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  1. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Lunds Universitet / Lund University
    Science in the Crime Genre
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    What function does science have in fiction? And how are fiction and science mutually influential? The aim of the project is to study the integration, interaction, and depiction of science in contemporary crime fiction (literature, film, TV).

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  2. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Lunds Universitet / Lund University
    Nosce te ipsum. On literary engagements between apes and humans in literature after Darwin.
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In my project I examine literary meetings between apes and humans and how concepts of sameness and difference are used in a species discourse. I look at the ways in which literature has often created apes that are possible to dismiss, all in order to...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  3. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Lunds Universitet / Lund University
    Literature as Event and Action: The Performativity of Literature in Sweden 1800 - 2008
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    When Selma Lagerlöf appears in front of an audience to read from her work, the capacity of the literary text for interacting with and affecting its receivers is manifested. This is literature in the form of action and it is most clearly manifested in...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature of the 19th century,  Literature of the 20th century and 1 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  4. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Lunds Universitet / Lund University
    Trading in books. Literarure, book market and digital change
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The project analyses changes in the book trade and specifically in the sales of books and how these effect the literary system as a whole. The book market has in recent decades changed drastically due to digital technology which means a constant...

    Fields of research Literature and publishing/booktrade
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  5. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Lunds Universitet / Lund University
    Nordic World Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    To what extent has Nordic literature contributed to world literature and in what way has this literary export shaped the world's view of the Nordic countries? Reception theory is a central element in modern literary studies. Literary scholars,...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  World Literature
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  6. Category: University institutes
    Institutions: Lunds Universitet / Lund University
    Subject Comparative Literature, Lund University
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Fields of research Literary theory
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  7. Category: Research Units
    Institutions: Lunds Universitet / Lund University
    Komplitt: Forum for Comparative Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Komplitt: Forum for Comparative Literature is a research group based at the Centre for Languages and Literature (SOL) of Lund University. It was founded in 2013 with the aim to foster close collaboration among scholars across the 17 language...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literary theory
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  8. 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
  9. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Lunds Universitet / Lund University
    Translated Local Cultures. Swedish Proletarian Realism in English Translation
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Departing from the assumption that Swedish proletarian writers were, among other things, devoted to writing a local culture, this project examines the ways in which textual signs of locality transform as the novels are translated into English. The...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from UK and Ireland,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  10. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Lunds Universitet / Lund University
    Towards a Comparative Understanding of the Contemporary Literatures in Spain
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    My project constitutes a comparative understanding of the contemporary literatures in Spain. There have certainly been attempts to include non-Spanish letters in overviews of the literature in Spain, as well as university courses that include...

    Fields of research Spanish literature,  World Literature
    Created on: 03.06.2019