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Catastrophe & Spectacle
From epidemics in the 17th century and the Lisbon earthquake in 1755 to Guernica in World War II, the essays in this volume trace the development of the catastrophic imagination, relying heavily on pictorial media and different forms of staging. Catastrophe in its modern sense seems to be inextricably linked to its spectacular representation, be it on the stage, on screen or in popular amusement parks. But the modern relationship between catastrophe and spectacle is also increasingly confronting us with the unimaginable side of catastrophe, particularly with regard to the Holocaust and in more recent times to the daily experience of refugees. The essays in this volume elucidate images of the catastrophes that have inspired them by providing a textual commentary that makes it possible to reconsider how the spectacular and the catastrophic are interrelated. Thus, the essays not only deal with the emergence of the modern spectacular imagination of catastrophe in terms of the history of both discourse and media, they also present themselves as a critique of catastrophe, one based on close readings of the scenes and images in question.
Pazze di Lui - Mad for Him: Hagiographic Stereotypes, Mental Disturbances and Anthropological Implications of Female Saintliness in Italy and Abroad from the 13th to the 20th Century
The aim of this book is to investigate the delicate relationship between female sanctity and madness, in a time-frame extending from medieval until contemporary times. Constellated by visions, ecstatic raptures, morbid rituals, stigmata and obsessions, the complex phenomenology of female mysticism appears in fact to be articulated and polymorphous, traversed by 'representations' that it seems possible to link to the wide spectrum of mental disorders, as well to the hagiographic stereotypes and anthropological implications. Male and female scholars from different disciplines (from history to philology, from anthropology to art history, from theology to literary criticism, from psychiatry to psychoanalysis) try to outline a thematic and problematic itinerary, intended to examine, step by step, potential pathological aspects and contexts of reference for the purpose of attempting to reconstruct the complex evolutionary trajectory of female mystical language.
Romanian in Migration Contexts
As a result of migration, more than 25% of Romanian L1 speakers live outside of Romania and Moldova - mostly in other European countries, but also in America and Australia. In the meantime, many second-generation speakers have become part of this group. The situation has resulted in various different constellations of language contact, both within the group of Romance languages and amongst typologically different and unrelated languages. Despite the fact that these contact scenarios present a wide range of research perspectives, there have been hardly any studies on Romanian as a language of migrants up until now. The volume Romanian in the Context of Migration brings together contributions ...
Common Measures
What happens to the experience of community when the grounds of communal life collapse? The Romantic period's upheaval cast both traditional communal organizations of life and outgrowths of the new revolutionary age into crisis. In this context, Joseph Albernaz argues that Romantic writers articulate a vital conception of "groundless community," while following this idea through its aesthetic, ecological, political, and philosophical registers into the present. Amidst the violent expropriation of the commons, Romantic writers including the Wordsworths, Clare, Hölderlin, and the revolutionary abolitionist Robert Wedderburn reimagined the forms of their own lives through literature to conceiv...
Santa Teresa
Even prior to her widely observed 500th anniversary, Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582) was already considered one of the most important authors of occidental mysticism. This volume gathers together contributions from a multitude of disciplines to explore the writings and reception of the Spanish author and saint. Previously disregarded lines of tradition are explored for a new understanding of her oeuvre, which is examined here with special regard to the potential to affect its readers. Teresa proves to not only be an accomplished, but also a very literary writer. Santa Teresa proves to be a figure of cultural memory, and the diffusion of her thinking is traced up to the present, whereby a recurrent focus is put on the phenomenon of ecstasy. Part of the widespread resonance of her work is the image of the iconic saint whose emergence as an international phenomenon is presented here for the first time. The volume is closed by an interview with Marina Abramovi answering four questions about Teresa.
Die kartographische Imagination
Landkarten dienen nicht nur zur Orientierung im physischen Raum, sondern sie steuern auch Imaginationspraktiken. Dünnes Studie widmet sich der frühneuzeitlichen Entstehung solcher Praktiken anhand von exemplarischen Analysen spanisch- und portugiesischsprachiger Texte von Inca Garcilaso de la Vega über Luís de Camoes bis hin zu Miguel de Cervantes.
Letteratura e migrazione | Literatur und Migration
Questo secondo volume della collana Venetiana dedicato agli “Studi sui ponti” svolti al Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani riguarda il rapporto tra letteratura e migrazione, tema che più di altri si presta a mettere in discussione le convenzionali metafore del ponte. I saggi contenuti nel libro – incentrati su testi italiani, francesi e tedeschi nonché su film e fumetti – non si limitano però a far emergere elementi della figura del ponte invisibili nell’utilizzo convenzionale e quotidiano della parola. Focalizzandosi sulle proposte intorno alla figura del ponte, infatti, essi concorrono anche ad un’analisi differenziata di opere che, ciascuna a proprio modo, riflettono e danno...
Eine andere Geschichte Spaniens
Vom Erzbischof Isidor von Sevilla und seiner Rolle im spanischen Westgotenreich bis zur baskischen Kommunistin Dolores Ibárurri, Wortführerin der Republikaner im Bürgerkrieg gegen Franco – achtzehn Personen werden in diesem Buch vorgestellt. Die biographischen Skizzen bieten einen alternativen Einstieg in die Auseinandersetzung mit der spanischen Geschichte, deren zentrale Entwicklungen hier über die Beschäftigung mit prägenden Persönlichkeiten sichtbar gemacht werden. So wird als "Schlüsselgestalt" eine Person verstanden, in deren Leben die zeitgenössischen Charakteristika und Konfliktlinien besonders zum Ausdruck kommen oder deren Handeln einen nennenswerten Einfluss auf die Ent...
Vitale Mystik
Vor dem Hintergrund eines heterogenen Modernekonzeptes erhält die Frage nach dem mystischen Moment in der Literatur des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts neues Reflexionspotenzial, denn an ihr zeigen sich Brüche und Ambivalenzen. Die Studie untersucht Formen und Rezeptionsweisen mystischen Schreibens in der Lyrik von Anna de Noailles (Frankreich, 1876–1933), Ernestina de Champourcin (Spanien, 1905–1999) und Antonia Pozzi (Italien, 1912–1938) aus der Perspektive aktueller transsäkularer Ansätze, kulturwissenschaftlicher Mystikforschung, feministischer Literaturwissenschaft und (neo-) vitalistischer Philosophie. Dabei stehen die Spannungen in Bezug auf Körper und Geist, Immanenz und Transzen...
Theatermaschinen - Maschinentheater
Theater sind Maschinen des Erscheinens. Und Theatermaschinen, die erscheinen lassen, verbergen sich selbst und bezeugen sich in ihren Effekten. Das teilen sie mit den Machinationen, wie Intrigen bis ins 19. Jahrhundert hießen. Sie widerstreiten dem Primat der dramatischen Handlung und ermöglichen in Verbindung mit Musik und anderen Illuminationen Theater als Spektakel. Die Beiträger*innen des Bandes fragen nach dem Zusammenhang von Maschine, Machination, Schauspiel und Schauraum. Mit der Figur der Maschine denken sie das Theater von seinen Rändern her und arbeiten heraus, wie ein maschineninduziertes Spektakel auch in Theaterformen (weiter-)lebt, denen das Spektakuläre suspekt geworden ist.
