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4,002 search results for “from and literary studies” in the Public website

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  Olga van Marion University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• Alumnus Simone participating in National ThinkTank: ‘A good imagination is essential’ News - 25 November 2022

  Say biodiversity loss, and then say humanities. These two terms may not seem an obvious combination, but alumnus Simone Scholte explains that her Film and Literary Studies degree actually offers a unique perspective on the problem. She is therefore one of the 20 students participating in this year’s…

• Indonesian-Dutch Literature Collective Research project

  The aim of the Indonesian-Dutch Literature Collective (which is allied to the Society of Dutch Literature (MNL)) is to support research into the literature of and about the Dutch Indies, from the era of the Dutch East India Company to the present. Starting in 1986, the collective has published its own…

• Illness and Literature in the Low Countries. From the Middle Ages until the 21th Century Research output

  From as early as classical antiquity there has been an interplay between literature and medicine.

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  Christopher Green Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• E-workshops Multilingual Literary Cultures News - 22 March 2021

  The NWO-funded research project ‘The Multilingual Dynamics of the Literary Culture of Medieval Flanders, c. 1200- c. 1500’ is hosting a series of e-workshops on the topic of ‘Multilingual Literary Cultures in the Middle Ages’. The program is now available online.

• Book recommendation from ... Meike de Goede

  Every month a member of the Institute for History tells about a book that inspired him or her. Afterwards, the pen is passed on to another colleague. This month dr. Meike de Goede tells about the book 'Between Tides' by Valentin Mudimbe. The novel, little known beyond the circles of Africanists and…

• Hermeneutics and the Humanities Research output

  Hermeneutics and the Humanities: Dialogues with Hans-Georg Gadamer / Hermeneutik und die Geisteswissenschaften: Im Dialog mit Hans-Georg Gadamer

• Meaning and Materiality Medieval and Early Modern Studies

  Researchers within the cluster are committed to the close and expert analysis of the materiality and content of the arts, literature and media they study. Different types of media bring various aspects of this core interest to the fore.

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  Liesbeth Minnaard University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Channa Li Guest Researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

• “Chacun son Marcel”? Plurality in the works of Marcel Duchamp Research output

  In this overview of the reception of Duchamp, the plurality of possible approaches is examined.

• ‘Non-Istanbulites’ of Istanbul: Quest for a place in Istanbul in the Turkish novel since the 1960s Research project

  This research focuses on a historical/social analysis of a selected corpus of novels from modern Turkish literature which have the common theme of migration from Anatolian towns and villages to Istanbul, and the immigrants’ struggle in this city against various exclusion mechanisms.

• Experience, Narrative, and Criticism in Ancient Greece. Under the Spell of Stories Research output

  Experience, Narrative, and Criticism in Ancient Greece pursues a new approach to ancient Greek narrative beyond the taxonomies of structuralist narratologies.

• Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film, Peter Verstraten Research output

  If Dutch cinema is examined in academic studies, the focus is usually on pre-war films or on documentaries, but the post-war fiction film has been sporadically addressed.

• Exclusion and Renewal. Identity and Jewishness in Franz Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis' and David Vogels's 'Married Life' Research output

  In this study I explore literary structures of identity-formation in the works of assimilated/acculturated Jewish writers: Kafka’s novella “The Metamorphosis” (“Die Verwandlung”, 1912) and David Vogel’s Hebrew novel Married Life. 1929).

• Cultural Analysis: Literature and Theory (MA)

  The master in Cultural Analysis: Literature and Theory at Leiden University studies contemporary literature and culture (art, cinema, pop music) from a theoretical, critical perspective, with special emphases on approaches developed in cultural and literary studies, feminist theory, phenomenology and…

• Counter-Discours in Zimbabwean Literature Research output

  Counter-Discourse in Zimbabwean Literature is a study of specific aspects of counter-discursive Zimbabwean narratives in English. In discussing the selected texts, my thesis is based on Terdiman’s (1989) the postcolonial concept of counter-discourse.

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  Philomeen Dol Team Leader / Foreign Language Teacher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Yujing Tan Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Nico Kaptein Professor Emeritus Islam in South East Asia

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Boudewijn Walraven Professor emeritus of Korean language and literature

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Peter Verhagen University Lecturer Tibetan Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Haneen Omari University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Shirley Alexander PhD candidate / guest

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Amirardalan Emami

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Crewe Williams PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Xiao Luo PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Francesca Rosati PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Steven Hagers PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Xiong Xiong PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Geoffrey Cain PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Hyojin Pak Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

• Barbarism and Its Discontents Research output

  This study interrogates contemporary and historical uses of barbarism, arguing that barbarism also has a disruptive, insurgent potential.

• Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Augustan Rome. Rhetoric, Criticism and Historiography Research output

  Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Augustan Rome: Greek culture in the Roman world.

• Victorian Fairy Tales Research output

  Victorian Fairy Tales

• Meet our staff Cultural Analysis: Literature and Theory (MA)

• Rewriting Hellenism: André Chénier (1762-1794) and Hellenistic Poetry Research project

  The project focuses on an intriguing aspect of André Chénier’s poetry, which has not received much attention in scholarship: Chénier’s indebtedness – in the form of translation, adaptation, borrowing, reference – to Hellenistic poetry; it interprets the role of this indebtedness in his poetical and…

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  Ab de Jong Professor Comparative Religion and Religions of Antiquity / Scientific director

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Maghiel van Crevel Professor of Chinese Language and Literature

  Faculty of Humanities

• Production, Consumption and Agency Medieval and Early Modern Studies

  Central to the research of several cluster members are the social function and contexts of the production and consumption of medieval and early modern art, literature and media:

• Ripple in still water when there is no pebble tossed Research output

  This Festschrift in honour of Cary J. Martin

• LEiden university NexuS of Arts | Media | Politics

  The purpose of LENS is to foster, coordinate and support research of visual media of analog and digital photography, film, and video, and the visual arts.

• Barbarism Revisited: New Perspectives on an Old Concept Research output

  The figure of the barbarian has captivated the Western imagination from Greek antiquity to the present. Since the 1990s, the rhetoric of civilization versus barbarism has taken center stage in Western political rhetoric and the media. But how can the longevity and popularity of this opposition be accounted…

• The World Upside Down. The Geographical Revolution in Humanist Commentaries on Pliny's Natural History and Mela's De situ orbis (140-1700) Research output

  'The World Upside Down. The Geographical Revolution in Humanist Commentaries on Pliny's Natural History and Mela's De situ orbis (140-1700)', in: Enenkel, K.A.E. & Nellen, H. (Eds.), Neo-Latin Commentaries and the Management of Knowledge in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period (1400-1700).Humanistica…

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  Tommie van Wanrooij Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Olf Praamstra Professor emeritus by special appointment of Dutch Colonial and Postcolonial Literature

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Henk Schulte Nordholt Professor emeritus Indonesian History

  Faculty of Humanities

• Visions of Rome. Strategic Appropriation of the Roman Heritage in Humanist Latin Poetry Research project

  This research project analyses the use of different, often competing, stereotypical images of Rome in Humanist Latin Poetry, by considering it as strategic appropriation of the classical heritage.

• Translating China: Dutch Sinologist Henri Borel Research project

  This study will investigate the role of Henri Jean Francois Borel (1869-1933) as an ‘interpreter of China'.