One aspect has been ignored in the debate about the origins of "world literature": the mediality and materiality of communicative networks, which is what makes talking transnationally about literature possible in the first place. This is all the more astounding considering it was no accident that Goethe coined the term in light of the fastest mass medium of his time the periodical press inspired by a review.

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Anita Traninger, Free University Berlin; Federica La Manna, University of Calabria, Italy.