The Globalization of the Novel and the Novelization of the Global. A Critique of World Literature

construction of the universal subject imagined by the Enlightenment; comparative literature and world literature as the critical discourse that would render visible the cosmopolitan ethical and cultural world to come: Once we grasp the nature of art and poetry, its victory over human mortality and destiny, its creation of a new world order of the imagination, national vanities will disappear. Man, universal man, man everywhere and at all time, in all his variety, emerges and literary scholarship ceases to be an antiquarian pastime, a calculus of national credits and debts and even a mapping of networks of relationships. Literary scholarship becomes an act of the