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9 - Does Poetry Make Worlds?

from Part II - Thinking the World

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2021

By
Eric Hayot
Edited by
Debjani Ganguly
Debjani Ganguly
Affiliation:
University of Virginia
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Summary

The debates about world literature tend to focus on the way literature moves in the world, the way it interacts with a world that is already “out there” relative to the actual content of the literary work. I focus here instead on the way that literature makes worlds, and on the ways that these processes of world-making point us towards a way of thinking about “world” literature that sees the latter term as an active participant in the construction of the former—or rather, in the construction of many types of the former term. The particular test case for investigation is the Chinese poetic genre known as the fu.

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World literaturepoetryChinese fublazondescription
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The Cambridge History of World Literature , pp. 201 - 214
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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