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Future Perfect

Research Area 3: "Future Perfect", explores literature’s ability to construct complex temporalities of its own, shaping temporal communities potentially over long expanses of time. RA 3 focuses on literature’s involvement in imagining as well as participating in diverse, often multiple temporalities. It studies how literary texts imagine their own reception in the future and forge temporal communities for themselves. How do cultural practices such as philology construct temporalities, e.g. by establishing chronologies or freezing textual objects in zones of radical synchronicity? How is literary history constituted through teleological narratives?

Research Projects

RA 3 Projects

Research Projects Overview

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Competing Temporalities in Decolonial North African Fiction (2024–)

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Telling Time: History, Time, and the Novel Since 1945 (2023-)

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The Music of Time: Temporal Tensions in Premodern Epics (2023-)

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Multiple Modernities? (2023-)

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Magical Realisms and Speculative Literature (2023-)

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Visionary Futures: Exploring Utopia in Queer Speculative Fiction (2022-)

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Other Realisms: A Theory of the Arabic Fantastic (2022-2023)

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The Invention of the Modern Religious Bookshelf: Canons, Concepts and Communities (2022-)

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Deformation. An Essay in Negative Anthropology (2021-)

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The Poetics of Philology - A Case Study of the Babylonian Epic Enuma Elish (2021-)

D.A. Freher, in Works of J. Boehme (The Signature of All Things [Signaturum Rerum] (1650)) Law Edition [1764]

Time of Freedom: Schelling's Philosophy of Absolute Temporality in "The Ages of the World" (1810-1815) (2020-2024)

Geste ou histoire d'Alexandre, traduite par l'ordre de Jean de Bourgogne, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, Français 934

Imperial Fictions (2020-)

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Premodern Anthologies and the Selective Fictions of Tradition-Building (2019-)

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Peripety. On the Relation of Tragedy, Time and Theory (2019-)

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Rewriting the Past, Imagining the Future: Science Fiction as a Self-Writing Genre Community (2019-)

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