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Research Group on Study of violent phenomena in literature in German language - EVLA

Description

Literary texts and media artefacts are particular spaces for the representation and study of violence as a micro-phenomenon. Research on the subject of violence in different fields of knowledge, such as sociology, philosophy and history, has focused on macro-violence phenomena such as war, terror or torture, and has contributed to the definition of violence as a crucial dimension of Modernity (and post-modernity). Research in the field of philology allows us to take up the definitions of other fields of research and explore the deadlocks, the ambivalent aspects, the implosive manifestations in order to come to represent a new complexity of the phenomenon of violence.

Our studies will focus on a series of research problems derived from a reconceptualisation of the phenomenon of violence from the point of view of literary and artistic discourse. The starting point, from German philology, is to contribute to the study of the phenomenon of violence in general to a specific approach to history (largely common throughout Europe), marked by a period of fascism and dictatorship in Germany, Portugal, Spain and Italy in the 20th century.

The innovative potential of our research lies in the exploration of intertwinings, interdependencies, interconnections and modes of naming and exposing practices of violence present in different literary discourses, and is thus a crucial starting point for the analysis of the complexities related to this particular topic. Recent research shows that literary texts have the capacity to integrate and discuss microviolence, present in various aesthetic manifestations, language, everyday life and privacy, as well as macroviolence, present, for example, in epic narratives about war and violent conflict, and to create a connection between these two categories. Therefore, the different perceptions of violence in literary discourses will be studied as a mode of knowledge production reflecting certain hidden dynamics, especially in the field of German literature and cultural studies.

The aims of the group can be summarised as follows: 

  • to articulate dimensions of violence revealed in literary texts that have not yet been recognised as such; 
  • to analyse the inherent ambivalences of the social production of violence as it can be perceived in texts; 
  • question the established dichotomy between victim and executioner; 
  • to raise the question of whether the predominance of certain narrative discourses idealises and legitimises certain ideological contexts, i.e. contributes to a naturalisation of violence.
Goals CT
  • To articulate dimensions of violence revealed in literary texts that have not yet been recognised as such.
  • To analyse the inherent ambivalences of the social production of violence as it can be perceived in texts.
  • To question the established dichotomy between victim and executioner.
  • To raise the question of whether the predominance of certain narrative discourses idealises and legitimises certain ideological contexts, i.e. contributes to a naturalisation of violence.
Research lines
Management
  • JIRKU, BRIGITTE
  • PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat
  • Coordinador/a Curs
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 Contactebrigitte.jirku@uv.es
Members
  • CALERO VALERA, ANA ROSA
  • PDI-Titular d'Universitat
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 Contacteana.r.calero@uv.es
Non-UV research staff

Partners

  • Simonetta Sanna - Università degli studi di Sassari (Italia).
  • Antonio Sousa Ribeiro - Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal).
  • Dagmar von Hoff - Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz (Alemania).
  • Lena Wetenkamp - Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz (Alemania).

Work team

  •  Juliane Felihg - Universitat de València.
  • Juan José Monsell Corts - Universitat de València.
Scientific production by UV researcher
  • CALERO VALERA, ANA ROSA
    PDI-Titular d'Universitat
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Artistic creation

Associated structure
Contact group details
Study of Phenomena Violence in German-Speaking Literature (EVLA)

Blasco Ibáñez Campus

Av. Blasco Ibáñez, 32

46010 València (Valencia)

+34 963 864 725

Geolocation

brigitte.jirku@uv.es

Contact people
  • JIRKU, BRIGITTE
  • PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat
  • Coordinador/a Curs
View details
 Contactebrigitte.jirku@uv.es