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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

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 ...

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 ...

Outsider literature in Belgium, 1968-2008. A polysystemic analysis. KU Leuven

Dirk De Geest

Dutch Literature, Leuven, Literary Theory and Cultural Studies, Leuven

The central question in this research project is the following: how wasliterature written by authors who are said to be mad outsider literature spoken about in the second half of the twentieth century in Dutch and French literary discourse? Which are the discursive conditions that enable the fact that we can speak (in a specific way) about outsider literature? With this research project, I attempt to analyze the attitude towards madness, as a ...

Living texts. Historiography and literature in the early Byzantine Period Ghent University

Peter Van Nuffelen

Department of History

The project draws attention to a specific phenomenon of Early Byzantine historiography, namely that many histories were repeatedly and thoroughly reworked by copyists or other authors and still continued to circulate under the name of their first author as if they were the unchanged work of that author, and uses this as a lense to assess how the use of the modern notion of U+2018literatureU+2019 distorts our understanding of these texts.

On the crossroads of literature and science. The essayist and the scientific field in Huxley, Ortega y Gasset and KU Leuven

David Martens

Literary Studies Research Unit, French, Italian and Spanish Literature, Kulak Kortrijk Campus, French, Italian and Spanish Literature, Leuven

The general aim of this thesis is to provide a study of the interdiscursive relations (Maingueneau 2004) between literature and science during the period of 1900-1950. More specifically we will study these interactions within the essayistic work of three writers – Paul Valéry (1871-1945), José Ortega y Gasset (1873-1955) and Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) – whose fascination with science has often been analyzed in the past (Robinson-Valéry 1983; ...

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 ...

Biofictions of Border-Crossing: A World Literature for Outsiders KU Leuven

Ortwin de Graef

English Literature, Leuven

Following recent developments in the growing field of biofiction studies, this project analyses biographical novels with a social justice component from the perspective of World Literature. The selected corpus includes recent novels set in all continents and in various historical periods, allowing me to map the world-span of contemporary biofiction and its figuration of the dimension of deep time. While all these texts thematize ...

The translation and intermedial adaptation of multimodal children's literature. University of Antwerp

Vanessa Joosen

Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies (TricS), Antwerp Centre for Digital humanities and literary Criticism (ACDC)

This project proposes an interdisciplinary research in the fields of children's literature studies and translation studies. It aims to get a better understanding of multimodal children's literature in translation and intermedial adaptations in three languages. More specifically, Maureen Hosay wants to study how modes and media are combined in different versions, ranging from conventional interlingual translations to multimodal and intermedial ...

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 ...

The Measure of Middle Dutch: Rhythm and Prosody Reconstruction for Middle Dutch Literature, A Data-Driven Approach. University of Antwerp

Frank Willaert

Centre for Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics (CLiPS), Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN)

What does it mean when the rhythm of a literary text is called 'snappy' or 'fluid'? And what are the characteristics of literature that is 'easily engraved on one's mind'? The rhythmical qualities of literature are often described on an intuitive basis, while using vague terms. This is especially true for Middle Dutch literature. The many rhymed texts of our literary history's earliest stages frequently receive labels like these. However, it ...

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