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  1. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
    Pandemics and Coloniality: Biopolitical Entanglements in Early Modern Chronicles and COVID-19 Narratives
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project's key question asks how structures of coloniality are inherent to COVID-19 narratives, and how their biopolitical mechanisms relate to early colonial accounts of disease. As a key result, the project will provide a rich set of...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and philosophy,  Literature and natural science and 4 more
    Created on: 05.07.2021
  2. 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
  3. Category: Research Units
    Institutions: Freie Universität Berlin
    Kulturen ästhetischen Widerstands
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Netzwerk “Kulturen ästhetischen Widerstands“ will die bestehenden Debatten über Formen, Wirkungen und Schwachstellen ästhetischen Widerstands im interdisziplinären Gespräch fortführen und ausweiten. Die Arbeit des Netzwerks zielt auf eine...

    Fields of research Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 5 more
    Created on: 14.05.2021
  4. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) / University of Leuven
    Eugenic Women
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Eugenic Women is a subproject in the research programme Literary Knowledge (1890-1950): Modernisms and the Sciences in Europe . The project researches literature by German and British female authors who engaged in the widespread debate on...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 3 more
    Created on: 06.09.2019
  5. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Aix-Marseille Université
    Projet HORIZON « Les voix féminines de l’anti-féminisme »
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ce projet s’intéresse à la manière dont le mouvement féministe a pu être la cible d’attaques et d’oppositions de la part des femmes elles-mêmes. Des spécialistes de la « première vague » des féminismes anglo-américains se proposent d’explorer la...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 2 more
    Created on: 09.08.2019
  6. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) / Catholic University Louvain
    HANDLING: Writers Handling Pictures: a Material Intermediality (1880-today)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Maniement, manipulation, manutention : que font les écrivains des images qu’ils ont en main ? HANDLING est un projet de recherche financé par une « Starting Grant » de l’ERC de 2019 à 2024. C’est un projet radicalement interdisciplinaire sur...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature and visual studies,  Intermediality and 3 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  7. 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
  8. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
    Odyssean Travels: A Literary History of Modern Memory
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The "Odyssey" is one of the best-remembered stories in world literature and world history. This 'old' story has been used across almost three millennia, again and again, as a resource to tell new stories, and to represent a broad spectrum of very...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 19th century,  Literature of the 20th century and 1 more
    Created on: 31.05.2019
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (ZfL)
    Die wandernden Grenzen der Biologie
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Projekt schließt an die bereits vorliegenden begriffsgeschichtlichen Untersuchungen im Historischen Wörterbuch der Biologie an; anders als in diesem Wörterbuch stehen aber nicht die biologischen Grundbegriffe im Mittelpunkt, sondern die...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and natural science,  Literature of the 19th century and 2 more
    Created on: 17.05.2019
  12. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Université Paris Nanterre
    Littérature publicitaire et publicité littéraire de 1830 à nos jours (Literary advertising and advertising literature from 1830 to nowdays) – LITTéPUB
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    LITTéPUB est un projet interdisciplinaire s’appuyant sur un socle littéraire fort. Il associe une démarche patrimoniale, interprétative et éditoriale dans la perspective inédite d’une histoire croisée de la littérature et de la publicité en France...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and publishing/booktrade,  Literature of the 19th century and 2 more
    Created on: 17.05.2019
  13. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
    Narrative der Empathie: Tier-Mensch-Begegnungen in Philosophie, Wissenschaft und Literatur 1850-2010
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Entgegen rationalistischer Positionen, die die unüberbrückbare Distanz zwischen Mensch und Tier betonen, unterstreichen neuere Untersuchungen zum Tier-Mensch-Verhältnis das Vermögen der Empathie, über die Spezies-Grenze hinweg das Verstehen des...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Themes, motifs, thematology,  Literature of the 19th century and 2 more
    Created on: 12.12.2018
  14. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Wien
    Zeit des Klimas. Zur Verzeitlichung der Natur in der literarischen Moderne
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Projekt untersucht den Prozess einer Verzeitlichung von »Klima« – als Begriff und Phänomen – anhand von Beispielen aus der Literatur des 18. bis 21. Jahrhunderts. Es soll dabei zugleich die Verfahren ausleuchten, mit denen Fiktion (Literatur und...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Intermediality,  Aesthetics and 4 more
    Created on: 12.12.2018