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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: Research Units
    Institutions: Universität Koblenz
    Traveling Bodies: Bodies and Corporeality in Travel Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The project “Traveling Bodies: Bodies and Corporeality in Travel Texts / Reisende Körper: Körper und Körperlichkeit in Reiseliteratur“ is funded as a Research Network by the German Research Foundation DFG (2022-2025) and coordinated by Professor...

    Fields of research travel literature
    Created on: 31.01.2024
  3. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU),  C.H.Beck Stiftung,  Brougier-Seisser-Cleve-Werhahn-Stiftung and 1 more
    Editionsprojekt: Spanische und hispanoamerikanische Lyrik
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Projekt einer zweisprachigen Anthologie spanischer und hispanoamerikanischer Lyrik bildet die Fortsetzung einer Serie umfassender und sorgfältig edierter Lyriksammlungen, die der Verlag C. H. Beck im Jahr 1990 mit der Anthologie Französische...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Spanish literature,  Literary historiography and 2 more
    Created on: 20.08.2021
  4. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Hamburg (UH)
    ERC Advanced Grant „Poetry in the Digital Age”
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Heutige Präsentationsformen von Lyrik finden sich oft jenseits des Buches, z.B. auf Bühnen oder im Internet. Solche performativen Formen, in denen poetische Sprache durch Musik oder visuelle Komponenten sowie die physische Anwesenheit des ‚Poeten‘...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and visual studies,  Literature and music/sound studies and 5 more
    Created on: 14.09.2020
  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: Ghent University (UGent)
    Poet-Collectors during the Cold War: Poetry as Queer Archive
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project explores the ways in which American experimental poets struggled to create poetry that countered the Cold War ideology, and examines how the method of collecting-archiving was used in their efforts. The Cold War ‘containment culture’...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Poetics,  Lyric poetry and 1 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  7. 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
  8. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    The Production of Paradise. The role of travel literature in the discursive construction of the South Sea as utopia on Earth
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project sets out to understand how travel literature translates and mediates accounts from and of the world – from one local setting to another, and over time. It is, more specifically, concerned with Western travel writers’ persistent and...

    Fields of research Australian/Oceanian literature,  World Literature,  travel literature
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  9. Category: Research Units
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    World-making: Genres, Crafts and Languages
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    By adopting and adapting the term "world-making" (Valdés, Kadir, Hayot, Cheah, Neumann), sub-group 3 investigates how the world acquires density and meaning through literary practice. Rather than different scales of reading, the focus here is on...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Literary genre,  travel literature
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  10. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    Swedish Images of Italy: Travel Literature in the Age of Liberty (1719–72)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Swedish travel literature from Italy during the Age of Liberty (Frihetstiden, 1719–72) engages in several of the main cultural and political debates of the time. Swedish travellers show both a reorientation in the understanding of classical...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  travel literature,  Literature of the 18th century
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  11. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    Tropical Engagements: Vernaculars in French Early Modern Travel Writing (Africa and the Caribbean 1645-1728)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    "Tropical Engagements" examines how vernacular languages are incorporated into and impact upon early modern French travel writing from Africa and the Caribbean, by means of lexical inclusions of foreign words and of reported dialogues. The purpose is...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  World Literature,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality and 4 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  12. 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
  13. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (ZfL)
    Reden über Lyrik
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Theodor W. Adornos vermeintliches Verdikt über die Unmöglichkeit, nach Auschwitz Gedichte zu schreiben ist mit Sicherheit eine der radikalsten Aussagen zum Stand der Lyrik nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. »Es ist schon längst nicht mehr möglich, die...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature and cultural studies,  Poetics and 1 more
    Created on: 17.05.2019
  14. Category: Research Training Groups
    Institutions: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
    Graduiertenkolleg 1733 "Funktionen des Literarischen in Prozessen der Globalisierung", Universität München
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die Literatur bietet ein noch wenig konsultiertes Archiv für die Reflexion von Globalisierungsprozessen, und die Philologien besitzen deshalb noch kaum ausgelotete Kompetenzen für deren Analyse. Das Graduiertenkolleg leistet einen Beitrag dazu, diese...

    Fields of research Media studies,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and cultural studies and 4 more
    Created on: 12.12.2018
  15. Category: Research Training Groups
    Institutions: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
    Forschungskolleg Neues Reisen – Neue Medien
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In der Gegenwart sind das Reisen und seine Darstellung auf neue und vielfache Weise medialisiert. Das Forschungskolleg „Neues Reisen – Neue Medien“ will deshalb in interdisziplinärer Ausrichtung Reisepraktiken und -erfahrungen des 21. Jahr­hun­derts...

    Fields of research Media studies,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and sociology and 4 more
    Created on: 12.12.2018