Cai, Qiongying
Congratulations on passing the colloquium
on 4 October 2022.
Dissertation topic:
"Ornithological poetology. Bird poems in the history of German literature."
Doctoral scholarship from the China Scholarship Council (CSC) (1 Oct 2017 - 30 Sept 2019).
Contact address at the University of Würzburg:
Institute of German Philology / Modern Department
Am Hubland
D-97074 Würzburg
Phone: +49 931 31-85639 (via Mrs Knies)
Room: 4.0.10
First supervisor: Prof. Dr Roland Borgards (Univ. Frankfurt)
Second supervisors:
Class in the Graduate School: "Philosophy, Languages, Arts"
Doctorate in the Graduate School from WS 2016/2017.
Abstract:
Eagle, owl, swallow, sparrow, nightingale and lark: birds play a special role in nature because their song and flight embellish the animal world. Birds also play an important role in poetry: as a motif, as a source of inspiration and as poetological figures of reflection.
The dissertation entitled "Poetic Ornithology" aims to reinterpret bird poems in German literary history from the perspectives of poetology, ornithology and ecology. In particular, it focuses on three relationships: poetology and ecology, culture and nature, and man and bird.
