THE END OF WORLD LITERATURE?

• Authors: Pan David
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The idea of world literature arose as a cultural counterpart to the process of globalization. However, since literature is organized within discrete traditions, the possibility of a world literature depends not just on increasing economic ties, but upon the formation of a global tradition. Since a tradition can only maintain its unity to the extent that it forms a single public sphere, the lack of a global public sphere undermines the possibility of a single world literature. The measure of this fragmentation is differences between public spheres defined by nation-state sovereignty.

Keywords

EN

WORLD LITERATURE; NATIONAL LITERATURE; GLOBALIZATION

• Publisher: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: World Literature Studies
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 73 – 88

Contributors

author

Pan David

• German Department of European Languages and Studies, University of California, Irvine 243 HIB Irvine, CA 92697, United States

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3558-4125

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/WLS.2023.15.3.7