Centres and Peripheries? The Augustan/Counter-Augustan Dialectics
Centres and Peripheries? The Augustan/Counter-Augustan Dialectics

Summary/Abstract: The following discussion revolves around the belief that the relationship between the so-called literary ‘centres’ and literary ‘peripheries’ should be rewritten as a dynamic and dialectic relationship not between centres and peripheries, but between different literary conceptions and different literary manifestations. And I say different literary conceptions and different literary manifestations because the terms ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’ are neither rigorous nor desirable: the elaboration and sanctification of unnatural centres and the subsequent ‘castration’ of literature programmes at university results in senseless exclusions and manipulations and, consequently, in an impoverished approach to literature.

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