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  1. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Siegen
    Serienzirkulation: Der deutsch-amerikanische Geheimnisroman und die Anfänge transatlantischer Modernität (1850-1855)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Projekt untersucht deutschsprachige, zwischen 1850 und 1855 in den USA zunächst in Zeitungen serialisierte und später in Buchform publizierte populäre Geheimnisromane von August Gläser, Heinrich Börnstein, Emil Klauprecht, Rudolph Lexow und...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary historiography and 3 more
    Created on: 05.07.2021
  2. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
    Author Fictions: Literary Authorship and Authorpoiesis in Modern English Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Autorschaftsszenarien sind, so die These dieser Monographie, literarische Schlüsselszenen in der Moderne seit dem 18. Jahrhundert. In ihnen erzählt der Autor fiktional seinen Leser(inne)n von sich selber als Autor des Romans bzw. der Erzählung und...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 6 more
    Created on: 07.06.2021
  3. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) / University of Leuven
    The Poetics of Precarity
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The financial and economic collapse in 2007/2008 has increased the interest for the literary reflection on economic crises and their social consequences. This project takes this contemporary sensibility and the ways in which it is reflected in...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Poetics,  Novel and 1 more
    Created on: 28.10.2019
  4. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) / Catholic University Louvain
    Dissipating the Original. Narrative Dissemination and Transmediality in Neil Gaiman’s Short Works of Fiction and Nonfiction
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    My research project seeks to examine the ways in which the contemporary speculative fiction writer Neil Gaiman (1960-) constantly reconfigures his own oeuvre (including novels, short stories, comics, graphic novels, illustrated books, TV series,...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literature and media studies,  Lyric poetry and 8 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  5. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Latin to Greek. The Latinity of the Ancient Greek Love Novel
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    While the ancient Greek novels have been shown to absorb preceding Greek and eastern traditions, not much systematic attention has been paid to how they use, address or confront preceding Latin traditions. This project is designed to fill this gap, a...

    Fields of research Novel,  Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.)
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  6. 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
  7. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Novel Saints. Ancient novelistic heroism in the hagiography of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The novel is today the most popular literary genre worldwide. Its early history has not been written yet. In order to enhance our understanding of this history (both conceptually and cross-culturally), this project offers the first comprehensive...

    Fields of research Novel,  Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.),  Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century)
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  8. 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
  9. Category: Research Units
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Novel Saints. Studies in Ancient Fiction and Hagiography
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The novel is today the most popular literary genre worldwide. Its early history has not been written yet. The research team Novel Saints aims to enhance our understanding of this history (both conceptually and cross-culturally) by studying both ...

    Fields of research Novel,  Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.),  Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century)
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  10. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Basel
    Das Wunderbare im Weltlauf. Zur Einschaltung kurzer Erzählungen in Romane des 18. Jahrhunderts
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ausgehend von dem interphilologischen Sinergia-Projekt des Schweizer Nationalfonds zur «Poetik und Ästhetik des Staunens» behandelt mein Dissertationsprojekt die Gattungs- und Formgenese des Romans im Verhältnis zu kurzen Erzählformen des 18....

    Fields of research Poetics,  Novel,  Narrative and 2 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  11. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    Chinese literature: the short stories and novels by Lu Xun, Lao She and Ba Jin
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In this study, I will examine how Lu Xun, Lao She and Ba Jin in novels and short stories written between 1900-1950 draw on ancient Chinese cosmopolitan literary traditions as well as indigenous vernacular and popular modes of storytelling, in...

    Fields of research East Asian literature,  World Literature,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  12. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Lunds Universitet / Lund University
    The Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in the Nineteenth-Century French Novel from Stendhal to Zola
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The purpose is to study how the cosmopolitan/vernacular dynamic is represented in novels by Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert and Zola, at a thematic, intratextual level as well as in translations of the novels into Swedish and in their reception in Sweden....

    Fields of research French literature,  World Literature,  Novel and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  13. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    Mediating the North in a Transnational Context. Vernacular and Cosmopolitan Places in Nordic Noir
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Louise Nilsson's project within the research program Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures addresses the values of places depicted in literature. Seeing that the contemporary genre of Nordic crime fiction is a globally...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Novel
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  14. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    For Another Nouveau Roman: Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in the Formal Turn
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    How are we to understand the fact that the turbulent decades when France lost its empire coincided with a formal turn in French literature and literary theory? Perhaps by way of Jacques Rancière’s notion of the politics of literature as being...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Novel
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  15. Category: Projects
    Institutions: University of Plymouth
    Imagining Alternatives: Utopia, Community and the Novel, 1880-2015
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project explores how the novel has been used since the late nineteenth century to imagine better forms of community, and the problems and opportunities revealed by such attempts. Insights from this research are employed with local communities,...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Novel,  Literature of the 19th century and 2 more
    Created on: 27.05.2019