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  1. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Novel Saints. Ancient novelistic heroism in the hagiography of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The novel is today the most popular literary genre worldwide. Its early history has not been written yet. In order to enhance our understanding of this history (both conceptually and cross-culturally), this project offers the first comprehensive...

    Fields of research Novel,  Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.),  Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century)
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  2. 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
  3. Category: Research Units
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Novel Saints. Studies in Ancient Fiction and Hagiography
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The novel is today the most popular literary genre worldwide. Its early history has not been written yet. The research team Novel Saints aims to enhance our understanding of this history (both conceptually and cross-culturally) by studying both ...

    Fields of research Novel,  Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.),  Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century)
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  4. 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
  5. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    Chinese literature: the short stories and novels by Lu Xun, Lao She and Ba Jin
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In this study, I will examine how Lu Xun, Lao She and Ba Jin in novels and short stories written between 1900-1950 draw on ancient Chinese cosmopolitan literary traditions as well as indigenous vernacular and popular modes of storytelling, in...

    Fields of research East Asian literature,  World Literature,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  6. 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
  7. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    Mediating the North in a Transnational Context. Vernacular and Cosmopolitan Places in Nordic Noir
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Louise Nilsson's project within the research program Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures addresses the values of places depicted in literature. Seeing that the contemporary genre of Nordic crime fiction is a globally...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Novel
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  8. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    For Another Nouveau Roman: Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in the Formal Turn
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    How are we to understand the fact that the turbulent decades when France lost its empire coincided with a formal turn in French literature and literary theory? Perhaps by way of Jacques Rancière’s notion of the politics of literature as being...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Novel
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  9. Category: Projects
    Institutions: University of Plymouth
    Imagining Alternatives: Utopia, Community and the Novel, 1880-2015
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project explores how the novel has been used since the late nineteenth century to imagine better forms of community, and the problems and opportunities revealed by such attempts. Insights from this research are employed with local communities,...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Novel,  Literature of the 19th century and 2 more
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  10. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Zürich (Uzh)
    Hybride Zeiten. Temporale Dynamiken 1400-1600
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Projekt erforscht, in welchem Masse im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert Zeitindikatoren in textuellen wie visuellen Formen zunehmen, inwiefern Zeitsemantiken eine immer grössere Rolle spielen, wie Zeit in ihren multiplen Schattierungen und...

    Fields of research Media studies,  Narratology,  Lyric poetry and 5 more
    Created on: 24.05.2019
  11. Ronja Hannebohm
    University or institution: Universität Paderborn
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and philosophy; Literature and natural science; Literary genre; Novel; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  12. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (ZfL)
    Das gebrochene Medium. Die österreichische Moderne und das Ereignis der Form
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Forschungsprojekt untersucht ästhetische Zeitkonzepte der österreichischen Moderne, die gemäß der leitenden Arbeitshypothese in den »großen« Gattungen von Drama, Oper und Roman ihren deutlichsten Ausdruck finden. Ziel des Projekts ist es, ein...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 17.05.2019
  13. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3
    A Poetics of Chapters : Genetic Criticism, Pragmatics of Reading and Intermediality – CHAPITRES
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Chapters may be the last element in the poetics of the novel that have almost never been studied, except in Ugo Dionne’s La Voie aux chapitres (Seuil, 2008), which draws up the history of how novels have been divided and structured, up to the end of...

    Fields of research Poetics,  Novel
    Created on: 17.05.2019
  14. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie - UNC (Nouméa)
    Romans d'anticipation scientifique au tournant du XIXe siècle (1860-1940) (Scientific anticipation novels at the turn of the nineteenth century (1860-1940)) – ANTICIPATION
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ce projet interdisciplinaire, au croisement de l’histoire littéraire et de l’histoire des sciences, se propose d’analyser la naissance d’un genre nouveau à la fin du XIXe siècle et au début du XXe : le roman d’anticipation scientifique. La recherche...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Novel,  Literature of the 19th century and 1 more
    Created on: 13.05.2019
  15. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 25.04.2019
    Glücksritter: Risiko und Erzählstruktur
    Submitted by: Manuel Mühlbacher

    Ringvorlesung der DFG-Forschungsgruppe „Philologie des Abenteuers“ im Sommersemester 2019 Donnerstags, 18-20 Uhr im Hörsaal M 105, LMU-Hauptgebäude, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, München Abenteuerliches Erzählen geht ein Bündnis mit dem...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Novel
    Created on: 12.04.2019