关键词: 达姆罗什, 世界文学, 视域, 世界, 现象学

Abstract: The key to Damrosch's World Literature agenda lies in the “elliptical comparative perspective” that balances the tension between national literatures with their corresponding philological syntheses and Comparative Literature's weight of polyglotism with its “high theory” generalization. Behind the approach resides various considerations facing the predicaments of Comparative Literature. He regards “nation” as a territorial force that shapes the distinctive configurations of literature, and its expansion leads to the category of “world,” which is transformed into plural and comparative forms, thus serving as both the dynamic force for literature to transcend territorial limitations and the pressure that compels literature to search for the boundaries of identity. The agenda echoes the broader expansion of literature in globalization, accommodates more practical teaching and research demands, embraces a wider range of literary reading interests, and is consistent with his approach of reconfiguring World Literature from phenomenology rather than ontology. However, this reconciliation also encounters difficulties in practice and methodology, resulting in endless self-defense and counterproductive excess, and being subjected to the hegemonic logic of spatial extension. The phenomenology of World Literature invites us to conduct critical existential-hermeneutical analyses of its “manifestations,” rather than merely describing and introducing them in a popular way.

Key words: David Damrosch, World Litearature, perspective, world, phenomenology