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  1. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Basel
    Vice, Scandal, and "News": 19th-Century Newspapers and their Literary Products
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    My project emerges from within the context of the repeal of the taxes on knowledge (i.e. the removal of additional taxes for advertisements (1853), stamps (1855), and the weight of paper (1861)), honing in on the changing nature of the periodical...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  2. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Basel
    Literarische Kleinformen als Aspekt einer politischen Erzähltheorie. Zur Annäherung von Gerüchtekommunikation und anekdotischem Erzählen in Literatur und Publizistik um 1800
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Vor dem historischen Hintergrund der napoleonischen Kriege und politischer Romantik beeinflussen sich Gerüchtekommunikation und anekdotisches Erzählen wechselseitig. Dichter und Publizisten im Kreis der sogenannten Befreiungskrieger, insbesondere...

    Fields of research Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment),  Literature of the 18th century,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  3. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Basel
    Mining the Comic Verse
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    By mining, mapping, analysing and interpreting the respective patterns of humour and versification in a digitized 19 th and 20 th Century corpus, by describing how the two interact to produce layered meanings, this project aims to gain a precise...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Poetics
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  4. 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
  5. Category: Projects
    Institutions: University of Glasgow
    Travelling Texts, 1790-1914: The Transnational Reception of Women's Writing at the Fringes of Europe (Finland, The Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Spain)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    his HERA-funded collaborative research project studies the role of women’s writing in the transnational literary field during the long 19th century. It explores in terms of gender cultural encounters through reading and writing that contributed to...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 18th century and 2 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  6. Category: Projects
    Institutions: University of Oxford
    Prismatic Translation
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Prismatic Translation is an ongoing research project, now funded by the AHRC as part of its Open World Research Initiative Programme in Creative Multilingualism . It began at OCCT's 2015 conference, Prismatic Translation and was further...

    Fields of research Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality,  Translation,  Theory of translation
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  7. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA) / University of Lisbon
    Comparative World Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project aims to structure and to develop the field of World Literature in Portugal, based on two theoretical assumptions: the comparative perspective and the estrangement of reading. It currently develops a set of anthologies (3 vols) on World...

    Fields of research Portugese literature,  Digital Humanities,  World Literature
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  8. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA) / University of Lisbon
    Portuguese Colonial Empire and Urban Popular Culture: Comparing Visions from the Metropolis and the Colonies (1945-1974)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Empires are spaces of circulation of people and goods between colonies and their metropolitan centres, but they are also spaces of global circulation. A variety of cultural forms were circulated within the space of the Portuguese empire as well as...

    Fields of research Portugese literature,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and social and cultural anthropology and 1 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  9. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA) / University of Lisbon
    The Portuguese Representations of India: Power and Knowledge in a Peripheral Orientalism (19th and 20th Centuries)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The main goal of this project (besides critically bringing to light the literary and scientific production on India from the 19th and 20th centuries) is to determine the extent to which the Portuguese accumulation of knowledge on the Orient can be...

    Fields of research Portugese literature,  South Asian literature,  Literature of the 19th century and 1 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  10. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA) / University of Lisbon
    National Identities in Dialogue: Political and Literary Identity Constructions in Portugal, Angola and Mozambique (1961-Present)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This research project aims to contribute to a better understanding of how national identities are constructed in Portugal, Angola and Mozambique, before and after the Carnation Revolution (25 April 1974), in the complex tension between colonial power...

    Fields of research Portugese literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  11. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA) / University of Lisbon
    Digital Map of Iberian Literary Relations (1870-1930)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Description By showcasting divers materials referring to Iberian literary relations (images, texts, secondary bibliography), this project aims at contributing both to the field of Iberian Studies, and to Digital Humanities in Portugal. This...

    Fields of research Spanish literature,  Portugese literature,  Digital Humanities and 2 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  12. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA) / University of Lisbon
    TECOP. Texts and Contexts of Portuguese Orientalism - The International Congresses of Orientalists (1873-1973)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The TECOP project focuses on the study of Portuguese Orientalism within a comparative and interdisciplinary framework. It seeks to give visibility to the Portuguese orientalists taking part in the International Congresses of Orientalists and to...

    Fields of research Portugese literature,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 19th century and 1 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  13. Category: Priority Programmes
    Institutions: Københavns Universitet (KU) / University of Copenhagen,  Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA) / University of Lisbon
    HERILIGION. The Heritagization of Religion and Sacralization of Heritage
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    What happens when religious sites, objects and practices are simultaneously considered heritage? Since World War II, cultural heritage is increasingly seen as defining identities and communities in times of change, and often what is now considered...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and theology/study of religions
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  14. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (MLU)
    Experimentierfeld Dorf - Dorfatlas
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    m Rahmen des von der Volkswagenstiftung geförderten Forschungsprojekts „Experimentierfeld Dorf. Die Wiederkehr des Dörflichen als Imaginations-, Projektions- und Handlungsraum“ widmet sich eine interdisziplinäre Forschergruppe an den Universitäten...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  15. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Seo ul dae hag gyo / Seoul National University (SNU),  Koreanische Goethe-Gesellschaft,  Universität Innsbruck
    Goethes »West-östlicher Divan« und seine Übersetzung im Spannungsfeld von Weltlite­ratur, Orientalismus und Okzidentalismus
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Projekt zielt auf die Entwicklung und Erprobung eines innovativen orientalistisch-okzidentalistischen Zugangs zu Goethes Idee der Weltliteratur, die sich als leistungs- wie durchsetzungsfähige und zugleich humanistische Perspektiven eröffnende...

    Fields of research East Asian literature,  World Literature,  Translation
    Created on: 07.06.2019