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Acronym: TRANSHIROL

Duration: 01.10.2021-30.09.2026

Funding Agency: European Research Council (ERC)

Program: Horizon 2020 research and innovation program

Grant Agreement No.: 101001710

Abstract: In recent decades, globalisation has sparked heightened interaction and integration amongst people, companies and governments. For instance, multinational corporations expanded and the role of some super-state organisations sprouted. Also, the means of communication developed rapidly. There was also a substantial increase in immigration. For all these reasons, there is a need to rethink the concept of ‘nation’. The EU-funded TRANSHIROL project will test the hypothesis that ‘national’ literature should not be primarily regarded as a system but as a network defined by the transnational communities in which it is integrated. The focus will be on Romania’s 500-year-long history of literature and its progressive global development in a history of world literature written from a Romanian perspective.

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