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Body Knowledge
This book traces the deployment of intermedial aesthetics in the works of early twentieth-century female performers. By destabilizing medial and genre boundaries, these women created compelling and meaningful performances that negotiated turn-of-the-century American social and cultural issues.
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Food - Media - Senses
Food is more than just nutrition. Its preparation, presentation and consumption is a multifold communicative practice which includes the meal's design and its whole field of experience. How is food represented in cookbooks, product packaging or in paintings? How is dining semantically charged? How is the sensuality of eating treated in different cultural contexts? In order to acknowledge the material and media-related aspects of eating as a cultural praxis, experts from media studies, art history, literary studies, philosophy, experimental psychology, anthropology, food studies, cultural studies and design studies share their specific approaches.
Imaginations of Death and the Beyond in India and Europe
This volume explores current images of afterlife/afterdeath and the presence of the dead in the imaginations of the living in Indian and European traditions. Specifically, it focuses on the deepest and most fundamental uncertainty of human existence---the awareness of human mortality, on which depends any assignment of meaning to earthly existence as also to notions of worldly and otherworldly salvation. This central idea is addressed in the literature, arts, audiovisual media and other cultural artefacts of the two traditions. The chapters are based on two main assumptions: First, that one cannot report on the direct experience of death; so it is only possible to speak allegorically of it. ...
Philology in the Making
Philological practices have served to secure and transmit textual sources for centuries. However - this volume contends -, it is only in the light of the current radical media change labeled ›digital turn‹ that the material and technological prerequisites of the theory and practice of philology become fully visible. The seventeen studies by scholars from the universities of Budapest and Cologne assembled here investigate these recent transformations of our techniques of writing and reading by critically examining core approaches to the history and epistemology of the humanities. Thus, a broad praxeological overview of basic cultural techniques of collective memory is unfolded.
The House of Gordon
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Literarische Aleatorik
Aleatorische Texte transformieren klassische Buchformate und Lektürekonventionen - so eine gängige These. Zugleich lassen unkonventionelle Textgestaltungen aber auch Rückschlüsse auf grundlegende Rezeptionsweisen von Literatur zu: Texte, die als Loseblattsammlungen vorliegen, sich über verschiedene Einzelhefte zerstreuen oder in unterschiedlichen Reihenfolgen in den Buchhandel kommen, laden Leser*innen dazu ein, unverknüpfte Elemente miteinander zu verbinden und so den Akt der Formbildung selbst in die Hand zu nehmen. Die Beiträge widmen sich diesen spezifischen Dynamiken von (De-)Formation und Rezeption und werfen neue Perspektiven auf das bislang weitgehend produktionsästhetisch beleuchtete Phänomen ›Aleatorik‹.
Buch-Aisthesis
Literatur kann auch als Verbund von Medien betrachtet werden, die in Kooperations- und Konkurrenzverhältnissen auftreten. Dies wird umso deutlicher, wenn aus literatur- und designwissenschaftlicher Perspektive auf die Beobachtung der Differenz von typographischen und anderen, grundsätzlich nonverbalen visuellen Daten abgestellt wird. Die Beiträger*innen des Bandes leiten daraus ein Verhältnis von Literatur- und Kunstwissenschaft zu ihren Gegenständen ab, das nicht zuletzt zu einer neuen Aufmerksamkeit für die skripturale und typographische Materialität und Medialität der Literatur führt. Dabei geht es um die Theorie der Reflexion und die Praxis der Erzeugung einer je spezifischen Buch-Ästhetik.
