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Worldmaking
Literature, language, culture
Editors
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?
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?
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 5] 2017. xv, 235 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 24 January 2017
Published online on 24 January 2017
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Series editor’s preface | pp. ix–x
- Acknowledgements | pp. xi–xii
- Contributors | pp. xiii–xvi
- Worldmaking: An IntroductionTom Clark, Emily Finlay and Philippa Kelly | pp. 1–12
- Part I: Case Studies in Time: Towards a Poetics of Worldmaking
- New worlds in Lanval and Sir LaunfalJan Shaw | pp. 15–30
- Women’s Worldmaking in the subtext of Malory’s Morte D’ArthurEmma Knowles | pp. 31–40
- Unsilencing Elizabeth Cary: Worldmaking in The Tragedy of Mariam, Fair Queen of JewryElizabeth Schafer | pp. 41–54
- The Wor(l)d-Making of Centenarian Poets: Mado Michio and Shibata ToyoTomoko Aoyama | pp. 55–66
- All the Presidents’ poems: USA Presidents Quoting Poems in their Speeches since 1860Sasha Henriss-Anderssen and Tom Clark | pp. 67–74
- Part II: Reconfiguring Boundaries: Philosophy, Literature, and Worldmaking in the Arts
- Of Private Selves and Public Morals: Rorty on Philosophy and Literature in ModernityTracy Llanera | pp. 77–86
- My World or Yours? Otherness and the Construction of Culture: Hegel, Levinas, BlanchotEmily Finlay | pp. 87–98
- Earthing the World: The Artwork of Lorraine Connelly-NortheyWarwick Mules | pp. 99–106
- Australian Indigenous Art and LiteratureSally Butler | pp. 107–116
- Art, Detritus and Global ChangeAllison Holland | pp. 117–132
- The Sadness of the City: Reflections on Shanghai and IstanbulDeborah Cain | pp. 133–144
- Part III: Breaking Boundaries: Worldmaking and World Literatures
- Katherine Mansfield and World LiteratureSimon During | pp. 147–168
- Creating the French world of the Channel Islands in "Note Viaer Lingo"Peter Goodall | pp. 169–178
- Geocriticism and fictional worlds of Jhumpa Lahiri and Kazuo IshiguroCynthia F. Wong | pp. 179–188
- Rethinking hybridity: Amputated Selves in Asian Diasporic Identity FormationEmily Yu Zong | pp. 189–200
- Humanitarian Scripts in the World NovelDebjani Ganguly | pp. 201–214
- Bibliography
- Index | pp. 229–235
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