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New Pathways for Rethinking Literary Studies in the 21st Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Sylvie André
Sylvie André*
Affiliation:
University of French Polynesia
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Sylvie André, chez Francine André, 1 rue Anatole France, 34110 Frontignan, France. Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

This paper is to re-think the goals of literary studies at the hedge of the 21° century, questioning the idea of literature itself. Literature, as it is defined in Europe, is an ethnocentric notion, related to the theory of nation-state from the 19° century. National literatures are also the major frame for comparative studies. So literature and literary studies must change and focus on contemporary challenges: globalization and new media. Nowadays, literary studies and teaching can not anymore be so tightly linked with nation or democratic state building. Teaching has to offer a wider range of cultural marks for young people. From now on, the major goals of researchers might be a theoretical analyze of the process of representation by language itself (very similar for all human sciences) and an analyze of literature as a aesthetic activity (very similar in all types of societies).

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Diogenes , Volume 58 , Issue 1-2: The Humanities Today , May 2011 , pp. 75 - 87
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Copyright © ICPHS 2012

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