Projects
The Handmaiden’s Balancing Act? The (Re)Presentation of East European Literatures in Weltliteraturgeschichte and Younger ‘World Literary History’ Ghent University
In 1877 the Austro-Hungarian Hugó Meltzl warned his colleagues: “As every unbiased man of letters knows, modern literary history, as generally practiced today, is nothing but an ancilla historiae politicae [‘handmaiden of political history’]”. At the time, Europe was dominated by the five powers of the ‘Vienna System’ (after the 1815 Congress of Vienna): England, France, Prussia, Austria and Russia, whose respective ‘national’ languages, ...
The presence of U+201CletteredU+201D memory and the literary history of the present in the U+201Ccabinets des lettrésU+201D of contemporary French literature Ghent University
Academic approaches of the narrative prose of contemporary French authors such as Quignard, Macé, Michon, Bergounioux and Puech usually stress the erudition of these writers, highlighting their continued interaction with the (French) literary tradition and the critical-theoretical canon. Via textual as well as contextual analysis, this research aims to determine to what extent the writers themselves consent and/or conform to this particular ...
Italian Literary Anthologies of the 20th Century as a Vehicle for Literary Change. KU Leuven
This research project offers an original contribution to the ongoing debate on literary history and to the many attempts to rethink literature and history within a broader framework. What makes the anthology particularly relevant for the study of literary change, is that it embodies contradictions. Due to its highly hybrid character, it is both essential and superficial,comprehensive and fragmentary, it is a mediator between author- and text ...
The reception of the English novel in the Italian literary press between 1700 and 1830: a transcultural enquiry into the early shaping of the modern Italian literary and cultural identity Vrije Universiteit Brussel
« C’est une sorte de tirage que le tirage de la voix » of Het literaire interview: tussenliterair discours en massmedia.Een genre-onderzoek (Franse pers en radio, 1891-1968) « C’est une sorte de tirage que le tirage de la voix » or The Literary Interview: KU Leuven
The research focuses on the figure of the writer when he is interviewed. In the newspaper, at the end of the 19th century in France, and on the radio, from the 1920s on, people of letters express themselves in a dialogue with a representative of the media. The writer, just like the journalist, finds himself at the crossroads of media and literary discourses.
In the line of discourse analysis, the thesis considers the writer's ...
Facing Diversity. Representations of Early Modern Learned Women Writers and the Construction of intellectual and literary authority (1500-1850) KU Leuven
The prototypical image of the learned has long been that of a man. This project reveals a different lineage. It investigates female representations of intellectual and literary authority at the dawn of modern science in the early modern era, systematically analyzing printed textual and visual portraits of women writers as agents of public authority. In traditional historiography on women’s contributions to the early modern European ...
Poetry from the Margins. Literary, Philological, minguistic and historical analysis of a new corpus of byzantine Book Epigrams (800-1453) Ghent University
Literary, linguistic and historical analysis of a corpus of book epigrams from medieval Greek manuscripts. Unknown texts will be published with a commentary, both in paper version and on-line. The analysis will shed new light on the literary aesthetics of the Byzantine period, the evolution of medieval Greek language, orthography and verse forms, and the socio-historical context of the emergence of books and manuscripts.
Revealing Female Participation in Literary Culture: Construction of an Online Database of Manuscripts Related to Women in the Low Countries (c. 1250–1600). University of Antwerp
Factory literary heritage. Study collections of biographical essays illustrated in France (1944-2000). KU Leuven
This project seeks to provide both a historical study and a theoretical analysis of five collections of illustrated biographies of writers published in France between the post-war period and the present (1944-2013) – “Poètes d’aujourd’hui” (Seghers), “Écrivains de toujours” (Seuil), “Albums Pléiade” (Gallimard), “Les Géants” (Paris-Match) and “Les Contemporains” (Seuil). The project will focus on the functions of these collections in the ...