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  1. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Freie Universität Berlin
    Kosmogonien und Verlustgeschichten der Gegenwart. Experimentelle Darstellungsweisen begründender Anfangs - und Untergangserzählungen in Literatur und Comic
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Im Angesicht von Klimawandel und Artensterben erscheinen gegenwärtig international zahlreiche literarische Texte und Comics, die Kosmogonien und Entwicklungsgeschichten mit Untergangsszenarien menschlicher Kulturen, Tierpopulationen bzw. des ganzen...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and theology/study of religions,  Literature and natural science and 4 more
    Created on: 17.01.2024
  2. Category: Research Training Groups
    Institutions: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin,  Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris
    Deutsch-Französische Doktorand*innenkolleg „Literatur und Wissen, 16.–21. Jahrhundert“
    Submitted by: Kira Jürjens

    Das Deutsch-Französische Doktorand*innenkolleg „Literatur und Wissen, 16.–21. Jahrhundert“ ermöglicht den Austausch und die gemeinsame Doktorand*innenausbildung zwischen Spezialist*innen der französischen und frankophonen, der deutschen und der...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature
    Created on: 13.07.2023
  3. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Technische Universität Dresden
    Fremde Verwandtschaft. Eine Kulturpoetik der Bäume
    Submitted by: Solvejg Nitzke

    Im Zuge globaler ökologischer Krisen sowie aktueller Hinterfragungen von Diskurshegemonien und anthropozentrischen Perspektiven mehren sich Stimmen aus Wissenschaft, Kultur und Politik, die fordern, Pflanzen nicht mehr nur als...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature and 4 more
    Created on: 19.07.2022
  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: Projects
    Institutions: Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Paris (MHS)
    Penser en langues – In Sprachen denken
    Submitted by: Franziska Humphreys

    „Penser en langues – In Sprachen denken“ est un projet à plusieurs volets dédié à la traduction en sciences humaines et sociales. Les sciences humaines et sociales comme celles de la culture sont le réservoir de sens d’une société et médium par...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature,  Translation and 1 more
    Created on: 25.10.2019
  6. 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
  7. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) / Catholic University Louvain
    Drawing from the Archive: Comics Memory and the Contemporary Graphic Novel
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This thesis focuses on comics memory in the twenty-first-century North-American graphic novel. It argues that the archive has become a major site of concern for contemporary cartoonists, who are constantly engaged in redrawing past comics into the...

    Fields of research Comic,  Literature of the 21st century
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  8. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Conjuring Phantoms: A Comparative Study of Trauma in Comics
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Maaheen Ahmed's postdoctoral project is on trauma in contemporary comics, relying on a broad definition of trauma to encompass the aftermath of large-scale events (the two world wars, 9/11) as well as the reverberations of psychological damage in...

    Fields of research Comic,  Literature of the 20th century,  Literature of the 21st century
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  9. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Reassembling Modernism: Anglo-French Networks, Periodicals, Literary Analysis
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project examines Anglo-French literary networks at the beginning of the twentieth century. If scholars have traditionally focused on American, British, or French authors in isolation, the present study explores their interconnections. It...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  French literature,  Literature of the 19th century and 1 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  10. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Basel
    Poétiques du temps chez Diderot (écrits philosophiques, écrits fictionnels)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Chez Diderot, le temps est un puissant embrayeur littéraire, ouvert aux virtualités de la pensée. Aux grandes architectures conceptuelles qui absolutisent le temps (au premier rang desquels se trouvent les « écoles de théologie » [Le Rêve de...

    Fields of research French literature,  Literature and philosophy,  Poetics and 1 more
    Created on: 14.06.2019
  11. 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
  12. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    From Periphery to Center: Swedish Literature on the French Book Market
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The purpose of my project is to describe the transmission of literature (fiction) from a small language area (the ”vernacular” or the ”periphery”, in this case: Sweden) to a larger one (the ”cosmopolitan” or the ”centre”, in this case: France). This...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  French literature,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  13. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Södertörn University Stockholm
    A multidisciplinary study of feminist comic art
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The focus of this project is feminist comic art and graphic novels from Sweden, Finland, Germany, and Russia. The multidisciplinary team of researchers is united by a view of comics as political action and social commentary, looking specifically at...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Comic
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  14. Category: Projects
    Institutions: University of Melbourne
    Paradise Lost - Utopia Reclaimed: Writing the Wrongs of French Exploration in the Antipodes
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    When France's attempts to claim regions of Australia failed, the dream of an Antipodean paradise was lost. In its breach rose a new utopian frontier. Paradoxically, this anticipatory perspective revives a form of utopianism previously established in...

    Fields of research French literature,  Australian/Oceanian literature,  Postcolonial studies and 1 more
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  15. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Université de Lausanne (UNIL) / Universität Lausanne
    Le primitivisme dans les avant-gardes littéraires (Paris : 1898-1924)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    « Le primitivisme est une invention de la modernité, en même temps que lui-même invente la modernité » (Henri Meschonnic). Ce projet vise à clarifier la notion de « primitivisme » en littérature moderne, à partir d’un moment charnière, celui des...

    Fields of research French literature,  Literature of the 20th century,  Literature of the 21st century
    Created on: 24.05.2019