Abstract

There seems to be a certain agreement that world literature, as it is handled today, requires attention to the historical and cultural specifics of the context of its production. However, current scholarship continues to fixate on Goethe and the discourse his idea of world literature spawned. Remarkably, Heine’s contemporary critique of the Goethean vision is curiously absent from a debate that prides itself on taking the genealogy of its discourse seriously. This paper highlights how Heine offers a forgotten yet decisive critical supplement, one that challenges and reimagines the project of world literature performatively and with a difference, both in an early theoretical intervention and in his critical and poetic production, and in an often strikingly suggestive fashion.

摘要

似乎有一定的共识，即今天处理的世界文学需要关注其生产背景的历史和文化细节。然而，目前的学术研究继续关注歌德和他的世界文学思想所产生的话语。值得注意的是，海涅对歌德视野的当代批评奇怪地没有出现在一场以认真对待其话语系谱而自豪的辩论中。本文重点介绍了海涅如何提供一个被遗忘但决定性的批评补充，一个以表演方式挑战和重新想象世界文学的项目，在早期的理论干预和他的批评和诗歌创作中，以及以一种经常引人注目的暗示方式。 .