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Since the late 1960s, children's literature studies has developed into a vibrant field of research that unites literary, social and educational approaches to books for young readers (including fiction for adolescents). Over the same period, genetic criticism has grown into an area of study that surpasses traditional philology and text-critical analysis, focusing on the so-called avant-texte (documents preceding the publication of a literary ...
Fiction, tradition and criticism in the writings of Frank Kermode (1919-). KU Leuven
This project focuses on the literary theory of Frank Kermode (1919-), paying special attention to the lesser-known aspects of his research and to certein themes that still shape literary studies. Even though kermode's writings played an important role in the domain of literary theory and the study of English literature, they have never been studied as a coherent body of work. Thet is unfortunate, for these texts offer stimulating answers to ...
The effect of multimedia hyperlinks in fiction on reading motivation and immersion in adolescent readers: An empirical study. University of Antwerp
Antwerp Centre for Digital humanities and literary Criticism (ACDC), Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN), Didactica
Adolescents' reading habits, particularly of literary texts, are the object of scientific and social concern. Due to the omnipresence of short, digital texts they would read fewer literary texts, be less motivated to do so, and consequently underperform. Especially young adolescents are characterized by a drop in reading motivation. However, reading promoters point out the new possibilities of digital literary texts, such as hypermedia fiction. ...
The Multiple Languages of Modernism: Joyce, Beckett, Nabokov, and the Making of Modern Fiction University of Antwerp
The dissertation, "The Multiple Languages of Modernism: Joyce, Beckett, Nabokov, and the Making of Modern Fiction," shows that there are important differences between multilingual and monolingual writers and documents the creative tension resulting from writing that is informed by more than one language. I argue that a deeper awareness of the way in which multilingual literature diverges from that of monolinguals not only sheds new light on ...
Artists' Lives in Dutch and Flemish biographical fiction (1918-2008): narratology, poetics, dynamics. KU Leuven
This project focuses on fictional texts in Dutch which centre around the life of a non-fictional artist. It aims at charting the main characteristics of Dutch and Flemish biographical fiction, its poetics, its critical reception and its historical development in the 20th century. To this end, it combines theoretical approaches from narratology, research into conceptions of literature, and literary historiography. In 2008-2009, I will concentrate ...
Subverting Patriarchy through Romance: Romance Fiction and Anarcho-Feminism in "La Novela Ideal" (1925-1938). University of Antwerp
The 1920s and 1930s witnessed a spurt in cultural activity in Spain. Women's horizons were expanding, which proved fertile ground for female literary production. It was particularly in the area of popular writing that women writers excelled. Many of these authors were activists, emerging from the camps of the radical left. This project will explore the genre and anarcho-feminist thought of the popular novellas in La Novela Ideal (1925-1938), a ...
Neuro-image guided investigation of the critical role of aromatase inhibitors on brain function University of Antwerp
The hormone estrogen has neuroprotective function in the brain. Thus synthesis of estrogen in the brain and ovaries is important for healthy brain functioning. The cythorome P450 aromatase, a key enzyme in the biosynthetic pathway of estrogen, catalyzes the conversion of androgens to estrogen in neurons and activated astrocytes. Aromatase inhibitors are commonly used to treat women with invasive estrogen receptor positive breast cancer. In ...
Global WHO Rehabilitation Action Plan 2030: Clinical guidelines, mapping Rehabilitation services in Health Systems, Health economy, Competence frameworks Hasselt University
On 17/11/2017 the Research Council has approved the short stay at World Health Organisation, departement 'Non-communicable diseases, disability, violence and injury', Zwitserland, chargeable to the BOF-program 'Short Stays - outgoing mobility'. The stay will take place in 2018.
Going Downtown. A Critical Analysis of the New York Downtown Literary Scene (1974-1984) Ghent University
This research project is the first to ciritcally and systematically investigate the "Downtown Collection" at the NYU Fales Library. The "Downtown Collection" holds a corpus of highly innovative fiction, written between 1974 and 1984 in the NY Downtown region, which has played a crucial role in the transformation of the contemporary canon.
Revolution and Terror in contemporary French fiction: exploring an ideological legacy. Ghent University
This project sets out to understand the complex intertwining of literature, ideology and violence in
the novels of four prize-winning French authors. Patrick Deville, Pierre Michon, Olivier Rolin and
Antoine Volodine are often bracketed together as a generation of writers that have witnessed, and
some participated in, the ‘evolutionary years’that followed the 1968 upheaval.
The proposed project ...