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Women and criticism. An empirical analysis of gender in contemporary Swedish literary criticism (2018–2022)

2022

Literary criticism plays an important role in the way literary works are perceived and what value is ascribed to them: it has a gatekeeping function, attributing cultural legitimacy through its ...read more
Contemporary
Literary studies
Northern Europe
Swedish
A cultural history of the internal organs in premodern Japan (2021 - 2025)

2022

This project investigates views on the internal body in premodern Japan. In particular, the theory of the five viscera, or gozôron will be of interest. Several handwritten sources from the Edo period ...read more
The development of the concept Datong in Chinese history

2022

The Datong Thought derived from the Book of Rites, which refers to the Datong ideal of the world as one community, the Xiaokang ideal of a prosperous society, and the Dashun ideal of seeking common ground while reserving ...read more
Area studies
History
Interculturalism
Philosophy
In the mind of the scribe. An integrated sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic approach to orthographic variation and change in the Greek language of the papyri

2022

This project proposes to combine for the first time historical (socio)linguistics with the insights from modern psycholinguistic research to study linguistic variation in post-Classical Greek. For this purpose the study ...read more
Late or too late? Old age in the late Latin elegies of Maximianus (6th c. AD)

2022

This project is to be situated in the field of late Latin literature and focuses on the poet Maximian (6th c.AD). His corpus consists of six elegies (686 verses in total) ...read more
Comparative
Language and text analysis
Late Antiquity
Latin
Literary Ageing Studies
Literary studies
Southern Europe
Western Europe
The making of the second sophistic. Literary periodization as an intellectual and cultural construct

2022

The aim of the research is to trace the history of the concept of the “Second Sophistic”. This label is broadly assigned to an intellectual movement involving Greek-speaking intellectuals in ...read more
19th Century
Ancient rhetoric
Antiquity
French
German
Greek
History
History of scholarship
Imperial literature
Language and text analysis
Late Antiquity
Latin
Literary studies
Philosophy
Second Sophistic literature
Coming After. Late antique ecopoetics

2022

Over the course of the 4th to the 6th centuries, the ancient world was coming to its end in the midst of massive change: the establishment of Christianity, alterations in ...read more
Contemporary
Late Antiquity
Latin
Literary studies
Monstrosity in Claudian

2022

The imagery and rhetoric of monstrosity is conspicuous in Claudian’s poems. The poet has composed two verse accounts of the Gigantomachy, one fragmentary in Greek and one incomplete in Latin; ...read more
Late Antiquity
Latin
Literary studies
The holy romance. Characterization and concepts of fiction in Italo-Greek hagiography

2022

This project envisages a literary-rhetorical analysis of Italo-Greek hagiography, a corpus of which the prominent, narrative qualities have long been recognized but, for historical reasons of academic ideology, have not yet received much systematic scholarly attention in ...read more
Chemical reactions. The performance and (re)interpretation of chemical experiments in the Dutch Republic (1750-1800)

2022

This project aims to provide an epistemological analysis of the practice of chemistry in different contexts in the second half of the 18th century and of the interaction between actors ...read more
18th Century
History
History and philosophy of science
history of chemistry
History of science
Iconography and analysis of images
Language and text analysis
Northern Europe
Philosophy
philosophy of experimentation
Philosophy of science
Philosophy of scientific practice
Western Europe

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