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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: Universität Duisburg-Essen (UDE),  Universität zu Köln
    Climate Change Literacy
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Vor dem Hintergrund einseitig naturwissenschaftlicher Debatten zu science literacy, die geisteswissenschaftliche Beiträge weitgehend ausblenden, will das Projekt einen Beitrag zum rasch wachsenden Feld interdisziplinärer Klimawandelforschung leisten....

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and natural science and 4 more
    Created on: 21.06.2021
  5. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
    Author Fictions: Literary Authorship and Authorpoiesis in Modern English Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Autorschaftsszenarien sind, so die These dieser Monographie, literarische Schlüsselszenen in der Moderne seit dem 18. Jahrhundert. In ihnen erzählt der Autor fiktional seinen Leser(inne)n von sich selber als Autor des Romans bzw. der Erzählung und...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 6 more
    Created on: 07.06.2021
  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: Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) / Catholic University Louvain
    Dissipating the Original. Narrative Dissemination and Transmediality in Neil Gaiman’s Short Works of Fiction and Nonfiction
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    My research project seeks to examine the ways in which the contemporary speculative fiction writer Neil Gaiman (1960-) constantly reconfigures his own oeuvre (including novels, short stories, comics, graphic novels, illustrated books, TV series,...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literature and media studies,  Lyric poetry and 8 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Basel
    Das Wunderbare im Weltlauf. Zur Einschaltung kurzer Erzählungen in Romane des 18. Jahrhunderts
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ausgehend von dem interphilologischen Sinergia-Projekt des Schweizer Nationalfonds zur «Poetik und Ästhetik des Staunens» behandelt mein Dissertationsprojekt die Gattungs- und Formgenese des Romans im Verhältnis zu kurzen Erzählformen des 18....

    Fields of research Poetics,  Novel,  Narrative and 2 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  15. 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