Transcontextual gestures: a lyric approach to the world of literature
What if one thinks not in terms of shared meanings or contents, but rather in terms of iterable <i>gestures</i> available for re-enactment in different times and places in order to conceive of a cross-cultural world of literature? This essay sets out to explore, within the discursive mod...
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ICI Berlin Press
2021
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| Summary: | What if one thinks not in terms of shared meanings or contents, but rather in terms of iterable <i>gestures</i> available for re-enactment in different times and places in order to conceive of a cross-cultural world of literature? This essay sets out to explore, within the discursive mode of the lyric, whether the notion of gesture could be more helpful than meaning-based translation to account for the transferability of literary texts and for envisioning a form of community based on the shareability of certain gestures. To do so, it will look at how the <i>act-event</i> of reading described by Derek Attridge is processed in two cases in which poems are transferred from an earlier authoritative tradition into a new one. |
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