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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Category: Research Training Groups
    Institutions: Universität Greifswald,  Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet (NTNU) / Norwegian University of Science and Technology,  Tartu Ülikool (TÜ) / University of Tartu
    Ostsee-Peripetien: Reformationen, Revolutionen, Katastrophen
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Als Name für eine Kategorie narrativer Sinnbildung wird der Begriff ‚Peripetie’ erstmals in Aristoteles’ Poetik verwendet. Er bezeichnet dort den Wendepunkt in einer Geschichte, das Ereignis also, in dem deutlich wird, dass das, was in der Welt der...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary historiography and 3 more
    Created on: 10.05.2021
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Lunds Universitet / Lund University
    Literature as Event and Action: The Performativity of Literature in Sweden 1800 - 2008
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    When Selma Lagerlöf appears in front of an audience to read from her work, the capacity of the literary text for interacting with and affecting its receivers is manifested. This is literature in the form of action and it is most clearly manifested in...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature of the 19th century,  Literature of the 20th century and 1 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  9. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Lunds Universitet / Lund University
    Nordic World Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    To what extent has Nordic literature contributed to world literature and in what way has this literary export shaped the world's view of the Nordic countries? Reception theory is a central element in modern literary studies. Literary scholars,...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  World Literature
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  10. Category: Research Units
    Institutions: Lunds Universitet / Lund University
    Komplitt: Forum for Comparative Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Komplitt: Forum for Comparative Literature is a research group based at the Centre for Languages and Literature (SOL) of Lund University. It was founded in 2013 with the aim to foster close collaboration among scholars across the 17 language...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literary theory
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  11. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    Con-Science and The Whole: Sara Lidman s Literary Philosophy
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The purpose of this project is to investigate the complex relation between philosophy and literature through a study of the Swedish modernist author Sara Lidman (1923-2004). At the center of the investigation lies Lidman’s concepts ”con-science”...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  12. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Göteborgs universitet / University of Gothenburg
    Song Lyrics as a Challenge to Transnational Literary History – the Case of ”Vårvindar Friska”
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The project posits one piece of song lyrics as a productive challenge to literary history after the transnational turn: “Vårvindar friska” (Fresh Spring Breezes), by Julia Nyberg. Whereas most research on world literature and transnational...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  World Literature,  Lyric poetry and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  13. 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
  14. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Lunds Universitet / Lund University
    Translated Local Cultures. Swedish Proletarian Realism in English Translation
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Departing from the assumption that Swedish proletarian writers were, among other things, devoted to writing a local culture, this project examines the ways in which textual signs of locality transform as the novels are translated into English. The...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from UK and Ireland,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  15. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    Made in Italy. A diachronic study of literary circulation and translation in the semiperihery
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Focusing on the translation flow from Italy to Sweden, the primary aim of this project is to examine the changes that the symbolic capital of Italian literature has undergone in the Swedish context during the last century and its manifestations in...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Italian literature,  World Literature and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019