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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: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 15.08.2019
    Two fully-funded ERC PhD studentships (4 years each), ERC project "Novel Echoes. Ancient novelistic receptions and concepts of fiction in late antique and medieval secular narrative from East to West", Ghent University
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University (Belgium) is seeking well-qualified applicants for two fully-funded and full-time doctoral research fellowships attached to the European Research Council Consolidator Grant project Novel...

    Fields of research Novel,  The fictional,  Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.) and 1 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  3. 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
  4. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Freiburg (Schweiz) / Université de Fribourg
    The Normative Relations between Fiction, Imagination, and Appreciation
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    (The detailed research plan can be found here .) It is a commonplace that fictional texts invite and move us to imagine certain things concerning the characters and events described by the text. Reading ‘The Sound and the Fury’ prompts us to...

    Fields of research The fictional
    Created on: 24.05.2019
  5. Björn Weyand
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; French literature; Literary theory; New Historicism; Media studies; Literature and cultural studies; Prose; travel literature; Literature of the 17th century; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  6. Hania Siebenpfeiffer
    University or institution: Philipps-Universität Marburg
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; French literature; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Structuralism; Poststructuralism; New Historicism; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Media studies; Narratology; Literature and law; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and natural science; Intermediality; Literary genre; The fictional; Rhetoric; Literature of the 16th century; Literature of the 17th century; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 21st century

  7. Isabell Oberle
    University or institution: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
    Fields of research: Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean); Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; New Historicism; Literature and cultural studies; Drama; Themes, motifs, thematology; Literature of the 20th century

  8. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 15.04.2019
    Postdoc-Stelle am Graduiertenkolleg 1767 "Faktuales und fiktionales Erzählen"
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg vergibt im Rahmen des interdisziplinären DFG Graduiertenkollegs 1767 „Faktuales und fiktionales Erzählen“ eine Postdoc-Stelle, befristet auf 2 Jahre. Beginn der Förderung ist der 1. Juni 2019 ...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology and 6 more
    Created on: 22.01.2019
  9. Mira Shah
    University or institution: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa; Australian/Oceanian literature; Literary theory; Hermeneutics; Poststructuralism; Deconstruction; New Historicism; Feminist studies; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Postcolonial studies; Ecocriticism; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and social and cultural anthropology; Literature and natural science; Literature and geography/cartography; Literary genre; Prose; Non-fictional literature; autobiography; travel literature; The fictional; Rhetoric

  10. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 03.05.2017
    Fictionality in Literature: Core Concepts Revisited
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Centre for Fictionality Studies at Aarhus University the conference, Fictionality in Literature: Core Concepts Revisited , which might be of interest to some of you. For more information please visit the home page: h ...

    Fields of research The fictional
    Created on: 12.12.2018
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    Introduction to Theory of Literature (Paul H. Fry, William Lampson Professor of English, Yale University)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This is a survey of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. Lectures will provide background for the readings and explicate them where appropriate, while attempting to develop a coherent overall context that incorporates philosophical...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Hermeneutics,  Structuralism and 7 more
    Created on: 12.12.2018
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    Kommentierte Linkliste zur Literaturtheorie
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die Liste bietet eine thematisch geordnete Zusammenstellung von Internetressourcen zur Literaturtheorie. Kurzbeschreibungen der Webseiten sollen eine gezielte Suche ermöglichen. Aufgenommen wurden Seiten, die eine wissenschaftliche Grundorientierung...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Hermeneutics,  Structuralism and 11 more
    Created on: 12.12.2018
  13. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 31.01.2018
    Diversidad cultural – ficcional – ¿moral?
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    La diversidad es un tema clave del siglo XXI que se perfila en las grandes transformaciones del siglo XX, sean filosóficas (por ejemplo, la desaparición de los ‘grandes relatos’ en el sentido de Jean-François Lyotard), político-económicas (como los...

    Fields of research The fictional,  Spanish literature
    Created on: 12.12.2018
  14. Category: Research Training Groups
    Institutions: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
    Graduiertenkolleg 1767 "Faktuales und Fiktionales Erzählen", Universität Freiburg
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Der Gegenstand des DFG Graduiertenkollegs 1767 Faktuales und fiktionales Erzählen ist einerseits faktuales Erzählen und ande­rerseits Erzählen, das zwischen Fiktionalität und Faktualität changiert. Damit hebt sich das Thema des Kollegs von der...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology and 3 more
    Created on: 12.12.2018
  15. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
    Die normativen Beziehungen zwischen Fiktion, Imagination und ästhetischer Wertschätzung
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Für fiktionale Texte ist wesentlich, dass sie das Imaginationsvermögen ihrer Leser ansprechen: Lesend stellen wir uns vor, wie es um die vom Text beschriebenen Situationen und Charaktere bestellt ist. So lädt uns etwa die Lektüre von The Sound and...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Literature and philosophy,  The fictional and 1 more
    Created on: 12.12.2018