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The Unifying Aspects of Cultures

SECTION:

Unite/Divide/Unite: World, National, Transnational Literature

Chair of the section/Suggestions, Abstracts, Papers to:
Email: Alexandr W. Belobratow / Elena Apenko (St. Petersburg)

ABSTRACT: The contemporary state of culture is shaped by complex and non-contemporary processes, which reveal diverging as well as converging tendencies. The aim of this section will be to consider and discuss literary phenomena of different lengths, contents and breadths (from single books to literary works that encompass nations and epochs) in the context of the problem of the divisive and unifying qualities of culture.

The formations and transformations of the idea of a uniform literary canon in connection with concepts of national literature and their historical realization in the last three centuries must be compared to the problem of expanding or abolishing the canon, respectively, and to various other concepts of world and national literature.

The concept of transnational literature will also be examined in terms of its feasibility and productivity, taking into account the remaining language segmenting of the literary field and the not unquestionable matter of the translatability of literary works.

THE UNIFYING ASPECTS OF CULTURES