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Mind the Text! Neurohermeneutics for Suspicious Readers
At the convergence of human studies, biocultural and neuroscientific research, this book offers unprecedented insights into the interpretation of literary texts. It presents the neurohermeneutics of suspicion—a bold, innovative approach illuminating the intricate bond between literature and the human mind. Embracing ambiguity as a hallmark of literature, readers are encouraged to adopt a suspicious stance to unearth the complex, multilayered and dynamic nature of literary texts, thereby fully engaging their imagination and their embodied, emotional and imaginative faculties. Our exploration navigates the crossroads of language, thought, culture, and biology, delving into hidden layers of meaning within literary texts. This transformative exploration not only redefines literary scholarship but also offers lay readers a dynamic, immersive reading experience. Ultimately, this book aims to ignite curiosity, suspense, and surprise, transforming the act of reading into a creative and engaging journey through the depths of the human mind and aesthetic experiences.
Goethe in Context
One of the most prolific and versatile writers of all time, Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749–1832) made an impact that continues to extend far beyond his native Germany. The variety of human questions and experiences treated in his works is arguably without parallel. He also had (for his era) an unusually long life, which spanned the French Revolution, the end of the Holy Roman Empire and subsequent reshaping of the German-speaking world, and the rapid onset of industrial modernity. In thirty-seven short essays, leading international scholars explore Goethe's life and times, his literary works, his activity in the realms of art, philosophy and natural science, his reception of – and indeed by – other cultures, and, finally, the resonance of his work in our time. The aim of this collection is to open as many windows as possible onto Goethe's wide-ranging intellectual and practical activity, and to give a sense of his ongoing importance.
Animals and Humans in German Literature, 1800-2000
The recent emergence of the discipline of literary animal studies regards literature in itself as constitutive element of a history of knowledge. The discipline has led not only to the expansion of the corpus of texts traditionally connected with animals, but also established new concepts and methods for revising conventional cultural dichotomies (subject and object, human and animal). The 10 essays collected in this volume are devoted to a wide range of case studies on the relationship between animality and poetics in German-language literature since the 19th century. They display a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to a number of texts packed with references to animals, considered not primarily as objects of literature, but as agents endowed with an active role in the production of literature, and which have left repressed or forgotten traces in texts.
The Works of Peter Handke
Since his now famous appearance on the literary stage in 1968 novelist, playwright and poet, Peter Handke has remained on the forefront of the literary vanguard, having earned the praise and recognition of critics in Europe and North America alike. In fact, in a review essay of September 2000, The New York Review of Books called him the premier prose stylist in the German language, and one of post-war Europe's most recognisable literary figures. Since the publication of his early theatrical works, Handke has gone on to publish over twenty-five prose novels, as well as additional works for the theatre, collections of poetry, diaries and essays. His works have ranged in style from the French influenced nouveau roman of the late 1960s to works characteristic of the New Subjectivity movement in West Germany in the 1970s, while his novels and stories of the 1980s and 1990s exhibited a new-found appreciation for narrative and issues of storytelling. He has also published a series of polemical essays on the war in Yugoslavia which have been criticised severely by scholars and intellectuals. has written, as well as on the thematic aspects of his work.
The Poem as Icon
Poetry is the most complex and intricate of human language used across all languages and cultures. Its relation to the worlds of human experience has perplexed writers and readers for centuries, as has the question of evaluation and judgment: what makes a poem "work" and endure. The Poem as Icon focuses on the art of poetry to explore its nature and function: not interpretation but experience; not what poetry means but what it does. Using both historic and contemporary approaches of embodied cognition from various disciplines, Margaret Freeman argues that a poem's success lies in its ability to become an icon of the felt "being" of reality. Freeman explains how the features of semblance, met...
Der Kanon in der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
Die Diskussion um den neuen Bildungskanon hat im Zeitalter der europäischen und globalen Bildungsräume neue Aktualität erlangt. Der IV. Wissenschaftliche Kongress der Italienischen Germanistenvereinigung (AIG) hat sich diesem Thema gewidmet. Die Ergebnisse der Tagung 2007 werden in diesem Band publiziert. Zwei Themenfelder dominieren: Zum einen die neue Rolle der Linguistik als Vermittlerin grundlegender kommunikativer Fähigkeiten und interkultureller Kompetenz im Bereich der Mehrsprachigkeit und Übersetzungswissenschaft, zum anderen die Literaturwissenschaft in der Reflexion neuer Begriffe und Verbindlichkeiten, sowie in der Öffnung für neue grenzüberschreitende Themenfelder. Es geht in dem Band um Wahrung der Tradition und deren Neudefinition in einer sich in der Gegenwart selbstbewusst positionierenden Wissenschaft.
Linguaggio, letteratura e scienze neuro-cognitive
Simulazione, embodiment, frame, script, blending: negli ultimi anni la teoria letteraria, a cominciare dalla narratologia, si è arricchita di una molteplicità di categorie provenienti dalle scienze neuro-cognitive e si è orientata, a partire dal mondo anglosassone, verso la cognitive poetics. Questo libro raccoglie contributi innovativi di autori che in modo diverso, e con orizzonti letterari che spaziano dal romanzo del Novecento alla letteratura per l'infanzia, attingono al repertorio teorico e analitico della cognitive poetics per proporre una visione nuova della letteratura e dell'esperienza che ne facciamo.
