ON THE CONCEPT OF WORLD LITERATURE

• Authors: Pettersson Anders
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The expression “world literature” is currently being used in several ways: about various culturally and temporally inclusive bodies of the literature and about various ways of studying such literature. In the article, special attention is devoted to the editorial concept of the world literature in The Cambridge History of World Literature (2021), edited by Debjani Ganguly. Formulations about world literature sometimes cast it as a mind-independent entity, sometimes as a scholarly construction. It is argued that the choice between these alternatives is important, since it has significant consequences for the logic of thinking and reasoning about world literature.

Keywords

EN

WORLD LITERATURE; CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF WORLD LITERATURE; ONTOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: World Literature Studies
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 12 - 23

Contributors

author

Pettersson Anders

• Swedish and comparative literature Department of Culture and Media Studies, Umea University, Sweden

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/WLS.2022.14.3.2