Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Das Forschungsprojekt untersucht ästhetische Zeitkonzepte der österreichischen Moderne, die gemäß der leitenden Arbeitshypothese in den »großen« Gattungen von Drama, Oper und Roman ihren deutlichsten Ausdruck finden. Ziel des Projekts ist es, ein...
Fields of research
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,
Literary theory,
Literature and cultural studies
and 3 more
Created on:
17.05.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Das Projekt erforscht, in welchem Masse im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert Zeitindikatoren in textuellen wie visuellen Formen zunehmen, inwiefern Zeitsemantiken eine immer grössere Rolle spielen, wie Zeit in ihren multiplen Schattierungen und...
Fields of research
Media studies,
Narratology,
Lyric poetry
and 5 more
Created on:
24.05.2019
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
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
How are we to understand the fact that the turbulent decades when France lost its empire coincided with a formal turn in French literature and literary theory? Perhaps by way of Jacques Rancière’s notion of the politics of literature as being...
Fields of research
World Literature,
Novel
Created on:
03.06.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Louise Nilsson's project within the research program Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures addresses the values of places depicted in literature. Seeing that the contemporary genre of Nordic crime fiction is a globally...
Fields of research
World Literature,
Novel
Created on:
03.06.2019
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
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
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Ausgehend von dem interphilologischen Sinergia-Projekt des Schweizer Nationalfonds zur «Poetik und Ästhetik des Staunens» behandelt mein Dissertationsprojekt die Gattungs- und Formgenese des Romans im Verhältnis zu kurzen Erzählformen des 18....
Fields of research
Poetics,
Novel,
Narrative
and 2 more
Created on:
07.06.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
The novel is today the most popular literary genre worldwide. Its early history has not been written yet. The research team Novel Saints aims to enhance our understanding of this history (both conceptually and cross-culturally) by studying both ...
Fields of research
Novel,
Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.),
Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century)
Created on:
17.06.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
This project offers the first comprehensive reconstruction and interpretation of receptions of ancient novels (1st-4th cent. AD) in (Greek, Arabic and western vernacular) secular narrative from Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Novel Echoes...
Fields of research
Narratology,
Literature and theology/study of religions,
Novel
and 3 more
Created on:
17.06.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
The novel is today the most popular literary genre worldwide. Its early history has not been written yet. In order to enhance our understanding of this history (both conceptually and cross-culturally), this project offers the first comprehensive...
Fields of research
Novel,
Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.),
Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century)
Created on:
17.06.2019
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
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
While the ancient Greek novels have been shown to absorb preceding Greek and eastern traditions, not much systematic attention has been paid to how they use, address or confront preceding Latin traditions. This project is designed to fill this gap, a...
Fields of research
Novel,
Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.)
Created on:
17.06.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
The Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University (Belgium) is seeking well-qualified applicants for two fully-funded and full-time doctoral research fellowships attached to the European Research Council Consolidator Grant project Novel...
Fields of research
Novel,
The fictional,
Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.)
and 1 more
Created on:
17.06.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
My research project seeks to examine the ways in which the contemporary speculative fiction writer Neil Gaiman (1960-) constantly reconfigures his own oeuvre (including novels, short stories, comics, graphic novels, illustrated books, TV series,...
Fields of research
Literature from UK and Ireland,
Literature and media studies,
Lyric poetry
and 8 more
Created on:
17.06.2019
University or institution:
San Francisco State University (SFSU)
Fields of research:
Literature from North America;
Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean);
Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland);
Literature from the Benelux Countries;
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Literature from UK and Ireland;
French literature;
Italian literature;
Spanish literature;
Portugese literature;
Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine);
Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary);
South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey);
North African literature;
Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa;
Literature from Israel;
Near Eastern literature;
East Asian literature;
South Asian literature;
Textual criticism, editing, codicology;
Didactics of Literature;
Literary historiography;
Literary theory;
Hermeneutics;
Structuralism;
Poststructuralism;
New Criticism;
Deconstruction;
New Historicism;
Empirical Aesthetics;
Reader-response criticism;
Feminist studies;
Gender Studies/Queer Studies;
Postcolonial studies;
Narratology;
Oral poetry / Orality;
World Literature;
Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality;
Interdisciplinarity;
Literature and other forms of art;
Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology;
Literature and law;
Literature and cultural studies;
Literature and theology/study of religions;
Literature and philosophy;
Game Studies;
Intermediality;
Poetics;
Literary genre;
Prose;
Novel;
Narrative
University or institution:
Fachhochschule für Sprachen
Fields of research:
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Literary historiography;
Novel;
Translation
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Im Gegensatz zu literarischen Formen, die über normative Regelpoetiken beschreibbar werden, entzieht sich der Roman einer Übereinstimmung (im Sinne einer Selbstidentität) mit solchen Poetiken. Insofern der Roman in seiner Nichtgegebenheit als Gattung...
Fields of research
Literary genre,
Novel
Created on:
22.07.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
The Novel Echoes project is a new ERC-funded research project at Ghent University (Belgium), which researches the reception of the ancient novel in medieval secular literature. We are delighted to advertise two three-year full-time postdoctoral...
Fields of research
Digital Humanities,
Novel,
Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century)
Created on:
09.08.2019
University or institution:
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (JLU);
Technische Universität Dresden (TUD)
Fields of research:
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine);
South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey);
Literary theory;
Postcolonial studies;
World Literature;
Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality;
Interdisciplinarity;
Literature and other forms of art;
Literature and cultural studies;
Prose;
Novel;
travel literature;
Essay;
Translation;
Theory of translation;
Literature of the 20th century;
Literature of the 21st century
Submitted by:
Fatima Borrmann
May 18-19, 2020 MDRN First keynote speaker: Prof. Angelique Richardson (University of Exeter). Second keynote speaker to be announced later. During the late 19th and early 20th century evolutionary theory and new...
Fields of research
Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,
Literature from UK and Ireland
and 9 more
Created on:
17.10.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Leipziger Literaturwissenschaftliches Colloquium (LLC) Programm für das Wintersemester 2019/2020 Das Leipziger Literaturwissenschaftliche Colloquium (LLC) ist eine am Institut für Germanistik der Universität Leipzig angesiedelte...
Fields of research
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,
Literature and cultural studies,
Novel
and 1 more
Created on:
25.10.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
The ancient novels are populated not just by people but also by objects. While individual studies, particularly on ekphrasis , have examined some of the uses of physical objects in ancient novels (Bartsch 1989; Holzmeister 2014) or the depiction...
Fields of research
Literature and cultural studies,
Novel,
Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.)
Created on:
28.10.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
The financial and economic collapse in 2007/2008 has increased the interest for the literary reflection on economic crises and their social consequences. This project takes this contemporary sensibility and the ways in which it is reflected in...
Fields of research
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,
Poetics,
Novel
and 1 more
Created on:
28.10.2019
University or institution:
Julius Maximilians Universität Würzburg
Fields of research:
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
French literature;
Italian literature;
Textual criticism, editing, codicology;
Digital Humanities;
Literary historiography;
Literary theory;
Narratology;
Literature and other forms of art;
Literary genre;
Novel;
Drama;
Comedy
