The phrase "literary sphere" is correct and can be used in written English to refer to the world or domain of literature and literary works.
Example: The author's impact on the literary sphere was immense, with her novels and poems being widely read and praised by critics. In this example, "literary sphere" is used to describe the overall influence and significance of the author's work in the realm of literature. It can also be used to discuss trends, movements, or discussions within the literary world, such as "the current debate in the literary sphere about the role of technology in storytelling." Any situation where you want to specifically refer to the realm of literature, rather than just a single literary work or author, "literary sphere" would be an appropriate and useful term to use.
But the shift of power in the chain of meaning was not restricted to the literary sphere.
In the literary sphere, each tradition developed an extensive corpus of canonical and commentarial literature, and each has developed a body of narrative literature.
This is equally so, of course, within Britain itself – at least in the literary sphere, the authority of Lord Chesterfield's dictators has been overthrown.
The dispute has now spread to the literary sphere, with bookshops in Beijing removing books by Japanese authors from their shelves, according to reports.
To an unusual degree, Marías manages to inhabit not only the popular but also the literary sphere, counting J. M. Coetzee, Salman Rushdie, and the late W. G. Sebald among his admirers.
The literary sphere is not alone in this bias: to cite just one example, this autumn an entire season of the flagship BBC1 arts programme Imagine will go by, scandalously, without a single woman artist being profiled.
He argues persuasively that Michael Chabon, Jonathan Lethem, Donna Tartt, and Neil Gaiman have succeeded in "grafting the sophisticated, intensely aware literary language of Modernism onto the sturdy narrative roots of genre fiction …They're forging connections between literary spheres that have been hermetically sealed off from one another for a century".
I worry that genre-specific sites, by separating readers into ever more personalized, narrow spheres, could fragment the literary field further, homogenizing the texts that appear with in each specialized field.
Lettered articulation, in high verse no less, was a significant counter to claims of Negro inferiority, hence the need for legitimation of Wheatley's writings by White persons of significant standing in order for those writings to enter a race- and gender-constricted literary public sphere.
As a contemporary genre, the diary actively joins with the myriad hybrid modes of autobiography that now make up the literary public sphere.
But the parameters of book publishing for Washington wives once lay squarely in the domestic sphere, the literary equivalent of Jackie's White House decorating tour: entertaining, first pets, raising a family.
