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Theater as Metaphor
The papers of the present volume investigate the potential of the metaphor of life as theater for literary, philosophical, juridical and epistemological discourses from the Middle Ages through modernity, and focusing on traditions as manifold as French, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian and Latin-American.
Gedächtniskonzepte der Literaturwissenschaft
In diesem Band werden literaturwissenschaftliche Gedächtniskonzepte erstmals systematisch erfasst und unter wissenschaftsgeschichtlichem, theoretischem und methodischem Gesichtspunkt dargestellt. Das Spektrum der vorgestellten Zugänge zum Zusammenhang von Literatur und Gedächtnis reicht von klassischen literaturwissenschaftlichen Ansätzen (Metaphernforschung, Topik-Forschung, Intertextualitätstheorien, Gattung und Gedächtnis, Kanonforschung) über narratologische und mediologische Konzepte - wie 'Mimesis', 'Zeit', 'Medialität' und 'Intermedialität' - bis hin zu innovativen interdisziplinären Synthesen von literaturwissenschaftlicher Gedächtnisforschung und den Gedächtniskonzepten ...
Writing about Lives in Science
Following discussions on scientific biography carried out over the past few decades, this book proposes a kaleidoscopic survey of the uses of biography as a tool to understand science and its context. The authors belong to a variety of academic and professional fields, including the history of science, anthropology, literary studies, and science journalism. The period covered spans from 1732, when Laura Bassi was the first woman to get a tenured professorship of physics, to 2009, when Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Carol W. Greider were the first women's team to have won a Nobel Prize in science.
The Case and the Canon
The concept of a constant reformulation of the canon due to the notion of singularity or irreducibility of the case can be applied in both scientific and literary fields. In this volume, dynamics of interconnections between the case and the canon are analysed by scholars belonging to different disciplines such as physics, medicine, biology, psychoanalysis, and literature. Particular attention has been given to the science of detection since the techniques of investigation are based on the scientific acquisition of evidence and often imply a scientific (abductive) process. The book is divided into two sections: Part I concentrates mainly on literary contributions and psychological issues, while part II concentrates on scientific enquiries. The contributions have been selected according to two main guidelines: The first covers anomalies, discontinuities, metaphors between science and literature. The second focus lies on the case in crime fiction: The scientist as detective and the detective as scientist.
History and Drama
Aristotle’s neat compartmentalization notwithstanding (Poetics, ch. 9), historians and playwrights have both been laying claim to representations of the past – arguably since Antiquity, but certainly since the Renaissance. At a time when narratology challenges historiographers to differentiate their “emplotments” (White) from literary inventions, this thirteen-essay collection takes a fresh look at the production of historico-political knowledge in literature and the intricacies of reality and fiction. Written by experts who teach in Germany, Austria, Russia, and the United States, the articles provide a thorough interpretation of early modern drama (with a view to classical times and the 19th century) as an ideological platform that is as open to royal self-fashioning and soteriology as it is to travestying and subverting the means and ends of historical interpretation. The comparative analysis of metapoetic and historiosophic aspects also sheds light on drama as a transnational phenomenon, demonstrating the importance of the cultural net that links the multifaceted textual examples from France, Russia, England, Italy, and the Netherlands.
Origins as a Paradigm in the Sciences and in the Humanities
In this volume, the assumption that origins can be defined as a hermeneutic paradigm in the humanities and in the sciences is explored in relation to specific theoretical frameworks and research methodologies. By investigating how origins have been conceptualised in different domains of knowledge - biology, primatology, psychology, linguistics, history of science, critical theory, classical studies, philology, literary criticism, strategy and accounting - a double movement has been generated: towards the very core of each discipline and beyond disciplinary boundaries. Which are the most productive theories and methods each discipline has elaborated for investigating origins? Can they become trans-disciplinary? Which synergic enquiries can be devised in order to expand and share knowledge? Explaining how and why various disciplines have responded to such questions involves delving into their histories and cultural ideologies in order to verify whether the topic of origins can function as a powerful connector between scientific and humanistic territories.
Memoria e saperi
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Travelling Concepts for the Study of Culture
Bringing together innovative and internationally renowned experts, this volume provides concise presentations of the main concepts and cutting-edge research fields in the study of culture (rather than the infinite multitude of possible themes). More specifically, the volume outlines different models for the study of culture, explores avenues for interdisciplinary exchange, assesses key concepts and traces their travels across various disciplinary, historical and national contexts. To trace the travelling of concepts means to map both their transfer from one discipline, approach or culture of research to another, and also to identify the transformations which emerge through these processes of...
Der neue Wettstreit der Künste
Mit der Zunahme intermedialer Tendenzen in den Künsten entsteht der Eindruck, der alte »Wettstreit der Künste« sei durch ein neues Miteinander abgelöst worden. Demgegenüber lässt sich Intermedialität jedoch ebenso als Wettstreit verstehen - um Legitimität. Inwieweit dienen intermediale Verfahren der medialen Dominanzbildung? Wie verlaufen die intermedialen Prozesse gegenseitiger An- und Aberkennung? Welche Rolle spielt die Grenze zwischen Kunst und Nicht-Kunst und inwiefern stellt Intermedialität eine Provokation etablierter Kunstverständnisse dar? Diesen und weiteren Fragen stellt sich der Band, der am Beispiel von Untersuchungen zur Literatur der Moderne, aber auch zu Film, Fernsehen, Comic, Computerspiel und Werbung auf die Integration funktionstheoretischer und -geschichtlicher Perspektiven in die Intermedialitätsforschung zielt.
Medieval Oral Literature
Medieval literature is to a large degree shaped by orality, not only with regard to performance, but also to transmission and composition. Although problems of orality have been much discussed by medievalists, there is to date no comprehensive handbook on this topic. ‘Medieval Oral Literature’, a volume in the ‘De Gruyter Lexikon’ series, was written by an international team of twenty-five scholars and offers a thorough discussion of theoretical approaches as well as detailed presentations of individual traditions and genres. In addition to chapters on the oral-formulaic theory, on the interplay of orality and writing in the Early Middle Ages, on performance and performers, on oral poetics and on ritual aspects of orality, there are chapters on the Older Germanic, Romance, Middle High German, Middle English, Celtic, Greek-Byzantine, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian and Turkish traditions of oral literature. There is a special focus on epic and lyric, genres that are also discussed in separate chapters, with additional chapters on the ballad and on drama.
