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The Sublime Artist's Studio
The relation of the visual arts to Vladimir Nabokov's work is the subject of this in-depth and detailed study of one of the most significant facets of this modern master's oeuvre.
Recollection, Memory and Imagination
Based on intertextual evidence in Nabokov's late novel Ada, this monograph traces the triad of memory, recollection and imagination, which is central to Nabokov's poetics and art of life writing, back to the works of St. Augustine of Hippo, who on the threshold of the early Middle Ages wrote the first autobiography and to whose autobiographical writings this triad is likewise essential. Furthermore this book investigates to which extent the Augustinian art of memory influenced Nabokov's fictive autobiographies. By selecting a sample comprising Mary (Mashen'ka), The Gift (Dar), Lolita, and Ada, the continuous importance of the Augustinian paradigm throughout Nabokov's multilingual career is demonstrated.
The Nabokovian
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Religion in African-American Culture
This volume focuses on the multi-faceted significance of religion in African-American literature and culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The series of essays addresses religion as part of the self-empowerment of African-American women as itinerant preachers, the curious intermingling of Catholicism and Voodoo in Louisiana Creole culture, the representation of Obeah women, and the tradition of the folk sermon in James Weldon Johnson. The Harlem Renaissance provides the backdrop for the discussion of Afro-Modernism and religion in Claude McKay's and Jean Toomer's works, for the analysis of African-American folk plays by Richard Bruce and Georgia Douglas Johnson, and a comparison of Nella Larsen's and Ralph Ellison's critical views of religion as well as an illustration of the connections between spiritual search and the blues in Ellison's works. Discussions of the contemporary scene include the poetry of Robert Hayden, twentieth-century African-American intellectuals' views on religion and history and the acceptance of the Nation of Islam as an American religion.
Europe and America
This volume grew out of the conference "Europe and America: cultures in translation," held in Tutzing, Bavaria, October 2005.
Amerikastudien
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2010 [catalog]
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„… essence has been revealed to me“. Umkreisungen des Nondualen im Prosawerk von Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov gelingt in seinem Prosawerk scheinbar mühelos der Spagat zwischen höchster Glückseligkeit und tiefster Grausamkeit. Wie ist das möglich? Nora Scholz findet im Phänomen des Nondualen einen Analyse- und Erklärungsansatz dafür. Im Nondualen korreliert die „Essenz der Dinge“ mit der Ich-Losigkeit und dem „reinen Sehen“. Jegliche Perspektive erscheint als eine Art „Filter“ der reinen Wahrnehmung. In der Erzählung Ultima Thule schreibt Nabokov selbst „essence has been revealed to me …“ Vor diesem Hintergrund wirft die Autorin einen neuen Blick auf die oft, nicht zuletzt von Nabokov selbst, konstatierte „Tyrannei“ der Autorschaft und findet so einen einzigartigen Zugang zu Nabokovs Werk.
Die Tragödie und Komödie des amerikanischen Lebens
Philip Roth schuf mit seiner Amerika-Trilogie - bestehend aus American Pastoral, I Married a Communist und The Human Stain - ein opus magnum, das fur eine Kulturdiagnose der amerikanischen Gesellschaft von der McCarthy-Ara bis zu den Clinton-Jahren von unschatzbarem Wert ist. Roths Romane sind gepragt durch seine anti-idyllische Amerikakonzeption und seine Ablehnung jedweder asthetischer wie politischer Korrektheit. Durch den Fokus des Erzahlers Nathan Zuckerman prasentiert Roth eindrucksvoll das Drama der Selbsterkenntnis auf der Suche nach dem guten Leben. Roth erweist sich als philosophisch tiefgrundiger Dichter eben jener 'Tragodie und Komodie des Lebens' (Platon), die unausweichlich mit der wesenhaften Unreinheit des Menschen verbunden ist. Roths Asthetik, so zeigt sich, dient einer Moral der Erkenntnis, die sich der Erbaulichkeit und dem Kitsch verweigert.
