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Prologue -- 1. Introduction: Diagnosing the complex -- 2. The Nobel Prize for LIterature: Philosophy and practice -- 3. Ideas of authorship and the Nobel Prize in China, 1900-1976 -- 4. China's search for a Nobel Prize in Literature, 1979-2000 -- 5. The Nobel Prize, 2000 -- Afterword

The article discusses the comparatively young form of written Romani literary self-expression as an example of "minor literature" in Deleuze and Guattari's sense.[1] The focus here is on producing a classifying survey of the literary production of Romani writers in France and Spain, with the article outlining the different aesthetic fields and literary forms evident in French and Spanish Romani literature. The comparative approach reveals thatdespite regional and national differences, these minor literatures demonstrate several aesthetic similarities typical of Romani literature that could ultimately come to define the transnational, cross-border characteristics of Romani literature. Furthermore, I show that there are literary tendencies in contemporary Romani literatures that go beyond the usual forms of establishing literary self-expression in diasporic cultural productions or aesthetic appropriation of major society's literary traditions, so that Romani literatures in French and Spanish should, I argue, also be seen as part of world literature.
1 It is important to emphasize that the potentially offending implications of the evaluative use of the term "minor" is by no means hinted at in Deleuze and Guattari: The French "literature mineure" does not indicate lower aesthetic qualities or literary inferiority to majority literature but rather describes a literature produced by writers not (exclusively) belonging to the nation-state in which they live. At the same time, it should be mentioned that the term "small literature," in contrast to minor literatures, means literary expressions from small nations or/and in small languages like, for example, in Bulgarian, Estonian, or Luxembourgish (cf., Glesener 2012).

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The present study compared ways of storytelling in Western and Asian literature. Content analysis was performed on Amazon.com and New York Times best-selling fictions and memoirs (N = 102) by Western and Asian authors. Although authors of the two cultural groups described similar numbers of event episodes per chapter, Western authors depicted the episodes in greater detail than Asian authors in both fictions and memoirs. Asian authors, on the other hand, described more frequently repeated events than Western authors in fictions. These findings highlight the important role of literature in reflecting as well as perpetuating cultural ways of storytelling.

This book presents an innovative approach to research in International Relations by examining12 theoretical contributions to the field as competing narrative bids. It demonstrates the pervasive nature of storytelling and considers narratives as a means of causal explanation in the human sciences. By introducing four classic literary plot structures with their respective characters, events, moods and denouements, the book divides IR literature into tragedies, romances/epics, comedies and ironic/satirical stories. For each plot type, its characteristic features, logic and appeal are first reprised through some well-known prose examples before being employed in the analysis of major IR texts. King Lear, for example, helps bring out the tragic logic of Politics among Nations, and Sleeping Beauty demonstrates the romantic appeal inherent in The End of History. Twelfth Night is used to approach The Transformation of Political Community as a comedy, and A Modest Proposal paves the way for the examination of Bananas, Beaches and Bases as irony/satire. Rather than assess the absolute merits and shortcomings of the competing theories, the book discusses the relative strengths and weaknesses of stories that adhere to different plots in giving meaning to actors and events in the international arena. Discussing a broad range of theories, this text will be of interest to scholars and students of International Relations and World Politics, including various subcommunities such as specialists in peace research and Feminist IR.

Literature and the Wadden Sea is a guide for teaching Wadden Sea literature in advanced university courses in Scandinavian, Danish, German or Dutch language and literature or comparative literary studies programmes, and for integrating literature into courses in other disciplines. It can be found at www.waddensealiterature.com . This article lays out the development of this project and the contents and objectives of the Teaching Toolkit. It also suggests how it can be used as a model for teaching that couples literature with other protected places, be they national parks, nature reserves or other places. Finally, it concludes with our initial findings, plans and hopes for the subsequent development of the project.

Time and again students of contemporary Africa have stressed the impact of ideologies on the literary works of contemporary African writers. Authors have also insisted on the imperative need to link closely the study of the new written literature from Africa with the study of the general cultural and political renaissance of the past two or three decades in Africa.

The man of letters as a man of business.--Worries of a winter walk.--Confessions of a summer colonist.--The editor's relations with the young contributor.--Summer isles of Eden.--Wild flowers of the asphalt.--Last days in a Dutch hotel.--Some anomalies of the short story.--A circus in the suburbs.--A she Hamlet.--Spanish prisoners of war.--The midnight platoon.--The beach at Rockaway.--American literary centres.--Sawdust in the arena.--At a dime museum.--American literature in exile.--The horse show.--The problem of the summer.--AEsthetic New York fifty-odd years ago.--From New York into New England.--The standard household-effect company.--Staccato notes of a vanished summer.--The art of the adsmith.--The psychology of plagiarism.--Puritanism in American fiction.--The what and the how of it.--Politics of American authors.--Storage.--"Floating down the river on the O-hi-o." ; Mode of access: Internet.

International audience ; The aim of this article is to investigate several issues related to the renewed social and political commitment of contemporary French literature. The article considers literature's ability to oppose societal normativity as political storytelling through entrusting both individuals and the community with increased acting power, as well as through challenging critics and academics to take part in current debates. Showing that literature can become a tool of individual reconstruction and can recreate social links, or a remedy against various forms of individualism and tendencies towards commodifying the world, the article presents several types of contemporary French works of fiction whose main goals are theorizing, describing, expressing empathy towards those who are confronted with illness, death, exile or terrorism. Several literary works that contest identity or societal labels are added to these, since they help us debate upon and stand up against inequalities or normativity.

International audience ; The aim of this article is to investigate several issues related to the renewed social and political commitment of contemporary French literature. The article considers literature's ability to oppose societal normativity as political storytelling through entrusting both individuals and the community with increased acting power, as well as through challenging critics and academics to take part in current debates. Showing that literature can become a tool of individual reconstruction and can recreate social links, or a remedy against various forms of individualism and tendencies towards commodifying the world, the article presents several types of contemporary French works of fiction whose main goals are theorizing, describing, expressing empathy towards those who are confronted with illness, death, exile or terrorism. Several literary works that contest identity or societal labels are added to these, since they help us debate upon and stand up against inequalities or normativity.