#world-literature — Public Fediverse posts

Poll: Who’s Better?

📚 The Director by: Daniel Kehlmann

G.W. Pabst, one of cinema’s greatest directors of the 20th century, was filming in France when the Nazis seized power. To escape the horrors of the new and unrecognizable Germany, he fled to Hollywood. But now, under the blinding California sun, the world-famous director suddenly loo...

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#books #reading #libraries #fiction #historical #20thcentury #literaryfiction #worldliterature

Philosophy's Shifting Borders: Text, Translation, and the Global Stage

Brown University's Philosophy Department discusses how philosophical ideas travel globally through translation and diverse narratives, changing how we see world literature.

#Philosophy, #WorldLiterature, #BrownUniversity, #GlobalIdeas, #TranslationStudies

https://newsletter.tf/brown-university-philosophy-world-literature/

Brown University is exploring a new idea: Philosophy as World Literature. This means looking at how ideas travel across countries, like stories do, changing as they are translated.

#Philosophy, #WorldLiterature, #BrownUniversity, #GlobalIdeas, #TranslationStudies
https://newsletter.tf/brown-university-philosophy-world-literature/

📚 We Do Not Part by: Han Kang

One winter morning in Seoul, Kyungha receives an urgent message from her friend Inseon to visit her at the hospital. Inseon has injured herself in an accident, and she begs Kyungha to return to Jeju Island, where she lives, to save her beloved pet—a white bird called Ama. A snowstorm h...

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#books #reading #libraries #fiction #literaryfiction #friendshipfiction #worldliterature #korea

Call for Papers
Scotland Along the New Silk Road
IASSL 5th World Congress of Scottish Literatures
17–20 June 2027, Nanjing

This congress seeks to foster reciprocal understanding & cultural collaborations between Scotland & the diverse voices of the New Silk Road

Deadline for proposals: 30 Nov 2026

@litstudies

https://scotlit-iassl.org/2025/11/11/call-for-papers-5th-world-congress-of-scottish-literatures-scotland-along-the-new-silk-road-17-20-june-2027/

#Scottish #literature #Scotland #China #culture #postcolonial #worldliterature #callforpapers

📚 Sunset at Zero Point by: Simon Stålenhag

Beginning in 2024, yet set largely during the early 2000s, Sunset at Zero Point unfolds on a secluded Swedish island, home to a secret weapon lab that has been off-limits for years, evoking the bestselling works of Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation and Emily St. John Ma...

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#books #reading #libraries #fiction #sciencefiction #cyberpunkfiction #worldliterature #sweden

📚 The Names by: Florence Knapp

It is 1987, and in the aftermath of a great storm, Cora sets out with her nine-year-old daughter to register the birth of her son. Her husband intends for her to follow a long-standing family tradition and call the baby after him. But when faced with the decision, Cora hesitates. ...

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#books #reading #libraries #fiction #generalfiction #familylife #multigenerationalfiction #worldliterature

📚 Helm by: Sarah Hall

Helm is a ferocious, mischievous wind — a subject of folklore and awe, part-elemental god, part-aerial demon blasting through the sublime landscape of Northern England since the dawn of time.

Through the stories of those who’ve obsessed over Helm, an extraordinary history is formed: the Neolithic t...

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📚 The Paris Express by: Emma Donoghue

Based on an 1895 disaster that went down in history when it was captured in a series of surreal, extraordinary photographs, The Paris Express is a propulsive novel set on a train packed with a fascinating cast of characters who hail from as close as Brittany and as far as Ru...

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📚 Small Boat by: Vincent Delecroix

November 2021: an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the UK capsizes in the Channel, causing the deaths of 27 people on board. How and why did it happen?

Despite receiving numerous calls for help, the French authorities wrongly told the migrants they were in British water...

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#books #reading #libraries #fiction #generalfiction #literaryfiction #worldliterature #france

Literatures, Communities, Worlds by Dustin
Breitenwischer et al, 2024

Competing Notions of the Global

The present volume looks at different, or competing, intellectual and cultural communities in Asia, Europe, and the Americas from the thirteenth century to the present.

#OpenAccess
https://verlag.koenigshausen-neumann.de/oaopen/91901/

#books
#literature
#WorldLiterature

Our "Digital Comparative Literature" track is in full swing today, with the first session about #Latour and #AI, about "Digital World Literature" and about the scholarly publishing landscape in the humanities, which urgently needs to catch up with the scholar-led, Diamond OA movement...

Details of the talks: https://www.conftool.pro/icla2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&cols=5&form_session=811&mode=table

#ICLA2025 @icla_dcl #DiamondOA #WorldLiterature

#CfP for the conference "Pe(a)nser l’Occident à partir du littéraire. Occidentalisation, Post-Occident, Occidentalisme. Enquête dans la #littérature contemporaine de langue française. XIVe Rendez-vous de la critique" which will take place at the Université de Porto on July3-4, 2025.

🗓️Deadline for abstracts: May 12, 2025

📌Further information:
https://www.avldigital.de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/peanser-loccident-a-partir-du-litteraire-occidentalisation-post-occident-occidentalisme-enque/ #fidavlnews #postcolonial @litstudies @germanistik @italianstudies #WorldLiterature #LiteartureCulture

#CfP for the conference „(Former) Third World #Literature and Culture“, which will take place at Sichuan University on December 14-17, 2025.

🗓️Deadline for abstracts: July 27, 2025

📌Further information:
https://www.avldigital.de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/former-third-world-literature-and-culture/ #fidavlnews.com @litstudies #postcolonialism #WorldLiterature #LiteratureCulture

Das „Internationale Doktorandenkolleg (IDK) #Philologie, Praktiken vormoderner #kulturen globale Perspektiven und Zukunftskonzepte“ an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) sucht zum 1. Oktober 2025 einen „Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter / Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (m/w/d)“.

🗓️Bewerbungsfrist: 25. Mai 2025

📌Weitere Informationen:
https://www.avldigital.de/vernetzen/details/job/wissenschaftlicher-mitarbeiter-wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiterin-im-internationalen-doktorandenkolle/ #fidavlnews @germanistik @italianstudies @litstudies #WorldLiterature #LiteratureCulture

This is from 2015, and it is better written than I expected it to be. Being written for the Smithsonian, it quite naturally glosses over some of the more salacious aspects of Sade's life.

#MarquisDeSade #Literature #Libertinism #FrenchLiterature #WorldLiterature

Who Was the Marquis de Sade?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/who-was-marquis-de-sade-180953980/

After the conference & day trip, it was time for meetings. We did plenty! I took part in delegation meetings with #AcademiaSinica and #NTU (National Taiwan Univ.), but there were many more. We learned about exchange opportunities, memoranda were signed, and we presented each others' research priorities and focus areas, and found lots of overlap! #Biodiversity #WorldLiterature #Sinology #DigitalHumanities #ArtifcialIntelligence #NaturalLanguageProcessing, to name just a few. #tcdh #UTrier

#CfP for the special issue "World #Literature as World Crisis: Discussing World #Literature to Change the World" of the journal CLCWeb.

🗓️Deadline for abstracts: March 31, 2025

📌Further information:
https://www.avldigital.de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/world-literature-as-world-crisis-discussing-world-literature-to-change-the-world/ #WorldLiterature #fidavlnews @litstudies @germanistik @italianstudies

László Krasznahorkai, world author (I.) - the system of literary translations in the 21st century
https://translationpatterns.substack.com/p/laszlo-krasznahorkai-world-author
Our (András Kiséry and myself) new blog post is about the most frequently translated contemporary Hungarian writer's road to his present position in the world literature. First part. #BibliographicData #worldliterature #translation

#Cfp für die Konferenz "#Literarischer Kanon und transnationale Wende : Praktiken, Dispositive, Institutionen (19.-21. Jahrhundert)", die am 2. und 3. Oktober 2025 an der Université de Nantes stattfinden wird.

🗓️Deadline für Abstracts: 10. März 2025

📌Weitere Informationen:
https://www.avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/literarischer-kanon-und-transnationale-wende-praktiken-dispositive-institutionen-19-21-jahrhu/ #fidavlnews @litstudies @germanistik @italianstudies #WorldLiterature

If nothing else, Maomao is an example of how far an education, a little compassion, and a backbone will get you. #apothecarydiaries #worldliterature #jinshiisintrouble
#sotheheroinemustsavehim
#iconic #anime #manga

#CfP for the 59th Annual Comparative World #Literature Conference, which will address "Ecocriticism and Popular Culture: Cool Trends in a Warming Climate", and take place at California State University, Long Beach on April 23-25, 2025.

🗓️Deadline for abstracts: March 1, 2025

📌Further information:
https://www.avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/ecocriticism-and-popular-culture-cool-trends-in-a-warming-climate/ #ecocriticism #avldigitalnews @litstudies @germanistik @italianstudies #WorldLiterature

We love the literary quotes that https://wandering.shop/@lunastation poss.

What other literary quote accounts do you recommend?

#Literature #EnglishLiteraure #WorldLiterature @education @edutooters

#CfP for the panel "Towards a Global Discourse: The “Ethical Turn” in Western and Arab-Islamic Thought" at the next #ACLAorg Annual Meeting, which will take place virtually from May 29 to June 1, 2025.

🗓️Deadline abstracts: October 14, 2024

📌More information:
https://www.avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/towards-a-global-discourse-the-ethical-turn-in-western-and-arab-islamic-thought-acla-2025/ #LiteraturePhilosophy @litstudies @germanistik @italianstudies #fidavlnews #WorldLiterature #LiteraturePhilosophy

Happy International Translation Day! High-quality translations between languages drive global commerce and make world literature possible, enabling a great author in one country to inspire a writer in another land whose work then influences authors elsewhere, in an endless exchange of creativity and inspiration.

Well-crafted, artful translations, performed by skilled human beings, make all of that possible. Hats off to my fellow translators! 😃

#InternationalTranslationDay #translation #translations #translators #WorldLiterature #InternationalCommerce

Happy International Translation Day! High-quality translations between languages drive global commerce and make world literature possible, enabling a great author in one country to inspire a writer in another land whose work then influences authors elsewhere, in an endless exchange of creativity and inspiration.

Hats off to my fellow translators! 😃

#InternationalTranslationDay #translation #translations #translators #WorldLiterature #InternationalCommerce

#CfP for the panel "Oceans in World #Literature: from the Middle Ages to Modern Times" at the next #ACLAorg Annual Meeting, which will take place virtually from May 29 to June 1, 2025.

🗓️Deadline abstracts: October 14, 2024

📌More information:
https://www.avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/oceans-in-world-literature-from-the-middle-ages-to-modern-times-acla-2025/ #fidavlnews @litstudies @germanistik @italianstudies #ecocriticsm #LiteratureGeography #WorldLiterature