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Goethe Yearbook 8
Latest volume in series devoted to Goethe criticism (and studies of his contemporaries), with an extensive book review section.
Truth in Serial Form
This volume has its starting point in the veritable explosion of serialized formats in all of forms representation, from painting to printing, beginning in the mid nineteenth century and the well-known fascination with series in biology, mathematics, music, art, or literature. The new media culture of the late nineteenth century, very much shaped by these serialized formats, sees itself confronted with questions of truthfulness in new and profound ways, just as perhaps the accelerated rhythm, anonymity, and broadened accessibility of new media today have created new possibilities for the dissemination of misinformation and, conversely, give us cause to interrogate anew our notions of truthfu...
Konzepte der Moderne
Die Vielfalt und gleichzeitige Begrenztheit der »modernen Epochen« ist freilich nur ein Beispiel für die disperse Lage, in der sich die Bedeutungen von »Moderne« insgesamt befinden. Ein diskutierbarer Ordnungsvorschlag besteht darin, die Fülle des Verschiedenen aufzuteilen in die Wissensgebiete, die in ihrer institutionellen Ausdifferenzierung selbst ein Stück Modernisierungsgeschichte des Wissens widerspiegeln. Moderne und Modernisierung haben in allen Künsten und Wissenschaften stattgefunden. Es ist also unabwendbar, dass die Dynamik des Problems »Konzepte der Moderne« die Enge disziplinärer Begrenzungen hinter sich läßt. Tatsächlich greifen die Beiträge und Diskussionen des Bandes ganz selbstverständlich aus auf andere Literaturen, auf andere Künste und auf andere Wissensgebiete. Wichtige Beiträge betrachten die europäischen Programm- und Theoriedebatten, Architektur, Bildende Kunst, Tanz und Theater. Der Band folgt in seinem Aufbau den vier Schwerpunkten des Symposions: soziokulturelle Prozesse und Denkfiguren; ästhetische Programme und literarische Praxis; Textualität und Medialität; Selbstthematisierung und Interdiskursivität der Moderne.
In the Embrace of the Swan
Myths determine the way cultures understand themselves. The papers in this volume examine culturally specific myths in Britain and the German-speaking world, and compare approaches to the theory of myth, together with the ways in which mythological formations operate in literature, aesthetics and politics ‐ with a focus on the period around 1800. They enquire into the consequences of myth-oriented discourses for the way in which these two cultures understand each other, and in this way make a significant contribution to a more profound approach to intercultural research.
Drama and the World of Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner continues to be the most controversial artist in history, a perpetually troubling figure in our cultural consciousness. The unceasing debate over his works and their impact--for and against--is one reason why there has been no genuinely comprehensive modern account of his musical dramas until now. Dieter Borchmeyer's book is the first to present an overall picture of these musical dramas from the standpoint of literary and theatrical history. It extends from the composer's early works--still largely ignored--to the Ring Cycle and Parsifal, and includes Wagner's unfinished works and operas he never set to music. Through lively prose, we come to see Wagner as a librettist--and a...
Central and Eastern European Literary Theory and the West
Literary theory flourished in Central and Eastern Europe throughout the twentieth century, but its relation to Western literary scholarship is complex. This book sheds light on the entangled histories of exchange and influence both within the region known as Central and Eastern Europe, and between the region and the West. The exchange of ideas between scholars in the East and West was facilitated by both personal and institutional relations, both official and informal encounters. For the longest time, however, intellectual exchange was thwarted by political tensions that led to large parts of Central and Eastern Europe being isolated from the West. A few literary theories nevertheless made i...
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...
