NATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION
NATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION
Author(s): Mihály Szegedy-MaszákSubject(s): Comparative Study of Literature, Hungarian Literature, Translation Studies, Theory of Literature, Globalization
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Hungarian literature; comparative literature; literary historiography; globalization; value judgement; cult of genius; interpretation; translation;
Summary/Abstract: In a world of globalization it is the task of literary historians to reassess their national legacy from the new perspective. The past can never be taken for granted and never be forgotten; it is the result of interpretation. Poetic traditions are inseparable from linguistic structures, language as collective memory, and so they cannot be easily transferred into another culture. If historiography cannot do without teleology, we have to think in terms of different teleologies. It is undeniably difficult to fulfill contradictory demands, but a literary historian cannot stop making arguments and counterarguments.
- Issue Year: 19/2005
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 267-276
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English
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