Circulation in Pre-Modern World Literature: Historical Context, Agency, and Physicality
Keywords:
world literature, medievalism, literary mediation, cultural space, cultural circulationAbstract
Recent discussions on world literature have stressed the importance of circulation as a criterion of worldliness, in both a literal and figurative sense. This paper focuses on how to correlate circulation with pre-modern world literature. More specifically, I deal with those works either produced in or associated with Outremer that enjoyed a wide circulation within Western Europe in contrast to works that, despite not having enjoyed such a wide circulation, encapsulate the world in their physicality.References
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