Index
A
- Åbo Akademi University,
157
- Académie Française,
207
- Acheampong, General I. K.,
51
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi,
65 (n31)
- Africa,
7, 9
- languages of,
43, 44, 48, 56, 57
- political instability in,
57
- scholars of linguistics in,
54
- African Academy of Languages (ACALAN),
55
- Agder Academy of Sciences and Letters,
59, 68, 70, 71
- membership structure and members of,
60, 69, 71
- Ahoua, Firmin,
52, 53, 57
-
Typologie et Documentation des Langues en Afrique de l’Ouest,
53
- Akan language,
45, 51
- Asante Twi dialect of,
51
-
de facto national language of Ghana,
51
- American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA),
37, 174
- American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS),
25
- Anderson, Benedict,
61 (n8)
- Apter, Emily,
79, 83, 84, 86
-
Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability,
83
- Armstrong, Robert,
48, 49
- Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de América Latina (ALFAL),
174
- Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS),
174
- Association for Rhetoric and Communication in Southern Africa (ARCSA),
174
- Associazione Internazionale per gli Studi di Lingua e Letteratura Italiane (AISLLI),
174
- Australian Academy of the Humanities,
204
-
Mapping the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences,
204
- Australian Universities Languages and Literature Association (AULLA),
5, 174, 207
B
- Babel, Tower of
1, 2, 5, 8, 11, 23, 214
- Bamgbose, Dr. Ayo,
46, 48
- Beecroft, Alexander,
79, 82
- Beijing,
39
- Foreign Studies University of,
124
- University (formerly Peking University),
131
-
Beyond Babel: Scholarly Organizations and the Study of Languages and Literatures,
218
- Bharat, Dr. Meenakshi,
74
-
Bible, the
1, 65, 98, 104, 107
- Bodomo, Adams,
7, 8, 50, 53, 57, 216
- Bolton, Edmund,
20, 21, 22
-
Book of Songs (Shi jing 诗经),
144
- British Comparative Literature Association,
36
- Broomans, Petra,
9, 90, 214, 215
- Bunyan, John
65 (n30)
-
Grace Abounding,
65 (n30)
- Byrne, Catrine Søndergaard,
190
C
- Cai, Li (Lily),
10, 186, 196, 218
- Cambridge Analytica data scandal,
190, 191
- Canadian Comparative Literature Association,
37
- Cape Town, University of,
177
- capitalism,
85, 133
- and “world literature”,
85
- Carr, Professor Karen,
80
- Carter, Angela,
63
- Casanova, Pascale,
79, 82, 84, 85, 86, 92
- Charles, King I of England,
20
- Charles, King II of England,
22
- Charrière, Isabelle de,
35
-
Lettres de Mistriss Henley,
35
- Children’s Literature Association (ChLA),
174, 208
- children’s literature,
14, 92, 94, 170, 184
- China,
9, 10, 16, 94, 114, 116, 119, 148
- Communist Party of (CCP),
117, 128, 131, 132, 133, 136
- Cultural Revolution,
114, 121, 122, 132, 148
- development of written culture in,
84
- education in ,
120, 127, 134, 145, 187
- history of,
114, 117, 120, 121, 128, 130, 131, 133
- humanities in,
129, 132, 135, 136, 137, 147, 187
- learned societies and/or scholarly organization of,
10, 129, 130, 138, 139, 140, 142, 147, 218
- literature of,
82, 116, 119, 122, 128
- non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in,
141
- poetry of,
80, 81, 83, 126
- Reform and Opening Up,
113, 114, 121, 122, 126, 127, 128, 132
- studies of languages and literature in,
10, 119, 120, 122, 124, 125
- and the United States,
12, 122, 125, 126, 144
- China Academy of Social Sciences (CASS),
115, 132, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 146
- Chinese Association for the Study of American Literature (CASAL),
10, 114, 115, 116, 120, 122
- conferences of,
121, 123, 124
- Chinese Association for the Study of Foreign Literature (CASFL),
10, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117
-
New Literary History of the United States in four volumes (四卷本《新编美国文学史》),
125
- publications of,
122, 125, 126
- Chinese language,
119, 130
- Chomsky, Noam,
56, 165, 201
- Christaller, Johann G.,
43
- Christianity,
22, 65 (n29), 104, 110
- Christian literature,
97, 106, 108, 109, 110
- Roman Catholicism,
21, 65, 98
- Coetzee, J.M,
65, 66, 67, 75, 218
-
Elizabeth Costello,
65, 67
- colonialism,
6, 85, 202
- British,
43, 52, 74, 120, 143
- literature as anti-colonial practice,
61, 74
- post-colonialism,
38, 67, 202
- Commission Internationale d’Histoire Littéraire Moderne (CIHLM)
13, 19
- Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession (CSWP),
32, 33, 34
-
Antifeminism in the Academy,
33
- communication,
2, 151, 214
-
Comparative Critical Studies,
37
- comparative literature,
38, 41, 97, 103, 109, 110, 126
-
Comparative Literature Studies,
39
-
Confessions of a Poisoner, Written by Herself,
35
- Confucianism,
82, 104, 126, 130, 144
- cosmopolitanism,
1, 119, 140
- Côte d’Ivoire,
52, 57
- government policy on language learning,
52
- Covid-19 pandemic,
9, 12, 213
- critical race studies,
38
D
- Dagaare-Waale language,
51
E
- Edmund the Martyr, King,
211
- El-Daksh, Dina Abdel Salam,
160
- Elugbe, Ben,
53
-
Typologie et Documentation des Langues en Afrique de l’Ouest,
53
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
121, 126
- English Institute, the,
25, 26, 27
- as “learned society”,
28, 40
- English, James,
87
-
The Economy of Prestige: Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value,
87
- English language
14, 20, 5, 52 (n20), 200
- as lingua franca,
76, 216
- Erasmus, Desiderius,
66, 67, 140
- European Society for the Study of English, the (ESSE),
174, 208
- Euro-centrism,
16, 35, 67, 84, 93, 215, 216
F
- Faulkner, William,
98, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110
- Fédération Internationale de Langues et Littératures Modernes (FILLM)
1, 4, 5, 8, 10, 12, 147, 156, 174, 207
- book series,
18, 19, 21, 169
- Congresses of,
13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 22, 36, 74, 209
- English language and,
14, 15, 16, 18
- history of,
13, 15, 16, 22, 216
- internal organisation,
16
- member organisations of,
15, 17, 20, 25, 74, 170, 173, 174, 189, 197
- on-line presence,
170, 176, 177, 178, 183
- Symposium celebrating the 90th Anniversary of,
7, 110, 171, 175 (n2), 213
- Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters,
19
- Ford Foundation, the,
54, 55, 126
- French language,
14, 52, 52 (n20)
- Fuheng, Wu,
115, 116, 117, 121
G
- Garber, Marjorie,
27, 28, 29, 40
- gender,
36, 216
- as discipline of study,
36
- and economic precarity,
33
- and scholarly organizations,
26
- genre,
78, 82, 88, 89, 93, 95
- historical development of,
91
- Ghana,
46, 48, 51
- government policy on language learning,
51
- Global Rhetoric Society (GRS),
174, 208
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,
79, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 109, 116 (n6)
- Greenberg, Joseph,
44, 46
- Gregory the Great, Saint,
65 (n29)
- Groningen, University of,
88, 90, 94
- Gustav, King III of Sweden,
21
H
- Hall, Geoff,
10, 186, 196, 218
- Harpham, G,
143
-
Texts, People, and/or (Self-)Understanding,
143
- Hartman, Geoffrey,
29, 40
- Harvard University,
27, 40, 115 (n3), 120
- Haskins, Charles Homer,
62, 63
- Hauge, Dr. Halvor Vegard,
69
- Hausa language,
43, 45, 51
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel,
125
- Heidelberg University,
116 (n6)
- Heilbrun, Carolyn,
27, 29, 30
-
Representation of Women in Fiction, the,
30, 40
- Heine, Heinrich,
116 (n6)
- Higonnet, Margaret,
8, 216
-
Representation of Women in Fiction, the,
30, 40
- Humanities, the,
9, 59, 110, 142, 148, 150, 155, 156, 165, 182, 197
- in China,
129, 132, 135, 136, 137, 142, 147
- conflicts within,
65, 149, 150
- digital,
78, 79, 86, 88, 95
I
- Ibadan, University of,
47
- Igbirra-Ebira language,
49
- Indigenous languages,
5, 6, 7
- information technology,
32, 76
- International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA),
154, 156, 174
- International Association for Scandinavian Studies (IASS),
174
- International Association of French Studies (AIEF),
170
- International Association of University Professors of English (IAUPE),
59, 70, 72, 73, 74, 174
- membership structure,
60, 73
- International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA),
25, 26, 36, 37, 174
- and Committee on Gender Studies (CGS),
36, 37, 38, 39, 41
- International Council for Philosophy and the Humanities (CIPSH),
4, 7, 12, 15, 156
- International Institute Charles Perrault, the (IICP),
170
- International Mathematical Union, the,
129
- International Society for the Oral Literatures of Africa (ISOLA),
174
- International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED),
204
- internet, the,
38, 74, 130
- literature available on,
80
- in pedagogical contexts,
78, 94, 95
- intersectionality,
30, 35
- Italian language,
14, 160
J
- James, King I of England,
20, 21
- Japan,
98, 101, 103, 110
- literature of,
97, 101, 104, 215
- Japan Comparative Literature Association,
97, 110
- Japan Society for Literature and Christianity,
97, 110
- Jesus Christ,
98, 104, 105, 106, 107, 110
-
Journal of West African Languages (JWAL),
48, 53, 54
-
New Findings in West African Languages and Literature: In Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the West African Linguistic Society (WALS),
53
- June 4 Incident,
117, 133
;
see also: Tiananmen Square Massacre
K
- Kirjallisuudentutkijain Seura (KTS),
174
L
- languages,
150, 154
- acquisition of,
152, 153, 154, 166
- classification of,
44, 48
- unknown or barely known,
54
- languages and literatures
3, 195, 199, 210, 212, 214, 218
- scholars of,
4, 119, 195, 203, 206, 217
- studies of,
7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 16, 31, 176, 205, 211, 213, 215
- learned societies,
25, 32, 14, 148, 172, 182, 187
- Chinese,
113, 114, 117, 128, 130, 138, 140
- communication between,
86, 95, 155, 172
- official versus unofficial,
139, 142, 146
- purpose of,
36, 145, 149, 154, 168, 172, 173
- and social media,
78, 171, 175, 177, 178, 179, 187, 191
- versus “professional associations,”
31, 172, 173
- websites of,
175, 176, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 187, 191
- linguistics,
30, 44, 151, 154, 156, 161, 164
- issues in African language contexts,
56, 216
- Linguistic Society of America, the,
129
- literature,
60, 67, 73, 110, 158
- Chinese,
82, 116, 119, 122
- Christian,
97, 106, 108, 109, 110
- comparative,
38, 41, 97, 103, 109, 110, 126
- English as “hypercentral”,
85
- historical changes in literary criticism,
36
- North American,
102, 106, 120, 122, 127
- perception of studies of,
61
- peripheral and semi-peripheral,
85
see also: World literature.
M
- Marling, William,
87, 91, 92
-
Gate-keepers: The Emergence of World Literature and the 1960s,
87, 91
- Marxism,
28, 81
- and literature scholarship,
84
- Mazanka, Włodzimierz,
71, 72
- McCarthy, Dianne,
173, 182
- Michitaro, Tada,
103, 104
- Mixed Game Model (MGM),
159, 161, 163, 167
- Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA),
169 (n1)
- Modern Language Association (MLA),
25, 26, 27, 31, 41, 173, 174, 182, 209
-
Publications of the Modern Language Association (PMLA),
33, 35
- Modern Languages Quarterly (MLQ),
124
- Moretti, Franco,
79, 85, 91, 93
- Morimoto, Shin-Ichi,
8, 9, 215
- Multatuli,
92
-
Max Havelaar, of de Koffi-Veilingen der Nederlandsche Handel- Maatschappy,
92
- Murakami, Haruki,
99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 109
-
Adventuring After a Sheep (Hitsuji wo Meguru Boken),
99, 100
-
Dance, Dance, Dance (Dansu Dansu Dansu),
100
-
A Dead Heat on the Merry-Go-Round (Kaitemmokuba no Deddo Hiito),
101
-
A Foreign Language Brings About Sorrow (Yagate Kanashiki Gaikokugo),
101
-
Killing a Commander (Kishidancho Goroshi),
109
N
- Nanjing University,
114 (n2), 116, 121, 122
- nationalism,
12, 61, 119, 140, 144
- neoliberalism,
140, 144, 145, 146, 186, 200, 217
- Nigeria,
50, 52
- government policy on language learning,
52
-
Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry from Spain,
35
- Nobel Prize for Literature, the,
21, 35, 71, 81, 98, 99, 105, 121
- Nottingham, University of,
17
O
- Online International Exchange (OIE),
77, 79, 88, 90, 94, 95
- online platforms,
10, 89, 91, 188, 217
- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD),
204
P
- Palestinian Authority,
207
- Parker, Andrew,
30
-
Performativity and Performance,
30
- Pennsylvania, University of,
178
- Poland,
59, 61
- universities in,
61, 62, 68, 69
- Poznań,
59, 70, 71, 72, 74
- post-humanism,
67, 149, 150, 167
- postmodernism,
24, 36, 86, 149, 154, 157
- Prendergast, Christopher,
82
- Przybyszewski, Stanisław,
72
R
-
Rainbow Serpent, the
4, 12
- Rilke, Rainer Maria,
116 (n6)
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,
64
- Rowling, J.K.,
92
-
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,
92
- Royal Society, the
20, 22, 207
- Royal Society of Chemistry, the,
129
- Royal Swedish Academy, the,
21
- Ryunosuke, Akutagawa,
104, 105, 110
S
- Said, Edward,
29, 30, 83, 212
-
Literature and Society,
29
- scholarly organizations ,
3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 75, 187, 210, 213, 215
- definitions of,
11, 129, 207, 208, 209, 214
- and pedagogy,
9, 11, 196, 199, 212
- and social media,
78, 171, 175, 177, 178, 179, 184, 185, 187
- websites of,
175, 176, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 187
- Sedgwick, Eve,
30
-
Performativity and Performance,
30
- Sell, Roger,
8, 60, 62, 71, 73, 157, 158, 159, 216, 217
-
Ethics of Literary Communication, the,
157
- Shakespeare, William,
81, 85
- Shandong University,
115, 116, 122
- Shanghai Foreign Literature Association,
120
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University,
119
- Shusaku, Endo,
98, 110
-
Mr. Foolish (Obakasan),
98
- Shuzo, Kuki,
103
-
Structure of Iki (Iki no Kozo),
103
- Sichuan University,
90, 94
- Sikorska, Liliana,
9, 217
- social media,
78, 94, 147, 170, 178, 184, 189
- Facebook,
169 (n4), 175, 177, 178, 184, 189, 190, 191, 213
- Twitter,
169 (n4), 175, 177, 178, 184
- WeChat,
78, 89, 91, 121(n12), 177
- Société Linguistique de Paris (SLP),
55
- Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE),
26
- Socrates,
104, 143, 144, 161
- Stimpson, Catharine,
29, 30
-
Survey of West African Languages,
45, 46, 49
T
- Tennyson, Lord Alfred,
21
- Tiananmen Square Massacre,
117, 133
;
see also: June 4 Incident
-
Times Higher Education,
144
- translation,
9, 20, 37, 86, 95
- from Chinese to English,
80
- from English to Japanese,
102
- in Israeli book market,
86
- in Portuguese book market,
85
- translational “flows”,
91, 93
- and “world literature”,
83
U
- United Nations Economic Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO),
4, 13, 47, 55, 140, 147, 213
- and funding ,
11, 15, 55, 207
- United Nations, the,
6, 52 (n20)
- United States of America,
11, 101, 106, 121, 207
- and China,
12, 122, 125, 126, 144
- universities,
2, 9, 196, 198, 205, 206
- as dedicated to the pursuit of truth,
59
- funding of,
18, 61, 197, 198
- the humanities and,
66, 75, 204
- in the middle ages,
63, 68
- neoliberal practices in,
146, 206, 217
- Uppsala University,
90, 94
V
- Van der Schalk, Henriette Roland Holst,
81
- Vendler, Helen,
27, 28, 30
- Vienna, University of,
7, 213
-
Völuspá (“Song of the Seeress”),
3
W
- Wells, David A,
169, 185, 186
-
West African Language Data Sheets,
49
- West African Linguistic Society (WALS),
7, 8, 46, 49, 50, 54, 174
- Congresses of,
45, 46, 47, 48, 53, 55, 57
- projects undertaken,
49, 50, 58
- Western canon,
29, 81, 83, 196
- challenges to,
29, 30, 196
- Wilson, Edward O.,
155, 161, 168
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig,
153
- World literature (Weltliteratur),
34, 73, 76, 81, 84, 91
- Chinese scholars and translators of,
118
- Goethe’s concept of,
83, 84, 85
- as Western-centric,
82, 215
- World War II,
32, 44, 99, 121
X
- Xiaoping, Deng,
114, 121, 132, 133
Y
- Yeazell, Ruth,
30
-
Sex, Politics and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Novel,
30
- Yuka, Lendzemo Constantine,
7, 8, 53, 216
Z
- Zedong, Mao,
117, 131, 132
- Zurich, University of,
32