Essays about: "Pascale Casanova"

Found 2 essays containing the words Pascale Casanova.

1. 1. The Reception of Mo Yan in the British and North American Literary Centers

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Victoria Xiaoyang Liu; [2015]
   Keywords : Mo Yan; reception; reader-response criticism; horizon of expectation; interpretive communities; Pascale Casanova; discourse; hegemony;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates the two major conflicting modes of interpretation applied to Mo Yan’s literary texts diachronically and synchronically in order to reveal both the aesthetic imperative and the liberating force of the British and North American literary centers in receiving literature from the periphery. After an introduction to the centers’ disparate responses to the paradigmatic shift of the local Chinese literary trend in the 1980s, the thesis continues with a theoretical discussion on reader-response theory and the uneven power relations between the literary center and the periphery. READ MORE

3. 2. In orbit: Roberto Bolaño and world literature

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Friðrik Sólnes Jónsson; [2015]
   Keywords : World literature; Roberto Bolaño; 2666; The Savage Detectives; Latin America; Márquez; The Boom; Pascale Casanova; Franco Moretti; Mads Rosendahl Thomsen; Seattle; Amazon;

   Abstract : Chilean author Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) has achieved considerable critical and commercial success among a global English readership. Breaking into the US market, which has an important mediating role for the international circulation of texts, is a rare feat for a non-Anglophone author and requires some explanation. READ MORE