The paper examines the French writer Marguerite Yourcenar as an example of world literature, going through three steps. The first step is to question why Marguerite Yourcenar is one of the authors included in David Damrosch’s “Around the World in 80 Books”. The second step is looking at the notion of world literature through the concepts of Harold Bloom’s “The West- ern Canon”, Ognyan Kovachev’s “Literature and Identity Transformations of Otherness”, and Galin Tihanov’s “Beyond Circulation”. The third step reads Yourcenar’s method as being in line with the idea of literary zones and zonality.
Literary Zones: M. Yourcenar and the Concept of World Literature
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Francheska Zemyarska
Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, BulgariaФранческа Земярска (1995) е асистент по западноевропейска литература в катедра „Теория на литературата“ към СУ „Св. Климент Охридски. В дисертационния си труд работи върху творчеството на Маргьорит Юрсенар. В периода 2018-2020 г. е част в екипа на проекта „Open Art Files“ на Фондация „Отворени изкуства“, в който се реализира мащабен архив в сферата на вузиалните изкуства в България от 1980-те до днес. Научните ѝ интереси са в полето на литературната история в периода на модернизма в Западна Европа.
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Abstract:ABSTRACTThe paper examines the French writer Marguerite Yourcenar as an example of world literature, going through three steps. The first step is to question why Marguerite Yourcenar is one of the authors included in David Damrosch’s “Around the World in 80 Books”. The second step is looking at the notion of world literature through the concepts of Harold Bloom’s “The West- ern Canon”, Ognyan Kovachev’s “Literature and Identity Transformations of Otherness”, and Galin Tihanov’s “Beyond Circulation”. The third step reads Yourcenar’s method as being in line with the idea of literary zones and zonality.
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