Transformative Fictions

World Literature and Personal Change

Daniel Just

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English

Routledge
29 January 2024

linguistics; Literary theory; Humanities; Media studies

Series: Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature

Transformative Fictions: World Literature and Personal Change engages with current debates in world literature over the past twenty years, addressing the nature of literary influence in centers and peripheries, the formation of transnational literary and pedagogical canons, and the role of translation and regionalism in how we relate to texts from around the globe.

The author, Daniel Just, argues for a supranational but sub-global perspective of regions that emphasizes practical reasons for reading and focuses on the potential of literary texts to stimulate personal transformation in readers. One of the recurring dilemmas in these debates is the issue of delimitation of world literature. The trouble with the world as a frame of reference is that no single researcher is bound to have the in-depth knowledge and linguistic skills to discuss works from all countries. In response, this book revives literary theory and recasts it for the purposes of world literature, by making a case for the continuing relevance of literature in the age of new media. With the examples of fictional and nonfictional writings by Milan Kundera, Witold Gombrowicz and Bohumil Hrabal, Just shows that regional literatures offer differing methods of activating readers and thereby prompting personal change.

This book would be of general interest to anyone who wants to explore personal change through literature but is particularly indispensable for literary professionals, researchers, and postgraduate and graduate students.

By: Daniel Just
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032290157
ISBN 10: 1032290153
Series: Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature
Pages: 228
Publication Date: 29 January 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Daniel Just is Associate Professor at Bilkent University. He is the author of Literature, Ethics, and Decolonization in Postwar France: The Politics of Disengagement (Cambridge, 2015) and articles in journals including New Literary History, Poetics Today, MLN, Comparative Literature, Modern Language Review, and Philosophy and Literature.