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Writing the North of the North / L’Écriture du Nord du Nord / Den Norden des Nordens (be-)schreiben
The expression “North of the North” refers both to an objective, geographical reality – the territories situated at the highest latitudes on our planet – and to a subjective, mental construction which came into being many centuries ago and has been developed, modified and differentiated ever since. The chapters in the present volume examine various aspects of that concept, analysing texts and works of art from a range of regions and periods. La notion de « Nord du Nord » renvoie tout autant à la réalité géographique objective que sont les territoires des latitudes les plus élevées de notre planète qu’à une construction mentale subjective qui s’est constituée, développ...
East Central Europe Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial in the Twentieth Century
This open access book explores the ambiguity of East Central Europe during the twentieth century, examining local contexts through a comparative and transnational reworking of theoretical models in postcolonial studies. Since the early modern period, East Central Europe has arguably been an object of imperialism. However, at the same time East Central European states have been seen to be colonial actors, with individuals from the region often associating themselves with colonial discourses in extra-European contexts. Spanning a broad time period until after the Second World War and covering the governance of Communism and its legacies, the book examines how cultural and literary narratives from East Central Europe have created and revised historical knowledge, making use of collective memory to feed into identity models.
Showcasing the Great Experiment
During the 1920s and 1930s thousands of European and American writers, professionals, scientists, artists, and intellectuals made a pilgrimage to experience the "Soviet experiment" for themselves. Showcasing the Great Experiment explores the reception of these intellectuals and fellow-travelers and their cross-cultural and trans-ideological encounters in order to analyze Soviet attitudes towards the West. Many of the twentieth century's greatest writers and thinkers, including Theodore Dreiser, André Gide, Paul Robeson, and George Bernard Shaw, notoriously defended Stalin's USSR despite the unprecedented violence of its prewar decade. While many visitors were profoundly affected by their So...
Polish Literature in Transformation
This volume emerged from the conference "Polish Literature Since 1989" held at the University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies. It shows how the profound political and economic transformation that has taken place in Poland since the end of communism in 1989 has affected literary culture and literary scholarship, such as: changing conceptions of Polish nationhood and identity * the impact of European integration (since 2004) * the effects of migration * revised conceptions of the foreign or the marginal, and new understandings of what is understood by emigre or emigrant literature * sensitivity to issues of gender and sexual identity, as well as the impact of feminism and queer studies * the huge impact of revived interest in the Jewish heritage, in Holocaust memory, and in Polish-Jewish relations. (Series: Polonistik im Kontext - Vol. 2)
Germany and 'The West'
“The West” is a central idea in German public discourse, yet historians know surprisingly little about the evolution of the concept. Contrary to common assumptions, this volume argues that the German concept of the West was not born in the twentieth century, but can be traced from a much earlier time. In the nineteenth century, “the West” became associated with notions of progress, liberty, civilization, and modernity. It signified the future through the opposition to antonyms such as “Russia” and “the East,” and was deployed as a tool for forging German identities. Examining the shifting meanings, political uses, and transnational circulations of the idea of “the West” sheds new light on German intellectual history from the post-Napoleonic era to the Cold War.
Neulektüren – New Readings
Die Einsicht in die Polyvalenz poetischer Texte zähmt die noch jeder Form diskursiver Analyse von Kunstwerken eigene Tendenz, Sinn und Bedeutung festzuschreiben. Im Spannungsfeld zwischen der anarchischen “Lust am Text“ (Roland Barthes) und der “Wut des Verstehens“ (Jochen Hörisch) behaupten sich die ‘Lektüren’, die als Verstehensangebote der Vieldeutigkeit literarischer Werke durch Analysen von Form und Inhalt zur Sichtbarkeit verhelfen wollen, ohne ihnen den Atem abzuschnüren. Ihr Ziel ist es nicht, das “Rätsel“ (Adorno) literarischer Kunstwerke zu lösen, sondern es als “Rätsel“ in seinen vielfältigen Bedeutungsdimensionen erfahrbar zu machen. Von hier aus versa...
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Die fünfziger Jahre im autobiographischen Rückblick
Gelten die bisher erschienenen treibhaus-Bände in autorspezifischen und übergreifenden Themen der Literatur der fünfziger Jahre unmittelbar, so scheint es nach über einem halben Jahrhundert Distanz reizvoll, in wechselnder Perspektive die fünfziger Jahre im autobiografischen Rückblick wahrzunehmen. Ein Projekt, das trotz des seit Jahren anhaltenden Interesses an der Gedächtnis- und Erinnerungskultur noch nicht systematisch in Angriff genommen worden ist. Sechs Autorinnen und Autoren eröffnen den Band mit ihren Erinnerungen an die virulente Zeit zwischen Aufbruch und Verdrängung in Originalbeiträgen. Analysen bereits erschienener Erinnerungswerke von Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Fritz J. R...
Täuschungsspiele
Täuschen, Manipulieren und Betrügen auf der Theaterbühne - unzuverlässige Erzählfiguren lassen sich immer öfter auch in postdramatischen Inszenierungen finden. Mit Schauspielenden verbindet sie vor allem eines: das unablässige (Selbst-)Inszenieren von narrativen Weltentwürfen, die sich als metareflexive Täuschungsspiele entpuppen. Vor dem Hintergrund der intermedialen Praxis der Romanadaption entwickelt Annika Becker eine Typologie theatraler Unzuverlässigkeit, die zum zentralen Bindeglied zwischen Literarizität und Performativität avanciert. Damit liefert sie einen grundlegenden und innovativen Beitrag zur interdisziplinären Erzählforschung am Schnittpunkt von Theater- und Literaturtheorie.
