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Narratives of Scale in the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene concept draws attention to the various forms of entanglement of social, political, ecological, biological and geological processes at multiple spatial and temporal scales. The ensuing complexity and ambiguity create manifold challenges to widely established theories, methodologies, epistemologies and ontologies. The contributions to this volume engage with conceptual issues of scale in the Anthropocene with a focus on mediated representation and narrative. They are centered around the themes of scale and time, scale and the nonhuman and scale and space. The volume presents an interdisciplinary dialogue between sociology, geography, political sciences, history and literary, cultural and media studies. Together, they contribute to current debates on the (re-)imagining of forms of human responsibility that meet the challenges created by humanity entering an age of scalar complexity.
The Anthropocenic Turn
This interdisciplinary volume discusses whether the increasing salience of the Anthropocene concept in the humanities and the social sciences constitutes an "Anthropocenic turn." The Anthropocene discourse creates novel conceptual configurations and enables scholars to re-negotiate and re-contextualize long-established paradigms, premises, theories and methodologies. These innovative constellations stimulate fresh research in many areas of thought and practice. The contributors to this volume respond to the proposition of an "Anthropocene turn" from the perspective of diverse research fields, including history of science, philosophy, environmental humanities and political science as well as literary, art and media studies. Altogether, the collection reveals to which extent the Anthropocene concept challenges deep-seated assumptions across disciplines. It invites readers to explore the wealth of scholarly perspectives on the Anthropocene as well as unexpected inter- and transdisciplinary connections.
German-Language Nature Writing from Eighteenth Century to the Present
This volume examines the topic of German-language nature writing in a broad historical context spanning more than two centuries. It brings together contributions on the debates of the category 'Nature Writing’ by numerous renowned international scholars. It discusses literary texts of natural history, nature exploration, nature poetry perception and reflection by German-speaking authors since the 18th century, including texts by Ulrike Draesner and on Esther Kinsky’s writing. The book asks whether the here discussed texts can, should, or may also be labeled as 'Nature Writing' and how this new perspective on German literary history might change traditional classifications such as “Naturlyrik” (nature poetry) in German literary history.
Ecological Thought in German Literature and Culture
This volume surveys the contribution of German literature and culture to the evolution of ecological thought from the age of Goethe to the present. In a broad spectrum of essays from different periods, disciplines, and genres, it conveys both the uniqueness and the transnational significance of German ecological thought.
Women and Death
Identifies and analyzes thematizations of women and death from the past five centuries, illuminating the present and recent past. The theme of women and death is pervasive in the German culture of the past five centuries. With the conviction that only an interdisciplinary approach can explore a typology as far-reaching and significant as this, and in accordance with the feminist tenet that images are accountable for norms, this volume investigates how iconic representations of women and death came about and why they endure. Traditionally, representations of women as agents of death -- when they have been considered at all -- have been considered separately from women as victims, as though th...
REPRAESENTATIONSWEISEN DES ANTHROPOZAEN IN LITERATUR UND MEDIEN.
Das Anthropozän mit der Idee der systemischen Zusammenhänge von Mensch, Technologie und Umwelt ist durch Komplexität und disproportionale Skalierungseffekte von planetarischem und tiefenzeitlichem Ausmaß gekennzeichnet. Der Band geht der Frage nach, mit welchen Rhetoriken und Strategien Literatur und Kunst die Komplexität des Anthropozän auf menschliches Maß beziehen. Vor dem Hintergrund der Environmental Humanities untersuchen die 11 Beiträge das interdependente Beziehungsgeflecht von Mensch und agentieller wie auch die Interaktion von unterschiedlichen zeitlichen, räumlichen und thematischen Skalen in Komposition, Figurendarstellung und Metaphorik (Raumschiff, Gaia, Weltgärtner) mit Bezug auf lokale Umweltprobleme und globale Zukunftsfragen. Mediale Austragsorte sind Erzählung, Epos, Climate und Science Fiction, Heimatroman, Ecodiegesis, Umweltlyrik, Hörspiel, Fotographie, Film und bildende Kunst.
Germany from the Outside
The nation-state is a European invention of the 18th and 19th centuries. In the case of the German nation in particular, this invention was tied closely to the idea of a homogeneous German culture with a strong normative function. As a consequence, histories of German culture and literature often are told from the inside-as the unfolding of a canon of works representing certain core values, with which every person who considers him or herself “German” necessarily must identify. But what happens if we describe German culture and its history from the outside? And as something heterogeneous, shaped by multiple and diverse sources, many of which are not obviously connected to things traditio...
Ecocriticism
Ecocriticism hat sich mittlerweile als interdisziplinäre Forschungsperspektive weltweit etabliert. Auch im deutschsprachigen Raum zeichnet sich ein wachsendes Interesse ab, bislang fehlt jedoch eine Einführung, die Lehrende und Studierende mit den verschiedenen Ansätzen und Forschungsschwerpunkten des Ecocriticism vertraut macht. Der Band schließt diese Lücke, indem er in die zentralen theoretischen Perspektiven einführt, die spezifischen Ansätze im deutschen Kontext vorstellt und ein weitgefächertes Spektrum für das ökologische Potenzial von Literatur, Film und Kunst in vergleichender Perspektive eröffnet. Ausgewiesene Vertreterinnen und Vertreter aus Amerikanistik, Germanistik, Geschichte, Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaft geben einen repräsentativen Einblick in die einzelnen Forschungsfelder und die jeweils zentralen Texte.
Stereotype Paradiese
In der deutschen Literatur und Publizistik des 19. Jahrhunderts nimmt die Südsee als ersehntes, erforschtes und kolonial erobertes Paradies einen großen, bisher kaum untersuchten Raum ein. Gabriele Dürbeck weist von Chamissos Reisebericht von 1821 bis zur Populär- und Zeitschriftenliteratur um 1900 ein nahezu gleichbleibendes, bereits im 18. Jahrhundert etabliertes Repertoire an exotistischen und perhorreszierenden Stereotypen des Fremden nach. Dieses dient aber unterschiedlichen ästhetischen, wissenschaftspopularisierenden und politischen Darstellungsstrategien und -funktionen. Zivilisations-, Missionierungs- und Kolonialkritik greifen auf dieselben Stereotype und Topoi des Fremden zur...
