The end of world literature?

Year, pages: 2023, 73 - 88

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.

Pan, D. 2023. The end of world literature?. In World Literature Studies, vol. 15, no.3, pp. 73-88. 1337-9275. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/WLS.2023.15.3.7

Pan, D. (2023). The end of world literature?. World Literature Studies, 15(3), 73-88. 1337-9275. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/WLS.2023.15.3.7

Publisher: Ústav svetovej literatúry SAV, v. v. i.