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Literatur Inter- Und Transmedial / Inter- And Transmedial Literature

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 Literatur oder, allgemeiner, Texte sind nicht erst seit dem 20. Jahrhundert inter- und transmedial ausgerichtet. Dennoch ist es sinnvoll, von einer medial reflexiven Literatur erst seit dem audiovisuellen Jahrhundert zu sprechen, dem des Films. Medientransformationen sind seitdem nicht allein paradigmatische Wechsel der Systeme, sondern auch Vervielfaltigungen durch die Pluralitat der medialen Trager. Neben allgemeineren Fragestellungen und theoretischen Bestimmungen steht das Wechselverhaltnis von Text, Bild und Musik im Zentrum detaillierter Untersuchungen. Der intermedialen Performanz ist ein weiterer Teil des Bandes gewidmet, der schlielich die Brucke zu Film und Fernsehen schlagt. Das Buch geht zuruck auf eine bilaterale Tagung in Ithaca, NY, an der Cornell University. Partner und Mitveranstalter war die Universitat Bremen. Hinzu kamen in Fragen der Inter- und Transmedialitat einschlagig ausgewiesene Wissenschaftler aus den USA und aus Deutschland. Enthalten sind vierzehn Beitrage in deutscher und sechs in englischer Sprache. Vereint werden ganz unterschiedliche Positionen der amerikanischen und europaischen Intermedialitatsforschung. Gerade diese Heterogenitat ist eine Starke der vorliegenden Publikation. Zusatzlich liefern die Herausgeber eine neuartige Kategorisierung und Begrifflichkeit und bedienen so ein weiter steigendes Interesse in den Literatur-, Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften. Die breite Palette der Themen von etablierter traditioneller Literatur und Konkreter Poesie bis zu neueren Genres wie Slam Poetry spricht auch interessierte Laien an. 34 Abbildungen illustrieren die Texte.
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Commitment And Compassion - Essays On Georg Buchner. Festschrift For Gerhard P. Knapp

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 The writer, scientist, philosopher, and radical democrat Georg Buchner (1813-1837) occupies a unique place in the cultural legacy of the German-speaking countries. Born into an epoch of inevitable, yet arrested historical transition, Buchner produced a small but exceptionally rich body of work. This collection of essays in English and in German considers the full spectrum of his writings, the political pamphlet Der Hessische Landbote, the dramas Danton's Tod, Leonce und Lena, Woyzeck, and the fragmentary narrative Lenz, as well as the letters, the philosophical lectures on Descartes and Spinoza, and the scientific texts. The essays examine connections between these works, study texts in detail, debate ways of editing them, and trace their reception in contemporary literature and film. The novel readings presented here not only celebrate Buchner on the eve of his bicentenary birthday but also insert this untimely figure into discussions of the revolution-restoration dynamic and realism in poetics and politics.
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&Quote;Verwisch Die Spuren!&Quote;: Bertolt Brecht'S Work And Legacy

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&Quote;Verwisch Die Spuren!&Quote;: Bertolt Brecht'S Work And Legacy - A Reassessment

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 This volume presents a cross-section of current Brecht studies, reflecting a variety of approaches and perspectives ranging from detailed exegesis of particular texts to cultural criticism in the broadest sense. It provides analyses of Brecht's work and investigates his pervasive influence in 20th century literature. The studies collected here cover the whole of Brecht's career, from the early one-acter Kleinburgerhochzeit of 1919 to the Sinn und Form years immediately preceding his death, as well as his use of tradition and his legacy. By way of redressing a tendency in Brecht reception to regard him mainly as a dramatist, the volume covers novels, poetry, film, photography, journalism and theory as well as plays.
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Processes Of Transposition - German Literature And Film

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 Features essays that focus on the multi-faceted relationship between German/Austrian literature and the cinema screen. This book includes Scholars from Ireland, Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Portugal, USA and Canada who present critical readings of a range of transpositions of German-language texts to film.
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Enlightened Eye - Goethe And Visual Culture

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 Poets, painters, philosophers, and scientists alike debated new ways of thinking about visual culture in the "long eighteenth century". The essays in The Enlightened Eye: Goethe and Visual Culture demonstrate the extent to which Goethe advanced this discourse in virtually all disciplines. The concept of visuality becomes a constitutive moment in a productive relationship between the verbal and visual arts with far-reaching implications for the formation of bourgeois identity, pedagogy, and culture. From a variety of theoretical perspectives, the contributors to this volume examine the interconnections between aesthetic and scientific fields of inquiry involved in Goethe's visual identity. By locating Goethe's position in the examination of visual culture, both established and emerging scholars analyze the degree to which visual aesthetics determined the cultural production of both the German-speaking world and the broader European context. The contributions analyze the production, presentation, and consumption of visual culture defined broadly as painting, sculpture, theater, and scientific practice. The Enlightened Eye promises to invest new energy and insight into the discussion among literary scholars, art historians, and cultural theorists about many aspects of visual culture in the Age of Goethe.
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Schiller: National Poet - Poet Of Nations - A Birmingham Symposium

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 To mark the 200th anniversary of Schiller's death, leading scholars from Germany, Canada, the UK and the USA have contributed to this volume of commemorative essays. These were first presented at a symposium held at the University of Birmingham in June 2005. The essays collected here shed important new light on Schiller's standing as a national and transnational figure , both in his own lifetime and in the two hundred years since his death. Issues explored include: aspects of Schiller's life and work which contributed to the creation of heroic and nationalist myths of the poet during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; his activities as man of the theatre and publisher in his own, pre-national context; the (trans-)national dimensions of Schiller's poetic and dramatic achievement in their contemporary context and with reference to later appropriations of national(ist) elements in his work. The contributions to this volume illuminate Schiller's achievements as poet, playwright, thinker and historian, and bring acute insights to bear on both the history of his impact in a variety of contexts and his enduring importance as a point of cultural reference.
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Krieg In Den Medien

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 Wie Kriege dargestellt werden, hat Einfluss auf die Kriegsfuhrung. Das gilt nicht erst fur die elektronischen Waffengange moderner Zeitrechnung. Mit dem Zweiten Golfkrieg aber, so eine gangige Lesweise, hat sich die Wahrnehmung von Kriegen selbst verandert. Was wird perzipiert, was bleibt auen vor, was geht unter in der Flut an Informationen? Nachrichten uber Kriege sind immer ungleich auf Interessenlagen bezogen. In den Blick gerat, was Medien verbreiten. Andere Kriege existieren in der Realitat, aber nicht im Bewusstsein von Zeitgenossen weltweit.Fiktionale Verarbeitungen von Kriegen konnen, anders und intensiver als die Nachricht, die Gewalt reflektieren, sie einordnen, ihr Sinn geben oder sie verwerfen. Sie sind Mittel oder Teil der kriegerischen Strategie und der Propaganda, konnen aber ebenso gut Gegenentwurfe anbieten zu den Graueltaten, die sie reprasentieren. Weder Fiktionalitat oder Information, noch die Art der medialen Umsetzung stellen, an sich betrachtet, eine Vorentscheidung dar, wie kritisch oder wie affirmativ Kriegshandlungen geschildert oder gedeutet werden.Der vorliegende Band zeigt diese grundsatzliche Ambivalenz in den groen, epochalen Umbruchen der Mediendispositive und den inter- und transmedialen Wandlungen insgesamt. Er reflektiert sie anhand der Geschichte der Einzelmedien wie Fotografie und Malerei, Horspiel, Tageszeitung, Essay, Internetforum oder Fernsehnachricht, an der Arbeit von PR-Agenturen oder in der fiktionalen Verarbeitung etwa im Comic. Krieg in den Medien bringt zudem Einzelanalysen und Autorenportrats in den Gattungen Roman, Poetikvorlesung, Spielfilm, Drama oder politisch-philosophische Theorie.
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Bombs Away! - Representing The Air War Over Europe And Japan

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 Prompted by recent challenges to and debates about the relative public silence concerning the effects of the Allied air war over Europe during World War II, this collection of essays examines literary, visual (film and photography), and institutional (museums) representations of the bombing of civilian targets, predominantly in Germany. The authors examine narrative strategies of both well-known and relatively little known works as well as the moral and ideological presuppositions of the varied representations of the depredations of total war. The introduction and afterword by the editors invite the readers to expand the contours and historical context of the debates about the German public discourse on the bombing war beyond the narrow confines of perpetrators and victims. The volume will be of interest to literary scholars, historians, and the general reading public interested in warfare and its effects on civilian populations.
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Hermann Hesse Today / Hermann Hesse Heute

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 In November 2002, an international conference was held at the Institute of Germanic Studies in London in order to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Hermann Hesse's birth. Twenty distinguished speakers from North and South America, Russia, Switzerland, Germany and the United Kingdom attended the three-day conference with the specific aim of exploring the continuing importance of this widely read German-language author. This volume brings together the various responses to the complex challenge that Hesse, whose sheer success is sometimes seen as detracting from his status, presents to literary scholarship around the world. The author's current image among readers and scholars is approached from several distinct thematic and theoretical perspectives, with the objective of providing a concise overview of current research. The volume offers new readings of a number of Hesse's seminal works and makes a significant contribution to academic research into his past and present standing as a global icon.As the title suggests, the focus is on 'Hermann Hesse Today'. The book investigates his current significance for a modern readership, taking account of his importance in the lecture theatre and classroom, the multi-facetted applicability of his moral, ethical and aesthetic concerns in the context of a fragmented world, and the continuing relevance of his writings. With the ever-increasing importance of modern preoccupations such as the ecological movement or the growth of the internet, a fresh look at Hesse's works is long overdue. The most obvious sign of this is the appearance of a definitive, historical-critical edition of his works (prose, poetry, and literary criticism), which will give access to much hitherto unpublished material and stimulate fresh debates on an author who ranks among the best-known and most influential figures of the twentieth century.This volume will be of interest to teachers of German in higher education and their students as well as researchers and the general readership that continues to take an interest in Hesse on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Contemplating Violence - Critical Studies In Modern German Culture

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 This volume illuminates the vexed treatment of violence in the German cultural tradition between two crucial, and radically different, violent outbreaks: the French Revolution, and the Holocaust and Second World War. The contributions undermine the notion of violence as an intermittent or random visitor in the imagination and critical theory of modern German culture. Instead, they make a case for violence in its many manifestations as constitutive for modern theories of art, politics, identity, and agency. While the contributions elucidate trends in theories of violence leading up to the Holocaust, they also provide a genealogy of the stakes involved in ongoing discussions of the legitimate uses of violence, and of state, individual, and collective agency in its perpetration. The chapters engage the theorization of violence through analysis of cultural products, including literature, museum planning, film, and critical theory. This collection will be of interest to scholars in the fields of Literary and Cultural Studies, Critical Theory, Philosophy, Gender Studies, History, Museum Studies, and beyond.
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Karl Philipp Moritz - Signaturen Des Denkens

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 Die Beitrage dieses Bandes zum vielfaltigen Werk von Karl Philipp Moritz bringen neue Lesarten der fur die 'Sattelzeit' um 1800 wichtigen Texte, vor allem seinen asthetischen Schriften und dem psychologischen Roman Anton Reiser. Zudem bringt der Band Studien zu Moritz' Sprachschriften, zum ersten Mal zu seinen insgesamt vier Buchern fur Kinder, auch zu seinen Reiseberichten, den Andreas Hartknopf-Romanen und der Gotterlehre. Der Einzelganger Moritz bietet einen sehr eigenen Blick auf die geistesgeschichtlichen Probleme der Ubergangszeit von Spataufklarung zur Fruhromantik. This collection of 18 articles, in English and in German, on the diverse oeuvre of Karl Philipp Moritz provides new interpretations of texts widely recognized as significant to German letters around 1800 (Moritz's aesthetic writings and Anton Reiser). His writings on language receive welcome scrutiny, and contributors break ground on Moritz's particular classicism, his travelogues, and his use of the sermon. Furthermore, this is the first collection to examine all four of Moritz's books for children. Readers interested in the transitional period of late Enlightenment and early Romanticism should profit from the study of this solitary walker and the signatures of his thought.
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Spatial Turns - Space, Place, And Mobility In German Literary And Visual Culture

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 The phrase "spatial turns" signals the growing importance of space as an analytical as well as representational category for culture. The volume addresses such emerging modes of inquiry by bringing together, for the first time, essays that engage with spatial turns, spatiality, and the theoretical implications of both in the context of German culture, history, and theory. Migrating from fields like geography, urban studies, and architecture, the new centrality of space has transformed social-science fields as diverse as sociology, philosophy, and psychology. In cultural studies, productive analyses of space increasingly cut across the studies of literature, film, popular culture, and the visual arts. Spatial Turns brings together essays that apply a spatial analysis to German literature and other media and engages with specifically German theorizations of space by such figures as Siegfried Kracauer and Walter Benjamin. The volume is organized in four sections: "Mapping Spaces" addresses cartography in all forms and in its intersection with culture; "Spaces of the Urban" takes up one of the key sites of spatial studies, the city; "Spaces of Encounter" considers how Germany has become a contact zone for multiple ethnicities; and "Visualized Spaces" concerns the theorization of space in film and new media studies.
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Exiles Traveling - Exploring Displacement, Crossing Boundaries In German Exile Arts And Writings 1933-1945

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 This volume presents for the first time a study of the interface between exile and travel within the context of exile from Nazi Germany. The nineteen essays share the overarching aim to compare the tropes of travel and exile as generators of a critical discourse and as central categories within German exile, in particular literature, music and film. The essays are guided by powerful questions: How does travel compare to exile, and how much overlap is there between these two categories? How do exiles travel, as practitioners of displacement? Or rather, to what extent does the concept of travel apply to the exilic predicament? Do the terms "exile" and "travel" still have validity in our postmodern era of cosmopolitanism, ever increasing mobility, the embrace of otherness, and tourism? How does exile literature in which travel is thematized compare to the tradition(s) of travel writing? And how are the critical moments of leavetaking, re-membering home, and return imagined and narrated? The essays feature numerous German and Austrian authors, musicians, and filmmakers and lend fresh insights into German Exile and the field of Exile Studies at large.
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Neulekturen - New Readings - Festschrift Fur Gerd Labroisse Zum 80. Geburtstag

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 Die Einsicht in die Polyvalenz poetischer Texte zahmt die noch jeder Form diskursiver Analyse von Kunstwerken eigene Tendenz, Sinn und Bedeutung festzuschreiben. Im Spannungsfeld zwischen der anarchischen "Lust am Text" (Roland Barthes) und der "Wut des Verstehens" (Jochen Horisch) behaupten sich die 'Lekturen', die als Verstehensangebote der Vieldeutigkeit literarischer Werke durch Analysen von Form und Inhalt zur Sichtbarkeit verhelfen wollen, ohne ihnen den Atem abzuschnuren. Ihr Ziel ist es nicht, das "Ratsel" (Adorno) literarischer Kunstwerke zu losen, sondern es als "Ratsel" in seinen vielfaltigen Bedeutungsdimensionen erfahrbar zu machen. Von hier aus versammelt der vorliegende Band 'neue' Lekturen als Angebot zum Gesprach und Herausforderung, Texte als Mittel intensiver Blickoffnungen zu begreifen, was nichts anderes heit als: immer wieder aufs Neue zu lesen. Der Band enthalt Studien zu Medea-Bildern (Anna Chiarloni), Marie von Ebner-Eschenbachs Das Schadliche (Erika Tunner), der Figur des Juden in romantischen Marchen (Martha B. Helfer), der Reitergeschichte Hugo von Hofmannsthals (Heinz-Peter Preuer), der fruhen Romantikerinnenrezeption (Anke Gilleir), Franz Kafkas Das Urteil (Gerhard P. Knapp), Robert Walsers Tobold II (Jaak De Vos), Lion Feuchtwangers Moskau 1937 (Anne Hartmann), der Exilerfahrung im Werk Franz Werfels (Hans Wagener), Erich Frieds Nachdichtung von Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood (Jorg Thunecke), der Raumkonzeption in Erzahltexten Volker Brauns (Hans-Christian Stillmark), Eli Amirs Roman Nuri (Heidy Margrit Muller), Christa Wolfs Sommerstuck (Roswitha Skare), Urs Widmers Der blaue Siphon (Henk Harbers), Christoph Marthalers Stunde Null (Christopher B. Balme), der Lyrik Heinz Czechowskis (Anthonya Visser), Erzahltexten von Judith Hermann und Susanne Fischer (Monika Shafi), Werner Fritschs Grabungen (Norbert Otto Eke) und zum Wissen um den Autor bei Neulekturen (Elrud Ibsch).
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W.G. Sebald - Schreiben Ex Patria / Expatriate Writing

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 This volume presents the work of internationally renowned scholars from Australia, Germany, Italy, South Africa, the UK and the US. The focus on W.G. Sebald's writing as that of an expatriate author offers a fresh and productive approach to Sebald scholarship. In one way or another, all 28 essays in this innovative, bi-lingual collection take up the notion of Sebald's experience as an expatriate writer: be it in the analysis of intertextual, transmedial and generic border crossings, on the "exposure to the other" and the experience of alterity, on the question of identity construction and performance, on affinities with other expatriate writers, on the recurring topics of "home", "exile", "dislocation" and "migration", or on the continuing work of "memory" to work through and to preserve the consciousness of a destructive past that has informed the childhood as much as the adult life-world of the author.
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Gender And Laughter - Comic Affirmation And Subversion In Traditional And Modern Media

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 This essay collection is dedicated to intersections between gender theories and theories of laughter, humour, and comedy. It is based on the results of a three-year research programme, entitled "Gender - Laughter - Media" (2003-2006) and includes a series of investigations on traditional and modern media in western cultures from the 18th to the 20th century. A theoretical opening part is followed by four thematic sections that explore the multiple forms of irritating stereotypical gender perceptions; aspects of (post-)colonialism and multiculturalism; the comic impact of literary and media genres in different national cultures; as well as the different comic strategies in fictional, philosophical, artistic or real life communication. The volume presents a variety of new approaches to the overlaps between gender and laughter that have only barely been considered in groundbreaking research. It forms a valuable read for scholars of literary, theatre, media, and cultural studies, at the same time reaching out to a general readership.
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Holocaust, Zeit Und Erzahlung - Traumatische Zeiterfahrung In H. G. Adlers Roman Eine Reise

by Julia Menzel

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 This book examines the interrelationships between trauma, time, and narrative in the novel The Journey (1962) by the scholar, novelist, poet, and Holocaust survivor H. G. Adler. Drawing on Paul Ric ur's philosophy of time and studies of time in literature, Julia Menzel analyzes how Adler's novel depicts the experience of time as a dimension of Holocaust victims' trauma. She explores the aesthetic temporality of The Journey and presents a new interpretation of the literary text, which she conceives of as a modern "Zeit-Roman" (time novel). Die Studie untersucht die Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Trauma, Zeit und Erzahlung in dem Roman Eine Reise (1962) des Wissenschaftlers, Schriftstellers, Dichters und Holocaust-Uberlebenden H. G. Adler. Unter Bezugnahme auf Paul Ric urs Zeitphilosophie und die literaturwissenschaftliche Zeitforschung analysiert Julia Menzel, wie Adlers Roman traumatische Zeiterfahrungen der Opfer des Holocaust zur Darstellung bringt. Sie erkundet die asthetische Eigenzeit von Eine Reise und eroffnet eine neue Lesart des literarischen Texts, den sie als modernen Zeit-Roman begreift.
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Women Writers' Philosophy Of Love In German Romanticism - Dialogical Life In Letters

by Renata T. Fuchs

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 This monograph spotlights women writers' contributions to the philosophy of German Romanticism. Dorothea Mendelssohn Veit Schlegel, Rahel Levin Varnhagen, Karoline von Gunderrode, and Bettina Brentano von Arnim suggested a new vision for an emancipated community of women that develops through philosophical discourse of Progressive Universal Poetry. Their personal, fictionalized, and literary letters reinvent and retheorize the Romantic notions of sociability, symphilosophy, and sympoetry, as theorized by men, and retheorize the concepts of love. They provided a model for shaping intellectual and cultural life in the modern world while challenging rigid dichotomies of classs, gender, and ethnicity.
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Heinrich Von Kleist - Artistic And Aesthetic Legacies

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 The works and biography of Heinrich von Kleist have fascinated authors, artists, and philosophers for centuries, and his enduring relevance is evident in the emblematic role he has played for generations. Kleist's prose works remain "utterly unique" seventy years after Thomas Mann described their singular appeal, his dramas remain "disturbingly current" four decades after E.L. Doctorow characterized their modernity, and twenty-first century readers need not read far before finding the unresolved questions of the current century in Kleist. Heinrich von Kleist: Artistic and Aesthetic Legacies explores examples of Kleist's impact on artistic creations and aesthetic theory spanning over two centuries of seismic metaphysical crises and nightmare scenarios from Europe to Mexico to Japan to manifestations of the American Dream.
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Thomas Bernhard: Language, History, Subjectivity

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 Thomas Bernhard, one of the most significant post-war European writers, continues to fascinate. The twenty essays in this bilingual volume offer new readings of the Austrian writer's works via three interconnected strands: language, history and subjectivity. In Austria, Bernhard was often viewed as an enfant terrible. Yet after his death in 1989, he has increasingly undergone what novelist Alexander Schimmelbusch calls a 'Mozartisation'. Against this background, the volume refocuses attention on Bernhard's works themselves, underlining why these continue to be subversive and compelling. The essays in this volume address Bernhard's creative linguistic interventions; his theatrical verve; his literary persona; and his response to the traumatic historical legacy which continues to shape Austrian subjectivities long after 1945. Thomas Bernhard - einer der bedeutendsten europaischen Nachkriegsautoren - wurde in Osterreich oft als enfant terrible wahrgenommen. Nach seinem Tod in 1989 kam es jedoch immer mehr zu einem Prozess der Mozartisierung" (Alexander Schimmelbusch), dem Versuch, Bernhard in das offizielle osterreichische Selbstbild einzureihen. Vor diesem Hintergrund lenkt dieser Band die Aufmerksamkeit wieder auf Bernhards Werke selbst und unterstreicht, warum diese nach wie vor subversiv, spannend und nicht zuletzt irritierend sind. Unter den miteinander verbundenen Themenschwerpunkten Sprache, Geschichte und Subjektivitat befassen sich die Beitrage mit Bernhards kreativen sprachlichen Interventionen, seiner theatralischen Prasenz, seiner literarischen Persona und seiner Reaktion auf das traumatische historische Erbe, das die osterreichischen Subjektivitaten noch lange nach 1945 pragt. Auch, aber keineswegs nur deshalb, hat Bernhard nichts von seiner Faszination eingebut.
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Interrogations Of Evolutionism In German Literature 1859-2011

by Nicholas Saul

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 Darwin's idea has been called the best idea anyone ever had. In Interrogations of Evolutionism in German Literature 1859-2011 Nicholas Saul offers the first representative account of German literary responses to Darwinian evolutionism from Raabe and Jensen via Ernst Junger and Botho Strau to Dietmar Dath. Often identified with National Socialist ideology and hence notably absent from the public sphere after 1945, Darwinian thought is in fact shown to be distorted though the lens of Social Darwinism and bionationalist organicism. As Nicholas Saul shows, literature has been the main agent in public discourse for challenging such illiberal presentations, and there is a common thread of salvific individualism which leads to the new legitimacy of Darwinian discourse today.
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Vorstufen Des Exils / Early Stages Of Exile

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 Exile is usually defined as the time one lives elsewhere, involuntarily separated from home. However, exile can also be conceptualized more broadly as a process already starting at home, while traveling into exile and/or before arriving in the place of exile. These are the early stages of exile. They include the sense of alienation at home for political, racist, religious, cultural or linguistic reasons, also for reasons of sexual orientation or censorship. Pondering the pros and cons of exile, establishing networks of resistance, matters of bureaucracy or learning a new language are just some of the additional aspects. Based on a conference held at Loyola University Chicago in 2018, this volume attempts to shed detailed light on those early stages of exile. Exil wird gewohnlich als die Zeit definiert, in der man unfreiwillig getrennt von der Heimat anderswo lebt. Exil kann aber weiter gefasst auch als Prozess begriffen werden, der bereits in der Heimat, unterwegs und/oder vor der Ankunft im Exilland anfangt. Es sind Vorstufen des Exils. Sie schlieen das Gefuhl der Entfremdung von der Heimat aus politischen, rassistischen, religiosen, kulturellen oder sprachlichen Grunden ein, ebenfalls aus Grunden der sexuellen Orientierung oder Zensur. Uberlegungen zum Fur und Wider des Exilgangs, der Aufbau von Netzwerken des Widerstands, der burokratische Hurdenlauf oder das Erlernen einer neuen Sprache sind nur einige der weiteren Aspekte. Auf der Grundlage einer Konferenz 2018 an der Loyola University Chicago geht dieser Band den Vorstufen des Exils detailliert nach.
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Shakespeare As German Author - Reception, Translation Theory, And Cultural Transfer

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 Shakespeare as German Author, edited by John McCarthy, revisits in particular the formative phase of German Shakespeare reception 1760-1830. Following a detailed introduction to the historical and theoretical parameters of an era in search of its own literary voice, six case studies examine Shakespeare's catalytic role in reshaping German aesthetics and stage production. They illuminate what German speakers found so appealing (or off-putting) about Shakespeare's spirit, consider how translating it nurtured new linguistic and aesthetic sensibilities, and reflect on its relationship to German Geist through translation and cultural transfer theory. In the process, they shed new light, e.g., on the rise of Hamlet to canonical status, the role of women translators, and why Titus Andronicus proved so influential in twentieth-century theater performance. Contributors are: Lisa Beesley, Astrid Drose, Johanna Hornig, Till Kinzel, John A. McCarthy, Curtis L. Maughan, Monika Nenon, Christine Nilsson.
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Georg Buchner - Contemporary Perspectives

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 Georg Buchner: Contemporary Perspectives examines the continuing relevance of Buchner in the early twenty-first century in terms of politics, science, philosophy, aesthetics, cultural studies and performance studies. It situates Buchner's interdisciplinary work in relation to the philosophical, scientific and religious discourses of his time, while also investigating the ways in which Buchner's intersectional writings anticipated - sometimes uncannily - questions and problems which were to become central concerns in modernism and after. The nineteen essays in the book, some in English and some in German, uniquely combine close readings of individual passages and images with wide-ranging intertextual comparisons, linking Buchner to more than twenty-five writers, thinkers and theoreticians from his time and ours. Der Band Georg Buchner: Contemporary Perspectives beschaftigt sich mit Buchners anhaltender Aktualitat in den Bereichen Politik, Naturwissenschaft, Philosophie, Asthetik, Kulturwissenschaft und Theater. Er setzt Buchners interdisziplinares Werk in Beziehung zu den philosophischen, naturwissenschaftlichen und religiosen Themen seiner Zeit, untersucht aber auch wie sein Schreiben auf manchmal verbluffende Weise Fragen und Probleme vorwegnimmt, die fur die Moderne und die Nachmoderne bis zum heutigen Tag zentral werden sollten. Die neunzehn, teils auf Englisch, teils auf Deutsch verfassten Beitrage zeichnen sich dadurch aus, dass sie eingehende Einzelinterpretationen bestimmter Werkstellen mit weitreichenden intertextuellen Bezugen zu mehr als 25 SchriftstellerInnen, KunstlerInnen, DenkerInnen, und TheoretikerInnen verbinden.
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