Title: World Literature in the Perspective of the Postmodern Theory
Abstract: In recent years,world literature not only was used as the study concept frequently in the field of comparative literature,but also was regarded as the research objective of comparative literature.But French School did not hold in esteem the concept of world literature.The rising of the American School promotes the advancement of world literature in comparative literature,because there is internal commonness in world literature and literariness,general literature,common poetics put forward by the American School.But Goethe's world literature is only an approach for national harmoniousness,and Marx's world literature means more culture production.In the perspective of postmodern theory,the study concept of the American school contains some factors of essentialism and west-centralism.So the comparative literature research should turn from commonness to difference.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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