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A New Global Poetics?
Author(s) -
Huk Romana
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2009.00624.x
Subject(s) - poetics , dozen , reading (process) , literature , empire , comparative literature , philosophy , history , epistemology , aesthetics , poetry , art , linguistics , archaeology , mathematics , arithmetic
The review article considers the last dozen years’ worth of arguments for de‐emphasizing national boundaries in the writing/reading of new poetries. It considers the ways in which such arguments illuminate and are illuminated by debates about the future of comparative literature in general, as well as by trends in literary theory (from Hardt and Negri's Empire to Slavoj Žižek's In Defense of Lost Causes ). The piece moves in anecdotal fashion, charting my own recent invitation to consider whether there is such a thing as a ‘new global poetics’ (ACLA Conference 2007, Puebla, Mexico) and my subsequent, mixed and changing responses to issues that should, by implication, change the way we both teach and write about literature.