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  1. Daniel Wendt
    University or institution: Marburg
    Fields of research: Textual criticism, editing, codicology; Literary historiography; Literary theory; New Historicism; Reader-response criticism; Ecocriticism; Narratology; Interdisciplinarity; Intermediality; Poetics; Literary genre; Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment); Comedy; The fictional; Aesthetics; Rhetoric; Themes, motifs, thematology; Theory of translation; Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.); Literature of the 16th century; Literature of the 17th century; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2022
    Inhuman Voices: Writing and the Non-Human (ACLA Seminar, Chicago, 2023)
    Submitted by: Katharina Simon

    Time and again, literature has reflected on its non-human origins in scenes of writing and invocation. In “Autobiography as De-facement,” de Man conceptualizes prosopopeia as the mechanism in which the effect of a living, human voice is created...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Narratology,  Intermediality and 2 more
    Created on: 06.10.2022
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2022
    Tropes of Adventure (ACLA seminar)
    Submitted by: Manuel Mühlbacher

    Seminar at the Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association (Chicago, 16–19 March 2023) In contemporary Western culture, the term ‘adventure’ seems to be applicable to almost everything. While the ‘adventure appeal’ is...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Novel,  Rhetoric and 1 more
    Created on: 20.09.2022
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.03.2022
    Myths Today, 4th international conference on semiotics and visual communication
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The notion of myth as defined by Roland Barthes in the late 1950’s, provided a theoretical framework under which daily habits, as well as consumer practices can be examined as socially constructed signs, idealized through verbal narratives. While...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Narratology,  Literature and sociology and 3 more
    Created on: 11.02.2022
  5. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 19.08.2020
    Universität Bielefeld: Wiss. Mitarbeiterin / wiss. Mitarbeiter im Arbeitsbereich Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, E13 TV-L, befristet 4 Jahre
    Submitted by: Mona Körte

    Die Universität Bielefeld sucht für die Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft, Arbeitsbereich Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, zum 1. Oktober 2020 in Vollzeit eine*n Wissenschaftliche*n Mitarbeiter*in. ...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Narratology,  Literature and philosophy and 2 more
    Created on: 06.08.2020
  6. Reinhard M. Möller
    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

  7. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    “The Romance between Greece and the West.” Heroes and Heroines in French, Anglo-Norman and English Medieval Narrative
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Medieval romance is arguably the most influential secular literary genre of the European Middle Ages. Its history has not been written yet. In order to enhance our understanding of this history (both conceptually and cross-culturally), this project...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Novel,  Rhetoric and 2 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  8. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (ZfL)
    Belebte Häuser. Literarische ›Biotekturen‹ des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Als gebauter Übergang zwischen Ich und Welt hat das Haus von jeher den Blick von Denkern und Literaten auf sich gezogen. Seine Mauern schirmen die Bewohner von einem potentiell feindlichen Außen ab (Heidegger) und bilden einen Raum der »beschützten...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Narratology,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 17.05.2019
  9. Ursula Kocher
    University or institution: Bergische Universität Wuppertal (BUW)
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Italian literature; South Asian literature; Literary theory; Narratology; World Literature; Literature and visual studies; Intermediality; Novella; Rhetoric; Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century); Literature of the 20th century

  10. Hania Siebenpfeiffer
    University or institution: Philipps-Universität Marburg
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; French literature; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Structuralism; Poststructuralism; New Historicism; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Media studies; Narratology; Literature and law; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and natural science; Intermediality; Literary genre; The fictional; Rhetoric; Literature of the 16th century; Literature of the 17th century; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 21st century

  11. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 25.04.2017
    Ringvorlesung Komparatistik heute: Aktuelle Positionen der Vergleichenden Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft (Sommersemester 2017)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Anlässlich der Neueinführung des BA-Studienganges „Komparatistik – Vergleichende Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft“, der den bereits bestehenden gleichnamigen Masterstudiengang an unserer Universität ergänzt, findet eine Ringvorlesung zum Thema...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Writtenness,  World Literature and 5 more
    Created on: 12.12.2018
  12. Literaturwissenschaftliche Grundbegriffe Online (LiGo)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    LiGo ist ein Selbstlernkurs zu literaturwissenschaftlichen Grundbegriffen [...]. Abgedeckt werden z.Zt. die Wissensbereiche "Erzähltextanalyse", "Lyrikanalyse", "Dramenanalyse", "Metrik", "Rhetorik", "Stilistik", "Fachgeschichte Germanistik". LiGo...

    Fields of research Didactics of Literature,  Narratology,  Lyric poetry and 2 more
    Created on: 12.12.2018
  13. Eckart Goebel
    University or institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland); Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; Literary theory; Hermeneutics; Structuralism; Deconstruction; Narratology; World Literature; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Literature and philosophy; Literature and social and cultural anthropology; Poetics; Prose; Novel; Essay; Drama; Tragedy; Aesthetics; Rhetoric; Literature of the 16th century; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century

  14. Detlev Gohrbandt
    University or institution: Universität Koblenz-Landau
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; Didactics of Literature; Literary theory; Media studies; Narratology; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and visual studies; Intermediality; Literary genre; Novel; Narrative; Rhetoric; Literature of the 20th century

  15. Sonja Klimek
    University or institution: Universität Freiburg (Schweiz) / Université de Fribourg
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; Italian literature; Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine); Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary); Digital Humanities; Literary theory; Feminist studies; Narratology; Oral poetry / Orality; World Literature; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and theology/study of religions; Literature and philosophy; Literature and visual studies; Literature and music/sound studies; Game Studies; Intermediality; Literary genre; Lyric poetry; Elegy; Novella; Narrative; autobiography; Children's and young adult literature; Formula literature; The fictional; Aesthetics; Rhetoric; Themes, motifs, thematology; Literature of the 16th century; Literature of the 17th century; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century