Curated Collections

Curated Collections

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C

Abstract	The image of “circulation” already enables and even demands its conceptualisation as a particular form of how literary works move through time and space. It differs, we would like to argue, from other modes of medial movements such as “exchange”, “distribution”, “dissemination”, or “transmission”. The insights considered here discuss models of closed and open circulation, their infrastructures, and their impact on literary movement. What do we mean, then, when we speak of a “circulation of literature”, or of “literary circulation”?
Curator Introduction	Circulation
Contributions	By Far the Best Fiction in any Language: An Analysis of the Circulation and Critical Reception of Carl Franz van der Velde’s Historical Novels in the Nineteenth Century Circulation by Translation Circulation of Songs in the German-Speaking World and in Japan: Comparison Based on Anthologies 1000–1340 Cruising in Circles: Promiscuous Temporalities in Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç, ‘Display’ (2021) Pipepoetics and the Infrastructures of Circulation Suhrkamp Verlag and the Mediation of Global Literature from Brazil: In favour of a Noise-Filled Concept of Reception of Literatures of the World To Defy Someone Else’s Mythology of Our Extinction: A Conversation with Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Published	March 2024

Curator Introduction	Community
Contributions	Competing Communities, Renaissance Style Critical Intimacy The Transtemporal Community of Francis Petrarch
Published	August 2024

Critical Modelling

Abstract	Given that the process of “building digital communities”, as the central concern of Research Area 5, requires conscious engagement with data models and the transformation of information into “data” (cf. data as “capta”) and that the EXC2020: Temporal Communities core concept of “temporal communities” itself implies rigorous modelling operations, this curated collection examines the role of modelling in humanities research, particularly in literary studies and digital humanities. The contributions critically reflect on the affordances of models, their functions, implications, and limitations in capturing information, heuristics, analysis, criticism, and presentation. In doing so, they revisit the conceptual framework for modelling as a critical practice and explore the workings of models beyond representational claims.
Curator Introduction	Critical Modelling
Contributions	Critical Modelling and Measurement Critical Modelling as Reflective Practice Critical Modelling: From “Models of” to “Modelling as” Modelling “Literature” The Not-Model.
Published	January 2024

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Framing Narratives

Abstract	Narratological models of narrative framing and embedding have mostly been established through the study of novelistic print literature from the Modern West. Challenging the narratological focus on novelistic print literature and an exclusive focus on Western literary traditions, ‘Framing Narratives’ aims to discuss and establish alternative, comprehensive concepts of narrative framing from various cultural and historical perspectives. The primary questions that inspire our collaboration are how to articulate and how to define the narrative and textual boundaries of and within works.
Curator Introduction	Framing Narratives: Toward a Reconceptualisation of Textual Framing beyond Literary Modernity
Contributions	Framing Narratives in Muṣṭafā al-Kīlānī’s ‘Mayār’ (2017): A Contemporary Tunisian Perspective on Literary Framing Between Theory and Practice Framing Narratives. Towards an Expansion of the Narratological Frame Concept for the Study of the Premodern Arabic Tradition Mundus est Fabula The Many Lives of Bashai Tudu, the Many Acts of (Re)framing Devi Unveiling Language or Frames in al-Ḥarīrī’s ‘Maqāmāt’
Published	May 2024

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Abstract	This curated collection examines the evolving study of “value” in literature, noting its multidimensional nature and growing scholarly interest. It highlights the challenges of defining value and explores its diverse dimensions: entities, criteria, concepts, sites, and actors. The project invites further insights to deepen understanding across temporal contexts.
Curator Introduction	Value
Contributions	Disidentifying with the Present: The Multiple Values of the Prefix “Post-” E-quotes and Valuation: Reviving Literature through Social Media Farm Animals on Tiktok Situated Value and the New Cinephilia: The Case of Wanda The Value of German Medieval Literature in the 1930s: Martin Bodmer, Erwin Rosenthal, and the ‘Nibelungenlied’
Published	July 2024