Projecten

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A revisionist, genre-theoretical and historical study of the British ode in the long eighteenth century (1680-1830)

2013

This doctoral project aims to produce a revisionist, genre-theoretical history of the eighteenth-century ode in Britain. Promoting an inclusive, quantitative as well as qualitative examination of canonic and non-canonic authors’ productions, the project ...read more
17e eeuw
18e eeuw
19e eeuw
English literature
Genre
Literatuurwetenschap
Poetry
Print culture
Music for Oscar. The relationship between literary text and libretto. The case Oscar Wilde

2013

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19e eeuw
20e eeuw
Adaptation
Decadence
English literature
Literatuurwetenschap
Music
Women editors as authors. The case of Rachel Beer

2013

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19e eeuw
English literature
Literatuurwetenschap
Hybrid literature, hybrid agency. The status of the literary text in Edward Said’s cultural analysis

2013

In this project the status of literary artifacts in Edward Said’s theory and reading practice and his correlating conceptualization of agency is investigated. Previous scholars have identified an irreconcilable tension in Said’s ...read more
20e eeuw
Critical theory
Literary theory
Literatuurwetenschap
Imagological reading of American presidents’ inaugural addresses and State of the Union messages (1789-2013)

2013

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19e eeuw
20e eeuw
American studies
English literature
Hedendaags
Literatuurwetenschap
Rhetoric
The chiastic world of Henry James

2013

My dissertation explores the functions of chiasmus in Henry James's works. Focusing on The Portrait of a Lady (1880-81/1908), I will argue that James uses chiasmus at phrase level to ...read more
19e eeuw
20e eeuw
Chiasmus
English literature
Literatuurwetenschap
Painting themselves. A transnational approach to national self-portraiture

2013

This PhD project has focused on a group of sketches, which were popular throughout Europe around 1840. The sketches, bearing titles like "les Français peints par eux-mêmes" and "Los Españoles ...read more
19e eeuw
Comparative literature
Interculturaliteit
Kunst
Literatuurwetenschap
Media
Self-portraiture
Karte und Kartographie in der Literatur der 1950-er Jahre und in Ingeborg Bachmanns Erzählwerk

2013

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20e eeuw
Cartography
German literature
Literatuurwetenschap
The Herodotos project

2013

Historiography begins with narrations of the ancient Greek historians Herodotos and Thucydides on the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars, and subsequent historians tend to share their preoccupation with great actors of ...read more
Archeologie
Geschiedenis
Literatuurwetenschap
Taalkunde
Taaltechnologie
Bhadrakali and the Bhadrotpatti. A comparative study of a regional goddess and her puranic narrative tradition

2012

Throughout Hindu imagery, we are confronted with demons dying at the hands of merciless goddesses. From the pan-Indian to the local level, this battle of the eternal adversaries endures, albeit ...read more
16e eeuw
Azië
Geschiedenis
Late Oudheid
Literatuurwetenschap
Middeleeuwen
Oosterse talen
Oudheid
Regiostudies
Religie
Taal- en tekstanalyse
Theater- en podiumkunsten