Debating World Literature

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" Debating World Literature "
Hendrik Birus

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1075806
Doc. No	:	LA119435
Call No	:	‭10.1163/24056480-00303003‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Hendrik Birus
Title & Author	:	Debating World Literature [Article]\ Hendrik Birus
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of World Literature
Date	:	2018
Volume/ Issue Number	:	3/3
Page No	:	239–266
Abstract	:	Since the turn of the millennium the idea of “World Literature” has experienced a boom. This development is closely connected with the increasingly rapid globalization process, which began during the first few decades of the nineteenth century and led to the co-emergence of Weltliteratur and Littérature comparée in 1827. Goethe’s proclamation of the “Epoch of World Literature” created the impression that existing national literatures were to be supplanted; instead, however, the same period simultaneously witnessed the latter’s triumphant proliferation. Beecroft’s typology of the evolution of literary systems may assist in overcoming the rather pointless antithesis between world literature and national literatures. Since literary translation now plays an increasingly important role, it has become an indispensable factor contributing to the flourishing of world literature. Since the turn of the millennium the idea of “World Literature” has experienced a boom. This development is closely connected with the increasingly rapid globalization process, which began during the first few decades of the nineteenth century and led to the co-emergence of Weltliteratur and Littérature comparée in 1827. Goethe’s proclamation of the “Epoch of World Literature” created the impression that existing national literatures were to be supplanted; instead, however, the same period simultaneously witnessed the latter’s triumphant proliferation. Beecroft’s typology of the evolution of literary systems may assist in overcoming the rather pointless antithesis between world literature and national literatures. Since literary translation now plays an increasingly important role, it has become an indispensable factor contributing to the flourishing of world literature.
Descriptor	:	comparative literature
Descriptor	:	cultural globalization
Descriptor	:	Goethe
Descriptor	:	literary translation
Descriptor	:	national literatures
Descriptor	:	World Literature
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/24056480-00303003‬