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  1. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Université de Genève (UNIGE) / University of Geneva,  Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
    "Barbarisch": Geschichte eines europäischen Grundbegriffs und seiner literarischen Reflexion vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    „Barbarisch“ ist ein Begriff, der abendländisch-westliches Selbstverständnis mitbegründet hat und zur tendenziell globalen Durchsetzung dieses Selbstverständnisses verwendet worden ist und wird. Bis heute hat der Begriff die im klassischen...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Themes, motifs, thematology and 4 more
    Created on: 12.12.2018
  2. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (ZfL)
    Aby Warburg und die Religionskulturen
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Der Hamburger Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaftler Aby Warburg (1866–1929) ist nicht nur Gründer der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Bibliothek Warburg (KBW), sondern bis heute Stichwortgeber für die Forschung vieler geistes- und kulturwissenschaftlicher...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and theology/study of religions and 2 more
    Created on: 17.05.2019
  3. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Agents of Change: Women Editors and Socio-Cultural Transformation in Europe, 1710-1920
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    “Agents of Change: Women Editors and Socio-Cultural Transformation in Europe, 1710-1920″ (acronym WeChangEd) is a five-year research project funded by an ERC Starting Grant (2015-2020). It is directed by Marianne Van Remoortel and based at the ...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  4. Category: Projects
    Institutions: University of Tasmania (UTAS)
    Antarctic Imaginations: A Study of Creative Responses to the Continent for Science
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Antarctica has for two centuries been the subject of numerous novels, poems and plays, both by writers who have never seen the continent, and by expeditioners and explorers themselves. Apart from a small number of canonical nineteenth-century texts,...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 19th century,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  5. Category: Projects
    Institutions: University of Melbourne
    Architectures of Imagination: Bodies, Buildings, Fictions, and Worlds
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project explores the roles played by fiction and imagination in the production of space during the long eighteenth-century (1700-1835), through studies of key buildings (the list includes Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill, William Beckford’s...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 18th century,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  6. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
    Augenmaß. Ästhetik und Politik einer basalen Körpertechnik
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die Rede von der 'Politik mit Augenmaß' bewertet die Entscheidungsfähigkeit einzelner Politiker(innen). Diese Rhetorik gehört ebenso zum Inventar unserer Gegenwart wie verschiedene Praktiken des Augenmaßes: wer etwa im Straßenverkehr Entfernungen...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature and sociology,  Poetics and 5 more
    Created on: 07.06.2021
  7. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
    Author Fictions: Literary Authorship and Authorpoiesis in Modern English Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Autorschaftsszenarien sind, so die These dieser Monographie, literarische Schlüsselszenen in der Moderne seit dem 18. Jahrhundert. In ihnen erzählt der Autor fiktional seinen Leser(inne)n von sich selber als Autor des Romans bzw. der Erzählung und...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 6 more
    Created on: 07.06.2021
  8. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) / University of Leuven
    Avant-Garde Egypt
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Avant-Garde Egypt is a subproject in the research programme Literary Knowledge (1890-1950): Modernisms and the Sciences in Europe . The project investigates literary interactions between the European historical avant-gardes and the...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 19th century,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 06.09.2019
  9. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Freie Universität Berlin
    Bauformen der Imagination. Literatur und Architektur in der Moderne
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Projekt untersucht die dynamischen Interaktionen zwischen den beiden Künsten Literatur und Architektur in intermedialer und raumanthropologischer Perspektive. In Erweiterung des so genannten Spatial Turn, der die Architektur als eine...

    Fields of research Literature and social and cultural anthropology,  Intermediality,  Literature of the 19th century and 1 more
    Created on: 12.12.2018
  10. 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
  11. Category: Projects
    Biolographes
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Projekt Biolographes will eine Lücke in der Erforschung der Beziehungen zwischen Literatur und Wissen schließen, indem Referenzwerke über Literatur und biologisches Wissen vorgelegt werden, die sich an Literaturwissenschaftler, an...

    Fields of research Literature and natural science,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature and 1 more
    Created on: 12.12.2018
  12. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
    Caricatures of Man-Made Nature: Reflections on Environmental Change in German Magazines from the Era of Industrialization
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    My research project focuses on a selection of long-forgotten caricatures that appeared in literary and satirical magazines during the era of industrialization. These caricatures depict man-made environmental transformations and address their...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and visual studies and 4 more
    Created on: 24.05.2019
  13. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) / University of Leuven
    Colonised Citizens
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Colonized Citizens is a subproject in the research programme Literary Knowledge (1890-1950): Modernisms and the Sciences in Europe . The project focuses on colonial literature in Belgium and Germany, both ‘late participants’ in the European...

    Fields of research Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Postcolonial studies and 2 more
    Created on: 06.09.2019
  14. 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
  15. Category: Projects
    Institutions: FernUniversität in Hagen
    Das Beispiel im Wissen der Ästhetik (1750-1850). Erforschung und Erfassung einer diskursiven Praxis
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Beispiele zu geben, ist eine fundamentale und unverzichtbare Praxis wissenschaftlicher Diskurse, die sich nicht auf das logische Verhältnis von Allgemeinem zu Besonderem und auf ihre Veranschaulichungsfunktion reduzieren lässt. Beispiele sind im...

    Fields of research Aesthetics,  Literature of the 18th century,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 12.12.2018
  16. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (ZfL)
    Die wandernden Grenzen der Biologie
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Projekt schließt an die bereits vorliegenden begriffsgeschichtlichen Untersuchungen im Historischen Wörterbuch der Biologie an; anders als in diesem Wörterbuch stehen aber nicht die biologischen Grundbegriffe im Mittelpunkt, sondern die...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and natural science,  Literature of the 19th century and 2 more
    Created on: 17.05.2019
  17. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA) / University of Lisbon
    Digital Map of Iberian Literary Relations (1870-1930)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Description By showcasting divers materials referring to Iberian literary relations (images, texts, secondary bibliography), this project aims at contributing both to the field of Iberian Studies, and to Digital Humanities in Portugal. This...

    Fields of research Spanish literature,  Portugese literature,  Digital Humanities and 2 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  18. Category: Research Units
    Institutions: Universität zu Köln,  Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
    Energie und Literatur
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die zentrale Prämisse des kulturwissenschaftlich und komparatistisch ausgerichteten, DFG-geförderten Forschungsnetzwerks Energie und Literatur ist, dass Energie und Literatur in einem produktiven, aber bisher unzureichend erforschten...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  Literature of the 19th century and 1 more
    Created on: 31.01.2024
  19. Category: Projects
    Epistemologische Moderne: zur Empirisierung von Natur und Kultur um 1830
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Projekt erforscht den fundamentalen Wandel im kulturellen Wissenssystem zwischen 1820 und 1850 und profiliert diese unterschätzte Epoche auf gänzlich neuartige Weise: Sie soll als epistemologische Moderne mit prägender Bedeutung für den...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 12.12.2018
  20. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) / University of Leuven
    Eugenic Women
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Eugenic Women is a subproject in the research programme Literary Knowledge (1890-1950): Modernisms and the Sciences in Europe . The project researches literature by German and British female authors who engaged in the widespread debate on...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 3 more
    Created on: 06.09.2019
  21. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (JGU)
    European Travel Writing in Context. The Socio-Political Dimension of Travelogues 1760-1850
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The project [...] investigates the thesis that travel writing is a fundamental medium in the process of the major political and social changes in Europe from the late 18th to the middle of the 19th century. In particular, the processes of the...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  travel literature,  Literature of the 18th century and 1 more
    Created on: 12.12.2018
  22. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Northumbria University
    Fashionable diseases: medicine, literature and culture, c. 1660–1832
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In the eighteenth century, as well as our own, certain diseases could be construed as endowing a sick person with some social or cultural cachet popularly associated with the illness. Melancholy could lend an air of creativity, gout could indicate...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 17th century,  Literature of the 18th century and 1 more
    Created on: 13.05.2019
  23. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom (DHI)
    Ferdinand Gregorovius: Poesie und Wissenschaft. Gesammelte deutsche und italienische Briefe
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Von Ferdinand Gregorovius haben sich trotz seiner Bemühungen, diesen Teil seines Nachlasses der Öffentlichkeit vorzuenthalten, mehr als 3000 Briefe erhalten, denen neben seinem historiographischen und schriftstellerischen Oeuvre eine außerordentliche...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 01.03.2021
  24. 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
  25. Category: Projects
    Institutions: University of Melbourne
    Gothic Fictions: Emotion, Contagion, and the Transformation of Experience in Modernity
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Gothic Fiction is the most important prose genre of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. Drawing on recent developments in cultural theory, this project is the first to study Gothic Fiction as a literary system, marked by its...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 18th century,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 27.05.2019