Goethes Idee der Weltliteratur: Eine historische Vergegenwärtigung

Birus, Hendrik

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“…Utopian or critical? (see Birus, 1995) -or the extent to which his claim was correct for his time. In any case, the concept soon became part and parcel of the political and cultural lexicon, featuring prominently in The Communist Manifesto, where Marx and Engels (1848) presented a parallelism between the role of the bourgeoisie in the configuration of an emerging Weltmarkt ('global market') and of the corresponding Weltliteratur: 'National one-sidedness and narrow-mindedness become more and more impossible, and from the numerous national and local literatures, there arises a world literature ' (p. 16).…”

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‘Expanded translation’ and the construction of meaning: A case study from political activism

Fernández

2023

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Echoing the classical debate on the nature of anthropology as a process of cultural translation, Lydia Liu has claimed that ‘strictly speaking, comparative scholarship that aims to cross cultures can do nothing but translate’. From this perspective, therefore, for an academic working across cultures, research becomes similar to an act of translation. How relevant is this for a contemporary understanding of research within the humanities and the social sciences, but also for social activity at large? Reflecting on the writing process for my recent monograph Translating the Crisis. Politics and Culture in Spain after the 15M (2020), this article will advance the concept of ‘expanded translation’ and its potential usefulness for a more nuanced and complex approach to these issues. By ‘expanded translation’, I understand a process of meaning formation that decisively involves translation but is not limited to it. As the article claims, it has become increasingly unfeasible to chart the circulation of a concept, an idea, or an author exclusively through a predefined set of translated texts in the traditional sense. As such, the construction of meaning and the use of translated concepts, authors, and models implies a collective process, which is non-centralized (multiple agents can join it without previous requirements) yet also unequal (as certain agents enjoy more power and visibility than others). Furthermore, these processes are not only limited to textual exchanges, but do also frequently involve a performative component, as new concepts and ideas are put into practice, which in turn influences their meaning. This process will be exemplified in the article through a sustained reflection on how the concept of the ‘commons’ has been adopted, modified, and used in Spanish politics after the 15-M or ‘indignados’ movement of 2011.

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Section: Heterolingual Audiences: Who Are We Talking To?mentioning

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‘Expanded translation’ and the construction of meaning: A case study from political activism

Fernández

2023

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“…In both cases, the idea was that increased international contacts were about to create a new situation in the literary world, one in which literatures were becoming more intertwined than before. Goethe made himself many thoughts about the consequences of this (see Birus 1995). Marx and Engels just stated, in passing, that the bourgeoisie, by exploiting the world markets, was making everything cosmopolitan, including literature.…”

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On the concept of world literature

Pettersson¹

2022

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“…The concept of world literature, however, only makes sense if we widen our viewpoint and include fruitful exchanges amongst poets, translators, travelers, journalists, researchers and others throughout time, hence not only since the nineteenth century 2 . Although Goethe is quoted many times in this context, we need to go beyond his somewhat far‐reaching, probably amorphous ideals of the original, Greek sources (Strich, 1957; Birus, 1995; Manger, 2003). In fact, the early modern world had already witnessed major efforts to reach out to other cultures well beyond the European confines.…”

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Persia in German Baroque literature—Sa‘dī’s Rose Garden and Adam Olearius’s embassy to Persia

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2021

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It has recently become fashionable again to reflect on world literature, meaning, above all, focusing on the universal exchange of ideas within the literary discourse, because we find ourselves today increasingly in a global framework and are challenged to jettison our traditionally exclusive western perspective and to operate with many more voices from past and present, and in all countries of the world. Goethe had already famously talked about Weltliteratur (1827) in very general terms, and he pursued numerous approaches to this phenomenon himself,

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Goethes Idee der Weltliteratur: Eine historische Vergegenwärtigung

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‘Expanded translation’ and the construction of meaning: A case study from political activism

‘Expanded translation’ and the construction of meaning: A case study from political activism

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