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  1. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU),  C.H.Beck Stiftung,  Brougier-Seisser-Cleve-Werhahn-Stiftung and 1 more
    Editionsprojekt: Spanische und hispanoamerikanische Lyrik
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Projekt einer zweisprachigen Anthologie spanischer und hispanoamerikanischer Lyrik bildet die Fortsetzung einer Serie umfassender und sorgfältig edierter Lyriksammlungen, die der Verlag C. H. Beck im Jahr 1990 mit der Anthologie Französische...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Spanish literature,  Literary historiography and 2 more
    Created on: 20.08.2021
  2. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Seo ul dae hag gyo / Seoul National University (SNU),  Koreanische Goethe-Gesellschaft,  Universität Innsbruck
    Goethes »West-östlicher Divan« und seine Übersetzung im Spannungsfeld von Weltlite­ratur, Orientalismus und Okzidentalismus
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Projekt zielt auf die Entwicklung und Erprobung eines innovativen orientalistisch-okzidentalistischen Zugangs zu Goethes Idee der Weltliteratur, die sich als leistungs- wie durchsetzungsfähige und zugleich humanistische Perspektiven eröffnende...

    Fields of research East Asian literature,  World Literature,  Translation
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  3. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Lunds Universitet / Lund University
    Translated Local Cultures. Swedish Proletarian Realism in English Translation
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Departing from the assumption that Swedish proletarian writers were, among other things, devoted to writing a local culture, this project examines the ways in which textual signs of locality transform as the novels are translated into English. The...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from UK and Ireland,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  4. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    Made in Italy. A diachronic study of literary circulation and translation in the semiperihery
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Focusing on the translation flow from Italy to Sweden, the primary aim of this project is to examine the changes that the symbolic capital of Italian literature has undergone in the Swedish context during the last century and its manifestations in...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Italian literature,  World Literature and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  5. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    From Periphery to Center: Swedish Literature on the French Book Market
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The purpose of my project is to describe the transmission of literature (fiction) from a small language area (the ”vernacular” or the ”periphery”, in this case: Sweden) to a larger one (the ”cosmopolitan” or the ”centre”, in this case: France). This...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  French literature,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  6. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    East African literature on the market 2000-2010
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    PhD Erik Falk’s project “East African literature on the market 2000-2010” investigates the disjunctive relationship between literary markets for East African fiction in English. The study, which combines quantitative and qualitative methods, falls...

    Fields of research Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  World Literature,  Literature and publishing/booktrade and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  7. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Högskolan Dalarna / Dalarna University
    Cosmopolitan, Vernacular and Gender in the Circulation and Aesthetical Reception of African Literature Written in Portuguese
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project combines a focus on the dissemination and reception of contemporary Portuguese-language African literature across the Lusophone world with attention on the spread of this body of work into the English literary world through translation....

    Fields of research Portugese literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Reader-response criticism and 3 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  8. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    Transcendental Translations: The Making of New England’s Literary Culture
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Translation was central to New England Transcendentalism, the literary culture of antebellum New England. This project focuses on how its translation activities shaped American literature and politics. It pays particular attention to translations...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  World Literature,  Literature and philosophy and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  9. Category: Priority Programmes
    Institutions: Freie Universität Berlin
    Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Zukunftsphilologie fördert grundlegende Textforschung über den klassischen humanistischen Kanon hinaus. In einer Zeit fortgeschrittener Kommunikation, intellektueller Spezialisierung und beispielloser Mobilität von Wissen und Menschen kommt der...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Translation,  North African literature and 5 more
    Created on: 12.12.2018