One Clearly Defined Phenomenon and a Unified Perspective: Is a History of World Literature Possible?
Keywords:
literary history, world literature, Auerbach, Erich, Casanova, Pascale, Moretti, FrancoAbstract
The article examines Pascale Casanova’s and Franco Moretti’s innovative conceptions of history of world literature against the background of Erich Auerbach’s more traditional conception. The cornerstones of the latter – a unified perspective, a clearly defined phenomenon, an intuitive hypothesis – may be discarded, but the fundamental problem of constructing the object under study is still unresolved.References
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