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Collective Creativity
Collective Creativity combines complex and ambivalent concepts. While ‘creativity’ is currently experiencing an inflationary boom in popularity, the term ‘collective’ appeared, until recently, rather controversial due to its ideological implications in twentieth-century politics. In a world defined by global cultural practice, the notion of collectivity has gained new relevance. This publication discusses a number of concepts of creativity and shows that, in opposition to the traditional ideal of the individual as creative genius, cultural theorists today emphasize the collaborative nature of creativity; they show that ‘creativity makes alterity, discontinuity and difference attrac...
Sex and Death in Victorian Literature
Sex and Death in Victorian Literature is a landmark collection of 13 previously unpublished essays on nineteenth-century British poetry, fiction and prose by the most important English and American scholars in the field. The volume observes the subject from an unusually wide variety of viewpoints, including historical, sociological, psychoanalytic, feminist and mythological. There are works central and peripheral to the traditional Victorian canon discussed in Sex and Death; as such the essays present an unprecedented perspective on the shifts and movements of nineteenth-century literature. By grouping the essays under the aegis of sexuality and morality, the volume allows the authors to explore the most important aspects of the works they discuss.
Respectability and Deviance
The first major study in English of 19th-century German women writers, this book examines their social and cultural milieu along with the layers of interpretation and representation that inform their writing. The author demonstrates that these writings provide an extensive and informative look at an exciting and transformative epoch that so much shaped our own. 16 photos.
Underground Modernity
The literary scholar Alfrun Kliems explores the aesthetic strategies of Eastern European underground literature, art, film and music in the decades before and after the fall of communism, ranging from the ‘father’ of Prague Underground, Egon Bondy, to the neo-Dada Club of Polish Losers in Berlin. The works she considers are "underground" in the sense that they were produced illegally, or were received as subversive after the regimes had fallen. Her study challenges common notions of ‘underground’ as an umbrella term for nonconformism. Rather, it depicts it as a sociopoetic reflection of modernity, intimately linked to urban settings, with tropes and aesthetic procedures related to Su...
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Berlin
This book provides an informative overview of literary developments in Berlin since 1750, with more detailed readings of exemplary key texts.
Facetten des Kriminalromans
Der Kriminalroman ist en vogue. Schon ein flüchtiger Blick auf die Bestsellerlisten reicht, um sich der Popularität der Gattung bewusst zu werden. Trotzdem wird der Krimi von den Literatur- bzw. Kultur- oder Medienwissenschaftlern immer noch als bloße Unterhaltungs- und Trivialware angesehen, der ein gewisser schematischer Strukturaufbau zugrunde liegt. Als Kitschliteratur in die Ecke der Belletristik verbannt macht vor allem die Literaturforschung immer noch einen großen Bogen um das Genre. Nach wie vor scheint der vielsagende Satz von Richard Alewyn zu gelten, der Ende der 1960er Jahre konstatierte: "Das Lesen von Detektivromanen gehört zu den Dingen, die man zwar gerne tut, von denen man aber nicht gern spricht."Dieser Band greift die Frage nach dem entgegen aller Erwartungen weit gefassten, von Vielfalt und Verschiedenartigkeit getragenen Gesamtbild des Krimis auf und bietet eine literaturwissenschaftliche Unter suchung des Variantenreichtums der Gattung.
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The Short Story in German in the Twenty-first Century
Since the 1990s, the short story has re-emerged in the German-speaking world as a vibrant literary genre, serving as a medium for both literary experimentation and popular forms. Authors like Judith Hermann and Peter Stamm have had a significant impact on German-language literary culture and, in translation, on literary culture in the UK and USA. This volume analyzes German-language short-story writing in the twenty-first century, aiming to establish a framework for further research into individual authors as well as key themes and formal concerns. An introduction discusses theories of the short-story form and literary-aesthetic questions. A combination of thematic and author-focused chapter...
