Canon and World Literature
Series Editor
Zhang Longxi
City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
World literature is indeed the most exciting new phenomenon in literary studies today. It is on the rise as the economic, political, and demographic relationships and balances are changing rapidly in a globalized world. A new concept of world literature is responding to such changes and is advocating a more inclusive and truly global conceptualization of canonical literature in the worlds different literary and cultural traditions. With a number of anthologies, monographs, companions, and handbooks already published and available, there is a real need to have a book series that convey to interested readers what the new concept of world literature is or should be. To put it clearly, world literature is not and cannot be the simple conglomeration of all the literary works written in the world, but only the very best works from the worlds different literatures, particularly literary traditions that have not been well studied beyond their native environment. That is to say, world literature still needs to establish its canon by including great works of literature not just from the major traditions of Western Europe, but also literary traditions in other parts of the world as well as the minor or insufficiently studied literatures in Europe and North America.
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Marko Juvan
Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Canon and World Literature
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Acknowledgments
In this book, which is partly based on the ideas of my Slovenian monograph
Preernovska struktura in svetovni literarni sistem (The Preernian Structure and the Literary World System, Ljubljana: LUD Literatura, 2012), I have rewritten, adapted, and updated more or less extensive segments of the texts in English that have been previously published under the following titles:
World Literature(s) and Peripheries. In: Marko Juvan, Literary Studies in Reconstruction: An Introduction to Literature. Frankfurt/M. etc.: P. Lang, 2011. Pp. 7386. Peter Lang.
Introduction to World Literatures from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 15.5 (December 2013). Web. Purdue University Press.
Worlding Literatures between Dialogue and Hegemony. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 15.5 (December 2013). Web. Purdue University Press.
The Crisis of Late Capitalism and the Renaissance of World Literature. In: Irma Ratiani, ed. National Literatures and the Process of Cultural Globalization . Tbilisi: Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian literature, 2014. Pp. 2133.
Peripheries and the World System of Literature: A Slovenian Perspective. In: Amaury Dehoux, ed. Centres et priphries de la littrature mondiale . Saint-Denis: Connaissances et Savoirs, 2018. Pp. 91118. ed. Connaissances et Savoirs.
Perspectivizing World Literature. Literaturna misal 61.1 (2018): 319.
Literary Self-Referentiality and the Formation of the National Literary Canon: The Topoi of Parnassus and Elysium in the Slovene Poetry of the 18th and 19th Centuries. Transl. Marta Pirnat Greenberg. Neohelicon: Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum 31.1 (2004): 113123. Springer Nature.
Romanticism and National Poets on the Margins of Europe: Preeren and Hallgrmsson. In: Sonja Stojmenska-Elzeser et al., eds. Literary Dislocations . Skopje: Institute of Macedonian Literature, 2012. Pp. 592600.
World Literature in Carniola: Transfer of Romantic Cosmopolitanism and the Making of National Literature. Transl. Jean McCollister. In: Jri Talvet, ed. World Literature and National Literatures (Interlitteraria, 17). Tartu: Tartu University Press, 2012. Pp. 2749.
In the Background of the Alphabet War: Slovenian-Czech Interliterary Relations and World Literature. Transl. Jean McCollister. In: Liina Lukas, ed. Taming World Literature (Interlitteraria, 20, 1). Tartu: University of Tartu Press, 2015. Pp. 148158.
The Nation between the Epic and the Novel: France Preerens the Baptism on the Savica as a Compromise World Text. Transl. Mojca orli and Neville Hall. Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 42.4 (2015): 382395. CRCL/RCLC.
The Aesthetics and Politics of Belonging: National Poets between Vernacularism and Cosmopolitanism. Arcadia: Zeitschrift fur vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft 52.1 (2017): 1028. de Gruyter.
I would like to thank Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian literature, Institute of Macedonian Literature, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Peter Lang, Purdue University Press, de Gruyter, Connaissances et Savoirs, Springer Nature, University of Tartu Press, and Canadian Review of Comparative Literature (CRCL/RCLC) for their permissions to use my texts published in their editions.
I am most grateful to Professor Zhang Longxi, the editor of the series Canon and World Literature, for his care and confidence. I would also like to express my gratitude to Ms. Sara Crowley-Vigneau, the responsible editor of my book, and Ms. Connie Li, the editorial assistant, for all their support during the preparation of this book.