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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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