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  1. Category: Research Units
    DFG-Netzwerk "Diachronic Metalepsis"
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Over the past two decades, metalepses (transgressions of narrative levels) have experienced a critical boom in different disciplines of literary studies, both modern and premodern. What makes this topic so attractive is the fact that metaleptic...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Poetics
    Created on: 31.01.2024
  2. Category: Projects
    Parasiten. Literatur- und wissensgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zu einer Mensch-Tier-Figuration im langen 19. Jahrhundert
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Projekt untersucht die Literatur- und Wissensgeschichte der Parasiten vom ausgehenden 18. bis zum beginnenden 20. Jahrhundert. Heuristisch unterscheidet es dabei zwei Phasen: eine ‚organologische‘ Phase, in welcher der Parasitismus als die...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Postcolonial studies,  Narratology and 5 more
    Created on: 01.10.2021
  3. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Freie Universität Berlin
    Täterperspektiven. Emotionalisierung als Erzählstrategie in zeitgenössischen französischen und lateinamerikanischen Romanen über politisch und ethnisch motivierte Gewalt
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ziel des Projektes ist es, die Emotionalisierung von Leser*innen durch das Erzählen aus der Täterperspektive als narrative Strategie zu definieren und anhand eines Korpus zeitgenössischer französischer und lateinamerikanischer (v.a. Cono Sur) Romane...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  French literature,  Reader-response criticism and 4 more
    Created on: 24.09.2021
  4. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
    Matthäus Merian d.Ä. und die Bebilderung der Alchemie um 1600
    Submitted by: Berit Wagner

    Forschungs- und Studierendenprojekt am Kunstgeschichtlichen Institut der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt in Kooperation mit der Universitätsbibliothek der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Die virtuelle Ausstellung, die – erweitert um flankierende...

    Fields of research Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and visual studies,  Literature of the 16th century and 1 more
    Created on: 01.06.2021
  5. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Freie Universität Berlin
    Gemeinschaft als Retrotopia? Zugehörigkeit in Literatur und Videokunst
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ziel: Die komparatistische Studie an der Schnittstelle von Literatur- und Kulturanthropologie untersucht Darstellungen von Gemeinschaften in ausgewählten literarischen Texten und Videoarbeiten im Kontext von Kategorien wie Zugehörigkeit,...

    Fields of research Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  Literary theory,  Interdisciplinarity and 7 more
    Created on: 14.05.2021
  6. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Hamburg (UH)
    ERC Advanced Grant „Poetry in the Digital Age”
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Heutige Präsentationsformen von Lyrik finden sich oft jenseits des Buches, z.B. auf Bühnen oder im Internet. Solche performativen Formen, in denen poetische Sprache durch Musik oder visuelle Komponenten sowie die physische Anwesenheit des ‚Poeten‘...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and visual studies,  Literature and music/sound studies and 5 more
    Created on: 14.09.2020
  7. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) / University of Leuven
    Detecting Transcultural Identity in European Popular Crime Narratives
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project examines examples of crime fiction to learn how mobility strategies such as co-production, serialization, translation, adaptation, distribution, and more, have influenced the transnational dissemination of European popular culture. It...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 28.10.2019
  8. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) / University of Leuven
    The Construction of Countries
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Construction of Countries: the Phototextual "Portraits de pays" Series (1950-1980) studies photographically illustrated books by (canonised) authors that are devoted to the depiction of countries and cities. The focus of the project lies on the...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and visual studies,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 28.10.2019
  9. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) / University of Leuven
    Writing a Cosmos: Modernist Popular Astronomy in British and German Prose Fiction
    Submitted by: Christoph Richter-Rodiek

    Popular Astronomy is a subproject of the larger research programme, Literary Knowledge, 1890-1950: Modernisms and the Sciences in Europe , funded by the KU Leuven Research Council. This project aims to arrive at a better understanding of the...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Literature and natural science,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 16.08.2019
  10. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) / Catholic University Louvain
    HANDLING: Writers Handling Pictures: a Material Intermediality (1880-today)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Maniement, manipulation, manutention : que font les écrivains des images qu’ils ont en main ? HANDLING est un projet de recherche financé par une « Starting Grant » de l’ERC de 2019 à 2024. C’est un projet radicalement interdisciplinaire sur...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature and visual studies,  Intermediality and 3 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  11. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) / Catholic University Louvain
    « Humaniteit uw naam is dier ». Configurations zoopoétiques et -politiques dans l’œuvre de Charlotte Mutsaers
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    L’objectif de ce projet de recherche est d’examiner comment la problématique de l’animal transparaît dans l’œuvre créatrice de l’écrivaine néerlandaise Charlotte Mutsaers (à la fois dans sa prose, poésie, ses essais et sa peinture). En se fondant sur...

    Fields of research Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature and visual studies,  Poetics and 2 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Painting Themselves: A Transnational Approach to National Self-Portraiture
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This PhD project focused on a group of sketches, which were popular throughout Europe around 1840. The sketches, bearing titles like "les Français peints par eux-mêmes" and "Los Españoles pintados por sí mismos", aimed to underline national identity...

    Fields of research Literature and visual studies,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 17.06.2019