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  1. Category: Collaborative Research Centres
    Institutions: Universität Bielefeld
    „Nullmeridian der Literatur“? Der Literaturnobelpreis als globaler Vergleichsmaßstab
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Der erstmals 1901 verliehene Nobelpreis für Literatur ist der weltweit bekannteste Literaturpreis. Er ist nicht nur ein Indikator für die Existenz eines literarischen Feldes von globalem Ausmaß, sondern hat zugleich, so unsere Vermutung, wesentlich...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 07.01.2022
  2. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) / Catholic University Louvain
    His Fiction in the World, the World in his Fiction
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Study of the Circulation and Reception of Ismail Kadare’s Fiction in the Anglophone Literary Landscape" The aim of this research project is to shed light on the configurations between world literature and its reception at the end of the 20 th ...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Literature of the 20th century,  Literature of the 21st century
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  3. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA) / University of Lisbon
    Comparative World Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project aims to structure and to develop the field of World Literature in Portugal, based on two theoretical assumptions: the comparative perspective and the estrangement of reading. It currently develops a set of anthologies (3 vols) on World...

    Fields of research Portugese literature,  Digital Humanities,  World Literature
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  4. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Seo ul dae hag gyo / Seoul National University (SNU),  Koreanische Goethe-Gesellschaft,  Universität Innsbruck
    Goethes »West-östlicher Divan« und seine Übersetzung im Spannungsfeld von Weltlite­ratur, Orientalismus und Okzidentalismus
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Projekt zielt auf die Entwicklung und Erprobung eines innovativen orientalistisch-okzidentalistischen Zugangs zu Goethes Idee der Weltliteratur, die sich als leistungs- wie durchsetzungsfähige und zugleich humanistische Perspektiven eröffnende...

    Fields of research East Asian literature,  World Literature,  Translation
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  5. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Lunds Universitet / Lund University
    Nordic World Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    To what extent has Nordic literature contributed to world literature and in what way has this literary export shaped the world's view of the Nordic countries? Reception theory is a central element in modern literary studies. Literary scholars,...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  World Literature
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  6. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Göteborgs universitet / University of Gothenburg
    Song Lyrics as a Challenge to Transnational Literary History – the Case of ”Vårvindar Friska”
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The project posits one piece of song lyrics as a productive challenge to literary history after the transnational turn: “Vårvindar friska” (Fresh Spring Breezes), by Julia Nyberg. Whereas most research on world literature and transnational...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  World Literature,  Lyric poetry and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    The Production of Paradise. The role of travel literature in the discursive construction of the South Sea as utopia on Earth
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project sets out to understand how travel literature translates and mediates accounts from and of the world – from one local setting to another, and over time. It is, more specifically, concerned with Western travel writers’ persistent and...

    Fields of research Australian/Oceanian literature,  World Literature,  travel literature
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  10. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    The Contemporary Russian Cosmopolitans
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    During the Post- Soviet period Russian culture has re-entered a common globalized space. The traditional dichotomy of Russia vs. the West which characterized Russian cultural dynamics has entered a new phase marked by the re-evaluation of the notion...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  World Literature
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  11. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    Language and Literary Worldmaking in Southern Africa: The Case of Little Magazines
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The titles of literary journals in southern Africa tell an interesting story. We have, on the hand, all those irreducibly local and vernacular names: Voorslag (Durban 1926-1927), Izwi (Johannesburg 1971-1974), Charrua (Maputo 1984-1985), ...

    Fields of research Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  World Literature
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  12. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    In the Frame: Social and Cultural Geographies of Documentary Modernism
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Irina Rasmussen Goloubeva’s project explores modernist collaborative projects: the modes of reading they invite, the values they generate, and the worlds that they project. It argues that the adaptation of journalistic, ethnographic, and analytical...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and social and cultural anthropology and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  13. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    Cosmopolitan longings and vernacular belongings. Constantinople in literary fin-de-siècle and high modernism
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The aim of this subproject is to study experiences, conceptions and functions of Constantinople. It contributes to the programme’s theme of world-making and languages by looking at literary representations of “one” place across a number of languages,...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Literature of the 19th century,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  14. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Lunds Universitet / Lund University
    The Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in the Nineteenth-Century French Novel from Stendhal to Zola
    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
  15. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Lunds Universitet / Lund University
    Translated Local Cultures. Swedish Proletarian Realism in English Translation
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Departing from the assumption that Swedish proletarian writers were, among other things, devoted to writing a local culture, this project examines the ways in which textual signs of locality transform as the novels are translated into English. The...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from UK and Ireland,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019