NATION VS. WORLD? GLOBAL IMPRINTS ON SHAKESPEARE AND THE ORIENTATION OF WORLD LITERATURE

• Authors: Steppat Michael
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

William Shakespeare is said to be uniquely omnipresent in the world’s literature, yet world literature concepts only devote marginal attention to him, so a conceptual change of direction is necessary for an understanding of his peculiar position. Whereas reception history has long highlighted the nation as the main critical framework, transcultural inquiries are now (re)discovering submerged imprints from regions such as Southwest Asia and West Africa on the initial formation of Shakespeare’s texts. These enable a reorientation in theorizing world literature, to grasp the nature of his achievements and to apply this new direction to other authors.

Keywords

EN

WORLD LITERATURE; WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; NATIONAL IDENTITY; CULTURAL DIFFUSIONISM; TRANSTEXTUALITY

• Publisher: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: World Literature Studies
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 13 – 24

Contributors

author

Steppat Michael

• Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies, University of Bayreuth, Faculty IV, GW1 95440 Bayreuth, Germany

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4278-1578

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/WLS.2023.15.3.2