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  1. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Hamburg,  Technische Universität Darmstadt (TUD),  Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
    Projekt DisKo: Aufbau eines Diversitäts-Korpus (DisKo) als Grundlage für die algorithmische Textanalyse
    Submitted by: Marie Flüh

    DisKo steht für Diversitäts-Korpus und ist ein literaturwissenschaftliches Projekt mit Digital-Humanities-Komponente. Mit Methoden des maschinellen Lernens wollen wir einen Algorithmus trainieren, der nicht nur weibliche, männliche und neutrale...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Digital Humanities,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies
    Created on: 02.09.2022
  2. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
    Explanatory Annotation: A Research and Peer-Learning Project (TEASys)
    Submitted by: Angelika Zirker

    The Theory and Practice of Explanatory Annotation in the Context of the Digital Humanities The research project is concerned with all matters related to the theory and practice of explanatory annotation. It is linked with the peer-learning...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Digital Humanities,  Digital teaching
    Created on: 01.06.2021
  3. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Bielefeld
    Vergleichendes Lesen. Konstitution und Kritik der Stilistik als einer literaturwissenschaftlichen Methode
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Teilprojekt zu SFB 1288: Praktiken des Vergleichens: Die Welt ordnen und verändern Für die Konstitution und Legitimation der Stilistik als einer wissenschaftlichen Methode sind vergleichende Lektüren grundlegend gewesen: Stilistische...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literary theory
    Created on: 31.05.2021
  4. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Bayreuth (UBT),  Leuphana Universität Lüneburg,  Freie Universität Berlin
    Symposienreihe „Digitalität in den Geisteswissenschaften“
    Submitted by: Julia Menzel

    Die Veranstaltungen der Symposienreihe setzen sich zum Ziel, den Reflexionsrückstand in Bezug auf die Digitalität in den Geisteswissenschaften systematisch aufzuholen. Nach dem Modell der Geisteswissenschaftlichen Symposien der DFG veranstaltet die...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities
    Created on: 14.05.2020
  5. Category: Research Units
    Institutions: Universität Hamburg (UH)
    forTEXT – Literatur digital erforschen

    In forTEXT erarbeiten wir einsteigerfreundlich aufbereitete Methodenbeschreibungen, Textsammlungen und Tools – von der Digitalisierung über die digitale Annotation zur digital unterstützten Interpretation und Visualisierung von Literatur. Außerdem...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities
    Created on: 09.04.2020
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Basel
    Mining the Comic Verse
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    By mining, mapping, analysing and interpreting the respective patterns of humour and versification in a digitized 19 th and 20 th Century corpus, by describing how the two interact to produce layered meanings, this project aims to gain a precise...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Poetics
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  9. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA) / University of Lisbon
    Comparative World Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project aims to structure and to develop the field of World Literature in Portugal, based on two theoretical assumptions: the comparative perspective and the estrangement of reading. It currently develops a set of anthologies (3 vols) on World...

    Fields of research Portugese literature,  Digital Humanities,  World Literature
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  10. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA) / University of Lisbon
    Digital Map of Iberian Literary Relations (1870-1930)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Description By showcasting divers materials referring to Iberian literary relations (images, texts, secondary bibliography), this project aims at contributing both to the field of Iberian Studies, and to Digital Humanities in Portugal. This...

    Fields of research Spanish literature,  Portugese literature,  Digital Humanities and 2 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  11. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Södertörn University Stockholm
    Reassessing the Rise of Aesthetics. Aesthetic Heteronomy from Shaftesbury to Schelling
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The 18th century is traditionally regarded as the Grand Siècle of modern aesthetic autonomy. A longstanding diachronic narrative holds that such autonomy originated in British early 18th-century theories on disinterestedness and was fulfilled by the...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literature and philosophy,  Aesthetics
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  12. 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
  13. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Basel
    Wirkungsgeschichte von Goethes Werk „Zur Farbenlehre“ in Berlin 1810-1832
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ziel des Projekts ist die Untersuchung der Rezeption von Goethes 1810 erschienenem Werk „Zur Farbenlehre“ in Berlin in den ersten Jahrzehnten des 19. Jahrhunderts. Goethe selbst hat der Nachwelt die Ansicht überliefert, sein Werk sei vor allem...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Digital Humanities,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 24.05.2019
  14. Category: Research Units
    Institutions: Universität Paderborn,  Universität Potsdam
    Nachwuchsgruppe "Hybride Narrativität. Digitale und kognitive Methoden zur Erforschung graphischer Literatur"
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Hauptziel dieses Projektes ist es, durch die Kombination von quantitativen und experimentellen Methoden eine empirisch fundierte Beschrei­bung und ein Verständnis der Wirkweise graphischer Literatur und insbesondere des Genres des graphischen Romans...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Narratology,  Literature and visual studies and 1 more
    Created on: 05.02.2019
  15. Category: Clusters of Excellence
    Institutions: EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities"
    EXC 2020 Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Cluster of Excellence Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective aims to create a new theoretical and methodological take on literature in a global perspective that moves beyond the categories of nation and period and...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literary theory,  Reader-response criticism and 6 more
    Created on: 29.01.2019