Projects
Text Theatricality. An integrated approach based on rhetorical narratology and performance analysis Ghent University
The present proposal takes its cue from the increasing trend to adapt novels to the theatrical
stage and from other innovative performance practices (reading performances, installations,
social immersion projects). The project aims to study the intersection between narrative and
drama both from a theoretical point of view and in contemporary performance practices.
Selected case studies from 20th and 21st century German ...
The Romance between Greece and the West. Heroes and Heroines in French, Anglo-Norman and English medieval narrative." Ghent University
Medieval romance is arguably the most influential secular literary genre of the European Middle Ages. Its history has not been written yet. In order to enhance our understanding of this history (both conceptually and cross-culturally), this project offers the first reconstruction and interpretation of the persistence of (ancient) novelistic and (late antique and medieval)hagiographical traditions in French, Anglo-Norman and English medieval ...
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 ...
Literature and Pornography: a textual and contextual study of Dutch novels in the 1960s and 1970s. KU 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 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.
Making Narratives of an Empire's Unmaking: A Critical Spatialization of Byzantine Historiography of the Late Eleventh and Early Twelfth Centuries. Ghent University
This project explores the use of space, place, and landscape in a group of historical narratives of the late eleventh and early twelfth century Byzantium, a time of immense territorial change and intellectual vitality. The project's central research hypothesis is that landscape, places, spaces are not only the background settings; they are also constituents of the narrative framework with strategic roles. First, this project aims to draw the ...
Born in the Wrong Story: An Embodied Approach to Transgender Narratives in Dutch Fiction. University of Antwerp
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.
: Sacred Fiction. A narratological-rhetorical analysis of novelistic topicality and generic specificity in late antique hagiography. Ghent University
Literary-technical research into Christian Greek and Latin fictional texts (fourth to sixth centuries AD) Acta Martyrum and Passiones from Late Antiquity: generic specificity compared with the ancient novel, formal analysis of narrative techniques, construction of novelistic topoi and characterization-techniques; structuralist narratology and ancient rhetoric shed new light on the tradition of veneration of the martyrs.