Imagining the Future: Globalization, Post-Modernism and Criticism

Abstract

What possibilities does globalization open up for literary studies, and more specifically, for our understanding of the politics of the literary today? To put this another way: is it possible to still imagine a social function for literary studies in an era dominated by visual spectacle, the triumph of the private and the apparent dissolution of the public sphere?

This paper was whiten with the support of a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.