Conjectures on World Literature

2000/01/31 by Franco Moretti · 4 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies #Translation Studies and Practices #Japanese History and Culture

paper · doi:10.64590/hxj

Abstract

Nearly two hundred years ago, Goethe announced the imminence of a world literature. Here Franco Moretti offers a set of hypotheses for tracking the birth and fate of the novel in the peripheries of Europe, in Latin America, Arab lands, Turkey, China, Japan, West Africa. For the first time, the prospect of a morphology of global letters?

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