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    1. The document discusses the concept of world literature, defining it as literature that transcends national borders through translation and influences other literatures. 2. It explores the historical formation of the repository of world literature, noting Goethe's emphasis on cultural exchange and circulation of literature between different groups internationally in the 1820s. 3. The focus is on world literature in translation, where a work gains an elliptical space between its source and receiving cultures through effective presentation in a foreign language and culture.

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    WORLD

    LITERATURE/WORLD LT 730

    LITERATURE IN Dr. Maria Farooq Maan

    TRANSLATION
    INTRODUCTION
    There are many worlds and therefore many world literatures. World is a changing
    notion, reshaped by changing world views and because of different contemporary
    agencies
    It is possible to define the concept of world literature more precisely: only pertains
    to world literature in this more restricted sense what really transcends the borders of
    the nation, what really has become known and appreciated by other nations by
    means of translation, and what has influenced other literatures; in other words, what
    participates in the exchange of ideas and in the world literary traffic between the
    nations.
    (Fritz Strich,1930, “Weltliteratur und Vergleichende Literaturgeschichte”)
    HOW THE REPOSITORY OF
    WORLD LITERATURE FORMED
    HISTORICALLY?
    Goethe (1827) Weltilieratur

    Europe was finally experiencing a period of peace after the Napoleonic Wars. From
    this point of view, the emphasis is on cultural exchange at an international level
    between the different groups of people, through which they form their own identity
    and their relationship with the alien.
    Goethe subscribed to the idea of the circulation and reception of WL in Europe,
    which included literature from non-European origins as well
    “I am more and more convinced that poetry is the universal possession of mankind,
    revealing itself everywhere and at times to hundreds and hundreds of men….I
    therefore like to look about me in foreign nations,and advise everyone to do the
    same. National literature is now a rather unmeaning term, the epoch of world
    literature is at hand, and everyone must strive to hasten its approach.”
    World literature comes in two alternate, conceivable versions:
    Contemporary World Literature: Contemporary world literature is the literature of
    contemporary societies — particularly works of literature that obtain an international
    reputation
    Global classicism: can be described as contemporary literature inspired by the
    multiple traditions of the premodern regional literate civilizations of Eurasia,
    including the Chinese, Indian, Greco-Roman, Euro-Christian, and Muslim.
    Karl Marx /Engels (1848)
    Numerous national and local literatures will form the world literature therefore
    freeing the readers/consumers from the narrowness of the national literature.

    Politics of exclusion
    OUR FOCUS

    WORLD LITERATURE IN
    TRANSLATION
    World literature not as a canon of texts but as a mode of circulation of reading.
    World literature is work that gains in translation.
    When effectively presented, a work of literature moves into an elliptical space
    between the source and receiving cultures, shaped by both but circumscribed by
    neither alone.
    “Works become world literature by being received into the space of a foreign
    culture, a space defined in many ways by the host culture’s national tradition and
    the present needs of its own writers”. (Damrosch 2003: 283).
    (David Damrosch,2003)
    Literary language is thus language that either gains or loses in translation, in contrast
    to non-literary language, which typically does neither. The balance of credit and loss
    remains a distinguishing mark of national versus world literature: literature stays
    within its national or regional tradition when it usually loses in translation, whereas
    works become world literature when they gain on balance in translation, stylistic
    losses offset by an expansion in depth as they increase their range (Damrosch 2003:
    289).

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