Projects
Documentary literature 3.0. The document as representational strategy in German literature after 2000 Ghent University
The project aims to show that the third generation of documentary writers differs from the documentary avantgarde (Tretjakov, Brecht, Kraus) and the politicized documentary literature of the '60s (Enzensberger, Walraff) through specific representational strategies. These strategies are geared at audience participation and immersion rather than critique of ideology. Documentary literature 3.0. nstills the spectator/reader with an unsettling ...
Cultural policy, international publishers and the circulation of Dutch literature in translation KU Leuven
Cultural policy, international publishers and the circulation of Dutch literature in translation KU Leuven
This project seeks to offer new insight into how literature from Flanders and the Netherlands finds its way to international publishers. It focuses particular attention on the two most important target markets for Dutch literature in translation: the German-language market and the English-language market. Previous exploratory research by the promoter of this project has shown that the national funding agencies that formulate and deploy the ...
What was antiquarian literature in Greek antiquity? Collection of the fragments of Aristotle's Politeiai for 'FGrHist IV' with translation, commentary and syntheses KU Leuven
On titles and chapters. Investigations into the nature of patristic and Byzantine literature. KU Leuven
Learning to read. Reading to learn. The pedagogy of literature (1800-now). KU Leuven
Reading Between the Lines: Uncovering the Subtext of Literature on Death in Imperial Rome KU Leuven
Growing Scientists. STEM-representations, identity construction and active citizenship in fictional and nonfictional children's literature. University of Antwerp
The author as reader. The poetics of Vladimir Nabokov's Lectures on Literature Ghent University
The project aims for an analysis of the poetical system that grounds Vladimir Nabokov's Lectures on Literature, the classes on world literature which the author taught between 1941 and 1959 at the universities of Wellesley and Cornell. The central focus of the analysis lies with the interaction between the components author, reader and the autonomy of the literary text.