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Language portal. An electronic environment for practise and self-evaluation for the bachelor in linguistics and literary studies. KU Leuven

Dagmar Vandebosch
French, Italian and Spanish Literature, Kulak Kortrijk Campus, Literary Studies Research Unit, Leuven, Comparative, Historical and Applied Linguistics, Kulak Kortrijk Campus, Literary Theory and Cultural Studies, Leuven
This project aims to create a common digital portal for the eight languages taught in the bachelor programme in linguistics and literary studies at KULeuven. It is directed primarily to prospective students and Bal students. For the prospective students, the electronic environment functions both as a virtual space of introduction and orientation, and as an environment to test, language portal meets the demand for qualitative instruments for ...

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 ...

Britain in Europe: The Emergence of Post-Insular Identities and Transcultural Discourses in Contemporary British Literature Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Janine Hauthal
Language and literature
Despite the Euroscepticism dominating British foreign policy, contemporary British novelists, playwrights and travel writers play a vital role in imagining Europe as a transnational community. While previous studies on how Europe is imagined in British literature have predominantly drawn on postcolonial theory and demonstrated how Europe is constructed as Britain's national or cultural 'Other', this project attends to how contemporary British ...

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; ...

Literature and Pornography: a textual and contextual study of Dutch novels in the 1960s and 1970s. KU Leuven

Bart Vervaeck
Dutch Literature, Leuven

The interaction between pornography and modern fiction has rarely been examined in Dutch literary studies. The present proposal seeks to remedy this by focusing on a corpus of pornographic novels from the 60s and 70s written by renowned authors (Ferron, Geeraerts, Heeresma en Krijgelmans) who represent different forms of literature. The aim is twofold: (1) to contextualize these pornographic texts and determine their institutional position in ...

The end rhyme in Middle Dutch epic literature (ca. 1200-1500): development and relationship to authorship and genres. University of Antwerp

Frank Willaert
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)
Nearly all of Middle Dutch narrative literature (ca. 1200-1500) was written in rhyming couplets, which is why rhyme words are extremely suitable for the comparative study of Middle Dutch epic texts and authors. My research specifically focuses on three aspects: (a) the evolution of rhyme in the vernacular epic poetry of the medieval Low Countries; (b) the usefulness of rhyme words for authorship verification and attribution; (c) the correlation ...

The end rhyme in Middle Dutch epic literature (ca. 1200-1500): development and relationship to authorship and genres. University of Antwerp

Frank Willaert
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)
Nearly all of Middle Dutch narrative literature (ca. 1200-1500) was written in rhyming couplets, which is why rhyme words are extremely suitable for the comparative study of Middle Dutch epic texts and authors. My research specifically focuses on three aspects: (a) the evolution of rhyme in the vernacular epic poetry of the medieval Low Countries; (b) the usefulness of rhyme words for authorship verification and attribution; (c) the correlation ...

The reception of Scandinavian Literature in the Netherlands and Flanders 1860-1940. A comparative Analysis of the role of Networks and the Impact of the Ethnolinguistic Discourse. Ghent University

Godelieve Laureys
Department of Literary Studies, Department of Linguistics, Department of Nordic studies

This research aims at mapping and analyzing the networks of Dutch and Flemish cultural transmitters who, between 1860 and 1940, had a particular interest in Scandinavian literature. The analysis is based on a model of Social Network Analysis that is designed specifically for cultural transfer. A contrastive Dutch-Flemish perspective makes it possible to bring up language ideology abd the ethnolinguistic discourse.

Language and Literature Teaching in the Sixteenth Century: Vergil and Homer at the Leuven Collegium Trilingue KU Leuven

Jan Papy
Comparative, Historical and Applied Linguistics, Leuven, Latin Literature, Leuven

During the Renaissance, humanist thought provoked great changes in school curricula across Europe. Latin and Greek language and literature were taught in a new way, classical writers were read in a different fashion. Whereas these new humanist pedagogical practices have been studied in some detail on a general level, especially with regard to Italy, they remain almost unstudied for the Southern Low Countries. For this reason I envisage to ...