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  1. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
    Versuch über den Ehrgeiz
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Durchaus mit einem gewissen Anspruch auf Aktualität im Kontext kompetitiv organisierter Geisteswissenschaften soll im Versuch über den Ehrgeiz ein ideengeschichtlich weitgehend unerschlossenes Terrain sichtbar gemacht werden. Der historische...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  2. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
    Reine Form. Formalistische Ästhetik und formalistisches Wissenschaftsprogramm im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776 - 1841) beeinflusste mit seiner Ästhetik das Denken seiner Zeit, formulierte er doch eine entschiedene Gegenposition zur Gehaltsästhetik und wirkte mit seinem mit der Ästhetik verbundenen Wissenschaftsprogramm auf das...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Aesthetics,  Literature of the 18th century and 1 more
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  3. Category: Research Units
    Institutions: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3
    Literary Organisms. La littérature des 20e et 21e siècles, entre esthétique et biologie
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Fondé en 2012 au sein du département d’études anglophones de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, le groupe [Science+Littérature] vise à élucider les relations entre les sciences du vivant (biologie, écologie, neurosciences) et la littérature des XX e et XXI e ...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and natural science,  Literature of the 20th century and 1 more
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  4. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3
    Immersions : habiter la fiction. Littérature et jeu vidéo au XXIe siècle
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Que devient la littérature à l’ère du jeu vidéo ? Le projet « Habitations littéraires, immersions vidéoludiques » travaille cette question à partir d’une hypothèse de départ : parce que le récit vidéoludique repose sur la création et l’exploration...

    Fields of research Game Studies
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  5. Category: Projects
    Institutions: University of Plymouth
    Imagining Alternatives: Utopia, Community and the Novel, 1880-2015
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project explores how the novel has been used since the late nineteenth century to imagine better forms of community, and the problems and opportunities revealed by such attempts. Insights from this research are employed with local communities,...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Novel,  Literature of the 19th century and 2 more
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  6. Category: Projects
    Institutions: University of Birmingham
    Narrativising Dinosaurs: Science and Popular Culture from 1850 to the Present
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Encountering dinosaurs is a routine experience for most of us. They tower over us in museums, entertain us in books and films, and peer out at us from our cereal boxes. Though increasingly well-understood from a scientific standpoint, dinosaurs are...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and natural science and 3 more
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  7. Category: Research Units
    Institutions: University of Glasgow
    Decadence and Translation Network
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Decadent Movement originated in France during the second half of the nineteenth century, when Decadent writers and artists turned away from social and artistic conventions towards elaborate, esoteric and transgressive forms of artistic...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Translation,  Theory of translation
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  8. Category: Projects
    Institutions: University of Sheffield
    Literature, Psychoanalysis and the Death Penalty, 1900-1950
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The key aim of this project is to examine how the cultural and ethical power of literature offered early twentieth-century readers opportunities for thinking through capital punishment in the UK, Ireland and the US in the period between 1900 and...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  9. Category: Research Units
    Institutions: Network: Institutions of Literature, 1700-1900
    Network: Institutions of Literature, 1700-1900
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Institutions of Literature, 1700-1900’ is a research network studying the rise of literary institutions during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and considering their ongoing influence in modern literary culture. It is funded by the Arts and...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 18th century,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  10. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Nottingham Trent University
    Crossed Wires: Literature and Telephony
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In a letter to Paul Auster, J.M. Coetzee (2013) argues that the mobile phone creates significant structural difficulties for the writer: 'If people ... are continually going to be speaking to one another at a distance, then a whole gamut of...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 20th century,  Literature of the 21st century
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  11. Category: Research Units
    Institutions: Queen Mary College, University of London,  Centre for Childhood Cultures (CCC),  V&A Museum of Childhood
    Children's Literature, Children's Lives (research cluster)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Children's Literature Children's Lives is part of the Centre for Childhood Cultures (CCC). This is a partnership between the V&A Museum of Childhood and Queen Mary University of London which fosters research on childhood culture, from literature,...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Children's and young adult literature
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  12. Category: Projects
    Institutions: University of Western Sydney (UWS),  University of Adelaide
    Other Worlds: Forms of World Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    World literature’ is now a field in its own right within literary studies. Over the last twenty years, those in this field have asked questions relating to global systems of power, dissemination, exchange, translation, and interpretation, with...

    Fields of research World Literature
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  13. 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
  14. Category: Projects
    Institutions: University of Melbourne
    Literary Romanticism and the Media of Romantic Love
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    "Literary romanticism and the media of romantic love" is a cultural history of trans-European literary Romanticism, which was ARC-funded from 2012-2015. The ongoing project correlates the popularisation of romantic love with the emergence of literary...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  15. Category: Projects
    Institutions: University of Melbourne
    Architectures of Imagination: Bodies, Buildings, Fictions, and Worlds
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project explores the roles played by fiction and imagination in the production of space during the long eighteenth-century (1700-1835), through studies of key buildings (the list includes Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill, William Beckford’s...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 18th century,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 27.05.2019