ABSTRACT

Coined by Christoph Martin Wieland and promoted by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Weltliteratur/‘world literature’ has gained extraordinary traction in comparative literature, post-colonial studies, and Goethe studies. This article provides an overview of the emergence of Weltliteratur in Goethe’s critical activities, offering a comparison to its mutation into the contemporary critical framework of world literature. Adopting a genealogical approach, Edward Said’s ‘worldliness’ concept allows a consideration of literature’s materiality — from ‘bibliomigrancy’ (Mani) to the socio-economic locatedness of authors, works, and their critics — in relation to Weltliteratur/world literature. The article concludes with an overview of the essays in this special thematic issue of PEGS on ‘Literature in the World’.

摘要

由克里斯托弗·马丁·韦兰（Christoph Martin Wieland）创立，并由约翰·沃尔夫冈·歌德（Johann Wolfgang Goethe）提倡，世界文学/“世界文学”在比较文学，后殖民研究和歌德研究中获得了非凡的吸引力。本文概述了歌德批评活动中出现的文学世界的出现，并比较了它在世界文学的当代批评框架中的变异。爱德华·赛义德（Edward Said）的“世俗”概念采用家谱学方法，可以考虑文学的重要性-从“文献移民”（Mani）到作家，作品及其评论家在社会经济上的地位-与Weltliteratur相关/世界文学。文章最后总结了PEGS关于“世界文学”这一特殊主题的论文。