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Theodor Fontane and the European Context
On the centenary of Fontane’s death and at the turn of the century these essays take a new look at this supreme chronicler of Prussia and of the Germany that emerges after 1871. Written by scholars from different countries and disciplines, they focus on novels and theatre reviews from the perspectives of philosophy, sociology, comparative literature and translation theory, and in the contexts of topography and painting. Connections and crosscurrents emerge to reveal new aspects of Fontane’s poetics and to produce contrasting but complementary readings of his novels. He appears in the company of predecessors and contemporaries, such as Scott, Thackeray, Saar, Ibsen, Turgenev, but also in that of writers he has rarely, if ever, been seen beside, such as E.T.A. Hoffmann, Stendhal, Trollope, Henry James and Edith Wharton, Beckett and Faulkner. The historical novel and the social position of women are each a recurring focus of interest. Fontane emerges as receptive to other voices, as a precursor of developments in modern narrative, and confirmed as the novelist who brings the nineteenth-century German novel closest to the broad traditions of European realism.
The Changing Image of Theodor Fontane
Wide-ranging survey of the criticism devoted to Theodor Fontane, with particular emphasis on more recent theoretical trends. This study of the literary scholarship on Fontane's narrative works is the first to present a systematic review of the ever-growing body of criticism on Germany's major realist novelist. Significant developments in Fontane criticism are traced in historical context, from their beginnings in contemporary commentary to the present day. The author places special emphasis on scholarship since 1980, analysing the influence of new literary critical trends in this period; she also considers the effect upon traditional literary criticism of feminism, psychoanalysis, and comparatist approaches, and the fresh developments in reception history, translation, and media studies.
Le commerce du coton en Méditerranée à la fin du Moyen Age
This book examines the significance of the cotton trade in the Mediterranean traffic in the Later Middle Ages and evaluates its effects on the economy of the Occident. It covers all aspects of the production of, commerce and trade in cotton. The merchants of Venice, Genoa, Barcelona and Florence played the most important role in the cotton trade in the Mediterranean. The massing of supplies of raw material by the merchants of the four maritime cities led to the mass fabrication of cotton products. In this way Western society saw a remarkable growth in the consumption of cotton products in the Later Middle Ages.
German Literature as a Transnational Field of Production, 1848-1919
A collection of new essays bringing into view the push and pull of the national and the international in the German-language cultural field of the period. The cultural formations of the so-called Age of Nationalism (1848-1919) have shaped German-language literary studies to the present day, for better or worse. Literary histories, German self-representations, the view from abroad - all of these perspectives offer images of a culture ever more concerned with formulating a coherent, nationally focused idea of its origins, history, and cultural community. But even in this historical moment the German-speaking territories were not culturally self-contained; international forces always played a s...
Perspectives on Henri Lefebvre
The articles take a decidedly interdisciplinary look at the opus of the French philosopher, sociologist and pioneer of spatial analysis Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991). His works are reflected upon from theoretical and practical perspectives by authors from various fields (literature, history, philosophy, sociology, ethnology) closely examining text references from Lefebvre.
Archeologie del dispositivo
La cultura visuale contemporanea è interessata a uno studio contestuale delle immagini, dei media che le producono e riproducono e degli sguardi che su di esse si posano. In quest’ottica, il presente saggio procede a uno studio comparato di discorso letterario e visuale, cercando di individuare le profonde trasformazioni che immagini, dispositivi e sguardi hanno prodottto sulla scrittura letteraria, sia dal punto di vista tematologico sia da quello formale. Lo studio delle trasformazioni e delle sovrapposizioni dei regimi scopici dal XVIII al XX secolo si rivela così uno strumento ermeneutico indispensabile per comprendere la letteratura nel contesto più ampio della comunicazione artistica.
Critica della retorica democratica
Un saggio lucido. Una storia lunga duemilacinquecento anni. Franco Cardini Da Socrate a Bush, una riflessione disincantata sui limiti della democrazia e un invito alla ragione critica nell'epoca del pensiero unico e del 'fondamentalismo democratico', secondo i quali è inammissibile qualunque sistema economico e politico diverso dal nostro.
