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Philosophy, Dreaming and the Literary Imagination
This book explores the intersections between dreaming and the literary imagination, in light of the findings of recent neurocognitive and empirical research, with the aim to lay a groundwork for an empirically informed aesthetics of dreaming. Drawing on perspectives from literary theory, philosophy of mind and dream research, this study investigates dreaming in relation to creativity and waking states of imagination such as writing and reading stories. Exploring the similarities and differences between the 'language' of dreams and the language of literature, it analyses the strategies employed by writers to create a sense of dream in literary fiction as well as the genres most conducive to this endeavour. The book closes with three case studies focusing on texts by Kazuo Ishiguro, Clare Boylan and John Banville to illustrate the diverse ways in which writers achieve to 'translate' the experience and 'language' of the dream.
The Culture of Money
It is widely known that – at least in current societies - culture depends on money. Less attention has been given to the contrary fact: money also depends on culture. In its very foundation - negotiations, values, exchanges, debts and obligations, contracts and laws – money's functioning is tied to cultural practices, institutions, identities, and meanings. This interdisciplinary anthology scrutinizes the two-way connection between culture and money, and its implications for economic theory. In this book a wide range of established experts and newcomers from a range of disciplines investigate current economic issues from the perspective of their social and cultural embeddedness, their cu...
German and European Poetics After the Holocaust
New essays on poetical and theoretical responses to the Holocaust's rupture of German and European civilization. Crisis presents chances for change and creativity: Adorno's famous dictum that writing poetry after Auschwitz would be barbaric has haunted discourse on poetics, but has also given rise to poetic and theoretical acts of resistance. The essays in this volume discuss postwar poetics in terms of new poetological directions and territory rather than merely destruction of traditions. Embedded in the discourse triggered by Adorno, the volume's foci include the work of Paul Celan, Gottfried Benn, and Ingeborg Bachmann. Other German writers discussed are Ilse Aichinger, Rose Ausländer, C...
Renaissance Rewritings
‘Rewriting’ is one of the most crucial but at the same time one of the most elusive concepts of literary scholarship. In order to contribute to a further reassessment of such a notion, this volume investigates a wide range of medieval and early modern literary transformations, especially focusing on texts (and contexts) of Italian and French Renaissance literature. The first section of the book, "Rewriting", gathers essays which examine medieval and early modern rewritings while also pointing out the theoretical implications raised by such texts. The second part, "Rewritings in Early Modern Literature", collects contributions which account for different practices of rewriting in the Ital...
Eastern African Literatures
The book offers an overview of Eastern African writing in English since the mid-twentieth century. It shows how proximate modes of literary communication, arising out of residual but vibrant traditions of oral communication, blend with contemporary media to produce hybrid genres of proximity specific to Eastern African literary production.
Dreaming of a Glacier
Snæfellsjökull is one of Iceland’s most famous volcanoes. It is there that Jules Verne located the entrance to the centre of the earth; it is the abode of a medieval saga hero and the location of one of Halldór Laxness’s novels. Travellers, painters, poets, and film-makers have been drawn to it in equal measure – while at the same time and against all expectations, others seem unfazed: as famous as the mountain is on a national and international stage, local folklore and medieval historiography have amazingly little interest in it. Clearly, Snæfellsjökull is not the same to everyone. This volume presents a survey of the place of Snæfellsjökull in the Icelandic and European imagination. It adapts the paradigm of geocriticism, which shifts the focus of the scholarly investigation from the work of individual authors to the multitude of views that different authors, artists, and practitioners have on a single place. The results of the perambulation of Snæfellsjökull presented here show that both its cultural and literary history, as well as the paradigm of geocriticism, open up broad vistas that amply repay the effort necessary to tackle this mountain.
Michel Leiris
Als Schlüsselfigur seines Jahrhunderts ist Michel Leiris - Schriftsteller und Ethnologe gleichermaßen - bislang noch kaum angemessen und umfassend gewürdigt worden. Der Band nimmt den hundersten Geburtstag des Autors zum Anlass, das in seiner Sprengkraft noch unterschätzte Werk aus der Sicht unterschiedlicher text- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Fragestellungen neu zu perspektivieren. Der Titel Szenen einer Transgression betont die poetologischen und ästhetischen Momente der vor allem von kulturwissenschaftlicher Seite beschriebenen Akte der Übertretung von Verboten und der Überschreitung von Ordnungen. Gerade für Leiris gilt, dass die Transgression eine "Szene" braucht.
Rebecca Horn
***Angaben zur beteiligten Person Tacke: Alexandra Tacke hat Neuere deutsche Literatur, Philosophie und italienische Philologie in München, Berlin und Chicago studiert. Von 2005 bis 2012 war sie wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für deutsche Literatur der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, wo sie 2010 mit einer kulturwissenschaftlichen Arbeit zu "Rebecca Horn. Künstlerische Selbstpositionierungen im kulturellen Raum" (erschienen 2011 im Böhlau Verlag) mit der Auszeichnung >summa cum laude
Das nächtliche Wir
Zur Veränderung von Traumwissenschaft und Traumkunst seit 1950 angesichts der Verwissenschaftlichung von Traum und Virtual Reality: das träumende Selbst zwischen Individuum und Kollektiv Stand im Zentrum der Psychoanalyse seit Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts die sprachlich vermittelte Deutung individueller Träume, so tritt in den Schlaflaboren der Neurowissenschaften, aber auch in den Traumstatistiken der experimentellen Psychologie das Interesse am individuellen Traum deutlich zurück. Seit dem Aufkommen hochimmersiver Medien wie Computerspielen und Virtual Reality können technisch erzeugte alternative Welten zugleich mit ähnlicher Intensität erlebt werden wie Träume. In dieser neuen Kon...
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...
