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The Memory of Pain
In this book, Camila Loew analyzes four women’s testimonial literary writings on the Holocaust to examine and question some of the tenets of the fields of Holocaust studies, gender studies, and testimony. Through a close reading of the works of Charlotte Delbo, Margarete Buber-Neumann, Ruth Klüger, and Marguerite Duras, Loew foregrounds these authors’ search for a written form to engage with their experiences of the extreme. Although each chapter contains its individual focus and features, the book possesses a unity in intention, concerns, and consequences. In the theoretical introduction that unites the four chapters, Loew eschews essentialism and revises the emergence of the field of ...
Understanding Precarious Lives. Empathy for the Criminal in Pornography and The Events
Many claim the contemporary world lacks empathy, this being the reason for all the atrocities in it. When thinking about the perpetrators of such brutalities, it is easy to assume they cannot acknowledge others as their equals. But is a lack of empathy a prerequisite for becoming a criminal? Would empathy then be preemptive of murder? When something terrible happens, we may be tempted to look for the source of violence exclusively in the criminals. However, when talking about human beings and the motives for their actions, one has to delve deeper. In Simon Stephens’s Pornography and David Greig’s The Events, two different crimes against humanity are portrayed. The aim of this book is to analyse the way in which the perpetrators are depicted in each play and whether the audience is asked to challenge the initial impulse to dehumanise them. Will the multifaceted nature of empathy be explored to the extent of debunking the myth of its simplicity?
Literarische Moderne
Thema des Bandes ist der Begriff und geschichtliche Erstreckungsbereich der literarischen Moderne. Ausgangspunkt ist die Beobachtung, dass der Terminus der Moderne in den letzten Jahren eine erhebliche Ausweitung erfahren hat, unterschiedliche Autoren wie Alfred Döblin und Thomas Mann, Hermann Broch und Kurt Schwitters, Hugo von Hofmannsthal und Bertolt Brecht werden ihm subsumiert; auch werden voneinander abweichende Strömungen wie der Ästhetizismus der Jahrhundertwende bzw. der Symbolismus des ersten Jahrzehnts sowie der Dadaismus und die Neue Sachlichkeit der zwanziger Jahre, die Wiener, aber auch die Berliner Moderne unter dem Terminus Moderne registriert und behandelt. Die Integratio...
Making German Jewish Literature Anew
In Making German Jewish Literature Anew, Katja Garloff traces the emergence of a new Jewish literature in Germany and Austria from 1990 to the present. The rise of new generations of authors who identify as both German and Jewish, and who often sustain additional affiliations with places such as France, Russia, or Israel, affords a unique opportunity to analyze the foundational moments of diasporic literature. Making German Jewish Literature Anew is structured around a series of founding gestures: performing authorship, remaking memory, and claiming places. Garloff contends that these founding gestures are literary strategies that reestablish the very possibility of a German Jewish literatur...
Beyond Tomorrow
Shows German Science Fiction's connections with utopian thought, and how it attempts Zukunftsbewältigung: coping with an uncertain but also unwritten future.
New Medievalisms
The current renewed interest in Medieval culture, literature and society is evident in recent fictional works such as Game of Thrones or the cinematographic adaptions of Tolkien’s pseudo-medieval universe. From a more academic viewpoint, there are a number of excellent journals and book series devoted to scholarly analysis of English Medieval language and literature. While “traditional” Medieval scholars use several valid vehicles for communication, those researchers who favour more innovative or eclectic approaches are not often given the same opportunities. New Medievalisms is unique in that it offers such scholars a platform to showcase their academic prestige and the quality and originality of their investigations. This multidisciplinary collection of essays includes six chapters and nineteen articles in which twenty-one renowned scholars analyse a wide range of issues related to Medieval England, from the Beowulf saga to echoes of Medieval literature in contemporary fiction, translation or didactics. As a result, the book is both kaleidoscopic and daring, as well as rigorous and accurate.
The Oxford Handbook of Ezekiel
The current state of scholarship on the book of Ezekiel, one of the three Major Prophets, is robust. Ezekiel, unlike most pre-exilic prophetic collections, contains overt clues that its primary circulation was as a literary text and not a collection of oral speeches. The author was highly educated, the theology of the book is "dim," and its view of humanity is overwhelmingly negative. In The Oxford Handbook of Ezekiel, editor Corrine Carvalho brings together scholars from a diverse range of interpretive perspectives to explore one of the Bible's most debated books. Consisting of twenty-seven essays, the Handbook provides introductions to the major trends in the scholarship of Ezekiel, coveri...
Akten des XI. Internationalen Germanistenkongresses Paris 2005: Ansprachen, Plenavorträge, Podiumsdiskussionen, Berichte
50 Jahre nach dem ersten Treffen 1955 in Rom tagte die Internationale Vereinigung für Germanistik vom 26. August bis 3. September 2005 in Paris (Sorbonne). Das von Präsidium und Ausschuss vorgeschlagene Gesamtthema - «Germanistik im Konflikt der Kulturen» - war und ist hochaktuell. Es beansprucht eine über die traditionellen Grenzen der fachlichen Spezialgebiete hinausgehende Transversalität und verbindet Literatur- und Sprachwissenschaft mit historisch bedingten und gegenstandsbezogenen Fragestellungen der Kulturwissenschaften. Der grosse Anteil von jüngeren Germanistinnen und Germanisten aus Südostasien, Indien, Mittel- und Osteuropa - aber auch aus Afrika und Lateinamerika - spricht auf überzeugende Weise für die Attraktivität und Modernität der in Frage stehenden Problematik. Die in diesem Band gesammelten Texte - Ansprachen, Plenarvorträge, Podiumsdiskussionen und Berichte - dokumentieren die reichhaltigen Perspektiven des Kongresses. Als Einstieg in die elf weiteren Aktenbände bekunden sie auch eine sich deutlich manifestierende und durchsetzende Internationalisierung des Faches.
