Northern Crossings

This open access book uses Swedish literature and the Swedish publishing field as recurring examples todescribe and analyse the role of the literary semi-peripheral position in world literature from various perspectives and on meso micro and macro levels using both quantitative and qualitative methods. This includes the role of translation in the semi-periphery and the conditions under which literature travels to and from that position. The focus is not on Sweden as such but rather on the semi-peripheral transitional space as exemplified by the Swedish case.<br/> <br/> Consisting of three co-written chapters this study sheds light on what might be called the semi-peripheral condition or the semi-periphery as an area of transition. As part of the Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures series it makes continuous use of the concepts of 'cosmopolitan' and 'vernacular' - or rather the processual terms <i>cosmopolitanization</i> and <i>vernacularization -</i>which provide an overall structure to the analysis of literature and literary phenomena. In this way the authors show that the semi-periphery is an ideal point of departure to further the understanding of world literature because it is a place where the cosmopolitan (the literary universal) and the vernacular (the rootedness in a particular culture or place) interact in ways that have not yet been thoroughly explored.<br/><br/><i>The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.</i>