National Literature, World Literatures, and Universality in Romanian Cultural Criticism 1867-1947
Abstract
In his article National Literature, World Literatures, and Universality in Romanian Cultural Criticism 1867-1947 Andrei Terian analyzes the relevance of systematizing international literary relationships in current theories of world literatures. Terian criticizes the naturalist reductionism that still dominates many contemporary studies in the field of world literatures and asserts that a particular feature of the interliterary processes is that they occur not only at the level of mere facts, but also at the level of cultural representations thus supporting various strategies through which national literatures attempt to acquire more favorable positions within world literatures. Terian presents a systemic classification of these strategies and tests the efficiency of the proposed concepts through an analysis of the politics of universality undertaken in Romanian cultural criticism of the late nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century- text
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