A Romanian Vision of World Literature: Between Telescoping and Exoticism
A Romanian Vision of World Literature: Between Telescoping and Exoticism

Summary/Abstract: The present study sets out to discuss World Literature Paradigm in a Romanian context, by undertaking an ample journey through the most important present-day theories, while also adding local definitions of the concept to them. Our discussion is centred on the phenomenon of cultural telescoping that shaped the clashing relationship between literary spaces (peripheral and central, dominated and dominant, Romanian and the other European Cultures) that interacted, while keeping in view the constant relationing to an exotic, unfamiliar, or foreign territory in defining World Literature. Passing through the theories of David Damrosch, Galin Tihanov, Marko Juvan or Lixin Zhang, to which we have added Romanian perspectives such as Tudor Vianu or Adrian Marino, we shall analyse the contribution of Romanian Criticism to the set of instruments that may constitute that certain poetics of World Literature.

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