@article{Wiemann2021,
  author    = {Wiemann, Dirk},
  title     = {Being Taught Something World-Sized},
  series = {The Work of World Literature},
  journal   = {The Work of World Literature},
  editor    = {Robinson, Benjamin Lewis},
  publisher = {ICI Press},
  address   = {Berlin},
  issn      = {2627-728X},
  doi       = {10.37050/ci-19_07},
  pages     = {149 -- 172},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {This paper reads 'The Detainee's Tale as told to Ali Smith' (2016) as an exemplary demonstration of the work of world literature. Smith's story articulates an ethics of reading that is grounded in the recipient's openness to the singular, unpredictable, and unverifiable text of the other. More specifically, Smith's account enables the very event that it painstakingly stages: the encounter with alterity and newness, which is both the theme of the narrative and the effect of the text on the reader. At the same time, however, the text urges to move from an ethics of literature understood as the responsible reception of the other by an individual reader to a more explicitly convivial and political ethics of commitment beyond the scene of reading.},
  language  = {en}
}
@incollection{Wiemann2021,
  author    = {Wiemann, Dirk},
  title     = {Being Taught Something World-Sized},
  series = {The Work of World Literature},
  volume    = {2021},
  booktitle = {The Work of World Literature},
  publisher = {ICI Berlin Press},
  address   = {Berlin},
  isbn      = {978-3-96558-011-4},
  issn      = {2627-728X},
  doi       = {10.37050/ci-19_07},
  pages     = {149 -- 172},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {This paper reads 'The Detainee's Tale as told to Ali Smith' (2016) as an exemplary demonstration of the work of world literature. Smith's story articulates an ethics of reading that is grounded in the recipient's openness to the singular, unpredictable, and unverifiable text of the other. More specifically, Smith's account enables the very event that it painstakingly stages: the encounter with alterity and newness, which is both the theme of the narrative and the effect of the text on the reader. At the same time, however, the text urges to move from an ethics of literature understood as the responsible reception of the other by an individual reader to a more explicitly convivial and political ethics of commitment beyond the scene of reading.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Pittel2021,
  author    = {Pittel, Harald},
  title     = {Fin du globe},
  series = {Thesis eleven : critical theory and historical sociology},
  volume    = {162},
  journal   = {Thesis eleven : critical theory and historical sociology},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {Sage},
  address   = {London},
  issn      = {0725-5136},
  doi       = {10.1177/0725513621994702},
  pages     = {121 -- 136},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {This essay argues that Oscar Wilde noticeably contributed to the emerging discourse about world literature, even though his views in this regard have to be unearthed from the margins of his works, from his early and unpublished American lectures and 'between the lines' of his major critical essays. Wilde's implicit ideas around world literature can be understood as being closely related to his broader endeavour of redirecting and revaluing the pejorative discourse around 'decadence' in art and literature. More specifically, the arch-aesthete preferred to use the word 'romance' rather than 'decadence' (a term he hardly used at all in his writings), signalling a sensitivity attuned to what he called the 'love of things impossible'. This reconceptualization of the decadent outlook was to inspire a critical ideal of literature which relied on creatively activating the other as Other, culminating in a vision of intersubjective, transcultural and unlimited literary communication. Wilde's thought can be more specifically understood as anticipating central tenets of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's evocations of the planetary, thus preparing the way for an alterity-oriented understanding of literary cosmopolitanism.},
  language  = {en}
}