Literary Studies

GlobaLS’ experience of the Institute for World Literature (IWL) Literary StudiesWorkshop

GlobaLS’ experience of the Institute for World Literature (IWL)

By Ana Kvirikashvili, Laura Fólica and Aina Vidal-Pérez.   The Institute for World Literature (IWL) is a roaming summer school set up ten years ago by Harvard University. In July, due to the COVID-19 pandemic,[…]

9 December, 2020
The transnational professionalization of European literary criticism during the interwar period ArticlesLiterary Studies

The transnational professionalization of European literary criticism during the interwar period

Literature has always been a part of our society. In fact, nowadays, one has only to look around to see the huge proliferation of publishing companies, book fairs, best-sellers and an e-book market (assisted by[…]

30 March, 2020
Going global, thinking globally: How do we do it? ArticlesLiterary StudiesSocial Networks

Going global, thinking globally: How do we do it?

Frank Schätzing’s novel The Swarm is a massive, science-fiction novel that presents an apocalyptic world where the ocean has raised against human beings in response to their abuse in oil drilling, toxic waste dumping, and[…]

2 April, 2019