‘Zero Meridian of Literature’? The Nobel Prize for Literature as a Global Benchmark (F02*)

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The Nobel Prize in Literature, first awarded in 1901, is the most widely known international literary award. Not only is this award an indication of the existence of a global literary field, but it has also, we assume, played a significant role in the very constitution, consolidation, and structuring of this field. This subproject is dedicated to reconstructing the Nobel Prize in Literature as a cultural institution that bundles a wide range of heterogeneous, usually normative practices of comparing into practice formations and organizes them in communities of practice, allowing the idea of a global comparability of the literary to become effective.