July 11, 2003
Improving on the Concept of World Literature
Taking on the globe's output of literature is a difficult task, but one that David Damrosch exhorts scholars to attempt. In What Is World Literature? (Princeton University Press), the professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University says, "We can do better justice to our texts, whether perennial classics or contemporary works, if we really attend to what we are doing when we import them and introduce them into new contexts." Hoping to improve on conceptions of "world
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