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What is World Literature?
From:
World Literature Today
| Date:
April 1, 2003| Author:
Damrosch, David
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A CRUCIAL FEATURE OF WORLD LITERATURE is that it resolves always into a variety of worlds. These different worlds vary by era, region, and cultural prestige, and the works that come to us from these varied worlds can in turn be read in a variety of ways. This sort of variability involves constantly competing ideas of literature, and our contemporary definitional debates can be seen as an episode in the shifting relations among three general conceptions. Literature in general, and w...
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