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Tag: Literary Studies

Projects

12 September 2022

What biofictions tell us about gender

Fiction often reveals more about the time in which it was written than about the time in which it is set. Julia Lajta-Novak knows that this rule applies especially to biographical fiction. This English literary scholar investigates novels and films about historical women artists by analysing the language, structure and reception of countless works with […] Continue reading “What biofictions tell us about gender”

Interview & Opinion

22 June 2022

A diary opens up a new world

Interview: Laura Anninger

Greek and Latin philologist William Barton is using artificial intelligence to decipher the diary of Hellenist Charles-Benoît Hase, written in Ancient Greek and long thought to have been lost. The START Award winner is gaining new insights into the Greek language, the history of Greek literary studies, and life in early modern Paris. Continue reading “A diary opens up a new world”

Projects

26 April 2021

Corona Fictions – what literature can tell us about the future

The way we tell stories about crises impacts our individual and collective actions. In a newly launched basic research project Yvonne Völkl, a literary and cultural studies scholar, explores the narrative function of the coronavirus pandemic with the support of the population. Using the example of the pandemic, she investigates how literary narrative patterns influence […] Continue reading “Corona Fictions – what literature can tell us about the future”

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