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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: Projects
    Institutions: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    Die Anfänge des Schreibens in den Anfängen der Welt: Schöpfung und Auktorialität
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Teilprojekt untersucht das Verhältnis von Schöpfung und Auktorialität in der Literatur der Vormoderne. Dabei wählt es die Ambiguität von ‘Schöpfung’ als Erschaffung von Welt und Hervorbringung von Text zum Ausgangspunkt und fragt, wie die darin...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and theology/study of religions and 6 more
    Created on: 17.01.2024
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Zürich (Uzh)
    Gedächtniskultur im Paratext - Textränder altnordischer Prosahandschriften
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Inhalt und Ziel des Forschungsprojekts Die altnordische Schreib- und Erzählkultur ist im Kontext des europäischen Mittelalters als einzigartig zu betrachten, da sie sich - in quasi-mittelalterlicher Ausprägung - bis in die Frühe Neuzeit, ja...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Prose,  Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century)
    Created on: 05.08.2019
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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