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Debating World Literature

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Debating World Literature

[Article]

Hendrik Birus

Leiden

Brill

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.

2018

239-266

Journal of World Literature

3/3

2405-6480

comparative literature

cultural globalization

Goethe

literary translation

national literatures

World Literature

Hendrik Birus

10.1163/24056480-00303003

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