Abstract
"World literature" has multiple meanings such as world literature as a discipline, as a pedagogical practice, or as a theoretical problem. As to the last meaning of the concept, scholars worldwide have emphasized the institution of world literature more than world literature works. This emphasis comes as a result of a rethinking of the world after the 1970s, so that the "institution" here is substantially the institution of the world. However, this "world" should not be taken as the real world, but a unique world of literature, and the essence of this institution is the more complex and more subtle literary relationship. Therefore, world literature as a literary space is a new paradigm in literary studies and a new subject in comparative literature studies.
First Page
209
Last Page
214
Recommended Citation
Yao, Mengze. 2017. "World Literature as a Literary Space." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 37, (1): pp.209-214. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol37/iss1/21
