Worldmaking : literature, language, culture / edited by Tom Clark, Emily Finlay, Philippa Kelly.

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Worldmaking; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Series editor's preface; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Worldmaking: An introduction; A foreign language; I. Case studies in time: Towards a poetics of worldmaking; II. Reconfiguring boundaries: Philosophy, literature, and worldmaking in the arts; III. Breaking boundaries: Worldmaking and world literatures; Part I. Case studies in time Towards a poetics of worldmaking; Chapter 1. New worlds in Lanval and Sir Launfal ; Introduction; The king's world; The queen in the king's world; The queen's complaint.

Gwennere's complaintWorldmaking; Chapter 2. Women's worldmaking in the subtext of Malory's Morte D'Arthur; Chapter 3. Unsilencing Elizabeth Cary: Worldmaking in The Tragedy of Mariam, Fair Queen of Jewry; Chapter 4. The wor(l)dmaking of centenarian poets: Mado Michio and Shibata Toyo; Mado Michio; Shibata Toyo; Chapter 5. All the presidents' poems: USA presidents quoting poems in their speeches since 1860; Introduction; Theory and method of speech attitudes; Flights of poetic fancy; Discrepancies between transcript and performance; The diplomatic turn.

Part II. Reconfiguring boundaries: Philosophy, literature, and worldmaking in the arts Chapter 6. Of private selves and public morals: Rorty on philosophy and literature in modernity; Philosophy, literature, and the articulation of modernity; The alliance of philosophy and literature; Rorty: The private and the public; Chapter 7. My world or yours? Otherness and the construction of culture: Hegel, Levinas, Blanchot; Passivity or activity? Levinas and Kojève; Passivity's bind: Blanchot and Eurydice; Chapter 8. Earthing the world: The artwork of Lorraine Connelly-Northey; The wire bowl.

Chapter 9. Australian indigenous art and literatureChapter 10. Art, detritus and global change; Collective trauma, universal language; Doubt in the aftermath; Resonating trauma; The southern currents; Possibilities for the future; Chapter 11. The sadness of the city: Reflections on Shanghai and Istanbul; Reflections on Istanbul; "Achievements"; Conclusion; Part III. Breaking boundaries: Worldmaking and world literatures ; Chapter 12. Katherine Mansfield and world literature; Chapter 13. Creating the French world of the Channel Islands in "Note Viaer Lingo."

Chapter 14. Geocriticism and the fictional worlds of Jhumpa Lahiri and Kazuo IshiguroNegative capability of multiple perspective narratives; Variable time in varied spaces; An evocative world through introspection and fiction; Chapter 15. Rethinking hybridity: Amputated selves in Asian diasporic identity formation; The "curse" of hybridity: Imposition and complicity; Two selves -- The World Waiting to Be Made; Chapter 16. Humanitarian scripts in the world novel; Orpheus and Guantanamo; The sensorium of torture; Remediating humanitarian witnessing; Bibliography.

In 1978, Nelson Goodman explored the relation of "worlds" to language and literature, formulating the term, "worldmaking" to suggest that many other worlds can as plausibly exist as the "world" we know right now. We cannot catch or know "the world" as such: all we can catch are the world versions - descriptions, views or workings of the world - that are expressed in symbolic systems (words, music, dancing, visual representations). Over the twenty-five years since then, creative works have played a crucial role in realigning, reshaping and renegotiating our understandings of how worlds can be made and preserved in the face of globalizing trends. The volume is divided into three sections, each engaging with worlds as malleable constructs. Central to all of the contributions is the question: how can we understand the relationships between natural, political, cultural, fictional, literary, linguistic and virtual worlds, and why does this matter?

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