Projects
Psalter Exegesis in the 'Macedonian Renaissance': the Catena of Paris. gr. 139. KU Leuven
Crossing art-borders: a consideration of Walter Pater's Anders-streben and its relation to modern and contemporary (theory of) art Ghent University
The English writer Walter Pater (1839-1894) uses the term Anders-streben (in his work The Renaissance), of which a thorough study is lacking in current literature. My aim is to provide an explanation and overview of Anders-streben within Pater’s oeuvre and show how the term is relevant to this day by examining parallel 20th- and 21st-century concepts applied in art (theory).
U+201CA socio-literary rebirth of classical tragedy after NietzscheU+201D. A poetical receptionstudy of the social integration of a U+2018classicalU+2019 tragic condition in German literary and dramatic texts at the beginning of the 20th-c Ghent University
This project aims to investigate the reception of the material, language- and formstructures of classical tragedy in the dramatic poetical works of the German author Paul Ernst (1866-1933). As a reaction on the contemporary society and inspired by Nietzsche, he engaged his works to create an artistic and social U+2018renaissanceU+2019 of a U+2018tragic conditionU+2019.
Giordano Bruno's Imagination: Art of Memory between magic and Science Ghent University
By a study of Giordano Bruno's art of memory, influenced by his magic, the prominent position of Bruno's imagination is exposed. After the brunian imagination is discussed throughout his memotechnical, magical and philosophical work, it will be placed in a broader context of history of science, to enlarge our vision of the transition period between aristotelian physics and modern science.