DEFINITIONS OF WORLD LITERATURE

Question 1

What is World Literature?

Answer 1

World Literature refers to literary works that are translated into multiple languages and circulated to an audience outside their country of origin.

Question 2

What is the first characteristic of World Lit?

Answer 2

World Literature is an elliptical refraction of national literatures.

Question 3

What is the second characteristic of World Lit?

Answer 3

World Literature is writing that gains in translation.

Question 4

What is the third characteristics of World Lit?

Answer 4

World Literature is not a set canon of text but a mode of reading: a form of detached engagement with worlds beyond our own place and time.

Question 5

Summarize the definitions of World Literature.

Answer 5

In summary, World Literature are excellent literary pieces in form and meaning which move from local to national to global, gain translation, and have a great number of readers, and influence the wider world.