ICLS1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Eurocentrism, World Literature, Comparative Literature

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: International Comparative Literature
• Course: ICLS1002
• Professor: Tamaki Mihic

Document Summary

Literature, as we discussed last week, is not universal. That literature has worked toward a global status, cultural influences have spread globally. The "great" example of literature from a certain culture is shared internationally as a part of the education on that culture. There isn"t one concrete answer to what world literature is. Summary of the scholarship of world literature: goethe"s weitliteratur (world literature, nowadays national literature doesn"t mean as much, franco moretti"s map of world literature, pascale casanova"s "world republic of letters" David damrosch: texts have "circulated beyond their culture of origin: franco-centric way of looking at world literature. If everyone is just interested in reading more texts, then there will be no actual development in world literature: talks about the world literary system. "a study of the struggle or symbolic hegemony across the world: hegemony = dominance, wold literature specialists can"t do close readings so much as specialists in the field of said nation can.