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  1. 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
  2. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA) / University of Lisbon
    TECOP. Texts and Contexts of Portuguese Orientalism - The International Congresses of Orientalists (1873-1973)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The TECOP project focuses on the study of Portuguese Orientalism within a comparative and interdisciplinary framework. It seeks to give visibility to the Portuguese orientalists taking part in the International Congresses of Orientalists and to...

    Fields of research Portugese literature,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 19th century and 1 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  3. 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
  4. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Lunds Universitet / Lund University
    Literature as Event and Action: The Performativity of Literature in Sweden 1800 - 2008
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    When Selma Lagerlöf appears in front of an audience to read from her work, the capacity of the literary text for interacting with and affecting its receivers is manifested. This is literature in the form of action and it is most clearly manifested in...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature of the 19th century,  Literature of the 20th century and 1 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  5. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB)
    Der Krake. Zur Aktualität eines Globalisierungs-Monsters
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Als die Süddeutsche Zeitung im Januar 2014 eine Karikatur veröffentlicht, die das Antlitz des jüdischstämmigen Facebook-Gründers Mark Zuckerberg zeigt, gibt es einen handfesten Skandal. Auf der Karikatur ist das Antlitz Zuckerbergs als monströser...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology,  Literature of the 20th century and 1 more
    Created on: 31.05.2019
  6. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Hamburg (UH)
    Von Grauen und Glamour: Zeitgenössische Repräsentationen des Holocaust in den USA und Deutschland
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Mitte der 1990er-Jahre entstanden in den USA wie in Europa eine Reihe heftig umstrittener, provozierender Kunstwerke, die den Holocaust auf ganz neue Art zum Thema machten: als Film, als Komödie, als Karikatur. Dies wurde gerade in Deutschland als...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and other forms of art and 3 more
    Created on: 31.05.2019
  7. Category: Research Units
    Institutions: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3
    Literary Organisms. La littérature des 20e et 21e siècles, entre esthétique et biologie
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Fondé en 2012 au sein du département d’études anglophones de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, le groupe [Science+Littérature] vise à élucider les relations entre les sciences du vivant (biologie, écologie, neurosciences) et la littérature des XX e et XXI e ...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and natural science,  Literature of the 20th century and 1 more
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  8. Category: Projects
    Institutions: University of Plymouth
    Imagining Alternatives: Utopia, Community and the Novel, 1880-2015
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project explores how the novel has been used since the late nineteenth century to imagine better forms of community, and the problems and opportunities revealed by such attempts. Insights from this research are employed with local communities,...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Novel,  Literature of the 19th century and 2 more
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  9. Category: Projects
    Institutions: University of Birmingham
    Narrativising Dinosaurs: Science and Popular Culture from 1850 to the Present
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Encountering dinosaurs is a routine experience for most of us. They tower over us in museums, entertain us in books and films, and peer out at us from our cereal boxes. Though increasingly well-understood from a scientific standpoint, dinosaurs are...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and natural science and 3 more
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  10. Category: Projects
    Institutions: University of Sheffield
    Literature, Psychoanalysis and the Death Penalty, 1900-1950
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The key aim of this project is to examine how the cultural and ethical power of literature offered early twentieth-century readers opportunities for thinking through capital punishment in the UK, Ireland and the US in the period between 1900 and...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  11. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Nottingham Trent University
    Crossed Wires: Literature and Telephony
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In a letter to Paul Auster, J.M. Coetzee (2013) argues that the mobile phone creates significant structural difficulties for the writer: 'If people ... are continually going to be speaking to one another at a distance, then a whole gamut of...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 20th century,  Literature of the 21st century
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  12. 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
  13. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    'Nuclear Afterlives'
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This research project, tentatively titled ‘Nuclear Afterlives’, examines the complex and conflicting residues of nuclear contamination, and some of nonhuman harborers of these residues. Following Sperling’s first book project on weird embodiment in...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy,  Literature of the 20th century and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  14. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Södertörn University Stockholm
    The voice of conscience; Shakespeare, imagination and judgment
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The idea that we may be beset by an inner voice of conscience has been negotiated in philosophy and literature over the centuries. This book project, which builds on articles and lectures written by myself during the last few years, offers a new...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  15. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Södertörn University Stockholm
    Nabokov´s Spine
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    During his tenure at Cornell, Vladimir Nabokov liked to exclaim: “Let us worship the spine!” Setting out from this exhortation, the study considers his œuvre in a dual regard, encompassing both the “spine-thrill of delight” that the reader should...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Themes, motifs, thematology,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Göteborgs universitet / University of Gothenburg
    Cosmopolitan Ideals and National Literatures in Early 20th Century Sweden, Finland and Estonia
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Katarina Leppänen's project "Cosmopolitan Ideals and National Literatures in Early 20th Century Sweden, Finland and Estonia" engages in a region that has been largely invisible, and thus undertheorised, in contemporary research on transnational...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  World Literature and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  19. 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
  20. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Södertörn University Stockholm
    Tell the West: Witness Literature from the Gulag Archipelago 1925-2012
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The aim of my investigation is to examine Gulag memoirs in their double role as, on one hand, historical testimony and, on the other, literature. My theoretical framework is a phenomenological understanding of literature, experience and reality. My...

    Fields of research Literature of the 20th century,  Literature of the 21st century
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  21. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Freie Universität Berlin
    Wenn der Rahmen zum Thema wird. Das Spiel mit den Grenzen ästhetischer Wahrnehmung in den Künsten des 20. Jahrhunderts
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ausgangspunkt des Forschungsprojekts ist, dass die Rahmung - ungeachtet der verbreiteten Rede vom >bloßen< Beiwerk im Unterschied zum >eigentlichen< Kunstwerk - die unverzichtbare Voraussetzung der Konstitution eines jeden Werks bildet. Innerhalb des...

    Fields of research Literature and other forms of art,  Aesthetics,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 31.05.2019
  22. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
    Odyssean Travels: A Literary History of Modern Memory
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The "Odyssey" is one of the best-remembered stories in world literature and world history. This 'old' story has been used across almost three millennia, again and again, as a resource to tell new stories, and to represent a broad spectrum of very...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 19th century,  Literature of the 20th century and 1 more
    Created on: 31.05.2019
  23. 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
  24. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (ZfL)
    ›Total Strangers‹? Die Figur des Autisten in Wissenschaft und Literatur
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    utismus – so nannte der Psychiater Eugen Bleuler 1910 ein Symptom der Schizophrenie. Seit den 1940er Jahren bezeichnet Autismus ein eigenständiges Syndrom bei Kindern. Sein Konnex zum Wahnsinn löste sich nur allmählich. Heute wird Autismus als...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology,  Literature of the 20th century and 1 more
    Created on: 17.05.2019
  25. 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