Travelling World Literature Concepts: David Damrosch Translated Into Romanian

December 9, 2024

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Name: Roxana EICHEL
Affiliation: University of Bucharest, Romania
Contact: roxana.eichel@litere.unibuc.ro

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Citation Recommendation: Eichel, Roxana. â€œTravelling World Literature Concepts: David Damrosch Translated Into Romanian”. Synthesis, 3 / 2024: 207-216.
Pages: 207-2016
Language: English
URL:https://synthesis.ro/pdf/2024/3/16_Eichel.pdf

Abstract

This article briefly explores some of the current main theoretical frameworks in studying world literature, with a focus on David Damrosch’s recent books Comparing the Literatures (2020) and Around the World in 80 Books (2020). As both of these works have been translated into Romanian in 2023, the travelling notion of world literature and its particular horizons and possible meanings in Romanian raise questions about the concept’s “refractions” and nuances in local and regional contexts. I argue that although Damrosch’s reception in Romanian academia long predates his translation into Romanian language, there is still little consensus with regard to appropriate equivalents of world literature concepts in Romanian. In a small national culture which still negotiates its positions within the networks of world literature, responses to major paradigms can be shaped not just epistemologically, but also ideologically.

Key-words: travelling theory, translation, world literature, David Damrosch, “literatură mondială”

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