Theo D'haen
KU Leuven, Literary Studies, Faculty Member
- Literary studies, Education, Comparative Literature, Popular Culture, Translation Studies, Translation, and 11 moreEuropean Union, World Literatures, World Literature, Intercultural dialogue, InterCultural Studies, Literary History, XVIII century, Popular Romance Studies, Literary Genres, Anthology, and The Romance Noveledit
Under the impact of globalization the study and teaching of the social sciences and humanities is rapidly changing. In many ways, what we see is a growing transfer of research, knowledge, and method from the West to other parts of the... more
Under the impact of globalization the study and teaching of the social sciences and humanities is rapidly changing. In many ways, what we see is a growing transfer of research, knowledge, and method from the West to other parts of the world, and in first instance China. This development is steered by far-reaching changes in the organization of higher education in both the West and in this case China, changes that in themselves have to do with changing economic conditions, and political decisions following from them, as the result of globalization. In the final part of the present article I focus upon how this works out in one particular field or disciplines in the humanities: world literature. 1
This article appears in slightly different form in Anglia 135(1): 35-50. When citing please refer to the printed version. Abstract Analogous to other coinages such as Francophone, Hispanophone, Lusophone and of late also Sinophone... more
This article appears in slightly different form in Anglia 135(1): 35-50. When citing please refer to the printed version. Abstract Analogous to other coinages such as Francophone, Hispanophone, Lusophone and of late also Sinophone literature, Anglophone literature is customarily taken to be literature produced by authors writing in English but themselves, for whatever reason, not considered 'Anglo', whether of the UK or the US brand, but issuing from the 'periphery', usually the former British Empire. However, as the hyphen in my title's use of the term indicates, I will also take a look at 'Anglo' – literature in the narrow sense, that is to say literature produced in the 'core' of the English-speaking world, the UK and the US, hence: Anglo-phone literature(s). I will do so from the perspective of 'global literature' studies, a term and an approach I see as following and building upon comparative literature, postcolonial studies and world literature, and which I see as adequate and appropriate to the age of 'globalisation'.
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Nine meditations on the future of humanities with my two contributions on Digital humanities and The Posthuman. The full abstract: What might Humanities have to offer to the current big societal and technological challenges? The nine... more
Nine meditations on the future of humanities with my two contributions on Digital humanities and The Posthuman. The full abstract:
What might Humanities have to offer to the current big societal and technological challenges? The nine short position papers presented here were collected by Svend Erik Larsen from colleagues and members of the Academia Europaea Section for
Literary and Theatrical Studies who have been actively involved in the changes within their discipline in the areas they introduce. They show emerging interdisciplinary fields, provide new insights, indicate significant cultural achievements and forge new
collaborations in order to shape the outlines of the research landscape of the 21st century. Their main concern is not the future of Humanities, but the future with Humanities.
What might Humanities have to offer to the current big societal and technological challenges? The nine short position papers presented here were collected by Svend Erik Larsen from colleagues and members of the Academia Europaea Section for
Literary and Theatrical Studies who have been actively involved in the changes within their discipline in the areas they introduce. They show emerging interdisciplinary fields, provide new insights, indicate significant cultural achievements and forge new
collaborations in order to shape the outlines of the research landscape of the 21st century. Their main concern is not the future of Humanities, but the future with Humanities.
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Taking my initial cue from a debate on canons of Dutch-language literature as recently conducted in the Dutch and Flemish media, I will move on to a more general discussion of the nature of canons and the uses to which they are put. I... more
Taking my initial cue from a debate on canons of Dutch-language literature as recently conducted in the Dutch and Flemish media, I will move on to a more general discussion of the nature of canons and the uses to which they are put. I will then relate this to presently ongoing re/considerations of national, European, and world literature (s), with particular attention to the issue of a/the European canon(s) in the light of an expanding and integrating European Union.
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... 11 'Other' Detectives: the Emergence of Ethnic Crime Writing 175 Contemporary ethnic detectives 176 African American crime writing: Walter Mosley's Easy... more
... 11 'Other' Detectives: the Emergence of Ethnic Crime Writing 175 Contemporary ethnic detectives 176 African American crime writing: Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins 178 Dale Furutani's Ken Tanaka 183 Twice marginalized: ethnicity and sexuality 185 The past revisited: Robert ...
Text to Reader seeks to find a critical approach that links a novel's form to its socio-cultural context. Combining elements from Iser's reception aesthetics, speech act theory, and Goffman's frame analysis,... more
Text to Reader seeks to find a critical approach that links a novel's form to its socio-cultural context. Combining elements from Iser's reception aesthetics, speech act theory, and Goffman's frame analysis, this book starts from the assumption that a reader has certain ...
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Ever since its appearance, Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote has exerted a powerful influence on the artistic imagination all around the world. This cross-cultural volume offers important new readings of canonical reinterpretations of the... more
Ever since its appearance, Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote has exerted a powerful influence on the artistic imagination all around the world. This cross-cultural volume offers important new readings of canonical reinterpretations of the Quixote: from Unamuno to Borges, from Ortega y Gasset to Calvino, from Mark Twain to Carlos Fuentes. But to the prestigious list of well-known authors who acknowledged Cervantes’ influence, it also adds new and surprising names, such as that of Subcomandante Marcos, who gives a Cervantine twist to his Mexican Zapatista revolution. Attention is paid to successful contemporary authors such as Paul Auster and Ricardo Piglia, as well as to the forgotten voice of the Belgian writer Joseph Grandgagnage. The volume breaks new ground by taking into consideration Belgian music and Dutch translations, as well as Cervantine procedures in Terry Gilliam’s Lost in La Mancha. In all, this book constitutes an indispensable guide for the further study of the Quixote’s Nachleben and offers exciting proposals for rereading Cervantes.
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Edited by César Domínguez, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, and Theo D’haen, KU Leuven In recent years postnational theory has become a primary tool for the analysis of European integration. Though interpretations of the concept... more
Edited by César Domínguez, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, and Theo D’haen, KU Leuven
In recent years postnational theory has become a primary tool for the analysis of European integration. Though interpretations of the concept vary, there is a wide consensus about postnationalism as a way to forge a European identity beyond a particular national history. In line with the German historical context in which this key concept was formulated in the first place, postnationalism is considered to be an adaptation of Kantian cosmopolitanism to the conditions of the modern world. This collection of essays is the first to systematically and comparatively explore the links between postnationalism and cosmopolitanism within the context of the “New Europe”.
In recent years postnational theory has become a primary tool for the analysis of European integration. Though interpretations of the concept vary, there is a wide consensus about postnationalism as a way to forge a European identity beyond a particular national history. In line with the German historical context in which this key concept was formulated in the first place, postnationalism is considered to be an adaptation of Kantian cosmopolitanism to the conditions of the modern world. This collection of essays is the first to systematically and comparatively explore the links between postnationalism and cosmopolitanism within the context of the “New Europe”.
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... A Parallel between Michel Foucault and Harold Bloom 111 ZAKARIA FATIH, The Literary Canon and its Religious Precursor 121 FRÉDÉRIC CANOVAS, Against the Canon: Jean Cocteau or the Rise of the Gay Cultural Icon 133 MAGDA RĂDUŢĂ, The Day... more
... A Parallel between Michel Foucault and Harold Bloom 111 ZAKARIA FATIH, The Literary Canon and its Religious Precursor 121 FRÉDÉRIC CANOVAS, Against the Canon: Jean Cocteau or the Rise of the Gay Cultural Icon 133 MAGDA RĂDUŢĂ, The Day Before, the Day After. ...
In Literature for Europe? leading scholars from around Europe reflect on the role played by literature, and by the study of literature, in the constant re-negotiation and re-construction of cultural identities in Europe implied by the... more
In Literature for Europe? leading scholars from around Europe reflect on the role played by literature, and by the study of literature, in the constant re-negotiation and re-construction of cultural identities in Europe implied by the accession to the European Union, in the early ...
Page 1. Page 2. Cultural Identity and Postmodern Writing Page 3. Postmodern Studies 39 Series edited by Theo D'haen and Hans Bertens Page 4. Cultural Identity and Postmodern Writing Edited by Theo D'haen and Pieter Vermeulen... more
Page 1. Page 2. Cultural Identity and Postmodern Writing Page 3. Postmodern Studies 39 Series edited by Theo D'haen and Hans Bertens Page 4. Cultural Identity and Postmodern Writing Edited by Theo D'haen and Pieter Vermeulen Amsterdam-New York, NY 2006 Page 5. ...
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... Caliban in Shakespeare, Renan and Guehenno 81 Ortwin de Graef Browning Born to Wordsworth. ... Roberto Fernandez Retamar and the Postcolonial Debate 245 Chantal Zabus & Kevin A. Dwyer... more
... Caliban in Shakespeare, Renan and Guehenno 81 Ortwin de Graef Browning Born to Wordsworth. ... Roberto Fernandez Retamar and the Postcolonial Debate 245 Chantal Zabus & Kevin A. Dwyer " I'll be wise hereafter." Caliban in Postmodern British Cinema 271 Hedwig ...
Postmodern Studies )) Narrative Turns and Minor Genres in Postmodernism Edited by Theo D'haen and Hans Bertens Page 2. ... Postmodern Studies 11 Narrative Turns and Minor Genres in Postmodernism Edited by Theo D'haen and Hans... more
Postmodern Studies )) Narrative Turns and Minor Genres in Postmodernism Edited by Theo D'haen and Hans Bertens Page 2. ... Postmodern Studies 11 Narrative Turns and Minor Genres in Postmodernism Edited by Theo D'haen and Hans Bertens Amsterdam - Atlanta, GA 1995 ...
... Methuen. 1987); The Post-Colonial Critic (London: Routledge, 1990); The Rani of Sirmur", in Europe and Its Others, 2 Vols, ed. Francis Barker et al (Colchester: University of Els sex, 1985), I, 128-51; "Can the Subaltern... more
... Methuen. 1987); The Post-Colonial Critic (London: Routledge, 1990); The Rani of Sirmur", in Europe and Its Others, 2 Vols, ed. Francis Barker et al (Colchester: University of Els sex, 1985), I, 128-51; "Can the Subaltern Speak? ...
Page 1. In Colonial and Post-Colonial Literatures Edited by larfoot and Theo D'haen 1 TUDBES IN LITERATURE 11 Page 2. Page 3. Shades Empire STUDIES IN LITERATURE 11 Series Editors FGAM Aarts -J. Bakker - CC... more
Page 1. In Colonial and Post-Colonial Literatures Edited by larfoot and Theo D'haen 1 TUDBES IN LITERATURE 11 Page 2. Page 3. Shades Empire STUDIES IN LITERATURE 11 Series Editors FGAM Aarts -J. Bakker - CC Barfoot M. Buning - G. Janssens - WJ Meys Page 4. ...
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Genre Conventions in Postmodern Fiction Theo D'haen In Kinds of Literature: An Introduction to the Theory of Genres and Modes, Alastair Fowler (1983: 213) says that" the literature we criticize is never... more
Genre Conventions in Postmodern Fiction Theo D'haen In Kinds of Literature: An Introduction to the Theory of Genres and Modes, Alastair Fowler (1983: 213) says that" the literature we criticize is never the whole. At most we talk about sizable groups of the writers and works of the ...
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Page 1. THE CONSCIENCE OF HUMANKIND Literature and 1 n co-operation wit and Joach Studies in Com Page 2. Page 3. 7EXTX3T Stities in comparative literatarn 27 Series Editors CC Barfoot and Theo D'haen Thi s One... more
Page 1. THE CONSCIENCE OF HUMANKIND Literature and 1 n co-operation wit and Joach Studies in Com Page 2. Page 3. 7EXTX3T Stities in comparative literatarn 27 Series Editors CC Barfoot and Theo D'haen Thi s One T6C8-S5K-EBKW Page 4. ...
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... Inquiries and submissions should be addressed to: The Secretary, Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature Instituut voor Algemene Literatuurwetenschap Muntstraat 4, 3512 EV UTRECHT, The Netherlands Volume 24 Theo... more
... Inquiries and submissions should be addressed to: The Secretary, Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature Instituut voor Algemene Literatuurwetenschap Muntstraat 4, 3512 EV UTRECHT, The Netherlands Volume 24 Theo D'haen, Rainer Griibel and Htimut ...
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La parution du recueil d'articles, intitulé Le Cosmopolitisme et le post national. La littérature et la Nouvelle Europe a coïncidé avec la crise financière mondiale et la crise «grecque» au sein de l'Union européenne, avec des tensions... more
La parution du recueil d'articles, intitulé Le Cosmopolitisme et le post national. La littérature et la Nouvelle Europe a coïncidé avec la crise financière mondiale et la crise «grecque» au sein de l'Union européenne, avec des tensions économiques Nord-Sud. C'est ce que nous apprend entre autre l'introduction. J'écris mon commentaire un peu avant le référendum au Royaume-Uni au sujet de l'appartenance du pays à l'Union européenne. Les bouleversements inquiétants, économiques et politiques, dans une alliance telle que l'Union européenne, ont leurs raisons d'être. Pourtant les questions soulevées dans l'ouvrage examiné deviennent encore plus compliquées du fait qu'elles sont conçues et analysées en termes de littérature. En réalité, le principal problème consiste à savoir ce qui est nouveau en matière de littérature dans la nouvelle Europe. L'un des éditeurs du livre, César Domínguez, s'arrête dans ses remarques préliminaires, sur l'importance des concepts des sciences sociales contemporaines, à savoir «l'européanisation», «le cosmopolitisme» et la «Nouvelle Europe» pour la littérature. C'est à ces problèmes théoriques que sont consacrés les premiers articles du recueil, qui tentent de clarifier la collision des concepts du titre.