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Literature beyond the book – Festival Extra!
From the 5th to the 9th September 2018, the Centre Pompidou in Paris held the second edition of its Festival Extra!, looking into what happens ‘when literature leaves the book’. […]
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Multilingual Digital Authorship (Symposium Report)
The World Wide Web is commonly perceived as the ultimate tool of homogenizing culture through dominant platforms such as Google and Facebook, and consequently as the major culprit in the […]
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Literature in the Digital Space: Beyond the Amateur-Professional Binary
While often presented as a threat to reading and literature, digital technology has opened the literary space by adding entirely new dimensions to it. “Amateur” authors have more opportunity than […]
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CfP: “The Space in Between: Thinking Translation in Creation”
“The Space in Between: Thinking Translation in Creation” Study Day and Workshop 29th-30th of June 2017 What happens when artists and writers experiment with translation in their works? What happens […]
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Screening the Literary: Writing Quality on the Web
What happens to the concept and phenomenon that we call ‘the literary’ in today’s hyper-connected multimedia environment? To date when theorists have spoken about electronic or digital literature, they have […]
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How to read the real Elena Ferrante
Do novels need authors? A storm broke out this week around journalist Claudio Gatti’s decision to reveal the true identity of popular Italian novelist […]
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Conference Report: ‘The Child of the Century’: Reading and Writing Short Fiction Across Media
The European Network for Short Fiction Research held its conference entitled ‘The Child of the Century’: Reading and Writing Short Fiction Across Media, on the 13th and 14th of May […]
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Writing, Life, and Death (Goodbye to Imre Kertész)
Writing Life and Death. Writing: Life and Death. Writing Life, and Death. Punctuation is never quite innocent. These three variations on a possible title together draw a portrait of […]
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Thesis of the Month: New Commitment: Authors Against the Unacceptable
Chloé Chaudet tells the story of her thesis about literary commitment and how she had to face preconceptions about this phenomenon, which seems outdated to most contemporary literary scholars and […]
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Ecos from the Past: Homage to an Author
Umberto Eco died. I wish it were one of his characters stating this; we could then doubt it. One of the many things you learn with Eco’s fiction is namely […]
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