World Literature and Modern Chinese Fiction

LIN Xiaoxia

doi:10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.2020327

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LIN Xiaoxia. World Literature and Modern Chinese Fiction[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2020, 3(2): 318-334. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.2020327

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LIN Xiaoxia. World Literature and Modern Chinese Fiction[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2020, 3(2): 318-334. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.2020327

LIN Xiaoxia. World Literature and Modern Chinese Fiction[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2020, 3(2): 318-334. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.2020327

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LIN Xiaoxia. World Literature and Modern Chinese Fiction[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2020, 3(2): 318-334. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.2020327

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World Literature and Modern Chinese Fiction

doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.2020327

LIN Xiaoxia

Fujian University of Technology

Received Date: 2019-12-10
Rev Recd Date: 2020-02-10
Publish Date: 2021-03-09

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Abstract

Goethe's “invention” of Weltliteratur in the late 1820s helped shape a post-Napoleonic world. The revival of world literature has now become another cutting-edge theoretical topic on which both eminent Western and Eastern scholars are focusing today. Although scholars often debate globalization's favorable or unfavorable impact on the development of comparative literature, as if it were a preexisting entity inflected by a changing cultural environment, this paper contends that the globalization of material, cultural, and intellectual production, followed by the dissolution of Eurocentrism and “West-centrism” and by the rise of Eastern culture and literature, has assisted the development of world literature in the context of globalization. Moreover, taking diaspora intellectuals Eric Auerbach, Edward Said, and Ling Shuhua, for example, this paper also gives a general account of the development and relationship between world literature and modern Chinese fiction.
- world literature,
- modern Chinese fiction,
- Erich Auerbach,
- Edward Said,
- Ling Shuhua

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