Abstract
Works of literary history are an integral part of the global literary phenomenon that we shall call a polysystem, after Itamar Even-Zohar (1978). We might consider these works, taken as a whole, as a system within the polysystem, in the sense that they determine several domains of literary and cultural life.' Our task as historians will be to show the correlations between these domains and the functioning of the system that they compose, the ultimate effect of which is the constitution of a nation's official literary canon. The first domain encompasses the teaching and the didactics of literature, in which the school textbook serves as the prototypical instrument. To explore this domain, it is necessary to have information about academic levels and curricula within the educational institutions of a given nation. It is
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