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
Research Projects Overview
Literary Prizes and Queer Working-Class Kinship (2024–)
Theory between Critique and Commodification. Global Circulation Dynamics of Theoretical (Para-)Texts (2024–)
Reading Reading. On an Aesthetic Practice (2024–)
Obscured, Unrecognized, Forgotten. Negative Circulation in Literature (2024-)
Prizeworthiness: Kinship Beyond Literary Nationalism (2024-)
Critical Theory on the Periphery of Capitalism: Literary Form and Contradictions of Progress in the Work of Roberto Schwarz (2023-)
Sound institutions: Audio Poetry Recording in Germany and the United States, 1914–2024 (2023–)
Autofiction Across Media: Narrating the Self Between the Cultural, the Political and the Corporate (2023-)
Circulations of Theory: Topics, Processes, and Histories of a Globalised Form of Writing (2023-)
Heimat Babel: Heimat and Language in Post-German Poetry from 1989 to the Present (2022-)
Translating National Writers: Transtemporal and Transcultural Dimensions of Symbolic Figures in National Literatures (2022-)
Tense and Time: The Politics and History of Present-tense Fiction (2022-)
The Birth of Monolingualism from Multilingualism (2022-)
Moving Images, Transforming Germanness: Race, Migration and Transnational Filmmaking in Germany, 1968–1989 (2021-)
Farm Animals in French and German Media Literature. Genealogy of a European Imagination of Rurality (1848-1945) (2021-)
The Webs ‘We’ Tell. Making community through ‘conversations’ across contemporary Afrodiasporic literature (2021-2024)
A Dialogue from Time to Time. Translation and Literary Multilingualism (2021-2024)
Digital Constructions of Authorship (2020-2023)
Beyond the book – Concepts and practices of public readings (2020-)
MOTDYNAMO (2020-)
Studying Academic Discussions on the Art of Poetry in Late Renaissance Florence (2020-)
Poetics of Radical Vulnerability in Contemporary Literature (2019-)
Body/Images – Foreign/Gazes: (Feminine) Territoriality and Corpography in Latin American graphic narratives (2019-2022)
Writing Berlin (2019-2024)
Image Credits
RA 4 Projects
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Decoy
Image Credit: EXC 2020 Temporal Communities, Clara Kahn
project image "Theory between Critique and Commodification"
Image Credit: Situationist grafitti, Menton, France, 2006 (Creative Commons)
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Wall Facing
Image Credit: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum: Wall Facing (Holland); tin-glazed earthenware, underglaze; Gift of William Randolph Hearst; 1926-43-5-162 (CC0 1.0).
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Image Credit: Michal Kosmulsky via flickr Tympanum Corrugation, front_ccbync20.
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Image Credit: Porto I", von Tersila do Amaral, 1953, Museu de Arte de São Paulo.
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Brick Wall Motif
Image Credit: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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Image Credit: CC BY-SA 4.0, source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marie-Françoise_Robert,_Metamorphosen_VII_(cropped).jpg
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Symbolbild "Questions of Literary Multilingualism in Turkish-German Literature"
Image Credit: Hasan Almasi via unsplash.com
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Image Credit: Almanya Acı Vatan, 1979
La semaine des enfants
Image Credit: La Semaine des enfants. Magasin d'images et de lectures amusantes et instructives n°1 du 3 janvier 1857.
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Image Credit: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hand-operated_Card_Punch-2.jpg
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Marie Weil, Figur + Umgebung
Image Credit: Marie Weil, Figur + Umgebung
Florence, 'Schedelsche Weltchronik' or 'Nuremberg Chronicle', 1493
Image Credit: via Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain
Decoy
Image Credit: EXC 2020 Temporal Communities, Clara Kahn
Dibujo
Image Credit: Nacha Vollenweider, www.nacha-vollenweider.de
Berlin, bemalte Reste der Berliner Mauer
Image Credit: Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-F086696-0019 / Wolfgang Lemmerz / CC-BY-SA 3.0
