MA in World Literature

Globalization has not only resulted in increasing interlinking within the worlds of business and politics but also in greater assimilations in the field of culture. The internationalization of literature is now a quite apparent phenomenon. Just as in the case of cultures, literatures can no longer be thought of as self-contained, fully autonomous units regardless of how much they are defined by their individual language. Literary works are implicitly or explicitly linked to literary texts in other languages, have an impact in foreign language or foreign cultural spheres or find their inspiration here, draw from an international pool of materials, subjects, motifs, processes and forms and are influenced by the extensive global discourse and developments in aesthetic and non-aesthetic domains - particularly today - and cannot be defined in terms of national, cultural or linguistic boundaries. Ever more literary texts are being created that are positioned within an international context and are expressly designed to represent a contribution to intercultural literary communication in our global society.