Logical Reasoning

PT146 · S3 · Q24 For a work to be rightly thought

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For a work to be rightly thought of as world literature, it must be received and interpreted within the writer’s own national tradition and within external national traditions.

Statements

conditionals (must, if)

world → received and interpreted w/in literature your and other national traditions

1. positive model for development of own tradition or 2. negative case of → in national bad thing to be avoided tradition or 3. image of radical otherness prompting refinement of tradition

Evaluate

Yikes, that last monstrosity definitely shouldn't be physically diagrammed on paper. Let's focus on Overlapping Concepts between the first and second sentence.

The one thing in both sentences is "interpreted w/in a national tradition".

Being considered world literature requires that you're interpreted in your nation's tradition as well as that of others. And there are 3 things that guarantee you'd be interpreted within a national tradition.

Are they the only 3 things that get you interpreted within a national tradition? No, not necessarily. But it's heavily insinuated that they are the only 3 things.

So it's pretty supportable for us to say that .

Goal

Look for something connecting world literature to those 3 ways of being interpreted as a national tradition.

But stay flexible. Ultimately we just want the most provable answer.

24.

The statements above, if true, most strongly support which one of the following?

  1. A work of literature cannot

    Out of Scope: well received

    We never used language like well-received in the passage, so we can't support this very extreme and absolute conditional rule about how well-received works.

    16% picked this

  2. A work of world literature

    Unknown Comparison: offers more

    There is nothing in the paragraph allowing us to compare how much a work of world literature offers to readers in the author's nation vs. to readers in other nations. The expression "how much does it offer" means "how much value does it impart". We're not even dealing with things that could be quantified and compared in that "which one does it offer more to"?

    4% picked this

  3. A work should not be

    Out of Scope: more meaningful

    We never used language like more meaningful in the passage. The only way we have of saying that something should not be though of as world literature is saying "it wasn't received or wasn't interpreted in the author's national tradition or in some other national tradition". We can't invent a rule that says, "If more meaningful to your compatriots, then not world literature".

    7% picked this

  4. A work of world literature

    Out of Scope: influenced by

    There's nothing in any of these necessary conditions for world literature that talks about the work being influenced by foreign works. We only talk about this work influencing domestic readers and international readers.

    14% picked this

  5. Correct

    A work is not part

    Why this is right

    This, unlike most correct answers on Most Supported and Must Be True, can be derived from one claim: the first sentence. That rule stipulates a necessary quality for world literature: World Received and interpreted within literature → author's national tradition and within external national traditions That right side means that to be world literature, you have to affect at least 2 national traditions. "Being received and interpreted within a national tradition" qualifies as "affecting the development of the national tradition". So this answer choice is just doing a contrapositive of the first sentence. If you're only affecting one national tradition, then you can't be affecting both domestic and international traditions, and so you can't be world literature.

    Skill tested: Most Supported · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

    59% picked this

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