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Clairvoyant of the Small
The first English-language biography of one of the great literary talents of the twentieth century, written by his award-winning translator “Bernofsky takes us into the heart of an artist’s life/work struggles, brilliantly illuminating Walser’s exquisite sensibility and uncompromising radical innovations, while deftly tracking how his life gradually came apart at the seams. A tragic and intimate portrait.”—Amy Sillman “Robert Walser is the perfect pathetic poet: pithy, awkward, drinks too much, sibling rivalrous, ambitious, broke, and mentally ill. Was he proto queer or trans, this red headed writer who next to Gertrude Stein might be the most influential writer of our moment? Ri...
Genre Analysis and Corpus Design
This work in the field of digital literary stylistics and computational literary studies is concerned with theoretical concerns of literary genre, with the design of a corpus of nineteenth-century Spanish-American novels, and with its empirical analysis in terms of subgenres of the novel. The digital text corpus consists of 256 Argentine, Cuban, and Mexican novels from the period between 1830 and 1910. It has been created with the goal to analyze thematic subgenres and literary currents that were represented in numerous novels in the nineteenth century by means of computational text categorization methods. To categorize the texts, statistical classification and a family resemblance analysis relying on network analysis are used with the aim to examine how the subgenres, which are understood as communicative, conventional phenomena, can be captured on the stylistic, textual level of the novels that participate in them.
Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature
This open access book suggests new ways of reading nineteenth-century African American literature environmentally. Combining insights from ecocriticism, African American studies, and Foucauldian theory, Matthias Klestil examines forms of environmental knowledge in African American writing ranging from antebellum slave narratives and pamphlets to Charlotte Forten’s journals, Booker T. Washington’s autobiographies, and Charles W. Chesnutt’s short fiction. The volume highlights how literary forms of environmental knowledge in the African American tradition were shaped by the histories of slavery and race, mainstream environmental writing traditions, and African American forms of expression and intertextuality. Turning to the Underground Railroad, debates over education and home-building, and the aesthetics of the pastoral and the georgic, Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature provides an original perspective on the African American ecoliterary tradition that uncovers new facets of canonical and understudied texts and offers new directions for ecocriticism and African American studies.
Friedrich Engels for the 21st Century
This edited volume presents an interdisciplinary and international revaluation of Friedrich Engels as much more than “junior partner” to Karl Marx or “second fiddle” in the Marxist orchestra. The nineteen critical essays in this collection are the work of scholars from Germany, USA, UK, Italy, China, India, Mexico and the Philippines. Together they present and evaluate archival material and scholarly commentary that covers epistemology, political economy, political theory, gender studies, cultural studies, political geography, philosophy of social science and sociological studies of class-conflict. Students, activists and specialists will find fresh consideration of familiar works, s...
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2019/2020
Published by the International Robert Musil Society, the Musil-Forum is an established interdisciplinary platform dedicated to the exploration of Classic Modernist literature and, in particular, the work of Robert Musil. Currently published every two years, the Musil-Forum is interdisciplinary in its approach and open in its methodology. It is a source of information on the latest research in Modernism and current research debates. The Forum focuses on articles relating to the life and work of Musil (1880-1942), 20th century Austrian literature, and Classic Modernist literature (approx. 1895-1933), encouraging debate on the possibilities and limitations of the by no means standardised or concise term Classic Modernism. A debate reflecting on the continuity and discontinuity of literary and cultural strategies and themes in equal measures. Each contribution is accompanied by an English abstract.
Der Tumult Der Anfänge Und Das Versickern Am Ende
Ist das Neue in der Literaturgeschichte tatsächlich notwendig durch die Absetzung von etablierten Gattungstraditionen zu erklären? Bilden normsprengende Neuerungen in der Literatur und die normative Struktur einer literarischen Gattung notwendig Gegensätze? Welche Rolle spielen Referenztexte sowohl in der Konstitution einer literarischen Gattung wie auch ihrer Überwindung? Der vorliegende Band, der aus der Arbeit der Forschungsgruppe 2305 'Diskursivierungen von Neuem' und einer von ihr veranstalteten Tagung hervorgegangen ist, will herkömmliche lineare Erzählungen der Literaturgeschichtsschreibung in Frage stellen und in exemplarischen Fallstudien zeigen, wie Gattungen durch komplexe W...
2013/2014
Band 33 des Musil-Forums hat den Themenschwerpunkt „Robert Musil und das literarische Leben seiner Zeit“. Er präsentiert Aufsätze, die Musil programmatisch im zeitgenössischen kultur- und sozialhistorischen Kontext situieren und dabei buchgestalterische, verlags-, kommunikations- und zeitschriftengeschichtliche, autorschafts- und gendertheoretische, rezeptions- und gattungsästhetische sowie literatursoziologische Perspektiven einnehmen.
Noch Zukunft haben
Die literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Forschung zu Karoline von Günderrode (1780–1806) setzt seit gut zwei Jahrzehnten neue Akzente. Das Werk der Autorin wird in diesem Zuge als singulärer Beitrag zur Literatur-, Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte der Romantik profiliert, während der ‚Mythos Günderrode‘, der sich auf Leben, Lieben und vor allem Ableben der Autorin konzentriert, fundamental hinterfragt wird. Der vorliegende Band schließt an diese Re-Lektüren und neuen Perspektiven an. Er präsentiert wichtige Untersuchungen zu bislang wenig beleuchteten Facetten von Günderrodes Texten, die u.a. Poetologie, Ästhetik sowie ideengeschichtliche oder politische Aspekte umfassen, und legt zudem eine kommentierte Auswahl bislang kaum bekannter Briefe der Autorin in Transkription und Abbildung vor.
