The document discusses world literature and its key concepts. It defines world literature as the total of all national literatures, how literature forms differently in various countries, and how it can have universal appeal by crossing boundaries of time, culture, and geography. The document also notes that world literature was introduced by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1827 to describe the characteristics and relationships between national literatures without restraint by national boundaries.

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● Mushrooms
● Flowers
● Gardens
● Books
● Green foliage
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common motifs

3. World
Literature
Glaiza M. Molo
Romblon National HighSchool
Senior HighSchool

4.  Understand World literature and its
contribution to the different societies
 Recognize the importance of literature in the
lives of groups of people.
Objectives

5. C.S. Lewis
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply
describe it. It enriches the necessary
competencies that daily life requires and
provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the
desserts that our lives have already become.

7. It suggests to the sum total of the world’s
national literature.
The formation of literature in different
countries with its own artistic features.
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8. Its common denominator is having
cosmopolitan or universal appeal.
It cuts across boundaries of time, of creed,
of culture, gender and space.
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9. These are literature that interacts in the
spaces between cultures.
It is about stepping out of our own culture
and ethnicities and placing ourselves in the
larger context of humanity.
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10. World literature was
introduced by Johan
Wolfgang von Goethe
using the term
Weltliteratur in 1827.
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11. Goethe studied the
characteristic features
and interrelationships of
different national
literatures.
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13. He studied the works of
famous writers which
presented different
literary phenomena of
different historic periods.
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14. He claimed that
literature shouldn`t be
restrained by national
boundaries.
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