Ideas and Methods: World Literature between the Local and the Universal
by Fang Weigui
About This Novel
Since the 20th century, the development of comparative literature has been controversial. Especially after being shaped by critical theory, it has become increasingly separated from literature itself, thus falling into a disciplinary crisis. The current resumption of the concept of world literature should be an attempt to cope with the crisis situation. How to understand and define "world literature" has become an indispensable conceptual vision in seeking a new world order and civilization pattern. Reopening the way of thinking about understanding "world literature" is one of the core issues in today's academic research. In order to jointly discuss this core topic, the School of Liberal Arts of Beijing Normal University held the third "Ideology and Methods" International High-end Dialogue and Academic Forum in 2015. The conference invited more than 20 well-known scholars from the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Slovakia, South Korea and other places to conduct in-depth discussions on "What is world literature? The tension between locality and universality." This book is the proceedings of this important international symposium.
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