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Fragen und Antworten der Hirnforschung, Quantenmechanik oder Evolutionstheorie gehen in Romane ein, und Physiker oder Biologen verwenden rhetorische Sprachbilder, um ihre Erkenntnisse zu vermitteln oder sogar erst zu generieren. Dass literarische und wissenschaftliche Interessen sich nicht nur überschneiden, sondern im Kern eins sind, das war zu Keplers, Lichtenbergs oder Goethes Zeiten noch selbstverständlich. Sie wieder allgemein so sichtbar zu machen, wie sie es für zahlreiche Autoren der Gegenwartsliteratur – etwa Richard Powers, Thomas Lehr oder Raoul Schrott – stets geblieben ist, daran arbeiten in einer ungewöhnlichen Kooperation die Erlanger Departments für Physik und für Germanistik im Forschungszentrum ELINAS. Die Beiträge der Reihe widmen sich einerseits naturwissenschaftlichen Themen in literarischen Texten – etwa in Romanen des Amerikaners Richard Powers, der Chinesin Can Hue oder des Deutschen Raoul Schrott. Sie beleuchten andererseits aber auch, welche Rolle Ästhetik in Literatur und Naturwissenschaften spielt.
Ambiguous Memory
Ambiguous Memory examines the role of memory in the building of a new national identity in reunified Germany. The author maintains that the contentious debates surrounding contemporary monumnets to the Nazi past testify to the ambiguity of German memory and the continued link of Nazism with contemporary German national identity. The book discusses how certain monuments, and the ways Germans have viewed them, contribute to the different ways Germans have dealt with the past, and how they continue to deal with it as one country. Kattago concludes that West Germans have internalized their Nazi past as a normative orientation for the democratic culture of West Germany, while East Germans have un...
The Palgrave Handbook of Reproductive Justice and Literature
This handbook offers a collection of scholarly essays that analyze questions of reproductive justice throughout its cultural representation in global literature and film. It offers analysis of specific texts carefully situated in their evolving historical, economic, and cultural contexts. Reproductive justice is taken beyond the American setting in which the theory and movement began; chapters apply concepts to international realities and literatures from different countries and cultures by covering diverse genres of cultural production, including film, television, YouTube documentaries, drama, short story, novel, memoir, and self-help literature. Each chapter analyzes texts from within the ...
