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Dealing with Authorship
Literature and film generate symbolic as well as economic capital. As such, aesthetic productions exist in various contexts following contrasting rules. Which role(s) do authors and filmmakers play in positioning themselves in this conflictive relation? Bringing together fourteen essays by scholars from Germany, the USA, the UK and France, this volume examines the multiple ways in which the progressive (self-) fashioning of authors and filmmakers interacts with the public sphere, generating authorial postures, and thus arouses attention. It questions the autonomous nature of the artistic creation and highlights the parallels and differences between the more or less clear-cut national context...
In Search of the Culprit
Despite various poststructuralist rejections of the idea of a singular author-genius, the question of a textual archetype that can be assigned to a named author is still a common scholarly phantasm. The Romantic idea that an author created a text or even a work autonomously is transferred even to pre-modern literature today. This ignores the fact that the transmission of medieval and early modern literature creates variances that could not be justified by means of singular authorships. The present volume offers new theoretical approaches from English, German, and Scandinavian studies to provide a historically more adequate approach to the question of authorship in premodern literary cultures. Authorship is no longer equated with an extra-textual entity, but is instead considered a narratological, inner- and intertextual function that can be recognized in the retrospectively established beginnings of literature as well as in the medial transformation of texts during the early days of printing. The volume is aimed at interested scholars of all philologies, especially those dealing with the Middle Ages or Early Modern Period.
Transnational American Memories
The volume gathers twenty original essays by experts of American memory studies from the United States and Europe. It extends discussions of U.S. American cultures of memory, commemorative identity construction, and the politics of remembrance into the topical field of transnational and comparative American studies. In the contexts of the theoretical turns since the 1990s, including prominently the pictorial and the spatial turns, and in the wake of multicultural and international conceptions of American history, the contributions to the collection explore the cultural productivity and political implications of both officially endorsed memories and practices of oppositional remembrance. Read...
9/11 in European Literature
This volume looks at the representation of 9/11 and the resulting wars in European literature. In the face of inner-European divisions the texts under consideration take the terror attacks as a starting point to negotiate European as well as national identity. While the volume shows that these identity formations are frequently based on the construction of two Others—the US nation and a cultural-ethnic idea of Muslim communities—it also analyses examples which undermine such constructions. This much more self-critical strand in European literature unveils the Eurocentrism of a supposedly general humanistic value system through the use of complex aesthetic strategies. These strategies are in itself characteristic of the European reception as the Anglo-Irish, British, Dutch, Flemish, French, German, Italian, and Polish perspectives collected in this volume perceive of the terror attacks through the lens of continental media and semiotic theory.
Postjugoslawische Reisen in der deutschsprachigen Literatur
Die Studie widmet sich signifikanten Veränderungen innerhalb des literarischen Feldes zum Erzählgegenstand Jugoslawien: Zwischen der Veröffentlichung von Peter Handkes Winterlicher Reise (1996) und Saša Stanišićs Erzählwerk Herkunft (2019) ist eine diskursive Verschiebung von ‚fremden‘, externen Perspektiven auf den (post-)jugoslawischen Kulturraum zu autobiographischen Erzähltexten zu beobachten, was sich besonders gut an der Handke-Nobelpreis-Debatte im Jahr 2019 erkennen lässt. Den Untersuchungsgegenstand der Studie bilden Erzähltexte, die auf eigenen oder familiären Erfahrungen von Flucht und Migration dreier Autor:innen aufbauen: Saša Stanišić, Jagoda Marinić und Mark...
Wiederbelebungsversuche. Mediologisches Erzaehlen in der deutschsprachigen Literatur der 1990er Jahre
The narrations of many young authors of the 1990s operate under and in the terms of the new media at the same time, so the reader is able to observe how media change forms of communication. With the narration a well-known topic is repeated and reanimated. The presence of sensual effects of one medium in another is analysed by the mediological method, which also develops in the 1990s. So this way of narrating, which is significant for the 1990s, is called mediological narration.
Retroaktive Avantgarde
Etwa 100 Jahre nach dem ersten futuristischen Manifest, das den Auftakt für eine ganze Reihe avantgardistischer Programmschriften bedeutete, bedienen sich deutschsprachige Pop-Gruppen wie Tocotronic, Locas In Love und Ja, Panik erneut der Textsorte. Titel wie »Kapitulation« und »The Angst and the Money« lassen schon erahnen, dass es sich hierbei kaum um selbstbewusste Kampfansagen handelt, wie es »Musik ist eine Waffe!« von Ton Steine Scherben noch war. Die Diskurspopgruppen verorten sich mit ihren Manifesten zwischen Kampf und Verweigerung, Innovation und Retromanie, Pop und Politik, Ästhetik und Verkrampfung, Kapitalismuskritik und Business. In kulturpoetischen Analysen wird ein br...
