Project

The poetics of Greek romantic prose fiction (1830-1850) and the adventure novel of ordealµ

Code

3G002309

Duration

01 January 2009 → 31 December 2014

Funding

Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)

Promotor

Gunnar De Boel

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

national Hellenic identity genre function Byzantium antiquity Modern Greek adventure novel of ordeal 19th Century Greek literature Novel Literary studies

Project description

The project aims to

- describe how Greek romantic novels written before 1850 relate to the adventure novel of ordeal, and expose intertextual relationships with ancient or Byzantine models;

- make text analyses to illustrate the generic pattern and the ideological functioning of the modern Greek adventure novel;

- determine how this fits in with both Greek and European Romanticism.