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    The Story of Us: Reading World Literature

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    World literature refers to literary works produced across time and space, though the phrase is also selective in what it deems representative. It encompasses humanity's rich variety of literary production stemming from our unquenchable thirst for self-expression. While originally meant to include all literature globally, world literature is now understood as a mode of circulating and reading works from a global perspective, whether classics or new discoveries.

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    World literature refers to literary works produced across time and space, though the phrase is also selective in what it deems representative. It encompasses humanity's rich variety of literary production stemming from our unquenchable thirst for self-expression. While originally meant to include all literature globally, world literature is now understood as a mode of circulating and reading works from a global perspective, whether classics or new discoveries.

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    World literature refers to literary works produced across time and space, though the phrase is also selective in what it deems representative. It encompasses humanity's rich variety of literary production stemming from our unquenchable thirst for self-expression. While originally meant to include all literature globally, world literature is now understood as a mode of circulating and reading works from a global perspective, whether classics or new discoveries.

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    The Story of Us:

    Reading World Literature


    What exactly do we mean by “world
    literature”?

    Itmay refer to the vast literary production across the


    world
    Might contain the what is deemed “the best” of what
    the world’s literature can offer.
    Let’s digest this one!!!

    In reality, it is inclusive of all literary works produced


    across time and space yet the phrase is also rigid in
    selecting what works can be deemed truly representative
    of the literature of the world.
    Humanity has an unquenchable thirst for self-expression
    that has led them to immortalize the human experience
    through a rich variety of literary production.
    World literature is the story of us as a species
     Thephrase first appear in 1827, believed to be said by Johann
    Wolfgang Goethe “Weltliteratur”, mean “National literature is no
    longer of importance.”

     Since
    the end of Cold War around 1980s to 1990, the world has
    become increasingly global in terms of economic aspect and people
    exchange thus resulting to a greater cultural exchange.
     David Damrosch, Harvard professor.
    “World literature is not an infinite, ungraspable canon of works
    but rather a mode of circulation and of reading, a mode that is
    applicable to individual works as to bodies of material, available
    for reading established classics and new discoveries alike”

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