Project Details
Projekt
GSC 256: Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies
Subject Area
Literary Studies
Ancient Cultures
Art History, Music, Theatre and Media Studies
Social and Cultural Anthropology, Non-European Cultures, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies
Ancient Cultures
Art History, Music, Theatre and Media Studies
Social and Cultural Anthropology, Non-European Cultures, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies
Term
from 2007 to 2019
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 39912149
The Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies will promote and supervise theoretically and conceptually outstanding PhD projects. All theses should have a specifically philological focus and must apply comparative methods to European, American, Arabic or Asian literatures. Research areas include the relationship between literature and other types of texts; the links between literary texts and processes of linguistic reflection; rhetoric and poetics; the correlations between literature and other media, as well as between literature and discourses of knowledge. Focal points are textual and linguistic phenomena; the methods of diachronic and synchronic comparison of languages, literatures, cultures and media; as well as an awareness of the historicity of texts that provides insights into the interrelations between literature and such cultural processes as the generation of meaning, the formation of societies and the constitution of knowledge.
Friedrich Schlegel, the patron of the graduate school, established an essential basis for theoretically demanding, self-reflexive and methodologically innovative literary studies. His theories have exerted a major influence on the research practices that were successfully established at the Freie Universität Berlin many years ago. Friedrich Schlegel stands for internationally oriented literary studies that reflect issues of comparative cultural and media studies. They combine the philological method of close reading with a marked sensitivity for the diversity of European and non-European languages. This branch of literary studies aims at conceptualising the theory and practice of scholarly editing, translation and literary criticism as fundamental elements of the study of literature.
It sees the practice of scholarly editing as a contribution to the formation of cultural memory; embeds literary history in the context of a modern history of consciousness and knowledge; and studies the poetological dimensions, genres, styles and rhetorical strategies of literature on a theoretical basis. Its distinctive character is established by its attempts to provide insight into the relationship between literature and aesthetic experience; to shed new light on the connections between literature and the non-fictional forms of the discursive organisation of knowledge; and to analyse the interaction between text-based and the performing arts. Literary studies as they are pursued at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School will set international standards, in terms of their innovative methodology, flexibility and the continuous reflection of its approaches to the comparative analysis of texts, media and cultures.
Friedrich Schlegel, the patron of the graduate school, established an essential basis for theoretically demanding, self-reflexive and methodologically innovative literary studies. His theories have exerted a major influence on the research practices that were successfully established at the Freie Universität Berlin many years ago. Friedrich Schlegel stands for internationally oriented literary studies that reflect issues of comparative cultural and media studies. They combine the philological method of close reading with a marked sensitivity for the diversity of European and non-European languages. This branch of literary studies aims at conceptualising the theory and practice of scholarly editing, translation and literary criticism as fundamental elements of the study of literature.
It sees the practice of scholarly editing as a contribution to the formation of cultural memory; embeds literary history in the context of a modern history of consciousness and knowledge; and studies the poetological dimensions, genres, styles and rhetorical strategies of literature on a theoretical basis. Its distinctive character is established by its attempts to provide insight into the relationship between literature and aesthetic experience; to shed new light on the connections between literature and the non-fictional forms of the discursive organisation of knowledge; and to analyse the interaction between text-based and the performing arts. Literary studies as they are pursued at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School will set international standards, in terms of their innovative methodology, flexibility and the continuous reflection of its approaches to the comparative analysis of texts, media and cultures.
DFG Programme
Graduate Schools
Applicant Institution
Freie Universität Berlin
Co-Applicant Institution
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Spokesperson
Professorin Dr. Jutta Müller-Tamm
Participating Researchers
Professorin Dr. Irene Albers; Professor Dr. Remigius Bunia; Professorin Dr. Erika Fischer-Lichte; Professorin Dr. Susanne K. Frank; Professorin Dr. Ute Frevert; Professorin Dr. Therese Fuhrer; Professorin Dr. Ulla Haselstein; Professor Dr. Andrew James Johnston; Professor Dr. Stefan Keppler-Tasaki; Professor Dr. Klaus Krüger; Professor Dr. Joachim Küpper; Professorin Dr. Cordula Lemke; Professorin Dr. Verena Lobsien; Professor Dr. Winfried Menninghaus; Professor Dr. Wolfgang Neuber; Professorin Dr. Angelika Neuwirth; Privatdozentin Dr. Irina Rajewsky; Professor Dr. Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann; Professorin Dr. Ulrike Schneider; Professorin Dr. Sabine Schülting; Professor Dr. Peter Sprengel; Professorin Dr. Gyburg Uhlmann; Professor Dr. Joseph Vogl; Professor Dr. Georg Witte
