Synthesis Issue 3 / 2024

December 9, 2024

Table of Contents:

Anthony TELLO

The Literary Machine”. The Victorian Case for World Literature / 7

Dan SHAO

Cultural Transfer and the Re-representation of Reality: Barn Burning in Faulkner, Murakami, and Lee Chang-dong’s Film / 25

Sylvia GARCIA-PALURO

Proximity and Dis/placement. Interrogating Space in Roza Tumba Quema by Claudia Hernández and Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina García / 50

Sérgio DAS-NEVES

The Literatures of the World in Herberto Helder / 68

Marjan MOHAMMADI

Weltliteratur and the Figure of Author-Translator in The Adventures Of Hajji Baba / 81

Alina BAKO

Balkan World Literature: A Romanian Perspective / 100

Gina PUICĂ

La peur de rater en tant que Roumain, un mobile de sa réussite littéraire / 115

Hongyu CHEN

Rewriting Media and Literary Space in the Metropolis: Immigrant Writings in London across Centuries / 125

Shiqian ZHOU

Navigating Literary Controversies: A Rereading of Mo Yan’s Frog in the Global Literary Landscape / 146

Muguraș CONSTANTINESCU

Portrait d’un comparatiste : Yves Chevrel / 162

Pascale CASANOVA & Tiphaine Samoyault

Entretien sur La République mondiale des lettres / 177

David DAMROSCH & Cezar Gheorghe

On World Literature with David Damrosch / 184

Franco MORETTI & The Editorial Team

Quel che è fatto è fatto». An interview with Franco Moretti / 191

Franco MORETTI

Insoumise / 202

Roxana EICHEL

Travelling World Literature Concepts: David Damrosch Translated Into Romanian / 207

Mircea MARTIN

On Translating and Worlding / 219

NOTICES BIBLIOGRAPHIQUES

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Galin Tihanov, The birth and death of literary theory. Regimes of Relevance in Russia and beyond, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019, 258 p (Senida POENARIU)

Carmen Brăgaru, Ana-Maria Brezuleanu (coord.); Carmen Brăgaru; Ana-Maria Brezuleanu, Ileana Ciocârlie; Cristina Deutsch (coautori), Bibliografia relațiilor literaturii române cu literaturile străine în periodice (1945–1964), vol. I, București: Editura Academiei Române, 2023, 454 p (Bianca BURTĂ-CERNAT)

Muguraș Constantinescu, Daniel Dejica, Titela Vîlceanu (coord.), O istorie a traducerilor în limba română, București: Editura Academiei Române, vol. I, 2021, 1440 p., vol. II, 2022, 2152 p.; vol. III, Suceava, Editura Universității “Ștefan cel Mare”, 2023, 878 p. (Daniela CĂTĂU-VEREȘ)

Magda Dragu, Form and Meaning in Avant-Garde Collage and Montage, London and New York: Routledge, 2020, 256 p (Alexandra VRÂNCEANU)