Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu and Takayuki Yokota-Murakami, former members of the ICLA Committee on Literary Theory, have edited Policing Literary Theory, a new addition to Brill’s “TexTxet” series. Based on the Committee’s 2014 workshop in Osaka, the book features chapters by Vladimir Biti, Reingard Nethersole, Sowon Park, Marko Juvan, Kyohei Norimatsu, Péter Hajdu, Norio Sakanaka, John Zilcosky, Yvonne Howell, and the editors.

Here is a selection of studies published by current and former members of the ICLA Research Committee on Literary Theory in 2017:

Raphaël Baroni, Les rouages de l’intrigue : les outils de la narratologie postclassique pour l’analyse des textes littéraires (Geneva: Slatkine);

Raphaël Baroni (co-ed. w. Samuel Estier), Les “voix” de Michel Houellebecq (Lausanne: Université de Lausanne; Paris: Fabula);

Paolo Bartoloni (and Francesco Ricatti), “David Must Fall! Decentring the Renaissance in Contemporary and Transcultural Italian Studies,” Italian Studies 72.4: 361–79;

Vladimir Biti (ed.), Claiming the Dispossession: The Politics of Hi/storytelling in Post-imperial Europe (Leiden: Brill);

Vladimir Biti, Tracing Global Democracy: Literature, Theory, and the Politics of Trauma. Second Edition (Berlin: de Gruyter);

Michel Chaouli, Thinking with Kant’s Critique of Judgment (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP);

Ersu Ding, “Towards a Dynamic Model of the Sign,” Semiotica 218: 137–44;

Anne Duprat (ed.), Violence de l’interprétation (XVIe–XVIIe s). (Leiden: Brill);

Pier Paolo Frassinelli, “Intersecting Temporalities, Cultural (Un)translatability and African Film Aesthetics: Ntshavheni wa Luruli’s Elelwani,” Journal of African Cultural Studies 29.3: 331–44;

Jernej Habjan, “Das Kunstwerk und die Gattung als Grenzen der generischen Formen,” in Generische Formen, ed. Kirsten Maar, Frank Ruda, and Jan Völker (Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink), 177–93;

Péter Hajdu, “The Rights of Trees: On a Hungarian Short Story from 1900,” Neohelicon 44.2: 389–401;

Marko Juvan, Hibridni žanri: študije o križancih izkustva, mišljenja in literature (Ljubljana: LUD Literatura);

Djelal Kadir, “Agnotology and the Know-Nothing Party: Then and Now,” Review of International American Studies 10.1: 117–29;

Renate Lachmann (co-ed. w. Rainer Grübel and Sylvia Sasse), Michail M. Bachtin, Sprechgattungen, trans. Rainer Grübel and Alfred Sproede (Berlin: Matthes & Seitz);

Svend Erik Larsen, Literature and the Experience of Globalization (London: Bloomsbury);

Joep Leerssen (co-ed. w. Manfred Beller), The Rhine: National Tensions, Romantic Visions (Leiden: Brill);

Sowon S Park (co-ed. w. Ben Morgan and Ellen Spolsky), Situated Cognition and the Study of Culture (= Poetics Today 38.2);

Sowon S Park and Jernej Habjan, “World Literature,” in Oxford Bibliographies in Literary and Critical Theory, ed. Eugene O’Brien (New York: Oxford UP);

Anders Pettersson, The Idea of a Text and the Nature of Textual Meaning (Amsterdam: John Benjamins);

Matthew Reynolds (co-ed. w. Nicola Gardini, Adriana X. Jacobs, Ben Morgan, and Mohamed-Salah Omri), Minding Borders: Resilient Divisions in Literature, the Body and the Academy (Oxford: Legenda);

Matthew Reynolds, “Autoexoticriticism,” PMLA 132.2: 455–61;

Ruth Ronen, “The Limit as Aesthetic Demonstration,” in Aesthetics Today, ed. Stefan Majetschak and Anja Weinberg (Berlin: de Gruyter), 139–52;

Monika Schmitz-Emans (co-ed. w. Stephanie Heimgartner), Komparatistische Perspektiven auf Dantes ‘Divina Commedia’ (Berlin: de Gruyter);

Monika Schmitz-Emans (co-ed. w. Petra Gehring and Kurt Röttgers), Ketten (Essen: Die blaue Eule);

Robert Stockhammer, 1967: Pop, Grammatologie und Politik (Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink);

Galin Tihanov, “On the Significance of Historical Poetics: In Lieu of a Foreword,” Poetics Today 38.3: 417–28;

Stefan Willer, “Ahnen und ahnden. Zur historischen Semantik des Vorgefühls um 1800,” Forum interdisziplinäre Begriffsgeschichte 6.1: 31–40;

Robert J. C. Young, “The Dislocations of Cultural Translation,” PMLA 132.1: 186–97;

John Zilcosky, “Learning How to Get Lost: Goethe in Italy,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 50.4: 417–35.

Svend Erik Larsen, former member of the ICLA Committee on Literary Theory, published the book Literature and the Experience of Globalization: Texts without Borders. Larsen explores how writers from Shakespeare through Goethe to Isak Dinesen, J.M. Coetzee, Amitav Ghosh, and Bruce Chatwin engage with the human dimensions of globalization. Through a wide range of close readings, he brings contemporary world literature approaches to bear on cross-cultural experiences of migration and travel, translation, memory, history, and embodied knowledge. The book, published by Bloomsbury, comes a decade after the Danish-language edition, Tekster uden grænser: Litteratur og globalisering (Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2007).

Matthew Reynolds, member of the ICLA Committee on Literary Theory, has co-edited, with Nicola Gardini, Adriana X. Jacobs, Ben Morgan, and Mohamed-Salah Omri, Minding Borders: Resilient Divisions in Literature, the Body and the Academy. Published in “Transcript,” a Legenda book series edited by Reynolds, the volume, far from celebrating the crossing of borders, or dreaming of their abolition, traces their troubling and yet generative resilience; the contributors range comparatively across geography, politics, cultural circulation, creativity, and the structuration of academic disciplines, hoping that the analysis of borders in one domain may illuminate their workings in another.  

Vladimir Biti, Honorary President of the ICLA Committee on Literary Theory, has edited Claiming the Dispossession: The Politics of Hi/storytelling in Post-imperial Europe. Published by Brill, the book features contributions by former Committe member Marko Juvan as well as Davor Beganović, Zrinka Božić-Blanuša, Bernarda Katušić, Nataša Kovačević, Petr Kučera, Aleksandar Mijatović, Guido Snel, and Stijn Vervaet.

Monika Schmitz-Emans, former member of the ICLA Research Committee on Literary Theory,  has co-edited, with Stephanie Heimgartner, Komparatistische Perspektiven auf Dantes ‘Divina Commedia’ (Comparative Perspectives on Dante’s Divine Comedy) and, with Petra Gehring and Kurt Röttgers, Ketten (Chains). The former edited volume was published by de Gruyter, and the latter by Die blaue Eule.

Sowon S Park, Honorary President of the ICLA Committee on Literary Theory, has co-edited, with Ben Morgan and Ellen Spolsky, Situated Cognition and the Study of Culture, a special issue of Poetics Today.

Raphaël Baroni, member of the ICLA Committee on Literary Theory, has written Les rouages de l’intrigue : les outils de la narratologie postclassique pour l’analyse des textes littéraires (The Wheels of Intrigue: Tools of Postclassical Narratology for the Analysis of Literary Texts). The book was published by Éditions Slatkine and comes with a preface by Jean-Louis Dufays.

Recently, Baroni has also co-edited, with Samuel Estier, a collective volume on the “voices” of Michel Houellebecq:  Les “voix” de Michel Houellebecq (Université de Lausanne; Fabula).

Robert Stockhammer, Honorary President of the ICLA Committee on Literary Theory, has written 1967: Pop, Grammatologie und Politik. Published by Wilhelm Fink, the book marks the fiftieth anniversary of major events in literature, philosophy, popular culture, and politics that so far have been undeservingly overshadowed by May ’68.

The DFG research training program “Globalization and Literature,” co-chaired by the Committee’s honorary president Robert Stockhammer at the University of Munich, has published a call for applications for six doctoral positions. The deadline is 31 October 2017.