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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. A work counts as being interpreted within a national tradition if authors from that tradition use the work in at least one of three ways: as a positive model for the development of their own tradition, as a negative case of a decadent tendency that must be consciously avoided, or as an image of radical otherness that prompts refinement of the home tradition.
24.
The statements above, if true, most strongly support which one of the following?
a
A work of literature cannot be well received within an external national tradition if it is not well received within the writer's own national tradition.
b
A work of world literature offers more to readers within external national traditions than it offers to readers within the writer's national tradition.
c
A work should not be thought of as world literature if it is more meaningful to readers from the writer's national tradition than it is to readers from external national traditions.
d
A work of world literature is always influenced by works outside of the writer's national tradition.
e
A work is not part of world literature if it affects the development of only one national tradition.