Torres Feijó, Elias J.2020-04-242020-04-242011Torres Feijó, Elias J. "About Literary Systems and National Literatures." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 13.5 (2011): <https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.1901>1481-4374http://hdl.handle.net/10347/21727In his article "About Literary Systems and National Literatures," Elias Torres J. Feijó offers a polysystemic analysis with examples from the Iberian Peninsula. He argues that a community's literature can be understood as a) the gathering of so-called literary activities, which take place in a social space or b) something that identifies certain characteristics of a part or the whole of the members in a given social space. For his analysis, Torres Feijó employs Itamar Even-Zohar's notion of polysystem because it allows us to interpret each system generated by members of a given community and its delimitation, differentiation, and integration mechanisms in supra-systemic relational schemes. In addition, mechanisms can be obtained for the analysis of the fabrication and promotion of formulas which have as their objective systemic sovereignty: proto-systems, subsystems, and para-systems.eng© Purdue University. This work is covered under the CC BY-NC-ND licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/journal article10.7771/1481-4374.1901open access