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  1. Category: Research Training Groups
    Institutions: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
    DFG-GRK 2792: Autonomie heteronomer Texte in Antike und Mittelalter
    Submitted by: Johanna Schubert

    Das DFG-geförderte interdisziplinäre Graduiertenkolleg erforscht Texte aus Antike und Mittelalter, die in bewusste Abhängigkeit von Vorlagen treten und in diesem Sinne "heteronom" sind. Zu dieser bislang nicht systematisch im Zusammenhang...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 11 more
    Created on: 23.07.2024
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. Category: Collaborative Research Centres
    Institutions: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU)
    SFB 1385 Recht und Literatur
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Der Sonderforschungsbereich 1385 „Recht und Literatur“, der zum 01. Juli 2019 von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) an der WWU Münster eingerichtet wurde, untersucht fundamentale Fragen zu Recht und Literatur, zu den mit ihnen befassten...

    Fields of research Literature and law
    Created on: 12.01.2021
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Turun yliopisto / University of Turku
    Instrumental Narratives: The Limits of Storytelling and New Story-Critical Narrative Theory
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Instrumental Narratives: The Limits of Storytelling and New Story-Critical Narrative Theory develops ideas and analytical instruments that help researchers, professional groups and non-academic audiences navigate today’s social and textual...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Narrative
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  14. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    Possibility and the Utopian Imagination in the Poetic Practice of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Peripheral but central, external but inner, between being and non-being—possibility has the multi-stable ontology of utopias and their creative and transformative power. Through possibility, writers, philosophers, and artists through the ages have...

    Fields of research Italian literature,  Literature and law,  Literature and theology/study of religions and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  15. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Södertörn University Stockholm
    Nabokov´s Spine
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    During his tenure at Cornell, Vladimir Nabokov liked to exclaim: “Let us worship the spine!” Setting out from this exhortation, the study considers his œuvre in a dual regard, encompassing both the “spine-thrill of delight” that the reader should...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Themes, motifs, thematology,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 03.06.2019