Projects
The literary representation of the economic in the German novel, 1855 # 1901 KU Leuven
This dissertation presents a new perspective for the study of the German bourgeois realistic prose, by parallelizing literary poetics, financial epistemology, commercial procedures of observation and registration. Based on a corpus of literary programmes, economic studies, commercial and financial manuals, a poetology of credit-economic knowledge is first established. The nexus of these apparently very different paradigms of aesthetics and ...
Re-mapping the transnational spread of the novel: French pseudo-translations in German translation (1731-1776). KU Leuven
perception as simulation, memory and encounter in contemporary German city novels. A comparative study of literary ethics of seeing. Ghent University
The poetics of precarity: Representations of the worker in German literature in the aftermath of the 'Great Depression' (1873-1914) KU Leuven
The financial and economic collapse in 2008 has increased the interest for the literary reflection on economic crises and their social consequences. This project takes this contemporary sensibility and the ways in which it is reflected in contemporary political theory as a vantage point to look back at the German social novels in the aftermath of the financial crisis of 1873. By focusing on the literary representation of the worker in his ...
The Poetics of Precarity: Representations of the Worker in German Literature in the Aftermath of the “Great Depression” (1873-1914) KU Leuven
The financial and economic collapse in 2007/2008 has increased the interest for the literary reflection on economic crises and their social consequences. This project takes this contemporary sensibility and the ways in which it is reflected in contemporary political theory as a vantage point to look back at the German social novels in the aftermath of the financial crisis of 1873. By focusing on the literary representation of the worker in ...
Syntactic optionality in North and West Germanic: insights from the history of Icelandic and Low German Ghent University
Word order optionality in the postfinite domain in North and Continental West Germanic has attracted much attention in generative syntax in the past three decades, in particular the phenomena known as ‘Object Shift’ and ‘Scrambling’. However, the precise factors conditioning this word order optionality remain unclear, and there is to date no account which can explain the full cross-Germanic variation on display. This project will shed new ...
Genealogy, Genes and Generations: the Family Fiction of German and British Women Writers 1900-1945 KU Leuven
This project examines the depiction of family genealogies and generations in novels and short stories by German and British women writers from the first half of the twentieth century. This period witnessed an obsession with genealogical descent, the rise of the concept of generations and rapid progress in the field of genetics and heredity. Although women did not figure in patrilineal family trees and were underrepresented in the new ...
Academic literacy in German as a foreign language: A corpus-based contrastive analysis of cohesion in written learner language. University of Antwerp
Self-determination and (im)mobility in the Russian-German contemporary novel Ghent University
Increased globalization has paved the way for a broader reception of migration and minoritiesU+2019 literature in German literary studies. The aim of this project is to uncover the fictionalisation of shifts in identity under the influence of processes of (im)mobility in the Russian-German contemporary novel, by focusing on rhetorical and narratological strategies against the Russian-German socio-historical background.