Julia Nyberg / Euphrosyne: Romantic Poetry, World Literature, and Superficial Reception

• The chapter brings several general problems to the fore. One of them is the status of poetry in current research on translation and reception within world literature research and theory. Gunilla Hermansson discusses this and the accompanying methodological difficulties, as well as the future potential of computer-aided analysis in this context. Nyberg’s international fate demonstrates the significance of gender, genre, and images of the nation for the reception of poetry at large and Swedish romantic poetry specifically. It also necessitates an examination and critical discussion of the interplay between different kinds of reception, first and foremost those of translations and introductions, as well as the practices of recycling critical comments. This in turn sheds light on the parallel and intertwined constructions and negotiations of a Swedish literary canon inside and outside the nation, as well as the complex motives behind what Hermansson labels “superficial reception” in an era marked by a desire to both know and master the literature of other nations.

Subject headings

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Litteraturstudier (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- Specific Literatures (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Litteraturvetenskap (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- General Literary Studies (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Reception

world literature

poetry

translation

distant reading

gender

national stereotypes

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

kap (subject category)