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Displaying results 1 to 11 of 11.

  1. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Södertörn University Stockholm
    The voice of conscience; Shakespeare, imagination and judgment
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The idea that we may be beset by an inner voice of conscience has been negotiated in philosophy and literature over the centuries. This book project, which builds on articles and lectures written by myself during the last few years, offers a new...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  2. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Södertörn University Stockholm
    Nabokov´s Spine
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    During his tenure at Cornell, Vladimir Nabokov liked to exclaim: “Let us worship the spine!” Setting out from this exhortation, the study considers his œuvre in a dual regard, encompassing both the “spine-thrill of delight” that the reader should...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Themes, motifs, thematology,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  3. Category: University institutes
    Institutions: Södertörn University Stockholm
    Subject Comparative Literature, Södertörn University Stockholm
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Research in the subject of Comparative Literature has a particular focus on literature from the long 19th century. It brings together researchers who are interested in the aesthetics of the 18th century, the relationship between humans and...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy,  Aesthetics and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  4. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Södertörn University Stockholm
    Bear traces: a study of the bear in national romantic literature around the Baltic Sea
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The bear is the Nordic region’s largest predator and at the same time one of its most mythical animals. The bear has left traces in ancient religion, place names, linguistic expressions, and literature. Nature and animals can, therefore, be said to...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  5. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Södertörn University Stockholm
    Reassessing the Rise of Aesthetics. Aesthetic Heteronomy from Shaftesbury to Schelling
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The 18th century is traditionally regarded as the Grand Siècle of modern aesthetic autonomy. A longstanding diachronic narrative holds that such autonomy originated in British early 18th-century theories on disinterestedness and was fulfilled by the...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literature and philosophy,  Aesthetics
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  6. Category: Research Units
    Institutions: Södertörn University Stockholm
    Ratatǫskr Research Group for Literary Animal Studies
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Ratatǫskr Research Group for Literary Animal Studies was founded in 2018, and gathers people working in Comparative Literature at Södertörn University who have an interest in literary animal studies. The study of the relationship between animals...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  7. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Södertörn University Stockholm
    Tell the West: Witness Literature from the Gulag Archipelago 1925-2012
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The aim of my investigation is to examine Gulag memoirs in their double role as, on one hand, historical testimony and, on the other, literature. My theoretical framework is a phenomenological understanding of literature, experience and reality. My...

    Fields of research Literature of the 20th century,  Literature of the 21st century
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  8. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Södertörn University Stockholm
    Man builds and gets destroyed himself: Aesthetics of the sublime in Soviet Russian Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This is a multidisciplinary project at the crossroads of Russian cultural history, post-Soviet studies, literary theory, aesthetics, and philosophy. The purpose of the project proposed is to study the aesthetics of the sublime in selected works in...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Literary theory,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  9. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Södertörn University Stockholm
    FMeat/animals: Relations between humans and farm animals in cultural representations
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The project, financed by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, deals with farmed animals and aspects of temporality and ethics in contemporary literature, film and theater.

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 21st century
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  10. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Södertörn University Stockholm
    Decolonizing Phenomenologies
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The project combines a decolonial critique of Husserl’s phenomenology (Smith) with an analysis of contemporary forms of subjectivation as expressed in decolonial art in postcommunist Eastern Europe (Tlostanova). Phenomenology was important in...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  11. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Södertörn University Stockholm
    A multidisciplinary study of feminist comic art
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The focus of this project is feminist comic art and graphic novels from Sweden, Finland, Germany, and Russia. The multidisciplinary team of researchers is united by a view of comics as political action and social commentary, looking specifically at...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Comic
    Created on: 03.06.2019