Projects
The Writer as Translator and the Translator as Writer. Two interwoven literary Processes in the Works of Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt and Peter Handke. KU Leuven
The starting point of this dissertation is the unique, symbiotic relationship between Peter Handke, Nobel Prize Winner Literature in 2019, and Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt – two writer-translators coming from completely different European traditions, bound to each other by a tight friendship and a close cooperation, who translated each other’s work. More specifically, this PhD thesis examines how Handke translated Goldschmidts novels, Le ...
Writing on the Verge: a Narratological Approach to Hugo Claus’s Novels as Rewritings of Popular Narrative Patterns Ghent University
This research project focusses on the interaction between popular and elite culture and the systematic rewriting of popular narrative patterns in Hugo Claus’s novels. Starting from a narratological analysis and Moraru’s concept rewriting (2001), this project presents a detailed analysis of five novels and, taking this as a starting point, then shed light on the evolution in Claus’s writing.
The fictional life. A narratological-rhetorical approach to characterization and fictionality in the Greek biographers in the imperial period Ghent University
This research project aims at a formal description of fictionality in ancient sophists' and philosophers' biographies (that is, non-fiction with clearly fictional characteristics) from the imperial period (1st-4th cent. AD). Therefore it develops a narratological-rhetorical analysis of character construction. This project enhances our understanding of the formal specificity of fictional and non-fictional narrative literature.
The School of Sade: sexual sadism in modern Dutch and Flemish literature. Ghent University
The School of Sade traces the literary legacy of D.A.F. Marquis de Sade in Dutch and Flemish literature from the 1960s onward. The project explores both the reception of Sade as well as the extent to which the representation of literary sadism conveys distinct value-systems concerning sex and sexuality. The analysis generates insight into how authors inscribed themselves in a Sadean tradition and, more specifically, to what extent the ...
Digital comics: forms, functions, and preservation Ghent University
The project intends to examine a key corpus of digital comics from a formal perspective, analyzing the way they experiment with the features offered by the digital format. This involves reflecting on the forms that can be adopted in the digital environment once the page format is no longer a constraint. It also means investigating their specificities for what concerns multimodality (the inclusion of different modes, such as audio and ...
The body in the renewel of the Dutch novel on the borders of modernism and postmodernism (1960-1970) Ghent University
This project aims to examine the presentation of the body, and its innovative function in the renewal of the Dutch novel 1960-1970. On the basis of nine novels, which represent the different innovative tendencies, I first analyze the thematic description of the body by way of metonymy and metaphor, and the narratology of the body. Secondly, I investigate how innovative this thematical and narratological body has been.
Speech Acts and the Narrative Construction of consciousness in the work of Ivo Michiels Ghent University
This project aims for an integrated narratological approach of speech acts and the representation of consciousness in experimental texts by the Flemish author Ivo Michiels. The theory of speech acts will be integrated in a cognitive narratological framework for the study of conciousness in fiction. In this way, the effects of experimental texts can be articulated more precisely.
The Romance between Greece and the West. Heroes and Heroines in French, Anglo-Norman and English medieval narrative. Ghent University
This project reconstructs and interprets the persistence of (ancient) novelistic and (late antique and medieval) hagiographical traditions in vernacular medieval romance. Narratological and rhetorical analyses trace diachronic continuities and synchronic differentiation in the characterization of heroes. The study can thus enhance our knowledge about the medieval reception of ancient narrating strategies and the literary complexities of an ...