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world literature: a standalone construct

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Comparative literature

literature that travels beyond the culture it came from, in translation or the original, and gains new meaning in its new settings.

In comparative literature, world literature refers to literature that travels beyond the culture it came from, in translation or the original, and gains new meaning in its new settings. This meaning comes from Damrosch (2003) in What is world literature?.[1]

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References

Damrosch, D. (2003). What is world literature?. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691049861

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