Title: Mapping poetry: poem anthologies and the modelling of world literature
Abstract: How can Weltliteratur [world literature] be presented and mediated? How can the editor and commentator outline the cultural contexts to which texts belong without distracting the reader from his or her aesthetic experience? And how can the mediator avoid interpreting and commenting on the texts presented from the perspective of his or her own specific and restricted cultural system? The different answers given to these and similar questions are related to quite different concepts of poetry and literature. World poetry anthologies can be regarded as programmatic manifestations of such ideas. In this article, I shall briefly compare a number of poetry anthologies from different cultures. In the examples selected, dominant metaphorical concepts – already indicated by the anthology titles – are adopted in order to convey ideas about ‘world literature’ and to shape the reader’s perception. A special emphasis is placed on topographical concepts and space-related perspectives. Some titles, as well as the structu...
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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