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World literature refers to literature from all over the world, including American Literature , European Literature , Asian Literature , African Literature , Arabic Literature and so on. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe introduced the concept of ''Weltliteratur'' in 1827 to describe the growing availability of texts from other nations. More narrowly, world literature was long defined in the United States as an established Canon of European Masterpieces , but an emerging global perspective has challenged both this European Focus and the very category of "the masterpiece", though today the term world literature is still used to denote the supposedly Very Best in Literature , the so-called Western Canon . In order to understand the concept of world literature, it can be useful to explore the concepts of World Cinema and World Music . SEE ALSO
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