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  1. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in Cyberspace: Fan Fiction and Cognitive Narratology
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    I examine how the storyworld of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is re-presented in fan fiction from the Derbyshire Writers’ Guild (Dwiggie.com). I argue that, unlike Austen, the members of this fan community tend to prioritise the individual...

    Fields of research Narratology,  The fictional,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  2. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Enlightenment at War: Epic Poetry, the Citizen and Discursive Bridges to the Military (1740-1800)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In current debates about Western identity, the Enlightenment is associated with reason and civic emancipation, but not with war enthusiasm. It was however Enlightenment thinking that brought representations of civic and military behaviour into a...

    Fields of research Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Narratology and 1 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  3. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Imagining Climate Change: Fiction, Memory, and the Anthropocene
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This FWO-funded research project (2016-2020) explores how imaginative literature has responded to the representational and existential challenges thrown up by climate change. It combines theoretical argument with case studies of Anglophone literary...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Narratology
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  4. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Agents of Change: Women Editors and Socio-Cultural Transformation in Europe, 1710-1920
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    “Agents of Change: Women Editors and Socio-Cultural Transformation in Europe, 1710-1920″ (acronym WeChangEd) is a five-year research project funded by an ERC Starting Grant (2015-2020). It is directed by Marianne Van Remoortel and based at the ...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  5. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    “The Romance between Greece and the West.” Heroes and Heroines in French, Anglo-Norman and English Medieval Narrative
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Medieval romance is arguably the most influential secular literary genre of the European Middle Ages. Its history has not been written yet. In order to enhance our understanding of this history (both conceptually and cross-culturally), this project...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Novel,  Rhetoric and 2 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  6. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Novel Echoes. Ancient Novelistic Receptions and Concepts of Fiction in Late Antique and Medieval Secular Narrative from East to West
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project offers the first comprehensive reconstruction and interpretation of receptions of ancient novels (1st-4th cent. AD) in (Greek, Arabic and western vernacular) secular narrative from Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Novel Echoes...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Literature and theology/study of religions,  Novel and 3 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  7. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 02.05.2017
    2 PhD positions within the ERC Starting Grant Project “Narrating the Mesh”, Ghent University
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Job description We invite applications for two PhD positions within the ERC Starting Grant Project “Narrating the Mesh.” The envisioned start date for these positions is 1 October 2017, and the maximum duration 4 years. The positions include...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Narratology
    Created on: 12.12.2018