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 (B01)

• Subject Area: Principles of Law and Jurisprudence ; General and Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
• Term: from 2019 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 403589434

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.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1385: Law and Literature
• Applicant Institution: Universität Münster
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Sebastian Lohsse; Professor Dr. Alfred Sproede