NETSIM aims to reaffirm the importance of Eastern Europe in the modern project of reception, modelling, and dissemination of Romance literatures in modern Europe and Eurasia through quantitative formalism and post-Lotmanian semiotics of translations and reception of literary texts. Since Russia, Poland, and Romania can be seen as three main models of interaction between Slavic, German, and Romance literary models, NETSIM advances a comparative model that uses both quantitative and qualitative analysis for the understanding of literary interactions between superstructural typologies. Therefore, from a scientific point of view, NETSIM is the first project to analyze both the typological models of reception of Romance literatures in three East European cultures and the interconnections of those cultures through cultural triangulations. It sets its frame of analysis in Lotmanian and post-Lotmanian semiotics, meaning that it imagines literary interactions as changes of function of original texts through translation and imitation combined with quantitative formalism, the most recent tendency in semiotics as subfield of Digital Humanities. This means that the three models NETSIM aims to present – the Russian network (or the Imperial matrix); the Polish network (or the sub-Imperial matrix); the Romanian network (or the inter-Imperial matrix) – reveal the strategies of accommodation for Romance authors and literary movements within the nation-building processes in Eastern Europe through three significant literary cultures.
Project code: PNRR-III-C9-2022–I8-CF292/30.11.2022
Contract no. 760075/23.05.2023
Funder: Ministry of Research, Innovation, and Digitalization, via the National Plan of Recovery and Resilience (Component 9, Initiative 8)
Duration: July 1, 2023 – June 30, 2026
Budget: €1,418,285.88
Principal Investigator: Professor Igor Pilshchikov