Projects
power, History, and Culture: A Study of Pakistani Literature KU Leuven
The aim of this study is to investigate the interpretation of historical events in the novels by Pakistani postmodern English novelists, to study the circulation of power in Pakistani society among different members of society, and to study the relationship between the culture and personal identity. The study will thus bring out how Pakistani society is being represented by the Pakistani English novelists. Another aim of this research work is ...
Telling Lists: A Dynamic Study of the Nature and Function of Lists in Dutch Literature KU Leuven
This project has a two-fold objective. First, it wants to come up with a hermeneutic tool to interpret lists found in modern novels, i.e. is novels written from the second half of the nineteenth century up till now. Second, it wants to use this tool to trace the development of literary listing from the first modern Dutch novel (Multatuli’s Max Havelaar 1860) to the present day (Grunberg 2010).
Though the first objective is practical and ...
Rethinking Literature Education from a Media and Culture Perspective Ghent University
Within the research that is being done in the group 'Culture & Education' on the impact of the narrative turn on education and teacher education, Steven Tösösy de Zepetnek's proposal for "systemic and empirical approach" to studying literature will lead to a new perspective on literature education as a subsystem of culture and a form of media-education.
Post-apartheid and postcolonial Afrikaans literature in South Africa: A Status Quaestionis. University of Antwerp
(Collections of) Short stories in Italian 20th century literature. Study of theoretic problems and analysis of a case study: Carlo Emilio Gadda (1891-1971). Ghent University
The project proposes a study of the short narrative form and a case study of four collections of short stories by Gadda. Starting from the theoretic literary problems (especially in the field of narrative genre theory), the project aims to study a case that represents the theoretic problematics.
Burkes Reading Method in the Force Field between the 'Intrinsic' and 'Extrinsic' Apporach towards Literature Ghent University
This research project aims at an analysis of Kenneth Burke's method of reading against the background of the force field between 'intrinsic' and 'extrinsic' approaches towards literature. Based on a corpus of sample readings confonting burke's analysis of a number of literature texts with contemporary readings by Brooks, Richards and Girard, I will try to demonstrate how Burke has dealt with this force field, and how it has influenced hist ...
The Rhetoric of Democracy. Elites and Popular Power in Second Sophistic Literature Ghent University
A literary-rhetorical analysis of speeches, essays and biographies from the Second Sophistic (50-250 AD) will test the hypothesis that democratic elements in politics in Greek cities continued to exist under Roman imperial rule. This hypothesis challenges a long-standing and influential common opinion among both literary scholars and ancient
historians. The methodology combines ancient rhetoric and New Historicism.
Literature and teh Extended Mind: A reassessment of Modernism. University of Antwerp
"This is my body broken for thee". Early modern sacralization of literature, the case of Vondel's 'Altaergeheimenissen' and Huygens' 'Avondmaalsgedichten' Ghent University
This project aims to trace the intrusion of concepts of the sacral within early modern poetics as it relates to the development of growing autonomy within the literary system. It will do so by means of an analysis of the intricate poetics of two instances of devotional poetry, namely: Joost van den Vondel’s Altaergeheimenissen and Constantijn Huygens’ Avondmaalsgedichten.