Interculturality in light of literary scholarship

Vol.19,No.1(2016)

Krištof Jacek Kozak

https://doi.org/10.5817/SL2016-1-1

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http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/135515

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Abstract
Realization that human artistic endeavours, where also literature belongs, have no borders has become a common place. This article will thus not deal with literature per se but with ways of looking at it, which, in their own turn, depend on the state of society the studied art was created in. It is probably safe to claim that the purpose of literature is always to transcend reality, to offer a look "across", which the reality does not offer. How then can we with limited means grasp un unlimited entity? For the last two hundred years literatures in vernacular languages have been understood as national. The discussion of literature necessarily spreads to the question of a nation and with the latter another issue is critically linked: the question of culture. Does that mean that the question of national literature is more political than aesthetic or vice versa? As it appears, an exclusive mono-cultural perspective would be detrimental to literature. This article deals with the concepts of world and comparative literatures and their multi- or intercultural perspectives and their own main idiosyncrasies in relation to the concept of literature.

Keywords:
national literature; world literature; comparative literature; multicultural literature; intercultural literature

Pages:
7–16
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