Transculturality: from the idea of Wolfgang Welsch to transcultural literary history Cover Image

Transkuturowość: od koncepcji Wolfganga Welscha do Transkulturowej historii literatury
Transculturality: from the idea of Wolfgang Welsch to transcultural literary history

Author(s): Katarzyna Deja
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: transculturality; world literature; Weltliteratur; transcultural literary history

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the problem of transculturality and the manner in which it can be adapted as a method of literary analysis. The article presents Wolfgang Welsch’s original idea of transculturality, the shifting attitude towards Weltliteratur and Anders Pettersson’s proposal of a transcultural view on literary history. All of these ideas can be sum up as attempts to find a new, global approach to literature, one that would be free of previous eurocentric thinking and open towards other cultures and literary traditions.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 26
  • Page Range: 87-107
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Polish