ABSTRACT
The problem is less acute in totalitarian regimes, like the former Soviet Union, which had Glavlit, the Main Administration for Affairs of Literature and Publishing, and professional bodies like the USSR Union of Writers. When it comes to the question of who defines literature institutionally, or claims guardianship over the literary, then, everyone needs to consider both the internal and external forces that shape the field of cultural production. The questions Damrosch's conception of world literature raises about the various uses of the term institution author have been discussing become more apparent if everyone pick at one small thread in the vast tapestry of the Longman Anthology. Comparable forms of reductionism, relating to gender and race or ethnicity, emerged within the certain styles of feminism and the postcolonialism. At the same time Bourdieu's prism analogy put the isolationism of Danto and Dickie's artworld in question.
