Code
01G03518
Duration
01 January 2018 → 31 December 2024
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor-spokesperson
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- 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
Contemporary
Nature
Ecology
Ecopoetics
Ecocriticism
Imagination
Narrative prose
Fiction
Rhetoric
French
Germanophone
Anglophone
Italian
Project description
The project entails an ecopoetic inquiry into literary fiction on nature and ecology as a transcultural problem area within four interacting cultural regions (French, Germanophone, Anglophone, Italian). Central to this text-oriented approach are (1) the role of the literary imagination, (2) the focus on textual complexity (rhetoric) and (3) the ten-sion between the global nature of the problem and culture-bound issues.