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  1. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 23.09.2020
    Entscheidung zur Heiligkeit. Autonomie und Providenz im legendarischen Erzählen vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Entscheidung zur Heiligkeit? Autonomie und Providenz im legendarischen Erzählen vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart Ort: Heidelberger Akademie der...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Literature and theology/study of religions,  Poetics and 8 more
    Created on: 14.09.2020
  2. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.11.2020
    “Make ’em cry, make ’em laugh, make ’em wait”: Sensation, mystery and detection in the Victorian novel (Winter 2020 issue of the ESSE Messenger)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The phrase “Make ’em laugh; make ’em cry; make ’em wait” usually ascribed to Charles Reade – an English novelist and dramatist active in the second half of the 19th century – was to become famous after William Wilkie Collins rearranged it as “Make...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Novel,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 17.08.2020
  3. Alfonso de Toro
    University or institution: Universität Leipzig
    Fields of research: Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean); French literature; Italian literature; Spanish literature; Portugese literature; North African literature; Literary theory; Poststructuralism; Deconstruction; Postcolonial studies; Narratology; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and philosophy; Literature and media studies; Intermediality; Novel; autobiography; Drama; Tragedy; Comedy; Tragicomedy; The fictional; Literature of the 17th century; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  4. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 21.08.2020
    Zeitstrukturen im Wandel: Von der Goethezeit zur Zwischenphase
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for Chapters ‖ Beiträge zum Sammelband: Zeitstrukturen im Wandel: Von der Goethezeit zur Zwischenphase gepl. Ersch.: Herbst 2021, Hg.: Stephan Brössel (Münster), Stefan Tetzlaff (Göttingen) ...

    Fields of research Literature and social and cultural anthropology,  Poetics,  Novel and 3 more
    Created on: 24.07.2020
  5. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 30.09.2020
    Lecture: Haunting Angels (Amy Hollywood)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Many characters die twice in the nineteenth-century British and American novel, with protracted and repeated death scenes marking the profundity and inescapability of death, its communal nature, and the deep sentimentality associated with the loss of...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Novel and 1 more
    Created on: 26.06.2020
  6. Reinhard M. Möller
    University or institution: Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland); Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; South Asian literature; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Narratology; World Literature; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and philosophy; Literature and social and cultural anthropology; Novel; Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment); travel literature; Aesthetics; Rhetoric; Themes, motifs, thematology; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  7. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.07.2020
    Martin Buber und die Literatur (Martin Buber-Studien Bd. 4)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die ersten drei Bände der Martin Buber-Studien – der Schriftenreihe der Martin Buber-Gesellschaft – haben sich der Relevanz von Bubers Denken für die Gegenwart (Band eins) und wesentlichen Werk- und Wirkkomplexen Martin Bubers angenommen: der...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and theology/study of religions,  Aesthetics and 2 more
    Created on: 24.04.2020
  8. Jörg Dünne
    University or institution: HU Berlin
    Fields of research: Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean); French literature; Spanish literature; Literature and geography/cartography; Literature and media studies; Literature of the 16th century; Literature of the 17th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century

  9. Jana-Katharina Mende
    University or institution: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (MLU)
    Fields of research: French literature; Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary); Literary historiography; Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality; Literature and theology/study of religions; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  10. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 25.02.2020
    Die Zukunft der Inseln. Passagen zwischen Literatur und Wissenschaft (Bad Homburg, 25.–27.2.2020)
    Submitted by: Mira Shah

    Die Zukunft der Inseln. Passagen zwischen Literatur und Wissenschaft 25.-27.2.2020 Eine Tagung des DFG-Projekts „Entangled Island Times. Zu einer Literatur- und Wissensgeschichte der Inselbiogeographie“ (Roland Borgards, Lena Kugler,...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 13 more
    Created on: 22.01.2020
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.01.2020
    Catholicism and Literary Culture in Scotland, Ireland, and England: Medieval to Modern
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    A Symposium: 2nd - 3rd June, 2020, University of Glasgow Keynote Speakers: Tom Corns (Bangor), Carol Herringer (Georgia Southern), Alison Shell (UCL) This two-day symposium funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh examines how Catholicism...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and cultural studies and 9 more
    Created on: 25.11.2019
  12. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) / University of Leuven
    The Poetics of Precarity
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The financial and economic collapse in 2007/2008 has increased the interest for the literary reflection on economic crises and their social consequences. This project takes this contemporary sensibility and the ways in which it is reflected in...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Poetics,  Novel and 1 more
    Created on: 28.10.2019
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.01.2020
    Lines of Heredity: Eugenics and Gender in European Literature, 1880-1935
    Submitted by: Fatima Borrmann

    May 18-19, 2020 MDRN First keynote speaker: Prof. Angelique Richardson (University of Exeter). Second keynote speaker to be announced later. During the late 19th and early 20th century evolutionary theory and new...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 9 more
    Created on: 17.10.2019
  14. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Lunds Universitet / Lund University
    The Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in the Nineteenth-Century French Novel from Stendhal to Zola
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The purpose is to study how the cosmopolitan/vernacular dynamic is represented in novels by Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert and Zola, at a thematic, intratextual level as well as in translations of the novels into Swedish and in their reception in Sweden....

    Fields of research French literature,  World Literature,  Novel and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  15. 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