National and Comparative Literature in the Age of Globalization

Szegedy-Maszák, Mihály (2005) National and Comparative Literature in the Age of Globalization. Hungarian Studies, 19 (2). pp. 267-276. ISSN 0236-6568

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Abstract

In a world of globalization it is the task of literary historians to reassess their national legacy from the new perspective. The past can never be taken for granted and never be forgotten; it is the result of interpretation. Poetic traditions are inseparable from linguistic structures, language as collective memory, and so they cannot be easily transferred into another culture. If historiography cannot do without teleology, we have to think in terms of different teleologies. It is undeniably difficult to fulfill contradictory demands, but a literary historian cannot stop making arguments and counterarguments.

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