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Project

Theory of literature, trauma and cultural memory
Code
01T00908
Duration
01 August 2008 → 30 November 2009
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language studies
    • Literary studies
    • Theory and methodology of language studies
    • Theory and methodology of linguistics
    • Theory and methodology of literary studies
    • Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
literature trauma cultural memory 20th Century Contemporary English literature Literary studies
 
Project description
 

Dr. Ilka Saal (University of Richmond, VA) visits the UGent research group "Literature and trauma" to work conceptually in the area of literature, trauma and cultural memory. She has expertise in integrating models (Butler, Assmann) in such a way that a basis is laid for the examination of how collective and structural forms of trauma are represented in literature.