For a work to be rightly thought of as world literature, it must be

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For   a   work   to   be   rightly   thought   of   as   world   literature,   it   must   be   received   and   interpreted   within   the   writer’s   own   national   tradition   and   within   external   national   traditions.   A   work   counts   as   being   interpreted   within   a   national   tradition   if   authors   from   that   tradition   use   the   work   in   at   least   one   of   three   ways:   as   a   positive   model   for   the   development   of   their   own   tradition,   as   a   negative   case   of   a   decadent   tendency   that   must   be   consciously   avoided,   or   as   an   image   of   radical   otherness   that   prompts   refinement   of   the   home   tradition.
  
 The   statements   above,   if   true,   most   strongly   support   which   one   of   the   following?

A.   A   work   of   literature   cannot   be   well   received   within   an   external   national   tradition   if   it   is   not   well   received   within   the   writer’s   own   national   tradition.

B. A work of world literature offers more to readers within external national traditions than it offers to readers within the writer’s national tradition.

C. A work should not be thought of as world literature if it is more meaningful to readers from the writer’s national tradition than it is to readers from external national traditions.

D. A work of world literature is always influenced by works outside of the writer’s national tradition.

E. A work is not part of world literature if it affects the development of only one national tradition.

pintukr · Answer

For   a   work   to   be   rightly   thought   of   as   world   literature,   it   must   be   received   and   interpreted   within   the   writer’s   own   national   tradition   and   within   external   national   traditions.   A   work   counts   as   being   interpreted   within   a   national   tradition   if   authors   from   that   tradition   use   the   work   in   at   least   one   of   three   ways:   as   a   positive   model   for   the   development   of   their   own   tradition,   as   a   negative   case   of   a   decadent   tendency   that   must   be   consciously   avoided,   or   as   an   image   of   radical   otherness   that   prompts   refinement   of   the   home   tradition.  
 
  The statements above, if true, most strongly support which one of the following?

A.   A   work   of   literature   cannot   be   well   received   within   an   external   national   tradition   if   it   is   not   well   received   within   the   writer’s   own   national   tradition

There is no mention that it should be mandatory that the work of literature should be well received within the writer’s own national tradition to be taken as well received within an external national tradition

B. A work of world literature offers more to readers within external national traditions than it offers to readers within the writer’s national tradition.

Degree of impact not discussed in the given stimulus

C. A work should not be thought of as world literature if it is more meaningful to readers from the writer’s national tradition than it is to readers from external national traditions.

Didactic view; also, there is no comparison regarding meaningfulness to readers ...while discussing the writer’s national tradition and external national traditions.

D. A work of world literature is always influenced by works outside of the writer’s national tradition.

Since it has been highlighted in the stimulus that the work will be counted as world literature only when it is received and interpreted within the writer’s own national tradition AND within external national traditions, it must be true that work of world literature is always influenced by works outside of the writer’s national tradition....CORRECT answer

E. A work is not part of world literature if it affects the development of only one national tradition.

There is no mention in the stimulus that the there should be impact of the work on specific number of national traditions, whether one or more than one

IMO...(D) is the CORRECT answer

nousernamefine · Answer

Sufficient    condition- Literature
   Necessary condition - received and interpreted within the writer’s own national tradition and within external national traditions.

If world literature> then it is received and interpreted within the writer’s own national tradition and within external national traditions. (If A then b)
 Contra

If Not b then Not A

If not received withing both own and oustide tradition then not world literature.

This contra is what option E says. hence E is the ans. ( E. A work is not part of world literature if it affects the development of only one national tradition.)

Hope it helps

For a work to be rightly thought of as world literature, it must be

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