Pascale Casanova’s World of Letters and Its Legacies 

Brill

Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, Volume: 100

Volume Editors: Gisèle Sapiro and Delia Ungureanu

2022

 

 

 

Présentation de l'éditeur 

Pascale Casanova’s World of Letters and Its Legacies proposes a wide-ranging appraisal of the work, influence and intellectual profile of a major figure in the humanities and social sciences, from sociology to literary theory and criticism. Both a tribute to the life and work of Pascale Casanova and a critical examination of the dissemination of her theoretical ideas around the world and in fields as diverse as world literature, comparative literature, translation studies, and the sociology of literature, the essays selected here are signed by leading scholars in these disciplines including David Damrosch, Claire Ducournau, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Tiphaine Samoyault and Jing Tsu among others. 

 

Gisèle Sapiro is Professor of Sociology at EHESS and at the CNRS, author of The French Writers’ War (2014), La Responsabilité de l’écrivain (2011), La Sociologie de la littérature (2014 ; forth. Stanford UP), Les Ecrivains et la politique en France (2018), and Peut-on dissocier l’œuvre de l’auteur? (2020).
Delia Ungureanu is Associate Director of Harvard’s Institute for World Literature and associate professor at the University of Bucharest. She is the author of Time Regained: World Literature and Cinema (2021), From Paris to Tlön: Surrealism as World Literature (2017), and of Poetica Apocalipsei: Războiul cultural în revistele literare românești (1944–1947) (2012).

 

1 Introduction
 Gisèle Sapiro and Delia Ungureanu

2 Critical Writing: The Value and Cost of Pascale Casanova’s Combative Ethos
 Claire Ducournau

3 Preface to the 2008 Edition of La République mondiale des lettres
 Pascale Casanova; translated by David Damrosch

4 La République mondiale des lettres in the World Republic of Scholarship
 David Damrosch

5 Reading Pascale Casanova’s World Republic of Letters in Eastern Europe
 Magdalena Răduță; translated by Oana Fotache-Dubălaru

6 Heralded Heroes
 Mads Rosendhal Thomsen

7 Pascale Casanova’s Exiles
 Laurent Jeanpierre

8 Samuel Beckett and the World Republic of Letters
 Thirthankar Chakraborty

9 For a Theory of Relay Translations
 Tiphaine Samoyault; translated by Paul Chouchana

10 Linguistic Areas of Literature: Between the World and the Nations
 Tristan Leperlier

11 A Rare Pearl Passed from Hand to Hand: Cosmopolitan Orders and Pre-modern Forms of Literary Domination
 Michiel Leezenberg

12 When Literary Relations End
 Jing Tsu

13 Prizing Francophonie into Existence: The Usurpation of World Literature by the Prix des Cinq Continents
 Madeline Bedecarré