Comparative Literature, World Literature and Ethical Literary Criticism. Literature’s “Infra-Other”

World Literatures and Romanian Literary Criticism

In his article "World Literatures and Romanian Literary Criticism" Caius Dobrescu argues that the notion Weltliteratur of Goethe posits the concept of world literature as the conveyor of universal (i.e., cosmopolitan) skills of socio-cultural adaptation. The influence of this form of Weltliteratur on Romanian literary criticism is traceable from Westernization in the nineteenth century to the c...

World Literatures, Comparative Literature, and Glocal Cosmopolitanism

In his article "World Literature Paolo Bartoloni reflects on the topos of the crisis of literature and the humanities. An urge to question the status and the relevance of literature; to investigate the relation between literature and literary studies; and the location of literature within the context of a transf last three decades. Assuming that a bond exists between literature and the world, w...

On World Literatures, Comparative Literature, and (Comparative) Cultural Studies

In his article "On World Literature Studies" Ning Wang argues that cultural studies is characterized by being opposed to (elite) literary studies not only because it points to popular or non discipline of comparative literature. On the other hand literary studies in that it contributes a great deal to the reconstruction of a sort of new comparative literature. Wang illustrates how some of the r...

Literary Geography and Comparative Literature

In his article "Literary Geography and Comparative Literature" César Domínguez analyzes the relevance of political and linguistic frameworks for comparative literary historiography in the context of the European Union. Domínguez's discussion is based on the notion of geoculture whose theorization from Immanuel Wallerstein's perspective presents paradigms of interest to comparative literature. T...

Economic Insights From and About Literature, Drama, and Literary Criticism