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Neohelicon 

Springer Science+Business Media
About: Neohelicon is an academic journal published by Springer Science+Business Media. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Comparative literature & Narrative. It has an ISSN identifier of 0324-4652. Over the lifetime, 1514 publications have been published receiving 2660 citations.


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Ning Wang1
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors argue that comparative literature in China is still very energetic playing a leading role in Chinese-Western cultural and academic exchange and communication, and they also argue that even in the age of globalization, comparative literature studies in China are still flourishing as it is closely related to or even combined with world literature into one discipline, with many of the internationally discussed theoretic topics "globalized" in the Chinese context.
Abstract: Starting with questioning Gayatri Spivak's controversial book Death of a Discipline, the present article tries to argue that unlike the case in the United States, comparative literature in China is still very energetic playing a leading role in Chinese-Western cultural and academic exchange and communication. Although, to the author, comparative literature in China did not become an independent discipline until the 1980s, it has been developing so rapidly that it was soon involved in international comparative literature scholarship and has become an important member of the International Comparative Literature Association. Since comparative literature became an independent discipline in mainland China in the 1980s, it has been both combined with “area studies” with its focus on Chinese-Western comparative studies and with the strategy of “crossing borders” and more topics from other disciplines or branches of learning. Even in the age of globalization when many of the other disciplines of the humanities are severely challenged, comparative literature studies in China is still flourishing as it is closely related to or even combined with world literature into one discipline, with many of the internationally discussed theoretic topics “globalized” in the Chinese context.

283 citations

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TL;DR: The very notion that texts compose classes has been questioned by modern literary theory and practice as mentioned in this paper, and the assumption that members of a genre share a common trait or traits has also been questioned.
Abstract: I CALL THIS PAPER "History and Genre" though history is a genre and genre has a history. It is this interweaving between history and genre that I seek to describe. In The Political Unconscious Fredric Jameson wrote that genre criticism has been "thoroughly discredited by modern literary theory and practice."' There are at least three reasons for this. First, the very notion that texts compose classes has been questioned. Secondly, the assumption that members of a genre share a common trait or traits has been questioned, and thirdly, the function of a genre as an interpretative guide has been questioned.

104 citations

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TL;DR: This article argued that world literature is best identified in terms not of the value of authors and works, nor of the situations portrayed through the characters and plots, but of the nature of the readerly experience.
Abstract: David Damrosch’s writings on world literature envision readers “making themselves at home abroad.” This essay argues against his Thoreauvian optimism, given a world that is too large to grasp or to become a home. World literature cannot be naturalized. Drawing on examples from Leibniz, Achebe, Walcott, and Petrarch, the essay proposes that world literature is best identified in terms not of the value of authors and works, nor of the situations portrayed through the characters and plots, but of the nature of the readerly experience. It examines the style of representation in world literature, which Brian Lennon’s book In Babel’s Shadow productively characterizes as a kind of kitsch reflecting a struggle to communicate. World literature is not, as Damrosch says, “writing that gains in translation,” but writing that retains its alienness even in the original.

41 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss children's environmental literature from the intersecting standpoints of animal studies, environmental justice, and ecofeminist literary criticism, and offer six boundary conditions for an ecopedagogy of children’s environmental literature.
Abstract: Beginning with a review of ecocriticism’s scholarly and activist origins and development through the related fields of eco-composition, ecofeminist literary criticism, and environmental justice literary studies, this essay discusses children’s environmental literature from the intersecting standpoints of animal studies, environmental justice, and ecofeminist literary criticism. From that intersectional standpoint, the essay raises three central questions for examining children’s environmental literature, and offers six boundary conditions for an ecopedagogy of children’s environmental literature.

38 citations

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TL;DR: This article presented at the conference 'Literary Histories and the development of identities' sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada involving members of the I.L.A. Coordinating Committee at Queen's University, Canada, in the Fall of 2001.
Abstract: Paper presented at the conference 'Literary Histories and the Development of Identities' sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada involving members of the I.C.L.A. Coordinating Committee at Queen's University, Canada, in the Fall of 2001.

31 citations

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No. of papers from the Journal in previous years
YearPapers
202320
202271
202155
202050
201944
201849