Projects
The stylistics of contrived simplicity (apheleia) in novelistic and biographical fiction: Xenophon of Ephesus and Xenophon of Athens' Cyropaedia Ghent University
This research project is positioned on the intersection of ancient novels and biographies, two extremely and cross-culturally influential genres from (late) Antiquity. It aims to address longstanding questions of the literary nature, background and readership by adopting an innovative approach: the analysis of the construction of apheleia in novelistic and biographical narrative.
The Living-On of Authors: Canonical Writers of Modernity Represented in Recent Biographical Novels KU Leuven
The Living On of Authors: Canonical Writers of Modernity Represented in Recent Biographical Novels
The object of this research is to chart two important phases in the evolution of author revival biofiction, the 1980s and the 1990s. Biofiction, the hybrid literary genre that transforms real historical lives into material for novels, has risen to unprecedented visibility around the turn of the 21st century, culminating ...
"An image of the actual": A rhetorical-ideological analysis of Victorian public discourse in Anthony Trollope's literary and biographical works. KU Leuven
Historical biography, hagiography and the marvelous in late medieval Egypt, Syria and France: a comparative study of the diachronic use of mirabilia in the biographical traditions of Baybars, Qalāwūn, al-Nāṣir Muḥammad and Louis IX. Ghent University
This research is a comparative study of the historical biographical traditions about the Mamluk sultans Baybars, Qalāwūn and al-Nāṣir Muḥammad and the French king Louis IX. A specific focus will be on the use of mirabilia, marvelous anecdotes somewhere in between fact, fiction and hagiography which figure prominently in the biographical traditionbs of all these monarchs.
The fictional life. A narratological-rhetorical approach to characterization and fictionality in the Greek biographers in the imperial period Ghent University
This research project aims at a formal description of fictionality in ancient sophists' and philosophers' biographies (that is, non-fiction with clearly fictional characteristics) from the imperial period (1st-4th cent. AD). Therefore it develops a narratological-rhetorical analysis of character construction. This project enhances our understanding of the formal specificity of fictional and non-fictional narrative literature.
Telling the I, telling the truth, telling in Italian hypermodernity. The interaction between writing on personal experience and essay in the first-person essay-novel Het ik vertellen, de waarheid vertellen, vertellen in de Italiaanse hypermoderniteit. De KU Leuven
My research is focused on hybrid forms of contemporary Italian narrative (see Palumbo Mosca 2014), and will more in particular address a set of discursive phenomena, consisting in the interaction between essayistic writing and different forms of autobiographical, biographical and diaristic writing that can be defined as typical of personal experience (Mazzoni 2011) and typical of the Self (Marchese 2014) with essaystic forms of writing Within ...
Broadcast Biographies. Innovations in Genre and Medium (1945- 2020) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
biographies from the period 1945-2020. After the Second World War,
Britain and Germany led the way in innovative biographical radio
productions that explored the relationship between fact and fiction,
text and sound. The project starts from the following hypotheses: (1)
that literary radio biographies remediate genre conventions
associated with ...