CRC 1385 - B01: Literary Forms of European Legal Culture in Poland, Russia and Ukraine. Studies of Law and Literature in Central and Eastern European Societies from a Comparative Perspective

Basic data for this project

Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster

Duration at the University of Münster: 01/07/2019 - 31/12/2023 | 1st Funding period

Description

This project will investigate Western- and East-European texts relevant to law-and-literature research from a comparative angle. Analyses will include foundational narratives of European constitutions as well as the appropriation of historiography as a legal resource. Moments in which literature becomes a medium and means of defense against legalisms (Poland, Russia, Ukraine) come into the purview of this study as much as the comparison between early Western and Eastern European crime fiction as forms of legal acculturation. This constitutes a pioneerapplication of the law-and-literature paradigm to East European contexts.

Keywords: Principles of Law and Jurisprudence; General and Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies; Eastern European Societies; Central European Societies

Website of the project: https://www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1385/projektbereichb/teilprojektb01/

DFG-Gepris-ID: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/425252880

Funding identifier: SFB 1385/1, B01 | DFG project number: 403589434

Funder / funding scheme:

DFG - Collaborative Research Centre (SFB)

Project management at the University of Münster

Lohsse, Sebastian	Professor of Roman Law, History of Comparative Law, Civil Law and European Private Law (RG2)
Sproede, Alfred	Professur für Slawische und Baltische Philologie unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der ost- und westslawischen Literaturen (Schwerpunkt: Russische und Polnische Literatur) (Prof. Sproede)

Applicants from the University of Münster

Lohsse, Sebastian	Professor of Roman Law, History of Comparative Law, Civil Law and European Private Law (RG2)
Sproede, Alfred	Professur für Slawische und Baltische Philologie unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der ost- und westslawischen Literaturen (Schwerpunkt: Russische und Polnische Literatur) (Prof. Sproede)

Research associates from the University of Münster

Dagovych, Tetyana	Institute of Slavic Studies
Foik, Melanie	Institute of Slavic Studies
Wutsdorff, Irina	Professorship for Slavic Studies (Prof. Wutsdorff)
Zoll, Fryderyk Stanislaw	Institute of Slavic Studies

Related main project

CRC 1385: Law and Literature

Duration: 01/07/2019 - 30/06/2024 | 1st Funding period

Funded by: DFG - Collaborative Research Centre

Type of project: Main DFG-project hosted at University of Münster

Publications of the University of Münster resulting from the project

The Court Trial in Dostoevskii's "The Brothers Karamazov", or, The Rejection of the Rule of Law and of European Principles Wutsdorff, Irina (2023) In: Zander, Laura A.; Kramp-Seidel, Nicola (eds.), Europe in Law and Literature. Transdisciplinary Voices in Conversation, 227-231. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783111075693-022 Research article (book contribution) \| Published
The Naturalization Process and Narrating "Where you come from": An Exploration of Saša Štanišić’s "Herkunft" Wutsdorff, Irina (2023) In: Zander, Laura A.; Kramp-Seidel, Nicola (eds.), Europe in Law and Literature. Transdisciplinary Voices in Conversation, 243-246. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783111075693-025 Research article (book contribution) \| Published