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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2024
    Der Klang (in) der Kleinepik
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Bamberg, 01.10.–03.10.2025 Call for Papers Die Analyse klanglicher Phänomene in der Literatur des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit nimmt in der jüngeren Forschung nicht zuletzt durch Einflüsse aus dem Bereich der Sound Studies breiten...

    Fields of research Literature and music/sound studies,  Literary genre,  Epic poetry and 3 more
    Created on: 28.06.2024
  2. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 04.03.2024
    National Epic, Nationalepos: Problematics and Difficult Cases
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organised by Research Area 3, "Future Perfect". David Wallace (University of Pennsylvania): National Epic, Nationalepos: Problematics and Difficult Cases The turn to studying nationalism signalled by my new project, and its companion...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literary historiography,  Literature and sociology and 4 more
    Created on: 26.02.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2024
    1st International Conference on Lyric Theory and Comparative Poetics
    Submitted by: Víctor Bermúdez

    The 1st International Conference on Lyric Theory and Comparative Poetics intends to bring together research that is currently being carried out in the field of poetry from a theoretical and comparative perspective. The interdisciplinary,...

    Fields of research Oral poetry / Orality,  Poetics,  Lyric poetry and 1 more
    Created on: 03.01.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Thinking Modern Epic (ACLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    What can be said about epic today? Although M.M. Bakhtin famously declared the impossibility of epic in a modern, polyphonic world in 1941, the category has remained a dynamic source of artistic and critical interest. The works considered in studies...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Literary genre,  Epic poetry and 2 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 21.07.2023
    L’Africa de Pétrarque : lectures anciennes et nouvelles (Rome)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Colloque international L’Africa de Pétrarque : lectures anciennes et nouvelles 30 mai - 1er juin 2024 Rome, École française de Rome (Piazza Navona) Italian and English version infra. Organisation : Mathilde Cazeaux (École...

    Fields of research Italian literature,  Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Interdisciplinarity and 4 more
    Created on: 17.07.2023
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.01.2023
    Lovers, Rakes, And Ideal Husbands – Men In Love in Eighteenth-Century Literature | Rom (31.01.2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    ISECS Congress, Rome, June 27–30, 2023 The concepts of love and emotion in general both undergo a paradigmatic shift the during the eighteenth century. Whereas the early decades are still dominated by rationalism and a dualism ...

    Fields of research Elegy,  Themes, motifs, thematology,  Literature of the 18th century
    Created on: 18.11.2022
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2022
    Seminar: Rethinking Lyric Communities, Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (Chicago, March 16-19, 2023)
    Submitted by: Francesco Giusti

    From the circulation of poetic forms across different languages and traditions around the globe, through the envisioning of national and transnational discursive communities, to the use of poetry in contemporary episodes of political resistance and...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Literary theory,  Reader-response criticism and 14 more
    Created on: 20.10.2022
  8. Juliane Prade-Weiss
    University or institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine); Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary); Literary theory; Hermeneutics; Structuralism; Poststructuralism; Reader-response criticism; Ecocriticism; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Literature and law; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and theology/study of religions; Literature and philosophy; Elegy; Non-fictional literature; autobiography; Tragedy; Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.); Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  9. Katharina Strika
    University or institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
    Fields of research: Literary theory; Poetics; Epic poetry; Theory of translation; Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.); Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century); Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century)

  10. Dirk Brunke
    University or institution: Ruhr-Universität Bochum
    Fields of research: Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean); French literature; Spanish literature; Portugese literature; Narratology; Epic poetry

  11. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.12.2020
    L'élégiaque (revue Romantisme)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Appel à contributions « L’élégiaque » Dossier de la revue Romantisme (2022-2) sous la responsabilité d'Aurélie Foglia et Pierre Loubier Nous proposons d’explorer, dans ce numéro de Romantisme , ...

    Fields of research Elegy
    Created on: 13.07.2020
  12. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 09.08.2020
    Masterclass Rilke
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Zum dritten Mal organisiert die Fondation Rilke mit Sitz in Sierre in der Schweiz eine ›Masterclass Rilke‹. Sie findet unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Christoph König (Universität Osnabrück), vom 9.-14.8.2020 in der ›Maison de Courten‹ in Sierre...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Poetics,  Lyric poetry and 3 more
    Created on: 07.02.2020
  13. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (ZfL)
    Welt in Weimar. Goethes »Römische Elegien« und die augusteische Dichtung
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Dissertationsprojekt beschäftigt sich mit Johann Wolfgang Goethes Römischen Elegien (1795). Mit dem Gedichtzyklus stellt sich Goethe explizit in die Gattungstradition der augusteischen Liebeselegie (insbesondere Properz und Ovid). Zudem sind...

    Fields of research Elegy,  Literature of the 18th century,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 17.05.2019
  14. Francesco Giusti
    University or institution: University of Oxford
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Literature from UK and Ireland; Italian literature; Literary theory; Poststructuralism; World Literature; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Literature and philosophy; Literature and visual studies; Intermediality; Poetics; Lyric poetry; Elegy; Aesthetics; Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century); Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century); Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  15. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
    Anhaltender Verzehr. Zur Sprache der Klage
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die Klage gehört zu den ältesten poetischen Formen und ist in der Alltagssprache omnipräsent, wirft aber ein grundlegendes hermeneutisches Problem auf: Klagelauten ist keine Ursache des verlautbarten Schmerzes zu entnehmen, artikulierte Klagen...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Hermeneutics,  Literature and theology/study of religions and 5 more
    Created on: 12.12.2018