Agons of World Literature: Dino Buzzati in Europe, 1940–1990
abstract:World literature involves a “transvaluation,” a Nietzschean “Umwertung,” wherein “idols” are challenged, the dominant discourses that have been accepted as “truth” in an originary or receiving culture. The worlded text becomes a site of interpretive conflict, allowing it to maintain or unsettle hierarchies of...