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"As German as Kafka". A comparative analysis of the articulation of national identity in German-Jewish Literature in the early 20th Century and German Literature of migration in the early 21st Century. KU Leuven

Anke Gilleir
German Literature, Leuven
This project aims at making a comparative analysis between German-Jewish literature of the early 20th century and literature of migration of the early 21st century. The central question is how these literatures deal with the issue of German national identity. Although the two historical periods differ in many ways, both the German Jews around the turn of the century as well as the 2nd and 3rd generation migrants in Germany nowadays are faced ...

Constrained. A Comparative Study of the Influence of Form on the Material Transmission of Middle Dutch Literature. University of Antwerp

Remco Sleiderink
Antwerp Centre for Digital humanities and literary Criticism (ACDC), Centre for Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics (CLiPS), Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN)
Recent international research increasingly focuses on the spread and survival of medieval literature. During the Middle Ages, the material transmission of texts depended entirely on the manual transcription of literature, granting texts a fluid character. This project will investigate which coping mechanisms helped to guarantee the sustainable exchange of information in textual cultures that are characterized by unstable transmission modes. An ...

The reception of Scandinavian Literature in the Netherlands and Flanders 1860-1940. A comparative Analysis of the role of Networks and the Impact of the Ethnolinguistic Discourse. Ghent University

Godelieve Laureys
Department of Literary Studies, Department of Linguistics, Department of Nordic studies

This research aims at mapping and analyzing the networks of Dutch and Flemish cultural transmitters who, between 1860 and 1940, had a particular interest in Scandinavian literature. The analysis is based on a model of Social Network Analysis that is designed specifically for cultural transfer. A contrastive Dutch-Flemish perspective makes it possible to bring up language ideology abd the ethnolinguistic discourse.

Evaluation of literature by professional and layperson critics: A digital and literary sociological analysis of evaluative talk of literature through the prism of literary prizes (2007-2017) Ghent University

Gunther Martens
Department of Literary Studies, Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication, Department of Sociology

Recently, the manager of a Dutch publishing consortium manager stated that literary quality should
be measured and predicted by means of algorithms and big data-based audience research, rather
than by experts. His claim drew ire and caused the exodus of many of established authors; at the
same time, the statement is indicative of a broader societal trend in which the knowledge of
professional 'pundits' is rivalled and ...

Legal culture and language: a study of the linguisticdiscursive aspects of contract law in France, Germany and England from a comparative and historical perspective Ghent University

Dirk Heirbaut, Mark Van Hoecke
Department of Interdisciplinary Study of Law, Private Law and Business Law, Department of Legal theory and legal history

Comparative law has always been a kind of umbrella concept encompassing different
activities with diverse underlying motives and goals and to that extent, methodological
pluralism is part and parcel of comparative law. In the context of approximation/harmonization initiatives (e.g. EU), scholars in comparative contract law have tended to adopt a (not well elaborated) functionalist approach and limited their research to a mainly ...

Language and Literature Teaching in the Sixteenth Century: Vergil and Homer at the Leuven Collegium Trilingue KU Leuven

Raf Van Rooy, Pierre Van Hecke, Jan Papy
Comparative, Historical and Applied Linguistics, Leuven, Research Unit of Biblical Studies, Latin Literature, Leuven

During the Renaissance, humanist thought provoked great changes in school curricula across Europe. Latin and Greek language and literature were taught in a new way, classical writers were read in a different fashion. Whereas these new humanist pedagogical practices have been studied in some detail on a general level, especially with regard to Italy, they remain almost unstudied for the Southern Low Countries. For this reason I envisage to ...

Multilingualism, translation and minor languages in contemporary world literature KU Leuven

Ortwin de Graef
English Literature, Leuven, Translation and Intercultural Transfer, Brussels Campus

Since its emergence in the 18th century, monolingualism has had a strong impact on literature and culture. Despite its avowed global perspective, world literature still leans towards monolingualism. Not only does it focus on writers who write in major languages, while peripheral regions and minor languages are off the map, but it also favours monolingual works. Multilingual texts are often considered untranslatable or incomprehensible, which ...

Literature that bypassed the censor! The alternative literary circuit in Antwerp at the end of the seventeenth century. University of Antwerp

Hubert Meeus
Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN)
The proposed research project is an investigation into the characteristic features and functions of the texts in Het Mengelmoes. The research objective is to offer a first reference framework for the censor-unapproved, alternative literature from the seventeenth-century Southern Low Countries. Therefore, I will analyze the texts in their historical context and compare the texts and genres in Het Mengelmoes with censor-approved texts from ...

Literature that bypassed the censor! The alternative literary circuit in Antwerp at the end of the seventeenth century. University of Antwerp

Hubert Meeus
Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN)
The proposed research project is an investigation into the characteristic features and functions of the texts in Het Mengelmoes. The research objective is to offer a first reference framework for the censor-unapproved, alternative literature from the seventeenth-century Southern Low Countries. Therefore, I will analyze the texts in their historical context and compare the texts and genres in Het Mengelmoes with censor-approved texts from ...

Waking Prithviraj: the subversive poetics of the past in North Indian historical literature Ghent University

Eva De Clercq
Department of Languages and Cultures

Complementing and challenging a dominant historiographical and socio-political mode of textual analysis, this project offers a first and much-needed literary/aesthetic reappraisal of an important Sanskrit historical epic poem, JayanakaU+2019s long-neglected Prthvirajavijaya U+201CPrithvirajU+2019s VictoryU+201D (1192-3). This epic stands at the beginning of a long and ongoing tradition of heroic and unheroic retellings about the (in)famous ...