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Nicolai Klimii iter subterraneum of Ludvig Holberg: Meta-reflection, Imaginary Voyages and the Classical Tradition
Code
3F028014
Duration
01 October 2014 → 30 September 2018
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
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
imaginary voyage meta-reflection 18th Century Imaginary voyages Latin literature Reception studies Scandinavian literature Literary studies
 
Project description

The research focuses on the ironical use of the Classical tradition and the meta-reflexive elements in the latin, satirical travelogue Niels Klim (1741) by the Dano-Norwegian writer Ludvig Holberg. By a comparative study with Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Montesquieu's Lettres persanes this study tends to understand Holberg's positioning toward the contemporary, European literary tradition.