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Literary Currencies

Research Area 4, "Literary Currencies", addresses the question of how literature is subjected to processes of valuation and re-evaluation as it circulates between cultures, languages, media and markets. RA 4 focuses on canon formation, notions of authorship, the circulation of texts and literary concepts and the economic dimensions of this circulation. An important focus is on the rise and fall of literary currencies, on the fluctuating prestige enjoyed by literary texts and genres. How do changing notions of literary value shape literature’s temporal communities?

Research Projects

RA 4 Projects

Research Projects Overview

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Reading Reading. On an Aesthetic Practice (2024–)

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Obscured, Unrecognized, Forgotten. Negative Circulation in Literature (2024-)

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Prizeworthiness: Kinship Beyond Literary Nationalism (2024-)

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Critical Theory on the Periphery of Capitalism: Literary Form and Contradictions of Progress in the Work of Roberto Schwarz (2023-)

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Sound institutions: Audio Poetry Recording in Germany and the United States, 1914–2024 (2023–)

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Autofiction Across Media: Narrating the Self Between the Cultural, the Political and the Corporate (2023-)

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Circulations of Theory: Topics, Processes, and Histories of a Globalised Form of Writing (2023-)

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Heimat Babel: Heimat and Language in Post-German Poetry from 1989 to the Present (2022-)

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Translating National Writers: Transtemporal and Transcultural Dimensions of Symbolic Figures in National Literatures (2022-)

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Tense and Time: The Politics and History of Present-tense Fiction (2022-)

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The Birth of Monolingualism from Multilingualism (2022-)

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Moving Images, Transforming Germanness: Race, Migration and Transnational Filmmaking in Germany, 1968–1989 (2021-)

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Farm Animals in French and German Media Literature. Genealogy of a European Imagination of Rurality (1848-1945) (2021-)

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The Webs ‘We’ Tell. Making community through ‘conversations’ across contemporary Afrodiasporic literature (2021-2024)

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A Dialogue from Time to Time. Translation and Literary Multilingualism (2021-2024)

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Digital Constructions of Authorship (2020-2023)

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Beyond the book – Concepts and practices of public readings (2020-)

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MOTDYNAMO (2020-)

Florence, 'Schedelsche Weltchronik' or 'Nuremberg Chronicle', 1493

Studying Academic Discussions on the Art of Poetry in Late Renaissance Florence (2020-)

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Poetics of Radical Vulnerability in Contemporary Literature (2019-)

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Body/Images – Foreign/Gazes: (Feminine) Territoriality and Corpography in Latin American graphic narratives (2019-2022)

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Writing Berlin (2019-2024)

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