GlobalLit launches a new series: Licit Magic — Working Papers

Search no more, for re-centring literary theory starts here

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Have you ever questioned the exceptionality of a Horace, or wondered what book was studied in medieval Islamic madrasas as the counterpart to Cicero’s De Inventione in the European curriculum? Ever wanted to explore the directions that Aristotle’s poetics has taken beyond Europe, or wished to relate Kant’s Erhabene to non-European conceptualizations? Were you ever curious to weigh Pope’s Essay on Criticism against his eastern counterparts, or to assess Shelley’s Defence of Poetry from a globalized perspective?

Search no more, for re-centring literary theory starts here! GlobalLit launches a new series: Licit Magic — Working Papers

Global Literary Theory is an ERC-funded project based at the University of Birmingham and directed by Rebecca Ruth Gould (European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, grant agreement №759346). Focusing on texts, canons, and traditions, it examines how premodern literatures from the Islamic world were written and conceived, how they fitted into wider cosmopolitan spheres, and shaped vernacular literary flows. We also ask how such literatures can help to inaugurate a paradigm shift within contemporary…