The Scales of Literary Study: National, Connected, Comparative, and World Literatures
Keywords:
comparative literature, world literature, national literatures, connected (croisées) literatures, world system, cultural identity, transnationalityAbstract
This article discusses the ways in which literary scholarship has conceptualized the relations between different literary cultures. It suggests an application of a multiple-scale analysis of literary phenomena, and explores the characteristics of certain national, transnational, connected, comparative, and world literatures.References
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