Abstract
Abstract Debates on postcolonial writing, canon formation and Goethe’s notion of world literature can profit from reconsidering the well-known case of James Macpherson’s Works of Ossian. The fictions of translation which it offered to the eighteenthcentury reading public questioned ruling norms while working towards cultural change, thus helping to suggest new views on the positioning of literature in the modern world.
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