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Moral Seascapes
We are no strangers today to visual representations of human suffering at sea: the refugee crisis that continues to play out in the seascape between Europe and Africa (and not only there) yields an ever-growing archive of humanitarian tragedy. As both a visual backdrop and a lethal medium of unequal mobility, maritime space and landscape play a significant role in mediating the ethical demands of this crisis. Yet, there has been little exploration of the longer history of morality’s role in our understanding of aesthetic representations of the sea. The diverse contributions in Moral Seascapes explore the various symbolic forms through which these shifting moral norms and values have been manifested, contributing to debates concerning the place of the sea in visual and literary cultures and the history of morality and emotion, as well as the emergence of modern subjectivity. Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary perspectives such as visual culture, experimental art history, literary studies, history and philosophy, Moral Seascapes develops distinctive new insights into the relationship between the moral cultures of modernity and the image of the sea.
The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism
The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism, Covers all aspects of medievalism in Victorian Britain, Contextualizes the phenomenon historically, with chapters looking at earlier centuries, Relates Victorian medievalism to medievalism in other countries Book jacket.
Narrative Structure and Narrative Knowing in Medicine and Science
It has become a truism that we all think in the narrative mode, both in everyday life and in science. But what does this mean precisely? Scholars tend to use the term ‘narrative’ in a broad sense, implying not only event-sequencing but also the representation of emotions, basic perceptual processes or complex analyses of data sets. The volume addresses this blind spot by using clear selection criteria: only non-fictional texts by experts are analysed through the lens of both classical and postclassical narratology – from Aristotle to quantum physics and from nineteenth-century psychiatry to early childhood psychology; they fall under various genres such as philosophical treatises, case histories, textbooks, medical reports, video clips, and public lectures. The articles of this volume examine the central but continuously shifting role that event-sequencing plays within scholarly and scientific communication at various points in history – and the diverse functions it serves such as eye witnessing, making an argument, inferencing or reasoning. Thus, they provide a new methodological framework for both literary scholars and historians of science and medicine.
ReClaiming Participation
This volume unravels the debates on the »Participation Age«: Instead of perpetuating visions of social »all-inclusion« or the »digital divide«, the collection reclaims collectivity as an effect of technological and historical conditions. Thinking of participation both as promise and duty, the contributions analyse the attractions and impositions connected to the socio-technical formation of collectivities. The constraints of participation are addressed by focusing on the mutual shaping of user practices and technological environments. It is hence a relational thinking that allows specifying the manifold interconnections of technology, practices and discourses.
Mnemopoetik
In der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts avanciert die Erinnerung zu einem zentralen Gegenstand der deutschsprachigen Lyrik. Das bislang in der Forschung weitgehend marginalisierte Genre der Erinnerungslyrik wird in der vorliegenden Arbeit erstmals systematisch erschlossen. Die Untersuchung ist zum einen auf die lyrische Inszenierung von Erinnerungsakten, -orten und -objekten ausgerichtet. Zum anderen wird diskutiert, inwieweit sich insbesondere in der Geschichts-, Denkmals- und Trauerlyrik erinnerungspoetische Formationen herausbilden. Die künstlerisch anspruchsvollen und zeitreflexiven Erinnerungsgedichte August von Platens und Eduard Mörikes werden in zwei eigenständigen Fallstudien behandelt.
Im Fuhrpark der Literatur
Manta, Marken, Mobile – eine kluge Kulturgeschichte des Autos. Die heutige selbstverständliche Automobilität wird durch die Klimakrise und die sich abzeichnende Verkehrswende ebenso infrage gestellt wie durch die Digitalisierung. Ausgehend von diesem kulturgeschichtlichen Wendepunkt suchen die Autorinnen und Autoren kulturelle Imaginationen des Autos zwischen nostalgischer Glorifizierung und auratisiertem Zukunftsversprechen. Im Zentrum stehen verschiedene Formen von Automobilität und ihre Grenzen, die in literarischen und filmischen Inszenierungen von Unfällen besonders drastisch sichtbar werden. Am Beispiel verschiedener Fahrzeugtypen lassen sich die Wege des Autos in die Moderne und...
Das Handwerk der Literatur
Zur Literatur- und Imaginationsgeschichte einer typisch modernen Faszination. Das Handwerk ist eine der großen Faszinationen der gesellschaftlichen Moderne. Das zeigt auch die Literatur, die zwar kein Handwerk ist, sich aber durchgängig mit Handwerk befasst. Nicht umsonst präsentieren literarische und ästhetische Texte seit der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts auffallend häufig längst vergangene Handwerkswelten, stellen Handwerker und Handwerkerinnen dar oder diskutieren im Rückgriff auf Handwerk den Status von Literatur und vor allem die Unterscheidung zwischen "guter" und "schlechter" Literatur. Michael Bies untersucht diesen kontinuierlichen, in seiner Breite bislang aber nicht erfassten Bezug von Literatur auf Handwerk. In seiner komparatistisch angelegten Analyse zeigt er in Lektüren deutschsprachiger Texte der Zeit zwischen 1775 und 1950, dass Literatur entscheidend an der "Erfindung" eines typischen modernen Handwerksbildes mitarbeitet und nicht nur moderne Arbeitsverhältnisse reflektiert, wenn sie von Handwerk handelt, sondern auch sich selbst und ihre eigenen Möglichkeiten zu erfassen sucht.
Trans Materiality and Queer Politics in Troubling Times
The third issue of TRANSPOSITIONES is devoted to trans concepts of materiality and queer politics emerging from the view of the world entangled in the hybrid relationships of matter, gender, human and nonhuman, technology and epistemology derived from Barad’s agential realist interpretation of quantum physics. The central texts in this issue are the German translations of Karen Barad’s article “Trans-Materialities: Trans*/Matter/Realities and Queer Political Imaginings” and Susan Stryker’s essay “My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix. Performing Transgender Rage”. The basic intention of this issue is, therefore, to form a platform for critical discussion of Karen Barad’s method of discursive transposition of approaches, assuming a subversive coexistence of post-secular conversions of the idea of genesis and physically proven sources of planetary life on Earth.
At the Limit of the Obscene
As German-language literature turned in the mid-nineteenth century to the depiction of the profane, sensual world, a corresponding anxiety emerged about the terms of that depiction—with consequences not only for realist poetics but also for the conception of the material world itself. At the Limit of the Obscene examines the roots and repercussions of this anxiety in German realist and postrealist literature. Through analyses of works by Adalbert Stifter, Gustav Freytag, Theodor Fontane, Arno Holz, Gottfried Benn, and Franz Kafka, Erica Weitzman shows how German realism’s conflicted representations of the material world lead to an idea of the obscene as an excess of sensual appearance beyond human meaning: the obverse of the anthropocentric worldview that German realism both propagates and pushes to its crisis. At the Limit of the Obscene thus brings to light the troubled and troubling ontology underlying German realism, at the same time demonstrating how its works continue to shape our ideas about representability, alterity, and the relationship of human beings to the non-human well into the present day.
