Although the question of prioritizing either the level of content or that of form has often been controversial, most contributions of this volume treat them as internally connected. They undertake ...analyses of motifs, metaphors, and topoi, and thereby not only prove the relevance of rhetorical and thematic study, but also contribute to flourishing fields such as literary multilingualism, literature and emotions, and ecocriticism.
With this volume, the editors Katharina Edtstadler, Sandra Folie, and Gianna Zocco propose an extension of the traditional conception of imagology as a theory and method for studying the cultural ...construction and literary representation of national, usually European characters. Consisting of an instructive introduction and 21 articles, the book relates this sub-field of comparative literature to contemporary political developments and enriches it with new interdisciplinary, transnational, intersectional, and intermedial perspectives. The contributions offer 1 a reconsideration and update of the field’s methods, genres, and theoretical frames; 2 trans-/post-national, migratory, and marginalized perspectives beyond the European nation-state; 3 insights into geopolitical dichotomies such as Orient/Occident; 4 intersectional approaches considering the entanglements of national images with notions of age, class, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity/race; 5 investigations of the role of national images in visual narratives and music.
Mit dem Sammelband New Perspectives on Imagology legen die Herausgeberinnen Katharina Edtstadler, Sandra Folie und Gianna Zocco eine Neubetrachtung des Forschungsfelds der Imagologie vor, das sich traditionell mit der kulturellen Konstruktion und literarischen Darstellung von zumeist europäischen ‚Nationalcharakteren‘ befasst. Das Buch besteht aus einer instruktiven Einleitung und 21 Artikeln, die dieses Teilgebiet der Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft mit aktuellen politischen Entwicklungen in Beziehung setzen und mit neuen interdisziplinären, transnationalen, intersektionalen und intermedialen Perspektiven bereichern. Die Beiträge widmen sich 1 neuen Überlegungen zu Methoden, Genres und theoretischen Grundannahmen; 2 trans-/post-nationalen, migrantischen und marginalisierten Perspektiven, die sich nicht allein über nationalstaatliche Gegensätze verstehen lassen; 3 der globalen oder transkontinentalen Wirksamkeit kontrastiver Kategorien wie Orient/Okzident; 4 intersektionalen Zugängen, die die komplexe Verflochtenheit nationenbezogener Bilder mit Kategorien wie Alter, Klasse, Geschlecht, Sexualität, Religion und race/Ethnizität behandeln; 5 der Rolle nationaler Bilder in visuellen Erzählungen und in der Musik.
When James Baldwin in No Name in the Street discusses the case of Tony Maynard, who had been imprisoned in Hamburg in 1967, he emphasizes that his efforts to aid his unjustly imprisoned friend were ...greatly supported by his German publishing house Rowohlt and, in particular, by his then-editor Fritz Raddatz (1931–2015). While the passages on Maynard remain the only instance in Baldwin’s published writings in which Raddatz—praised as a courageous “anti-Nazi German” and a kindred ally who “knows what it means to be beaten in prison”—is mentioned directly, the relation between Baldwin and Raddatz has left traces that cover over fifty years. The African-American writer and Rowohlt’s chief editor got to know each other around 1963, when Baldwin was first published in Germany. They exchanged letters between 1965 and 1984, and many of Raddatz’s critical writings from different periods—the first piece from 1965, the last from 2014—focus on Baldwin’s books. They also collaborated on various projects—among them a long inter view and Baldwin’s review of Roots—which were all published in the German weekly newspaper Die Zeit, where Raddatz served as head of the literary and arts sections from 1977 to 1985. Drawing on published and unpublished writings of both men, this article provides a discussion of the most significant facets of this under-explored relationship and its literary achievements. Thereby, it sheds new light on two central questions of recent Baldwin scholarship: first, the circumstances of production and formation crucial to Baldwin’s writings of the 1970s and 1980s, and secondly, Baldwin’s international activities, his transcultural reception and influence.
This is the first English-language publication of an interview with James Baldwin conducted by the German writer, editor, and journalist Fritz J. Raddatz in 1978 at Baldwin’s house in St. ...Paul-de-Vence. In the same year, it was published in German in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit, as well as in a book of Raddatz’s conversations with international writers, and—in Italian translation—in the newspaper La Repubblica. The interview covers various topics characteristic of Baldwin’s interests at the time—among them his thoughts about Jimmy Carter’s presidency, his reasons for planning to return to the United States, his disillusionment after the series of murders of black civil rights activists in the 1960s and 1970s, and the role of love and sexuality in his literary writings. A special emphasis lies on the discussion of possible parallels between Nazi Germany and U.S. racism, with Baldwin most prominently likening the whole city of New York to a concentration camp. Due to copyright reasons, this reprint is based on an English translation of the edited version published in German. A one-hour tape recording of the original English conversation between Raddatz and Baldwin is accessible at the German literary archive in Marbach.
Space codetermines the identity crisis of Arthur Koestler's protagonist in Darkness at Noon. The prison cell, which also features in Koestler's autobiographical Dialogue with Death, heavily impacts ...three aspects of the crisis: the protagonist's resistance to the ruling 'we' in communist ideology, his attempt to find a personal view on life, and his surrender to mysticism. Using theoretical concepts such as liminality, heterotopia, and panopticism, the article examines the spatial components in relation to each aspect of the identity crisis.
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This article focuses on the experience of looking through a window in Patricia Highsmith’s novel
(1962) and its three film adaptations by Claude Chabrol (1987), Tom Toelle (1987) and Jamie Thraves ...(2009). In the novel, this experience points to the impact of subjectivity on visual perception. It shows the characters interpreting their perceptions according to their own subjective intentions and neglecting the essential “otherness” of the world beyond the window. Whereas the novel uses internal focalization for expressing this subjectivity, the films come up with very different cinematic strategies for the depiction of point of view.
Since Romanticism, authors frequently use the literary motif of the window for discussing metafictional questions. While texts like E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Des Vetters Eckfenster (1822) describe the male ...gaze at the woman in order to construct models of superior, self-reliant authorship, contemporary novels like Peter Handke’s Die Wiederholung (1986) and Siri Hustvedt’s The Enchantment of Lily Dahl (1996) are influenced by the deconstruction of traditional authorship in the context of subjectivism, post-structuralism and gender studies. Yet, these texts make broad use of windows for addressing metafictional questions. Considering the window a “mise en reflet”, whose metafictional potential derives from the similarities between ‘the art of watching’ and the art of writing and reading, my analysis proposes two parameters, namely objectivity/subjectivity and mimesis/poiesis, for classifying the various metafictional window-scenarios in contemporary literature.
This dossier is a collection of seven articles written by doctoral students and one young post-doc from the University of Vienna. To give you an impression of the surroundings in which the authors ...work and study, let me first provide you with some facts: With about 90,000 students, the University of Vienna is Austria’s largest university, and it is also the oldest university in the German-speaking countries (founded in 1365). As such, the University of Vienna is frequently at the center of po...
Betreten, Durchschreiten, Verlassen, Auf- und Absteigen, An- und Durchblicken: Architekturelemente wie das Fenster, der Korridor oder die Treppe stehen paradigmatisch für die Aktivierung des Raums in ...der Bewegung von Blicken und Körpern. Der vorliegende Sammelband widmet sich literarischen und (architektur-)theoretischen Texten, die eine besondere Sensibilität für solche Raum-Operationen haben. Damit leistet der Band einen Beitrag zum spatial turn, im Zuge dessen die Kulturwissenschaften der letzten zwei Jahrzehnte Räumlichkeit zu ihrem ureigenen Gegenstand machten. Anhand von Autoren wie Georges Perec, Virginia Wolf oder Heinrich Böll, von Architekten wie Le Corbusier oder Bernard Tschumi sowie von Theoretikern wie Jurij Lotman oder Jacques Derrida wird augenscheinlich, dass Raum keine abstrakte Kategorie ist, sondern nur über seine Verwendung in ästhetisch-historischen Kontexten verstanden werden kann. Fenster, Treppe und Korridor werden so als Wahrnehmungsdispositive verständlich, die Kulturgeschichte räumlich fassen, fassbar machen und letztlich selbst Geschichte(n) schreiben. Ohne Anspruch auf Vollständigkeit oder Abgeschlossenheit bietet der Band einen Einblick in aktuelle Forschungsdebatten um einen erweiterten, kultur- und literaturwissenschaftlichen Architektur- und Raumbegriff.
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