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
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
University or institution:
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (JLU);
Technische Universität Dresden (TUD)
Fields of research:
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine);
South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey);
Literary theory;
Postcolonial studies;
World Literature;
Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality;
Interdisciplinarity;
Literature and other forms of art;
Literature and cultural studies;
Prose;
Novel;
travel literature;
Essay;
Translation;
Theory of translation;
Literature of the 20th century;
Literature of the 21st century
University or institution:
San Francisco State University (SFSU)
Fields of research:
Literature from North America;
Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean);
Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland);
Literature from the Benelux Countries;
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Literature from UK and Ireland;
French literature;
Italian literature;
Spanish literature;
Portugese literature;
Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine);
Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary);
South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey);
North African literature;
Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa;
Literature from Israel;
Near Eastern literature;
East Asian literature;
South Asian literature;
Textual criticism, editing, codicology;
Didactics of Literature;
Literary historiography;
Literary theory;
Hermeneutics;
Structuralism;
Poststructuralism;
New Criticism;
Deconstruction;
New Historicism;
Empirical Aesthetics;
Reader-response criticism;
Feminist studies;
Gender Studies/Queer Studies;
Postcolonial studies;
Narratology;
Oral poetry / Orality;
World Literature;
Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality;
Interdisciplinarity;
Literature and other forms of art;
Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology;
Literature and law;
Literature and cultural studies;
Literature and theology/study of religions;
Literature and philosophy;
Game Studies;
Intermediality;
Poetics;
Literary genre;
Prose;
Novel;
Narrative
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Ausgehend von dem interphilologischen Sinergia-Projekt des Schweizer Nationalfonds zur «Poetik und Ästhetik des Staunens» behandelt mein Dissertationsprojekt die Gattungs- und Formgenese des Romans im Verhältnis zu kurzen Erzählformen des 18....
Fields of research
Poetics,
Novel,
Narrative
and 2 more
Created on:
07.06.2019
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
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
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
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
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Chapters may be the last element in the poetics of the novel that have almost never been studied, except in Ugo Dionne’s La Voie aux chapitres (Seuil, 2008), which draws up the history of how novels have been divided and structured, up to the end of...
Fields of research
Poetics,
Novel
Created on:
17.05.2019
University or institution:
Universität Paderborn
Fields of research:
Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean);
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
French literature;
Spanish literature;
Gender Studies/Queer Studies;
Postcolonial studies;
Literature and cultural studies;
Literature and social and cultural anthropology;
Literary genre;
Novel;
Drama;
Tragedy;
Literature of the 16th century;
Literature of the 17th century;
Literature of the 18th century;
Literature of the 19th century
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Öffentlicher Workshop im Rahmen des Projekts: »Der verdichtete Raum. Sprache, Text und weltanschauliches Wissen in deutschsprachigen Zukunftsromanen der 1920er und 1930er Jahre« gefördert von der Fritz Thyssen Stiftung Projektleitung: Dr....
Fields of research
Poetics,
Novel
Created on:
12.12.2018
Submitted by:
Manuel Mühlbacher
Der Auftakt-Workshop der Forschergruppe "Philologie des Abenteuers" findet am 21. und 22. Juni 2018 statt und ist dem Thema "Erzählformen des Abenteuers" gewidmet. Der Begriff "Abenteuer" erscheint schon in seinen mittelalterlichen Ursprüngen...
Fields of research
Literary historiography,
Literary theory,
Narratology
and 6 more
Created on:
12.12.2018
Submitted by:
Manuel Mühlbacher
Der Begriff ‚Abenteuer‘ bezeichnet einen elementaren Nukleus des Erzählens – ‚elementar‘ sowohl im narrativen als auch im psychologischen Sinn. Unter den Grundbegriffen des Literarischen nimmt er eine Sonderstellung ein, weil er zum einen genuin...
Fields of research
Literary historiography,
Literary theory,
Narratology
and 6 more
Created on:
12.12.2018
University or institution:
Ain Shams Universität
Fields of research:
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
North African literature;
Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa;
Near Eastern literature;
Feminist studies;
Gender Studies/Queer Studies;
Postcolonial studies;
Narratology;
World Literature;
Interdisciplinarity;
Literature and other forms of art;
Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology;
Literature and sociology;
Literature and law;
Literature and cultural studies;
Literature and philosophy;
Literature and natural science;
Literature and media studies;
Novel;
Narrative;
Short prose;
Folk literature;
Children's and young adult literature;
Formula literature;
The fictional;
Translation;
Theory of translation;
Literature of the 20th century
