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  1. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    Carry the Burden of the Past, Capture the Present and Bear a Promise to the Future? - Vernacular and Cosmopolitan Memories in Sinophonic Literatures
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    By tracing vernacular and cosmopolitan tendencies in the making of ”Chinese literature” I am exploring the literary field as a contested site of struggle between global and local commitments, thereby creating continuously changing notions of identity...

    Fields of research East Asian literature,  World Literature
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  2. Category: Research Units
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    Translation, Circulation and the Semi-Periphery
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    By researching translation flows, the cosmopolitanising and vernacularising dynamics of translation, translation as consecration, and gender as a mediating category in the circulation of literature, sub-group 4 aims at studying cosmopolitan and...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  3. 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
  4. Category: Research Units
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    Locations and Orientations in World Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The terms locations and orientations appear, at first, to have very different qualities: a location operates as a fixed, spatial dimension whereas an orientation implies movement across both spatial and more abstract dimensions, such as ideology or...

    Fields of research World Literature
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  5. Category: Research Units
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    Theorising the Vernacular
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Moving between different scales of analysis as well as distant and close reading methodologies, this group addresses an understudied dimension of world literature: the theorisation and conceptualisation of the vernacular. The term “vernacular” is...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  6. Category: Priority Programmes
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    World Literatures. Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Based at Stockholm University, this research programme will run from 2016 until 2021 with the generous support of The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences. Its task is to explore, across numerous languages, how aesthetic values,...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Literary genre,  Aesthetics
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  7. Category: University institutes
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Am ‚Department of Culture and Aesthetics‘ werden die folgenden Forschungsgebiete beforscht: Kunstgeschichte, Ideengeschichte, Literatur, Musikwissenschaften und Theater/Tanz/Performance.

    Created on: 12.12.2018