Editors:\u00a0R\u00f3bert G\u00e1frik (Institute of World Literature SAS, Bratislava) and\u00a0Milo\u0161 Zelenka (University of South Bohemia in \u010cesk\u00e9 Bud\u011bjovice and University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra)<\/p>\n
The concept of world literature has recently become subject of intense discussion. Although it is referred to by various other terms such as \u201cliterature of the world\u201d, \u201cworldliness of literature\u201d, \u201cthe world literary system\u201d, \u201cthe world republic of letters\u201d, etc., the methodological frameworks for discussing the concept of world literature were most clearly set by Pascale Casanova, Franco Moretti and David Damrosch, who understand it as a system into which texts enter through the so-called \u201clarge\u201d literature, most often written in English. The historical experience of the so-called \u201csmall\u201d literatures (e.g. Central and Eastern European ones) points to the fact that methodological discourse cannot be limited to a single approach, but rather in theoretical practice it takes place in different languages and among different power relations. Theorists from these (small) countries question the idea of such a \u201cnetwork\u201d or standardized canon, which would mean accepting inequality as a certain epistemological framework and a way of presentation codifying the binary oppositions of \u201cdevelopment\u201d vs. \u201cunderdevelopment\u201d or \u201ccenter\u201d vs. \u201cperiphery\u201d. On the other hand, it is not possible to ignore the real power of this hegemony, which presents itself as universal.<\/p>\n
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