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Behind the Frontiers of the Real
This book offers a definition of the fantastic that establishes it as a discourse in constant intertextual relation with the construct of reality. In establishing the definition of the fantastic, leading scholar David Roas selects four central concepts that allow him to chart a fairly clear map of this terrain: reality, the impossible, fear, and language. These four concepts underscore the fundamental issues and problems that articulate any theoretical reflection on the fantastic: its necessary relationship to an idea of the real, its limits, its emotional and psychological effects on the receiver and the transgression of language that is undertaken when attempting to express what is, by definition, inexpressible as it is beyond the realms of the conceivable. By examining such concepts, the book explores multiple perspectives that are clearly interrelated: from literary and comparative theory to linguistics, via philosophy, science and cyberculture.
The Arthur of the Iberians
Up-to-date Coverage of the scope and extent of the important tradition of Arthurian material in Iberian languages and of the modern scholarship on it. (= Wide-ranging bibliographical coverage and guide to both texts and research on them.) Written by Specialists in the different Romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula (Portuguese, Catalan, Galician, Spanish and its dialects). (= Expert analysis of different traditions by leading scholars from Spain and the UK.) Wide-ranging Study not only of medieval and Renaissance literary texts, but also of modern Arthurian fiction, of the global spread of Arthurian legends in the Spanish and Portuguese worlds, and of the social impact of the legends through adoption of names of Arthurian characters and imitation of practices narrated in the legends. (=A comprehensive guide to both literary and social impact of Arthurian material in major world languages.)
Fifteenth-Century Studies
This volume of Fifteenth-Century Studies is derived from the 1995 Fifteenth-Century Symposium, held in Kaprun, Austria. As usual, it includes essays on numerous aspects of life during the time:interdisciplinary in approach, topics include Piers Plowman, Christine de Pizan, and Ovid in the Florentine renaissance. Examinations of the recent critical attention given to late-medieval drama and to Villon complete the volume.
Batman and the Shadows of Modernity
This book aims to study the Batman narrative, or Bat-narrative, from the point of view of its nodal relationship to modern narrative. To this end, it offers for the first time a new type of methodology adequate to the object, which delves both into materials scarcely studied in this context and well-known materials seen in a new light. This is a multidisciplinary work aimed at both the specialist and the global reader, bringing together comic studies, philosophical criticism, and literary criticism in a debate on the fate of our current global civilization.
Literatures of the World
In this volume, Ottmar Ette unfolds a theory and practice of the Literatures of the World from a fractal and multi-perspective point of view.
Arthurian Bibliography IV
This fourth volume of entries, culled in the main from BBSIA, covers the years 1933 to 1998 inclusive. The cumulative volumes of the Bibliography offer an exhaustive author and title database of the burgeoning scholarship in this field.
Food, Feasting and Table Manners in the Late Middle Ages
This book offers a study of what and how people ate in the Iberian Peninsula between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries. It has long been recognized that Mediterranean cultures attach great importance to communal meals and food cooked with great refinement. However, whilst medieval feasting in England, France and Italy has been thoroughly studied, Spain and Portugal have both been somewhat neglected in this area of study. This volume analyses how medieval men of the Iberian Peninsula questioned themselves about different aspects deemed important in social feasting. It investigates the acquisition of table manners and rhetorical skills, the interaction between medicine and eating, and the presence of food in literature and religion. The book also shows how this shared society and culture, as well as their attitude towards food, connected them to a Western European tradition. The book will appeal to scholars and students alike interested in food and feasting from the perspectives of literature, history, language, art, religion and medicine, and to those interested in a social, cultural and literary overview of life in the Iberian Peninsula during the late Middle Ages.
Werte und Paradigmen zwischen Wandel und Kontinuität
Der vorliegende Band setzt sich zum Ziel, die Brüchigkeit, Konstruiertheit und historische Kontingenz von kulturellen und gesellschaftlichen Werten und Paradigmen einer literaturwissenschaftlichen und sprachwissenschaftlichen Reflexion zu unterziehen. Vor einem diachronen und synchronen Hintergrund fragen die einzelnen Beiträge des Bandes nach den vergangenen und aktuellen, kritisch-reflexiven Zugängen zu unabschließbaren Debatten um Herausbildung neuartiger Schicksalsgemeinschaften. Der Wandel im Sinne von Re-Formulierung, Neu-Codierung, Hybridisierung, Verschiebung der Semantiken und Diskurse wird dabei sowohl anhand literarischer Texte wie auch sprachkritischer Analysen verfolgt. The ...
Von Zäsuren und Ereignissen
»Es ist nichts mehr, wie es war.« - Unmittelbar nach den Terroranschlägen des 11. September 2001 war im öffentlichen Diskurs die Rede von einer einzigartigen Zäsur in der Weltgeschichte. Doch wie einzigartig war das Ereignis wirklich? Die Beiträge dieses Bandes vergleichen die Rezeption verschiedener historischer Einschnitte in Literatur, Presse, Theorie und Film - beginnend mit dem Erdbeben in Lissabon von 1755 bis hin zum Attentat auf die Madrider U-Bahn im Jahre 2004 - mit den medialen und kulturellen Verarbeitungen von 9/11 und arbeiten so Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede heraus.
Bertolt Brecht in Systemkonflikten
Bertolt Brecht ist voller Widersprüche. Risse, Spaltungen und Unvereinbarkeiten in seinem Leben wie in seinen Texten fordern zur aktiven Lesart heraus. Seine konsequente Verweigerung der logischen Zusammenhänge im Leben, seine Infragestellung der Nachhaltigkeit von Kulturen und politischen Systemen und seine vehemente Hervorhebung des Widersprüchlichen im Menschen in gesellschaftlichen und historischen Prozessen bilden Orientierungspunkte für eine vertiefte Reflexion über die Bedeutung des Theaterdenkers heute. Angesichts der vielerorts schwierigen Rezeption Brechts stellt sich die Frage nach seinem Nachleben in diversen gesellschaftlichen, politischen und kulturellen Systemen. Das ermutigt zu einer neuen, transnationalen Lesart Brechts, die der Globalisierung und dem Multi- und Transkulturalismus zum Trotz allerdings vielerorts weiterhin in alten, nationalen Denkmustern begriffen zu sein scheint.
