Abstract
The Nobel Prize, while canonizing contemporary literary works, also establishes a set of standards for literary criticism, thus creating obstacles for properly evaluating prize-winners and their works. Through an analysis of the phenomenon of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Committee's evaluation of Rabindranath Tagore, and its world literature criticism terms, the paper concludes that there are evidences to prove the inequality and pseudo-universality in world literature. World literature at the present time is a "one but unequal" system determined by global market where the main evaluation criteria are primarily based on western standards. Therefore, scholars of world literature should be wary of the inequality and "pseudo-universality" behind the standards.
First Page
137
Last Page
144
Recommended Citation
Yao, Dadui. 2020. "Nobel Prize for Literature and the Making of World Literature." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 40, (4): pp.137-144. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol40/iss4/10
