(World) Literature: Beneath and Beyond

Abstract

In this interview, Zhang Longxi explores topics and approaches that have made him one of the leading scholars on cross-cultural studies in the world. Longxi’s innovative understanding of both the relationship between East and West and literary hermeneutics is clarified in his latest contribution, World Literature as Discovery: Expanding the World Literary Canon, which aims at suggesting that world literature may favor a productive way to return to the reading of literature.