Nation vs. world? Global imprints on Shakespeare and the orientation of world literature
Michael Steppat
Abstract:One of the foremost critics in recent decades, Harold Bloom, has asserted that "Shakespeare is to the world's literature what Hamlet is to the imaginary domain of literary character: a spirit that permeates everywhere, that cannot be confined", also calling him "the center of the embryo of a world canon, not Western or Eastern" (1994, 52,(62)(63). Is this "world's literature" that which others call world literature? In major discussions of the latter, Shakespeare is mentioned only occasionally and briefly, as … Show more
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