Prof. Dr. Jurgen Pieters

jurgen.pieters@ugent.be

Department

Department of Literary Studies

Research group(s)

CCROC - Critical and Comparative Research on Culture

GEMS - Group for Early Modern Studies

SARTON - Sarton Centre for History of Science

THALIA - Interplay of Theatre, Literature & Media in Performance

Research Focus

Literary studies

Additional tags

Comparative literary studies

Early Modern literature

Health and Medical Humanities

Literary history

Literary theory

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Projects

Projects as supervisor

In looking back, becoming modern. Shifting discourses on Latin renaissance in the French and Italian literary fields, 1870-1915 (2023 - 2026)
Writing the past in exile. The interwar Russian émigré historical novel (1917-1939) (2018 - 2022)
Across generations and genres. The legacy of the holocaust in Dutch-Jewish literature (2015 - 2019)
Istanbul in the writings of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar and Orhan Pamuk. A bhabhian reading of the cultural identity of modern Turkey (2014 - 2018)
Visions on authorship in Middle Dutch literature (c. 1200 – c. 1550) and the reproducti (2013 - 2017)
Hybrid literature, hybrid agency. The status of the literary text in Edward Said’s cultural analysis (2013 - 2017)
Constantijn Huygens' treatise on the organ. A cultural-historical and musicological analysis (2012 - 1900)
On the use of images in narrative prose. An Iserian analysis (2011 - 2015)
To distance the near past. The representation of the French revolution in English and Dutch literary texts (1785-1795) (2011 - 2015)
Gouvernementalité (Foucault) and self-fashioning (Greenblatt). Models of early-modern subjectification (2011 - 2015)
This is my body broken for thee. Early modern sacralization of literature, the case of Vondel's 'Altaergeheimenissen' and Huygens' 'Avondmaalsgedichten' (2011 - 2014)
Renaissance metonymy in Shakespeare’s Hamlet (2010 - 2014)
Early modern poethood and selfhood. The representation of the urban individual in Eduard de Dene's 'Testament Rhetoricael' (2009 - 2012)
Early modern theater and 'governmentality' (Foucault). Three Vondel plays reconsidered (2009 - 2013)
The author as reader. V. Nabokov’s 'lectures on literature' (2008 - 2015)
Self-reflection and the formation of identity in the early-modern period. Coornhert and Charron (2008 - 2012)
Describing the new world in the early modern period. The case of Dutch Brazil (1624-1654) (2008 - 2015)
National history in Dutch epics (1766-1795). Formation of a historical experience? (2008 - 2011)
Postdramatic theatre and performance as technologies of remembrance in a postmodern culture of memory (2007 - 2011)
Constantijn Huygens’ 'Ooghen-troost'. Towards an electronic editions and on the theories of (inter)textuality (2007 - 2011)
Reading towards the light. Constantijn Huygens' 'Ooghentroost' at the beginnings of modernity (2007 - 2011)
A subtler diplomacy. Kenneth Burke and the new criticism (2007 - 2013)
The concept of community in the political philosophy of Arendt, Nancy, Lyotard and Blanchot (2006 - 2012)
Je veux vous rappeler l'histoire de la maladie. Cognitive value and narrativity of the naturalist prose by Cyriel Buysse and Marcellus Emants (2005 - 2010)
The rhetoric of madness. Speech acts, narrative unreliabilty, and delirum in three mad first-person narratives (2004 - 2008)
Rejoicing in the nobility of human nature. The sublime in the Netherlands (1770-1830) (2004 - 2007)
The perverse art of reading. On Roland Barthes' fantasmagoric semiology. The courses at the Collège de France (2003 - 2007)
Power and human affairs. Retorics as a performative strategy in the joyous entry of 1549 (Antwerp) (2001 - 2005)
Between human and hero. Cruelty and desire in Sarah Kane, Tom Stoppard and Samuel Beckett (2001 - 2005)
Tears for every day life. The desire for naturalness and the representations of bourgeois identity in drama and theater of the Austrian Netherlands (1999 - 2005)

Projects as co-supervisor

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