walter Benjamin, the man of the Parisian passages , we'll begin by asking what happens to the word passage in the passage of languages, more specifically, between French, German and Italian. This philological reflection will then lead us to specifically geocritical considerations, aimed at including the examination of representations of human spaces in a dynamic perspective, a flow, a passage. It should be noted that immobility is more a feature of the political construction of places than of the literary perception of spaces . As it is difficult to sum up in a few formulas the different meanings of passage that populate this research, I will confine myself to three occurrences of the term, all of which imply mobility: transgressivity, multifocalization and interdisciplinarity .
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LITERATURE HELPS WORLDING THE WORLD – A CONVERSATION WITH BERTRAND WESTPHAL
In the following interview, Bertrand Westphal, professor of comparative literature at the University of Limoges, discusses some of the prevailing issues surrounding contemporary forays into spatial studies and the function of the humanities in current academia. The dialogue also touches on subiects pertaining to World Literature studies, such as Immanuel Wallerstein's \"world systems analysis\" or Franco Moretti's \"distant reading\" method, in an attempt to propose an applied and pragmatic approach through which geocriticism can become essential to the study of literature. Furthermore, Westphal engages in a highly stimulating examination of common spatial and cultural stereotypes such as Central and Eastern Europe, while also commenting on subiects like the interdependence of time and space in our understanding of cultural phenomena or geocriticism's applicability to both mimetic and abstract spaces.
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Literature Helps Worlding the World – A Conversation with Bertrand Westphal
In the following interview, Bertrand Westphal, professor of comparative literature at the University of Limoges, discusses some of the prevailing issues surrounding contemporary forays into spatial studies and the function of the humanities in current academia. The dialogue also touches on subjects pertaining to World Literature studies, such as Immanuel Wallerstein’s “world systems analysis” or Franco Moretti’s “distant reading” method, in an attempt to propose an applied and pragmatic approach through which geocriticism can become essential to the study of literature. Furthermore, Westphal engages in a highly stimulating examination of common spatial and cultural stereotypes such as Central and Eastern Europe, while also commenting on subjects like the interdependence of time and space in our understanding of cultural phenomena or geocriticism’s applicability to both mimetic and abstract spaces.
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