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GRK 1733:  Globalisation and Literature. Representations, Transformations, Interventions

Subject Area Literary Studies
Term from 2012 to 2021
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 181475650
 
Final Report Year 2022

Final Report Abstract

The Research Training Group explored the ways in which the literary and its functions reflect ‘processes of globalization’. ‘Processes of globalization’ served as an analytic tool for constructions of world without any previous critical or affirmative judgment. It did so particularly with regard to earlier earth-encompassing processes, dating back to antiquity. On the one side, the research conducted in the RTG focused on ‘Worlds in Literature’, i.e. how literature represents and reflects, but also criticizes and intervenes in processes of globalization, in a variety of texts ranging from Ovids Metamorphosis to Melvilles Moby-Dick and present-day science-fiction novels. On the other hand, the work of the RTG examined formations of ‘World Literature’, i.e. the organization of literary fields that question the boundaries of the Nation through translation, migration of authors and even the multilingualism present in a single text. The term ‘the literary’ allowed for an exploration of these potentials in texts that are usually not considered literature (e.g. travel reports, essays or rap lyrics). The particular functions of the literary came into focus through a wide array of theories of globalization, including, among others, discussions of the ‘Anthropocene’. The group of supervising professors was composed in such a way as to guarantee the support of doctoral dissertations and postdoctoral studies in fields of research beyond the European context. The study program, which covered theories of both literature and globalization, provided the basis for this kind of research and allowed for an intense exchange of ideas between PhD candidates, postdoctoral fellows, the supervisors and visiting scholars coming from four different continents and from the fields of both literary and social studies. The RTG presented its results in publications, public lectures and conferences. PhD students were an active part in all of these formats.

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