Stockholm university
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Mediating Romance Language Literatures in a Global World

The course covers literature mediation from the Romance language area in a Nordic context in the modern era with a focus on today's global world. The course presents different theoretical definitions of literary agency and highlightens different perspectives. Furthermore, the course aims to discuss the historical and socio-cultural factors that have contributed to promote or hinder literature mediation from the Romance language area in Scandinavia, especially in Sweden. The course also provides an insight into how different Romance literatures have circulated in a Nordic environment and the consequences it has brought the various players in the literary field. These insights will then be applied and deepened in selected languages.