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  1. Category: Fellowships, stipends, scholarships etc.
    Application deadline: 01.07.2019
    Fellowship, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (scas), Uppsala University
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Located in the Botanic Garden in Uppsala, the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (scas) is a national institute for advanced study.The collections of Carolina Rediviva Library and other scientific facilities at Uppsala University are situated...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 24.06.2019
  2. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    Con-Science and The Whole: Sara Lidman s Literary Philosophy
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The purpose of this project is to investigate the complex relation between philosophy and literature through a study of the Swedish modernist author Sara Lidman (1923-2004). At the center of the investigation lies Lidman’s concepts ”con-science”...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  3. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    Expressing Siberian Exile: Literature, Language, and the Resistance of the Real
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In this project I explore nineteenth century narratives of Siberian exile. The writers that I work with––Anton Chekhov, George Kennan, Peter Kropotkin, Henry Lansdell, and others—were all facing difficulties in their attempts to represent the social...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and theology/study of religions
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  4. 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
  5. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    From Periphery to Center: Swedish Literature on the French Book Market
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The purpose of my project is to describe the transmission of literature (fiction) from a small language area (the ”vernacular” or the ”periphery”, in this case: Sweden) to a larger one (the ”cosmopolitan” or the ”centre”, in this case: France). This...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  French literature,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  6. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    Afropolitanism's vernaculars: literature and theory
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The purpose of my contribution to this project is to critique cosmopolitanism’s tendency to circumvent African spaces, aesthetics and phenomenologies. I aim to theorise the term Afropolitanism and to implement it in the analysis of contemporary...

    Fields of research Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Literary theory,  World Literature and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  7. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    Transcendental Translations: The Making of New England’s Literary Culture
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Translation was central to New England Transcendentalism, the literary culture of antebellum New England. This project focuses on how its translation activities shaped American literature and politics. It pays particular attention to translations...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  World Literature,  Literature and philosophy and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  8. 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
  9. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    Swedish Images of Italy: Travel Literature in the Age of Liberty (1719–72)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Swedish travel literature from Italy during the Age of Liberty (Frihetstiden, 1719–72) engages in several of the main cultural and political debates of the time. Swedish travellers show both a reorientation in the understanding of classical...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  travel literature,  Literature of the 18th century
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  10. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    Goethe's Writings on Aesthetics and the Epistemic Transformations in the Late 18th and Early 19th Century
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The aim of the project is to investigate the role of Goethe's writings on aesthetics in the profound epistemic, philosophical, aesthetic, and scientific transformations during the so-called "Age of Goethe". Focusing on the concept of aesthetic...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Aesthetics,  Literature of the 18th century and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  11. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    Tropical Engagements: Vernaculars in French Early Modern Travel Writing (Africa and the Caribbean 1645-1728)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    "Tropical Engagements" examines how vernacular languages are incorporated into and impact upon early modern French travel writing from Africa and the Caribbean, by means of lexical inclusions of foreign words and of reported dialogues. The purpose is...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  World Literature,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality and 4 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  12. Category: University institutes
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    Department of Literature, Uppsala University
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Am Department of Literature fokussiert sich die Forschung unter anderem auf die folgenden Gebiete: 18. Jahrhundert, Geschichte der Rhetorik, Literatur und Gender, Schwedische Literatur weltweit und Textkritik.

    Created on: 12.12.2018