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  1. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Siegen
    Serienzirkulation: Der deutsch-amerikanische Geheimnisroman und die Anfänge transatlantischer Modernität (1850-1855)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Projekt untersucht deutschsprachige, zwischen 1850 und 1855 in den USA zunächst in Zeitungen serialisierte und später in Buchform publizierte populäre Geheimnisromane von August Gläser, Heinrich Börnstein, Emil Klauprecht, Rudolph Lexow und...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary historiography and 3 more
    Created on: 05.07.2021
  2. 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
  3. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    Chinese literature: the short stories and novels by Lu Xun, Lao She and Ba Jin
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In this study, I will examine how Lu Xun, Lao She and Ba Jin in novels and short stories written between 1900-1950 draw on ancient Chinese cosmopolitan literary traditions as well as indigenous vernacular and popular modes of storytelling, in...

    Fields of research East Asian literature,  World Literature,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  4. 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
  5. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    Mediating the North in a Transnational Context. Vernacular and Cosmopolitan Places in Nordic Noir
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Louise Nilsson's project within the research program Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures addresses the values of places depicted in literature. Seeing that the contemporary genre of Nordic crime fiction is a globally...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Novel
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  6. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    For Another Nouveau Roman: Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in the Formal Turn
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    How are we to understand the fact that the turbulent decades when France lost its empire coincided with a formal turn in French literature and literary theory? Perhaps by way of Jacques Rancière’s notion of the politics of literature as being...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Novel
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  7. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (ZfL)
    Das gebrochene Medium. Die österreichische Moderne und das Ereignis der Form
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Forschungsprojekt untersucht ästhetische Zeitkonzepte der österreichischen Moderne, die gemäß der leitenden Arbeitshypothese in den »großen« Gattungen von Drama, Oper und Roman ihren deutlichsten Ausdruck finden. Ziel des Projekts ist es, ein...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 17.05.2019
  8. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
    Dem Abenteuer entgegen. Transformationen des Abenteuers in Bildungsroman und Novelle (Goethe, Keller, Thomas Mann, Musil)
    Submitted by: Manuel Mühlbacher

    Das Teilprojekt zielt darauf, die Bedeutung des Erzähl- und Erlebnisschemas Abenteuer in der Moderne am Beispiel von deutschsprachigen Romanen zu erhellen, die in unterschiedlicher Weise an der Gattung des Entwicklungs- bzw. Bildungsromans...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Novel,  Novella
    Created on: 12.12.2018