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  • 9 - Does Poetry Make Worlds?

  • from Part II - Thinking the World
  • Edited by Debjani Ganguly, University of Virginia
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of World Literature
    Published online:
    17 August 2021
    Print publication:
    09 September 2021, pp 201-214

  • Summary

    The debates about world literature tend to focus on the way literature moves in the world, the way it interacts with a world that is already “out there” relative to the actual content of the literary work. I focus here instead on the way that literature makes worlds, and on the ways that these processes of world-making point us towards a way of thinking about “world” literature that sees the latter term as an active participant in the construction of the former—or rather, in the construction of many types of the former term. The particular test case for investigation is the Chinese poetic genre known as the fu.