University or institution:
Universität Rostock
Fields of research:
Literature from North America;
Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland);
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Literary theory;
Interdisciplinarity;
Poetics;
Lyric poetry;
autobiography;
Aesthetics;
Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor)
Submitted by:
Krzysztof Traba
We look forward to academics who are interested in issues linked to the relation between myth and reality in the contemporary Arab World, textualization of political, philosophical, social and aesthetic concepts in literary texts, as well as...
Fields of research
Near Eastern literature,
Interdisciplinarity,
Literature and cultural studies
and 3 more
Created on:
26.11.2022
University or institution:
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Fields of research:
Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean);
French literature;
Digital Humanities;
Literary theory;
Deconstruction;
Postcolonial studies;
Media studies;
World Literature;
Literature and other forms of art;
Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology;
Literature and cultural studies;
Literature and philosophy;
Aesthetics;
Rhetoric;
Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor);
Theory of translation;
Literature of the 19th century;
Literature of the 20th century
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
The Eighth International Congress of the Portuguese Comparative Literature Association, “Intersecting perspectives: Representations of Epidemics in the Arts. From Catastrophe to Resilience”, organised by Universidade de Évora and Universidade da...
Fields of research
Literary historiography,
Literary theory,
Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology
and 4 more
Created on:
14.03.2022
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
27. Deutscher Germanistentag, Paderborn, 25.–28. September 2022 Panel im Themenbereich 1: Theoretische und methodische Zugänge Organisation: Dr. Yashar Mohagheghi (RWTH Aachen) und Dr. Christine Waldschmidt (RWTH Aachen) ...
Fields of research
Literary historiography,
Literary theory,
Poetics
and 4 more
Created on:
18.06.2021
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
The term “flyover country” has specifically US-American roots and has developed into a metaphorical condensation of several interrelated issues: a geographical image that suggests many (political, social, cultural) forms of marginalization; a...
Fields of research
Literature from North America,
Literary theory,
Literature and cultural studies
and 5 more
Created on:
24.09.2021
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Das Projekt untersucht die Literatur- und Wissensgeschichte der Parasiten vom ausgehenden 18. bis zum beginnenden 20. Jahrhundert. Heuristisch unterscheidet es dabei zwei Phasen: eine ‚organologische‘ Phase, in welcher der Parasitismus als die...
Fields of research
Literary historiography,
Postcolonial studies,
Narratology
and 5 more
Created on:
01.10.2021
University or institution:
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Fields of research:
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
French literature;
Digital Humanities;
Literary historiography;
Hermeneutics;
Structuralism;
New Criticism;
Reader-response criticism;
Media studies;
Oral poetry / Orality;
World Literature;
Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality;
Literature and law;
Literature and publishing/booktrade;
Literature and social and cultural anthropology;
Literature and media studies;
Poetics;
Literary genre;
Lyric poetry;
Elegy;
Sonett;
Epic poetry;
Prose;
Novel;
Narrative;
Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment);
autobiography;
travel literature;
Tragedy;
Domestic drama;
Folk literature;
Digital literature;
Aesthetics;
Rhetoric;
Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor);
Themes, motifs, thematology;
Translation;
Theory of translation;
Literature of the 17th century;
Literature of the 18th century;
Literature of the 19th century;
Literature of the 20th century
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Colloque organisé par François Géal et Touriya Fili-Tullon (Passages XX-XXI : EA 4160) à l’Université Lumière-Lyon 2 les jeudi et vendredi 19 et 20 octobre 2017 Depuis quelque temps, la métaphore semble susciter un véritable engouement...
Fields of research
Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor),
Translation,
Theory of translation
Created on:
12.12.2018
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Als eine der wichtigsten Metaphern der Kulturgeschichte ist die Tiefe eine hochambivalente Figur: Eng mit Konzepten von Erkenntnis, Substanz, Seele und emotionaler Echtheit verknüpft, ist sie zugleich Projektionsraum für das Dunkle, Irrationale und...
Fields of research
Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor)
Created on:
12.12.2018
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
[...] Eine starke Strömung innerhalb der Literaturwissenschaft setzt das Figurale, Metaphorische, Allegorische mit dem Literarischen schlechthin gleich. Für Harold Bloom, dessen Theorie der Dichtung als agonaler Traditionszusammenhang hier zu...
Fields of research
Literary theory,
Writtenness,
Literature and law
and 5 more
Created on:
12.12.2018
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Gegenwart / Literatur. Geschichte, Theorie und Praxeologie eines Verhältnisses DFG-Graduiertenkolleg (GRK 2291/0) Die wissenschaftliche Beschäftigung mit Gegenwartsliteratur hat Konjunktur. Die Frage, was Gegenwartsliteratur sei, wird...
Fields of research
Literary historiography,
Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor),
Themes, motifs, thematology
and 1 more
Created on:
12.12.2018
University or institution:
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Fields of research:
Textual criticism, editing, codicology;
Literary historiography;
Literary theory;
Hermeneutics;
Structuralism;
Poststructuralism;
Deconstruction;
Feminist studies;
Gender Studies/Queer Studies;
Oral poetry / Orality;
Writtenness;
World Literature;
Interdisciplinarity;
Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology;
Literature and sociology;
Literature and philosophy;
Literature and social and cultural anthropology;
Poetics;
Literary genre;
Prose;
Drama;
Aesthetics;
Rhetoric;
Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor);
Themes, motifs, thematology;
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
French literature;
Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.);
Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century);
Literature of the 18th century;
Literature of the 20th century
Submitted by:
Philipp Sperner
Mein Promotionsprojekt analysiert die Funktionsweisen der Metaphern der Freundschaft und Brüderlichkeit in der diskursiven Konstruktion politischer Gemeinschaftlichkeit. Im Fokus stehen dabei sowohl Texte der politischen Theorie als auch literarische...
Fields of research
South Asian literature,
Literary historiography,
Deconstruction
and 3 more
Created on:
16.06.2020
University or institution:
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
Fields of research:
South Asian literature;
Literary historiography;
Literary theory;
Deconstruction;
Feminist studies;
Gender Studies/Queer Studies;
Postcolonial studies;
World Literature;
Literature and cultural studies;
Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor)
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Die wissenschaftliche Beschäftigung mit Gegenwartsliteratur hat Konjunktur. Die Frage, was Gegenwartsliteratur sei, wird jedoch primär als Frage nach den Grenzen einer Epoche verstanden. Die Analyse des Gegenstands ‚Gegenwartsliteratur‘ in seiner...
Fields of research
Literary historiography,
Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor),
Themes, motifs, thematology
and 1 more
Created on:
12.12.2018
University or institution:
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Fields of research:
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
French literature;
Literature from Israel;
Literary theory;
Deconstruction;
Literature and theology/study of religions;
Poetics;
Aesthetics;
Rhetoric;
Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor);
Theory of translation;
Literature of the 19th century;
Literature of the 20th century
University or institution:
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (JGU)
Fields of research:
Literature from North America;
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Literature from UK and Ireland;
French literature;
Italian literature;
Spanish 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);
Literary historiography;
Literary theory;
World Literature;
Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality;
Interdisciplinarity;
Literature and law;
Poetics;
Lyric poetry;
Rhetoric;
Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor);
Translation;
Theory of translation;
Literature of the 19th century;
Literature of the 20th century
University or institution:
Technische Hochschule Köln (TH Köln)
Fields of research:
Literature from North America;
Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean);
Literature from the Benelux Countries;
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Literature from UK and Ireland;
Spanish literature;
Portugese literature;
Digital Humanities;
Didactics of Literature;
Literary theory;
Hermeneutics;
Structuralism;
Poststructuralism;
New Criticism;
Deconstruction;
New Historicism;
Reader-response criticism;
Media studies;
Narratology;
Oral poetry / Orality;
Writtenness;
World Literature;
Interdisciplinarity;
Literature and other forms of art;
Literature and sociology;
Literature and cultural studies;
Literature and publishing/booktrade;
Literature and visual studies;
Literature and pedagogy;
Literature and social and cultural anthropology;
Literature and media studies;
Game Studies;
Intermediality;
Poetics;
Literary genre;
Lyric poetry;
Prose;
Novel;
Novella;
Narrative;
Short prose;
Fairy tale/Literary fairy tale;
Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment);
Comic;
autobiography;
travel literature;
Letter;
Diary;
Drama;
Folk literature;
Children's and young adult literature;
Formula literature;
The fictional;
Aesthetics;
Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor);
Themes, motifs, thematology;
Translation;
Theory of translation;
Literature of the 19th century;
Literature of the 20th century
University or institution:
Universität Erfurt
Fields of research:
Literature from North America;
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Literature from UK and Ireland;
French literature;
Spanish literature;
Literary historiography;
Literary theory;
Ecocriticism;
Media studies;
Narratology;
World Literature;
Interdisciplinarity;
Literature and other forms of art;
Literature and cultural studies;
Literature and philosophy;
Intermediality;
Poetics;
Comic;
Digital literature;
The fictional;
Aesthetics;
Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor);
Themes, motifs, thematology;
Literature of the 18th century;
Literature of the 20th century
University or institution:
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Fields of research:
Literature from North America;
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);
Empirical Aesthetics;
Writtenness;
Literature and other forms of art;
Literature and cultural studies;
Literature and philosophy;
Literature and visual studies;
Literature and geography/cartography;
Intermediality;
Poetics;
Lyric poetry;
Epic poetry;
Prose;
Novel;
Novella;
Narrative;
Short prose;
Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment);
Essay;
Tragedy;
Aesthetics;
Rhetoric;
Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor);
Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.);
Literature of the 16th century;
Literature of the 18th century;
Literature of the 19th century;
Literature of the 20th century
University or institution:
Universität Osnabrück (UOS)
Fields of research:
Literature from UK and Ireland;
South Asian literature;
Literary historiography;
Postcolonial studies;
Literature and cultural studies;
Lyric poetry;
Epic poetry;
Prose;
Novel;
Fairy tale/Literary fairy tale;
autobiography;
travel literature;
Essay;
Drama;
Children's and young adult literature;
Digital literature;
Rhetoric;
Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor);
Themes, motifs, thematology;
Literature of the 16th century;
Literature of the 19th century;
Literature of the 20th century
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Ziel des Projektes ist die komparatistische Beschreibung und Analyse einer Gruppe von volkssprachigen Texten des Mittelalters, die durch folgende Merkmale miteinander verbunden sind: Sie sind Ich-Erzählungen, ihr Thema ist weltliche Minne, sie...
Fields of research
Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor),
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,
French literature
and 1 more
Created on:
12.12.2018
University or institution:
Universität Erfurt
Fields of research:
Literature from North America;
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Literature from UK and Ireland;
French literature;
Literary historiography;
Literary theory;
Hermeneutics;
Structuralism;
Poststructuralism;
New Criticism;
Deconstruction;
New Historicism;
Postcolonial studies;
Media studies;
Narratology;
Writtenness;
Interdisciplinarity;
Literature and other forms of art;
Literature and law;
Literature and cultural studies;
Literature and theology/study of religions;
Literature and philosophy;
Literature and visual studies;
Literature and music/sound studies;
Literature and media studies;
Intermediality;
Poetics;
Lyric poetry;
Novel;
Novella;
Narrative;
Short prose;
Non-fictional literature;
autobiography;
travel literature;
Essay;
Letter;
Diary;
Drama;
Digital literature;
The fictional;
Aesthetics;
Rhetoric;
Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor);
Translation;
Theory of translation;
Literature of the 17th century;
Literature of the 18th century;
Literature of the 19th century;
Literature of the 20th century
University or institution:
Purdue University
Fields of research:
Literature from North America;
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Literature from UK and Ireland;
French literature;
Literary historiography;
Literary theory;
Hermeneutics;
Poststructuralism;
New Historicism;
Reader-response criticism;
Ecocriticism;
Media studies;
Narratology;
Writtenness;
World Literature;
Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality;
Interdisciplinarity;
Literature and other forms of art;
Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology;
Literature and sociology;
Literature and cultural studies;
Literature and philosophy;
Literature and visual studies;
Literature and social and cultural anthropology;
Literature and natural science;
Literature and media studies;
Intermediality;
Poetics;
Literary genre;
Lyric poetry;
Ballad;
Elegy;
Sonett;
Other lyrical forms;
Prose;
Novel;
Novella;
Narrative;
Short prose;
Fairy tale/Literary fairy tale;
Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment);
Comic;
Non-fictional literature;
Drama;
The fictional;
Aesthetics;
Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor);
Theory of translation;
Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.);
Literature of the 18th century;
Literature of the 19th century;
Literature of the 20th century
