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Why is the English language (and the UK in particular) so dominant when it comes to literature?
Over the past thousand years, there's been literally no competition. More recently its greatest competition is the USA (a former colony using the same language and drawing on the same rich tradition that language brings with it).
Does literature work in the same way as economics (the best way to make more money is to be rich to begin with) or is this purely cultural bias and e.g. English, French, Somali, Italian, German etc. literary traditions are all equally good.
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It's all a meme, my friend.
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When book-reading was "the" craze it was all French literature, French culture pretty much dominated Western culture until the 1850s. Why do you think all those Russians in Dostoevsky use French bonmots and not English ones?
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>>8314543
>Over the past thousand years, there's been literally no competition
wut
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>>8314543
>is this purely cultural bias and e.g. English, French, Somali, Italian, German etc. literary traditions are all equally good
>Somali literary traditions
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>>8314543
>only reads literature from his own country
>automatically assumes its literature is the best
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>>8315560
it's more like
>doesnt read any literature
>shit posts on /lit/
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>>8314543
>In the past 20 years OP has read Harry Potter and Dickinson and nothing else.
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