Code
3E016413
Duration
01 October 2013 → 30 September 2016
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- History
- 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
- Theory and methodology of philosophy
Keywords
war writing
enlightenment
discursive strategies
German literature
dutch literature
Epic poetry
bellicism
Project description
This study of enlightened war writing in Dutch and German literature seeks to read epic texts in combination with military treatises and lectures, to find out how literature made war ‘experiencable’ for citizens as ‘readers of war’. The project explores how tensions in the 18th-century epic genre relate to the bellicist aim of getting closer to the experience of war.