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American, British and Canadian Studies, 2018

Literary and Cultural Circulation is made up of eighteen chapters by different authors who explor... more Literary and Cultural Circulation is made up of eighteen chapters by different authors who explore this broad issue through different frameworks. Consequently, the meaning of literary circulation varies throughout the volume, according to the purposes of each text and the specificities of each object of analysis. The quality of the essays is undeniable and, despite the differences between them, circulation, considered in its broadest sense, is the main subject explored in the texts that vary, in short, around two main aspects. One of them is the perspective from which circulation is understood. In this respect, the essays can be divided into four main thematic axes that address the role of circulation: 1) in specific authors or for a specific genre, 2) in the postcolonial condition, 3) in our times, that is, in the digital and culture industry age, and 4) in the formation of a national interpretation. Since the starting point determines the point of arrival and the specific results of circulation, the texts also differ from one another in terms of the various implications of circulation taken into account. Thus, various essays discuss the consequences of circulation for literary production, for the expression of subaltern groups, for the acclimatization of European ideas in the Americas, for reading, for culture and for literature, approaching also the theoretical issues that surround this subject as well as the methodological and market implications of this propensity of literature to circulate. Due to the very size of this book, it would not be possible to present the main ideas of all the essays. I will try instead to present the ideas of at least one of the essays from each axis. The contributors are scholars and/or professors from different countries (United States, Brazil and Spain) who, as I noted, have dealt with this academic and cultural debate in different ways in their research. Diversity, a hallmark of literary

American, British and Canadian Studies, 2018

Literary and Cultural Circulation is made up of eighteen chapters by different authors who explor... more Literary and Cultural Circulation is made up of eighteen chapters by different authors who explore this broad issue through different frameworks. Consequently, the meaning of literary circulation varies throughout the volume, according to the purposes of each text and the specificities of each object of analysis. The quality of the essays is undeniable and, despite the differences between them, circulation, considered in its broadest sense, is the main subject explored in the texts that vary, in short, around two main aspects. One of them is the perspective from which circulation is understood. In this respect, the essays can be divided into four main thematic axes that address the role of circulation: 1) in specific authors or for a specific genre, 2) in the postcolonial condition, 3) in our times, that is, in the digital and culture industry age, and 4) in the formation of a national interpretation. Since the starting point determines the point of arrival and the specific results of circulation, the texts also differ from one another in terms of the various implications of circulation taken into account. Thus, various essays discuss the consequences of circulation for literary production, for the expression of subaltern groups, for the acclimatization of European ideas in the Americas, for reading, for culture and for literature, approaching also the theoretical issues that surround this subject as well as the methodological and market implications of this propensity of literature to circulate. Due to the very size of this book, it would not be possible to present the main ideas of all the essays. I will try instead to present the ideas of at least one of the essays from each axis. The contributors are scholars and/or professors from different countries (United States, Brazil and Spain) who, as I noted, have dealt with this academic and cultural debate in different ways in their research. Diversity, a hallmark of literary