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Editors’ Preface
Editors’ Preface

Author(s): Jüri Talvet, Katre Talviste
Subject(s): Editorial, Theory of Literature
Published by: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus
Keywords: Interlitteraria; international journal of literary scholarship and criticism; Baltic states; Eastern Europe; editorial;

Summary/Abstract: Over the last quarter of century Interlitteraria seems to have emerged among those (really very few) international journals of literary scholarship and criticism in which smaller and “peripheral” cultures have had their remarkable presence. We do not mean by it any minor group of countries (such as formed by three Baltic states – Estonian, Latvia, Lithuania), but Eastern Europe in the widest sense. By today we have gradually come to understand this feature not merely as something that we can be proud of, but also our growing responsibility to continue (maybe even more consciously and more steadily than before) in the afore mentioned current. If ever we wish to expand a genuine intellectual-spiritual and moral dialogue between “centers” and “peripheries” of the world, hardly any other option could be envisaged. [...]

  • Issue Year: XXV/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 6-7
  • Page Count: 2
  • Language: English