The local-world axis as a challenge for literary History

Abstract

Within the general framework of the crisis of History and with attention to the new coordinates derived from globalization and multiculturalism, this article analyzes the local, regional, national and supranational/worldwide dimensions of Literary History and explores the possibility of its temporal-chronological aspect granting part of its protagonism to a spatial-territorial vector, thereby favoring an approach to Cultural Semiotics, Cultural Geography, and other disciplines. The correlations established between these aforementioned dimensions in the practice of several of the most current models in Comparative Cultural and Literary History are also observed –those corresponding to Dionýz Ďurišin and Mario J. Valdés and the connections to empirical-systemic theories and Subaltern Studies–, with particular attention to heuristic, methodological, discursive, and metatextual levels, as well as the type of reception foreseen in each case.