Humanity currently faces problems on a global scale heretofore unknown in world history – anthropogenic global warming, mass migration, and rapid population growth, for example. How does World Literature represent these unrepresentable “hyperobjects”? Can literature help us to understand – and, therefore, to more easily manage – the pressures of globalization? Discuss, with reference to EITHER The Talented Mr. Ripley OR Satin Island OR Citizen AS WELL AS a contemporary poem of your choice. Suggested Reading; Girard, René. “The Victimage Mechanism as the Basis of Religion
