How Do Literary Works Cross Borders (or Not)?
A Sociological Approach to World Literature
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This paper analyzes the factors that trigger or hinder the circulation of literary works beyond their geographic and cultural borders, i.e. participating in the mechanisms of the production of World Literature. For the sake of analysis, these factors can be classified into four categories: political (or more broadly ideological), economic, cultural and social. Being embodied by institutions and by individual agents, these factors can support or contradict one another, thus causing tensions and struggles. This paper ends with reflections on the two opposite tendencies that characterize the transnational literary field: isomorphism and the differentiation logics.
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How Do Literary Works Cross Borders (or Not)?
A Sociological Approach to World Literature
In: Journal of World LiteratureSearch for other papers by Gisèle Sapiro in
Current site
Google Scholar
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This paper analyzes the factors that trigger or hinder the circulation of literary works beyond their geographic and cultural borders, i.e. participating in the mechanisms of the production of World Literature. For the sake of analysis, these factors can be classified into four categories: political (or more broadly ideological), economic, cultural and social. Being embodied by institutions and by individual agents, these factors can support or contradict one another, thus causing tensions and struggles. This paper ends with reflections on the two opposite tendencies that characterize the transnational literary field: isomorphism and the differentiation logics.
| All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
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| Abstract Views | 137 | 134 | 134 |
| Full Text Views | 10363 | 1406 | 100 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 12136 | 1918 | 99 |
