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Zusatztext The award of the prestigious literary Nobel Prize by the Swedish Academy is a crucial marker of contemporary developments in the assessment of literary production across the globe. In this highly informative yet also highly accessible book, Paul Tenngart convincingly chronicles how the Nobel Prize in Literature has shaped and continues to shape the world literature canon. Tenngart expertly details the different contexts in which the Nobel Prize Committee of the Swedish Academy operates and does not shy away from addressing recent controversies surrounding its workings. A must-read for anyone interested in world literature studies. Informationen zum Autor Paul Tenngart is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Lund University, Sweden. He has published several books and articles on Swedish and French poetry, politics and ideology in 20th century Swedish literature, literary translations from Swedish to English, translation patterns from and to semi-peripheral positions and Anthropocene fiction. His latest book is Northern Crossings: Translation, Circulation and the Literary Semi-periphery (Bloomsbury 2022), co-written with Chatarina Edfeldt, Erik Falk, Andreas Hedberg, Yvonne Lindqvist and Cecilia Schwartz. Klappentext An exploration of the history, ambitions, and impact of the Nobel Prize in literature as it gained a central position in 20th-century global literary culture. Few scholars would deny that the Nobel Prize is the most prestigious literary award in the world. But what mechanisms made it possible for 18 Swedish intellectuals to become the world's most influential literary critics? Paul Tenngart argues that the Nobel Prize in literature has become a special kind of international canonization: exerted from a non-central, semi-peripheral position, the award sometimes confirms and reinforces hierarchical relations between literary languages and cultures, and sometimes disturbs established patterns of dominance and dependence. Drawing from a wide range of contemporary theories and methods, this multifaceted history of the Nobel Prize questions how the Swedish Academy has managed to keep the prize's global status through all the violent international crises of the last 120 years; how the selection of laureates shaped the idea of 'universal' literary values and defined literary quality across languages and cultures; and what impact the prize has had on the distribution and significance of particular works, literatures and languages. The Nobel Prize and the Formation of Contemporary World Literature explores the history and impact of the Nobel Prize in literature from the first award in 1901 through recent controversies involving Bob Dylan and #MeToo, arguing that the prize is a unique performative act that has been - and still is - central in our continual and collective construction of world literature. Vorwort Explores the history, ambitions, and impact of the Nobel Prize in literature as it gained a central position in 20th-century global literary culture. Zusammenfassung An exploration of the history, ambitions, and impact of the Nobel Prize in literature as it gained a central position in 20th-century global literary culture. Few scholars would deny that the Nobel Prize is the most prestigious literary award in the world. But what mechanisms made it possible for 18 Swedish intellectuals to become the world’s most influential literary critics? Paul Tenngart argues that the Nobel Prize in literature has become a special kind of international canonization: exerted from a non-central, semi-peripheral position, the award sometimes confirms and reinforces hierarchical relations between literary languages and cultures, and sometimes disturbs established patterns of dominance and dependence. Drawing from a wide range of contemporary theories and methods, this multifaceted history of the Nobel Prize questions how the...
