National Literature and Interliterary System
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7960274 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Naftoli Bassel, Ilana Gomel |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 773 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Poetics Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1772716 |
| OpenAlex | W2312354277 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Considering national literature in light of the theory of interliterary systems may deepen our understanding of its limits and the criteria which define them. Our starting point is the claim that any national literature is a system characterized by the following features: an organic connection to the historical destiny of its ethnic group; a national language as the basic medium of its existence; rootedness in the folklore and mythology of its ethnic group; stability and dynamism as an aesthetic system; the existence of an indigenous, self-aware artistic tradition interacting with other national art forms; social and aesthetic heterogeneity; a literary development and growth influenced by, or generically and typologically correlated with, other literatures and the world literary process; belonging to various interliterary (zonal, ethno-linguistic, regional) systems, whose spectrum is comparatively stable and well defined for each national literature (see Neupokoeva 1976: 243-62). Every national literature is characterized by a specific combination of these features, which distinctly define a national, literary, and aesthetic system. The criteria above exclude from the given national literature works which are thematically linked to the life of its nation yet written by authors belonging to other literary systems; at the same time, they
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,3 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2017 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |