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Entwicklung und Kolonisation in Freytags Roman „Soll und Haben“: gesellschaftspolitische Diskurse in einem kontroversen Text des 19. Jahrhunderts
Entwicklung und Kolonisation sind Problematiken, die im Kontext der unter dem Antrieb vom Kapitalismus Fuß fassenden Industriegesellschaft und Modernisierung sowie der im Zeichen des Imperialismus sich verstärkenden kolonialen Globalisierung im 19. Jahrhu
Globalisierungserfahrungen bei Wilhelm Raabe
Dieses Buch fokussiert zum einen die Sinnzuweisungen (Interpretationen, Wahrnehmungen, Vorstellungen, Gedanken, Ansichten, Diskurse) und zum anderen die Haltungen (Reaktionen, Verhaltensweisen, Handlungen) von individuellen und kollektiven Subjekten im Kontext der literarisch inszenierten Globalisierungsphänomene bei Wilhelm Raabe. In dieser Studie werden seine Heimkehrertexte in Beziehung zur populärkulturellen Diskurswelt ihrer Entstehungszeit gesetzt. Somit wird eine kontextbezogene Analyse dieser Texte vorgenommen, in der historisch-kulturwissenschaftliche und soziologische Perspektiven und Kategorien herangezogen werden. Raabes Texte werden demzufolge als eingebettet in die von Globalisierung geprägte gesellschaftspolitische und kulturelle Wirklichkeit ihrer Epoche gelesen und interpretiert.
Entwicklungs- und Kolonialdiskurse in Gustav Freytags Roman "Soll und Haben" (1855)
Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 15.5/20, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Es mag verwundern, dass sich ein afrikanischer Germanist an einem Autor wie Gustav Freytag, dessen Werk „Soll und Haben“ wegen nicht unbegründeten Verdachts von Antisemitismus und Diskriminierungsapologie nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg aus dem Kanon heraustritt und demzufolge in Vergessenheit geriet, interessiert. In der Tat werden im Zuge der neueren Paradigmen wie etwa der cultural studies manche als nicht mehr interessant gesehenen Werke mit ganz neuen Blicken wieder gelesen. So kann der Leser anhand mancher damit verbundenen spezifischen Theorieansätze und...
A Voyage Round the World, 2 vols.
George Forster's A Voyage Round the World presents a wealth of geographic, scientific, and ethnographic knowledge uncovered by Cook's second journey of exploration in the Pacific (1772-1775). Accompanying his father, the ship's naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster, on the voyage, George proved a knowledgeable and adept observer. The lively, elegant prose and critical detail of his account, based loosely on his father's journal, make it one of the finest works of eighteenth-century travel literature and an account of prime importance in the history of European contact with Pacific peoples. The Forsters' publications reveal the sophistication and enthusiasm they brought to their observation of P...
The Apocalyptic Dimensions of Climate Change
Climate change and the apocalypse are frequently associated in the popular imagination of the twenty-first century. This collection of essays brings together climatologists, theologians, historians, literary scholars, and philosophers to address and critically assess this association. The contributing authors are concerned, among other things, with the relation between cultural and scientific discourses on climate change; the role of apocalyptic images and narratives in representing environmental issues; and the tension between reality and fiction in apocalyptic representations of catastrophes. By focusing on how figures in fictional texts interact with their environment and deal with the consequences of climate change, this volume foregrounds the broader social and cultural function of apocalyptic narratives of climate change. By evoking a sense of collective human destiny in the face of the ultimate catastrophe, apocalyptic narratives have both cautionary and inspirational functions. Determining the extent to which such narratives square with scientific knowledge of climate change is one of the main aims of this book.
Medieval Futurity
This collection of essays asks contributors to take the capaciousness of the word "queer" to heart in order to think about what medieval queers would have looked like and how they may have existed on the margins and borders of dominant, normative sexuality and desire. The contributors work with recent trends in queer medieval studies, blending together modern concepts of sexuality and desire with the queer configurations of eroticism, desire, and materiality as they might have existed for medieval audiences.
Gender Bonds, Gender Binds
While Gender Studies has made its mark on literary studies, much scholarship on the German Middle Ages is largely inaccessible to the Anglo-American audience. With gender at its core as a category of analysis, "Gender Bonds, Gender Binds"uniquely opens up medieval German material to English speakers. Recognizing the impact of Ann Marie Rasmussen’s Mothers and Daughters in Medieval German Literature, this transatlantic volume expands on questions introduced in her 1997 book and subsequent work. More than a mere tribute, the collection moves the debates forward in new directions: it examines how gender bonds together people, practices, texts, and interpretive traditions, while constraining a...
Citizenship, Law and Literature
The interdisciplinary series "Law & Literature" takes a systematic look at the correlation between literature and the law. The studies presented in this series analyze the complex interrelation between two cultural spheres which are not only at the basis of Western Culture and Society, but share in a common focus on texts. Bringing together contributions by jurists, historians of law, legal philosophers, and specialists in literary and cultural studies, this series reflects a trend in current inter- and transdisciplinary research which has recently shown rapid growth both in Europe and the United States.
Prognostication in the Medieval World
Two opposing views of the future in the Middle Ages dominate recent historical scholarship. According to one opinion, medieval societies were expecting the near end of the world and therefore had no concept of the future. According to the other opinion, the expectation of the near end created a drive to change the world for the better and thus for innovation. Close inspection of the history of prognostication reveals the continuous attempts and multifold methods to recognize and interpret God’s will, the prodigies of nature, and the patterns of time. That proves, on the one hand, the constant human uncertainty facing the contingencies of the future. On the other hand, it demonstrates the f...
Fictionality, Factuality, and Reflexivity Across Discourses and Media
Concerned with the nature of the medium and the borders between fact and fiction, reflexivity was a ubiquitous feature of modernist and postmodernist literature and film. While in the wake of the post-postmodern “return to the real” cultural criticism has little time for discussions of reflexivity, it remains a key topic in narratology, as does fictionality. The latter is commonly defined opposition to the real and the factual, but remains conditioned by historical, cultural, discursive, and medium-related factors. Reflexivity blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction, however, by giving fiction a factual edge or by questioning the limits of factuality in non-fictional discourses. Fictionality, factuality, and reflexivity thus constitute a complex triangle of concepts, yet they are rarely considered together. This volume fills this gap by exploring the intricacies of their interactions and interdependence in philosophy, literature, film, and digital media, providing insights into a broad range of their manifestations from the ancient times to today, from East Asia through Europe to the Americas.
