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Dutch Experimental Realism of the 1960s - Reading Documentary Literature through Autobiographical Genres Vrije Universiteit Brussel

This project aims to give an overview of the Dutch documentary literature of the 1960s. During this period various authors introduced reality in their work in a non-traditional way, pursuing an experimental realism. In order to approach this subject matter in a way that will contribute to both the understanding of Dutch literary history and documentary literature on an international level, I will study how readers are able to understand the ...

SEL - Experimental Study Literature Ghent University

Lars Bernaerts

Department of Literary Studies, Department of Dutch literature

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In defense of the Russian langauge. Discussions on linguistic experimentation in literature in the Russian émigré community (1917-1939) Ghent University

Thomas Langerak

Department of Languages and Cultures, Department of Slavonic and East-European studies

The proposed research project seeks to examine why during the interwar period linguistic experiments in Russian literature were perceived negatively by the Russian émigré communities in Europe and were replaced by a general preference for the normative language of the Russian classics of the 19th century. Interdisciplinary in scope, the project builds on literary history, literary linguistics, and philosophy of language.

Constructing Adolescent Minds in Experimental Fiction for Young Readers: A Genetic Approach to Aidan Chambers' Dance series. University of Antwerp

Vanessa Joosen

Antwerp Centre for Digital humanities and literary Criticism (ACDC)

Since the late 1960s, children's literature studies has developed into a vibrant field of research that unites literary, social and educational approaches to books for young readers (including fiction for adolescents). Over the same period, genetic criticism has grown into an area of study that surpasses traditional philology and text-critical analysis, focusing on the so-called avant-texte (documents preceding the publication of a literary ...

Surrealism and the "Arbitrariness" of Metaphor. A Cognitive Approach to the Poetry of Two Experimental Generations of Flemish Poets Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Hans Vandevoorde

Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Language and literature

Different so-called experimental and postexperimental poets working in Flanders in the 1950s and 1960s and beyond have admitted being well acquainted with surrealism. Despite the apparent link between (post)experimental poetry in Flanders and surrealism, not much research has been devoted to this subject. This project therefore aims to investigate which Flemish poets can be said to incorporate surrealist elements in their oevres, and how they ...

A clinical-neurolinguistic and experimental fMRI study of the modulating role of the cerebellum in writing processes Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Wim Vandenbussche, Peter Marien

Linguistics and Literary Studies, Centre for Linguistics, Language and literature

Clinical-neurolinguistic and experimental fMRI study of the modulating role of the cerebellum in writing processes

The Experimental Economics of Parenting: Evidence from Rural China KU Leuven

Johan Swinnen

LICOS - Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, Research Centre of Development Economics, Leuven

Early childhood—the period in utero to age five when neural and behavioral plasticity is highest—is a sensitive and critical period for skill development. Exposure to environmental risk factors (e.g., malnutrition or a lack of cognitive stimulation) during this early stage of life may lead to large inequalities in the opportunity for human development. An estimated 250 million (or 43%) of the children below the age of five in low- and ...

Unstable Subjectivities in British Post-War Experimental Women's Writing (USEWW) Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Hannah Van Hove

Linguistics and Literary Studies

USEWW examines in what ways and to what effects human subjectivity is represented in the fiction of experimental British women novelists between 1945 and 1975. Aiming to help redress the invisibility of post-war experimental women writers in the British canon, this project counters
overviews of the period which either largely ignored experimental writing or, alternatively, posited
B. S. Johnson as Britain's post-war 'one-man literary ...

The Perfect Number Six: Comprehensively Analyzing Data obtained from Single-Case Experimental Designs KU Leuven

Patrick Onghena

Methodology of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Kulak Kortrijk Campus

The aim of this PhD project is to provide comprehensive analytical techniques to analyze data obtained from single-case experimental designs. The development of an effect size measure to assess the consistency of data patterns from similar phases in single-case phase designs is a first step to this end. Furthermore, we show how various effect size measures can be incorporate into a comprehensive approach for testing the significance of each ...

The role of motivating coaching in youth sport: A cross-sectional and experimental study Ghent University

Maarten Vansteenkiste

Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology

By combining two dominant motivational frameworks in the sport literature (i.e., Achievement Goal Approach and Self-Determination Theory) the doctoral project seeks to provide more refined insights in the motivational functioning of athletes. Further, as the motivating impact of youth coaches is mostly described as a rather static characteristic, the project extents this by adopting a more dynamic perspective on coaching.

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