Projects
Piety, Poverty, and Politics: The Dynamics of Vincentian Charity in Modern Belgium (1830-1945) KU Leuven
The act of voluntary giving to those in need has been an enduring facet of human history. In the Catholic tradition, benevolence is intrinsically associated with the virtue of charity, prescribing not only the dispensation of alms but also the internalization of love for the other out of love for God within the believer’s disposition. Charity moreover served as an important source of social assistance for those facing poverty, preserving this ...
Towards a “post-lyric” poetry? The “narrative turn” in Italian poetry between 1955 and 1975. KU Leuven
In his 1956 essay La posizione, published in the literary journal «Officina», Pier Paolo Pasolini raised the necessity of “adjusting […] the periscope to the horizon, the immense horizon of phenomena” as an instrument of literary criticism capable of overcoming what he perceived to be the “posizionalismo” or perspectivistic stance of communism towards literature and the arts. When put in a broader perspective, though, the ...
Performed Poetry, Exhibited Poetry. University of Antwerp
Postcolonial Mnemopoetics: Reading the Poetry of Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, Ingrid de Kok, Sherman Alexie, and Bemardine Evaristo Through the Lens of Transnational Memory Studies Ghent University
Aiming to fill a methodological gap in cultural memory studies with regard to poetrYr this project maps out the transnational dimensions of cultural memory in the work of five postcolonial poets. It engages with the poets' transborder comparative imaginary and scrutinizes their reception r their repurposing of traditional poetic forms, and their dialogues with visual art.
Science and poetry of tears: De lacrymis by Pierre Petit (1617-1687) KU Leuven
SUMMARY PHD-PROJECT G.M.P. LOOTS
Science and poetry of tears: De lacrymis by Pierre Petit (1617-1678)
Supervisors: Prof. dr. T. van Houdt (University of Leuven) and Prof. dr. H.F.J. Horstmanshoff (Emeritus professor Leiden University)
The project is concerned with an investigation into the content and context of the book De lacrymis by the French author ...
Towards a model for humour in nineteenth-century poetry - A conceptual study and an analysis of a growing subjectivity Vrije Universiteit Brussel
David, our Orpheus: Reception, Rewritings and Adaptations of the Psalms in Byzantine Poetry. Ghent University
The Psalms, being an important corpus of biblical poetic texts, have influenced the entire history of
European literature and religious culture. Early Christian and Byzantine readers recognized the
poetical features of the Psalms, and psalmody (i.e. the practice of singing the Psalms in divine
worship) was a typical exercise of monastic life. The proposed research will analyze how the Greek
Psalms ...
The documentary paradigma in modern descriptive poetry (1900-1950). KU Leuven
David, our Orpheus: Reception, Rewritings and Adaptations of the Psalms in Byzantine Poetry. Ghent University
The Psalms, being an important corpus of biblical poetic texts, have influenced the entire history of European literature and religious culture. Early Christian and Byzantine readers recognized the poetical features of the Psalms, and psalmody (i.e. the practice of singing the Psalms in divine worship) was a typical exercise of monastic life. The proposed research will analyze how the Greek Psalms are reflected in various kinds of late ...