Boxall schreibt: »Does a body of writing, a canon of essential texts, emerge from a national context, or does it in some way transcend nationality, rising above the contexts that generate it? What does it mean to try to respond to all of these different national contexts at the same time? Is it possible to produce a list that can speak at once to the readers in Turkey and in Greece, in Serbia and Croatia?« (Boxall 2008)