What is World Literature...

World literature creates unity throughout the world through literature. It creates a body of writing that can span different cultures and locations. Instead of national literature that spreads ideas as well as a style of writing through one individual region, it is a global system of writing. As Franco Moretti argues, it is a product of institutions. It is literature that has been stream lined because authors have conformed to win mass appeal through gaining literary awards or becoming literary scholars. World literature means the distribution of literature and the kinds of writing has all become universal. Moretti also argues that world literature is a product of the unequal system of our world. It is a product of some countries and some regions having more power thus using this influence to spread their culture and writing styles. An example of this is the novel. The novel is only a few centuries old and is European in origin, but is now a world-wide phenomena.