السياقات التاريخية والمرجعيات الفكرية للأدب العالمي المعاصر

Résumé

This study aims to tracking the evolution of the concept of world literature and its shifts, because it is observed that this concept has known an evolution and expansion since its launching by Johann Wolfgang Goethe in 1827. This evolution allowed to expand the realm of world literature and become no more limited to masterpieces of literature, or centered in western Europe, as the saying of Goethe the openness, without a complex of superiority towards the diverse national literature, which were seen as inferior, in the framework of the colonial theories. This led to the expansion of the concept and the realm of the modern world literature, which acquired a universal nature.

       What helped in that is that this literature witnessed an evolution in its intellectual and literary references, resulted by the general contexts of the era which witnessed the fall of human civilization, which was reflected literary on most of the modern literary movements.