Towards a Global Literature

The question this project intends to address is: how does the rapid internationalization of the market for literature and the growing perception that the writer is addressing a global rather than a national community affect the content and style of what gets written and the conditions in which the translator works? Are novelists adapting their styles to make translation easier? Are they becoming more aware of what is culture-specific in their work? How do conditions and perceptions vary from one culture to another? Would it be possible to hazard a morphology of the successful 'global' novel? And is there really a 'global' readership or are we just speaking of a transnational, liberal, book-reading elite? What is the role of the cultural press in forming and informing this readership?

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The project aims to answer the following questions: how do the rapid internationalisation of the literary market and the feeling that the writer is increasingly turning to a global rather than a national community affect the content, style and working conditions of the translator? Are novelists progressively adapting their style to make translation easier? Are they becoming more aware of the cultural specificities present in their works? How do these conditions and their individual perceptions vary from one culture to another? Is it possible to hazard a morphology of the successful "global" novel? And is there really a "global" readership, or can we just talk about an elite of transnational and liberal readers? What role do the cultural pages of the big newspapers play in forming and informing such a readership?

For the full description of the project, click here. To participate in the discussion of the project on Facebook, click here.

• Francesco Laurenti, Eleonora Gallitelli, Romanzi italiani e romanzi tradotti dal inglese: un'analisi stilistica comparativa (Foreword by Tim Parks), LIBRAweb
• Francesco Laurenti, Literary information and editorial promotion in Italy, Rivisteweb
• Tim Parks and Edoardo Zuccato (eds.), Beyond Borders: Global Literature and Translation, Textus
• Tim Parks and Edoardo Zuccato (eds.), Towards a Global Literature. Towards globalised literature, Text opposite
• Eleonora Gallitelli and Francesco Laurenti, Italian and translated English novels: a comparative stylistic analysis, Literature and Literature
• Tim Parks, Listening for the Jabberwock The New York Review of Books
• Tim Parks, In Praise of the Language Police The New York Review of Books
• Tim Parks, Learning to Speak American The New York Review of Books
• Tim Parks, Global literary pies, Il Sole 24 Ore - Sunday cultural insert
• Tim Parks, A Game Without Rules The New York Review of Books
• Edoardo Zuccato, Antonia Pozzi, POEMS, translated by Peter Robinson, Oneworld Classics, Richmond (Surrey, UK), 2011, Parallel text/translation (n. 46, I half 2012)

• Tim Parks, Art That Stays Home The New York Review of Books
• Tim Parks, Most Favored Nations The New York Review of Books
• Tim Parks, The Dutch Are Coming! The New York Review of Books
• Tim Parks, What's Wrong With the Nobel Prize in Literature The New York Review of Books
• Tim Parks, The illusion of the world novel, Il Sole 24 Ore
• Tim Parks, Mysteries of the Meta-Task, The Iowa Review
• Tim Parks, Warum wir an Literaturpreise glauben, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
• Lothar Müller, Aus dem Leben der Skelette, Süddeutsche Zeitung
• Tim Parks, Your English is Showing, The New York Review of Books
• Tim Parks, Franzen's Ugly Americans Abroad The New York Review of Books
• Edoardo Zuccato, The languages of Franco Loi, Speaking frankly
• Tim Parks, The Nobel Individual, The Times Literary Supplement
• Tim Parks, Global Franzen, Il Sole 24 Ore
• Tim Parks, America First?, The New York Review of Books
• Tim Parks, Writing Adrift in the World The New York Review of Books
• Tim Parks, Translating in the Dark The New York Review of Books
• John Lloyd, The novel goes global, Reuters

• Move the scene, by G. Nadiani, summary by Eleonora Gallitelli
• Post-Colonial Translation. Theory and practice, by S. Bassnett and H. Trivedi, summary by Eleonora Gallitelli
• Going Global. The transnational reception of third world women writers Amal Amireh and Lisa Suhair Majaj, summary by Eleonora Gallitelli
• Comparison of global literature entries, by Eleonora Gallitelli
• What Is World Literature? by David Damrosch, summary by Eleonora Gallitelli
• The Scandals of Translation by L. Venuti, summary by Eleonora Gallitelli

• Translation and Identity by M. Cronin, summary by Eleonora Gallitelli
• A Attempted Typology of Translation-Induced Language Change by Svenja Kranich, Viktor Becher & Steffen Höder, summary by Eleonora Gallitelli