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Myth in the Modern Novel
Myth in the Modern Novel: Imagining the Absolute posits a twofold thesis. First, although Modernity is regarded as an era dominated by science and rational thought, it has in fact not relinquished the hold of myth, a more "primitive" form of thought which is difficult to reconcile with modern rationality. Second, some of the most important statements as to the reconcilability of myth and Modernity are found in the work of certain prominent novelists. This book offers a close examination of the work of eleven writers from the late eighteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first, representing German, French, American, Czech and Swedish literature. The analyses of individual novels reveal a variety of intriguing views of myth in Modernity, and offer an insight into the "modernizing" transformations myth has undergone when applied in the modern novel. The study shows the presence of the "subconscious", the mythic layer, in modern western culture and how this has been dealt with in novelistic literature.
Female Performers in British and American Fiction
The female performer with a public voice constitutes a remarkably vibrant theme in British and American narratives of the long nineteenth century. The tension between fictional female performers and other textual voices can be seen to refigure the cultural debate over the ‘voice’ of women in aesthetically complex ways. By focusing on singers, actresses, preachers and speakers, this book traces and explores an important tradition of feminine articulation. Drawing on critical approaches in literary studies, gender studies and philosophy, the book conceptualizes voice for the discussion of narrative texts. Examining voice both as a thematic concern and as an aesthetic effect, the individual chapters analyse how the actual articulation by female performers correlates with their cultural visibility and agency. What this study foregrounds is how women characters succeed in making themselves heard even if their voices are silenced in the end.
Die Mappe-Monde Nouvelle Papistique
Mit diesem Band werden die eingehenden Studien von Frank Lestringant zur Mappe-Monde Nouvelle Papistique (1566) erstmals dem deutschsprachigen Publikum präsentiert. Zu diesem Anlass hat der Autor eine überarbeitete und erweiterte Fassung seiner „Introduction“ aus der 2009 bei Librairie Droz in Genf erschienenen kritischen Edition vorgelegt. Die deutsche Ausgabe fokussiert auf den Bildteil der Mappe-Monde, dieses vergessenen Werkes der calvinistischen Propaganda der posttridentinischen Ära. Was ehemals in polemisch-satirischer Absicht als geistliche Waffe im theologischen Kampf den Sittenverfall der katholischen Kirche anprangern wollte, besitzt heute nur mehr den Wert einer kostbaren Kuriosität. Neben der theologisch-didaktischen gilt es, auch die ästhetische Valenz dieses bildnerischen Labyrinths zu entdecken, das vielfältige Vernetzungen mit der scholastischen Wissenstradition zeigt und den Bildersturm zu einem visuellen, gleichsam theatralischen Ereignis werden lässt.
Nature in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Times
The study of pre-modern anthropology requires the close examination of the relationship between nature and human society, which has been both precarious and threatening as well as productive, soothing, inviting, and pleasurable. Much depends on the specific circumstances, as the works by philosophers, theologians, poets, artists, and medical practitioners have regularly demonstrated. It would not be good enough, as previous scholarship has commonly done, to examine simply what the various writers or artists had to say about nature. While modern scientists consider just the hard-core data of the objective world, cultural historians and literary scholars endeavor to comprehend the deeper meani...
Cy-Borges
"Cy-Borges provides radically new, "posthumanist" readings of such established Borgesian fictions as "The Aleph," "The Library of Babel," "Funes the Memorious," "The Garden of Forking Paths," and "The Circular Ruins." They will be equally illuminating to readers of Hispanic and world literature, as to students of critical and cultural theory, and anybody who is fascinated with the idea of the "posthuman" and "posthumanism.""--BOOK JACKET.
Die Kommunikations-, Wissens- und Handlungsräume der Henriette Herz (1764–1847)
Sowohl in der populären Wahrnehmung als auch in der Forschung wird Henriette Herz vor allem als »Berliner Salonière« und »Schöne Jüdin« wahrgenommen. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes eröffnen neue und differenzierte Perspektiven auf ihr Leben und Werk. Anliegen des Bandes ist, die Kommunikations-, Wissens- und Handlungsräume, in denen sich Henriette Herz bewegte und die sie zugleich selbst schuf bzw. mit prägte, unter interdisziplinären Fragestellungen zu untersuchen. Das Bild von Henriette Herz als Symbolfigur der Berliner Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte wird so um wesentliche Aspekte erweitert und es werden weitere wichtige Zugänge zur sonst gut erforschten Literaturgeschichte um 180...
Kesselsdorf 1745
When one thinks of the wars of the eighteenth century, one thinks of the significant clashes of great military powers: the War of the Spanish Succession and the Battles of Blenheim and Malplaquet, the Great Northern War and the Battles of Narva and Poltava, the War of the Austrian Succession and Fontenoy, the Seven Years War with Roßbach, Leuthen and Zorndorf, or the American War of Independence with Saratoga and Yorktown. All of these engagements appear again and again in the lists of the great battles of world history, and there are reasons why they deserve a place in them. Yet none of them brought an end to the war in which they were fought. Not so the Battle of Kesselsdorf, which is lar...
„Il Gattopardo“ nella DDR
Sulla base di materiale d’archivio inedito si ripercorre l’avvincente storia della prima edizione del Gattopardo nella DDR (1961). È qui analizzata la corsa ad ostacoli del romanzo tra congruenze ed eccezioni che assume i tratti di un giallo letterario. L’opera di un principe defunto scavalca il Muro grazie ad Alfred Kurella, potente funzionario della SED. Nella sua postfazione Il Gattopardo non è canto della decadenza, ma preannuncio di una nuova epoca, manifesto dello Stato in procinto di entrare nell’era socialista. La chiave di lettura è un unicum con una marcata impronta ideologica che ne determina prima la fortuna e poi l’isolamento. Al Gattopardo nella Germania Est Bernardina Rago dà per la prima volta voce.
Les femmes en mouvement – L’univers sentimental et intellectuel des romancières du début du XIXe siècle
Ce volume se consacre tout particulièrement à une série de romancières dela génération nées dans les années 1760 et 1770, dont certaines, longtemps oubliées, se retrouvent aujourd’hui au centre de l’intérêt de la recherche. Selon le système d’une écriture du mouvement, on peut distinguer plusieurs types de déplacements, d’échanges, de transports intérieurs. Si les déplacements prennent, pour certaines, la forme de trajets diplomatiques et de voyages à vocation touristique, ils sont pour beaucoup des voyages contraints, provoqués par les violences de l’Histoire qu’il faut fuir en terre d’exil. L’expérience traumatisante de l’émigration et du déracinement qu’elle implique travaille en profondeur les romans du tournant du siècle. Le mouvement dans un deuxième sens nous conduit à mettre au jour l’intense et diverse circulation des idées et des œuvres à travers l’Europe du début du XIXe siècle.
