Nobel Prize and the Formation of Contemporary World Literature

AvPaul Tenngart

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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An exploration of the history, ambitions, and impact of the Nobel Prize in literature as it gained a central position in 20th-century global literary culture.Few scholars would deny that the Nobel Prize is the most prestigious literary award in the world. But what mechanisms made it possible for 18 Swedish intellectuals to become the world’s most influential literary critics? Paul Tenngart argues that the Nobel Prize in literature has become a special kind of international canonization: exerted from a non-central, semi-peripheral position, the award sometimes confirms and reinforces hierarchical relations between literary languages and cultures, and sometimes disturbs established patterns of dominance and dependence. Drawing from a wide range of contemporary theories and methods, this multifaceted history of the Nobel Prize questions how the Swedish Academy has managed to keep the prize's global status through all the violent international crises of the last 120 years; how the selection of laureates shaped the idea of 'universal' literary values and defined literary quality across languages and cultures; and what impact the prize has had on the distribution and significance of particular works, literatures and languages. The Nobel Prize and the Formation of Contemporary World Literature explores the history and impact of the Nobel Prize in literature from the first award in 1901 through recent controversies involving Bob Dylan and #MeToo, arguing that the prize is a unique performative act that has been – and still is – central in our continual and collective construction of world literature.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-11-02
Mått:160 x 232 x 20 mm
Vikt:520 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781501382123

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Paul Tenngart is Associate Professor in Comparative and Swedish Literature at Lund University, Sweden. He is co-editor of AnthropoScenes: A Climate Fiction Competition (2020) and co-author of Northern Crossings: Translation, Circulation and the Literary Semi-periphery (Bloomsbury, 2022).

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Paul Tenngart’s The Nobel Prize and the Formation of Contemporary World Literature is a comprehensive, insightful, and well-written volume which represents an important contribution to research on the study of international literary prizes and awards and their role in world literature.

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1. The Stockholm ConsecrationRelative ContemporaneityCulture, Capital, Crown – and ScienceCosmopolitan DreamsCanon Formation from the Side2. Entering the Cosmopolitan Scene: The Rise of the PrizeEarly Breakthroughs and Setbacks (1901–1913)Position Re-Established (1914–1929)A Broader Significance (1930–1939)World Consecration (1944–1953)Breaking News (The 1950s and Onwards)Concluding Remarks3. Encompassing Everything: The Scope of the PrizeWorld AmbitionsThe European TemplateBetween Universalism and PluralismThe Problem of AccessThe NominationsThe Actual Distribution of AwardsConcluding Remarks4. Making History: The Impact of the PrizeImpactful AwardsThe UnawardedThe Already CanonizedAn Alternative Literary HistoryNobel Effects and the World Literary SystemShaping the Cosmopolitan SpacePolitical ConsequencesConcluding Remarks5. Defining Literature: The Poetics of the PrizePrize MotivationsThe Role of the Author and the Purpose of LiteratureThe Poetics of GenrePoetics and PoliticsNobel LecturesConcluding Remarks6. Looking Ahead: The Survival of the PrizeCrises EnduredThe Balancing ActLiterary Canonization in an Age of PolarizationAcknowledgmentAppendix: Nobel Laureates in Literature 1901–2022ReferencesIndex

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