Litteraturstudier: fra 1800 til 1900

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Nicht nur durch Renaturierungsprojekte zur CO2-Speicherung sind Moore momentan aktuell, auch die Literatur hat in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten diesen schwer zugänglichen Naturraum für sich entdeckt. Der Band versammelt Beiträge verschiedener Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften, die das Moor als ästhetischen Raum abstecken ¿ von der liminalen Sphäre zwischen Wasser und Land, als Erinnerungsraum, Spielfeld des Nature Writings bis hin zum Phobotop.

This book aims to establish the position of the sidekick character in the crime and detective fiction literary genres. It re-evaluates the traditional view that the sidekick character in these genres is often overlooked as having a small, generic or singular role¿either to act as the foil to the detective in order to accentuate their own abilities at solving crimes, or else to simply tell the story to the reader. Instead, essays in the collection explore the representations and functions of the detective¿s sidekick across a range of forms and subgenres of crime fiction. By incorporating forms such as children¿s detective fiction, comics and graphic novels and film and television alongside the more traditional fare of novels and short stories, this book aims to break down the boundaries that sometimes exist between these forms, using the sidekick as a defining thread to link them together into a wider conceptual argument that covers a broad range of crime narratives.

This book suggests alternative ways of looking at what made a writer, what people gained from writing, and explores the alternative world of temperance periodicals of the 19th and early 20th century. Introducing now-forgotten writers who, in their thousands, kept the Victorian periodical presses rolling, and the public entertained.

Aimed at a non-specialist readership, this survey of early modern English literature examines how writers represented Islam. Many aimed to foment hostility or to encourage friendship. Anyone interested in how stereotypes are perpetuated and can be challenged today in an increasingly Islamophobic Western world will profit from reading it.

In this iconoclastic and sure to be contentious re-casting by a renowned critic, the great American novel Moby Dick is presented as a work that has been widely misread, an error that continues to this day. According to Barry Sanders, Herman Melville's best- known work is not a novel, does not pretend to be a novel, and was not intended by its author to be read as a novel. Moby Dick is this country's first manifesto, a tocsin sounded to warn us about the encroaching end of nature.  The Manifesto of Herman Melville traces the evolution of Moby Dick-from its awful, initial reception, very rapidly passing out of print, to its remarkable revival to become lauded as one of America's great literary classics.  That turnaround happened in the early decades of the 20th century and was, in great part, the result of the new and radical aesthetic movements such as surrealism, dadaism, and cubism that allowed for a radical reading of the book. The novel's new standing as one of the keystones of the American cannon disguises its deeper meaning as an alarm bell, an obscuring which Barry Sanders, in a critical assessment that is as persuasive as it is provocative, seeks to clear away. Sanders argues that Moby Dick needs to be recognized as Melville's manifesto: a bold statement warning of the destruction of the natural world made most evident in the book's central metaphor the relentless pursuit to kill the whale, the first sentient being in Genesis and one of the most startling mammals-possessed of hair and scales, a tail and breasts-and the largest of the creatures on earth, weighing up to 400,000 pounds. Whalers in Melville's day hunted down and killed these extraordinary behemoths of nature, for their oil, sold to people for cooking and to light their homes. Today the pursuit for energy has shifted dramatically, from sea to land,  but the prize remains the same:  energy producing fuel for which entrepreneurs and adventurers are prepared to kill off all of nature.

This engrossing narrative recounts the story of Jane de La Vaudère (née Jeanne Scrive), a prolific and celebrated writer of France's Belle Époque. Interweaving biography and literary analysis, Sharon Larson examines the ways in which La Vaudère adapted her persona to shifting literary trends and readership demands--and how she created and profited from controversy.Relatively unknown today, La Vaudère published more than forty novels, poetry collections, and dramatic works as well as hundreds of shorter pieces. A controversial figure who was known as a plagiarist, La Vaudère attracted the attention of the public and of her peers, who caricatured her in literary periodicals and romans à clef. Most notably, La Vaudère claimed to have written the Rêve d'Egypte pantomime, whose 1907 production at the Moulin Rouge featured a kiss between Missy and Colette that led to riots and the suspension of future performances. Larson scrutinizes the ensemble of these various media constructions, privileging La Vaudère's self-representation in interviews and advertisements, and brings to light her agency in creating an image that captivated public attention and boosted sales of her writings.An engrossing examination of La Vaudère's life and work, this volume probes the quandaries of scholarship seeking to responsibly recover lost female voices and makes a long-overdue contribution to nineteenth-century French literary studies.

Die Studie befasst sich mit dem Zusammenhang von Sinneswahrnehmung und Exotismus in der deutschsprachigen, französischen und britischen Literatur vom späten 18. bis zum frühen 20. Jahrhundert. Sie geht von der These aus, dass sich der Exotismus als ein westeuropäischer Diskurs beschreiben lässt, der tatsächlichen oder imaginierten Elementen einer fremden, zumeist außereuropäischen Region eine außergewöhnliche sinnliche Dimension verleiht. Dabei erscheint das Exotische in eskapistisch-zivilisationsmüden Phantasien als etwas Befreiendes; als etwas, das die Rehabilitation der im Zuge der zunehmenden abendländischen Modernisierungsprozesse verkümmerten Sinne verspricht.Obgleich sich die Forschung bereits eingehend mit dem Exotismus befasst hat, liegen bislang keine Studien vor, die sich seiner dezidiert sensorischen Dimension widmen. Dieses Desiderat wird die Studie füllen, indem sie - der poetischen wie referentiellen Funktion eines Textes gleichermaßen gerecht werdend - sowohl die dezidiert literarischen Verfahrensweisen untersucht, welche die ausgewählten Texte im Umgang mit der sensorischen Dimension des Exotismus entwickeln, als auch die Involviertheit von Texten in breitere kulturelle Kontexte berücksichtigt. Damit beschreitet die Studie einen neuen Weg der Exotismusforschung und leistet einen innovativen Beitrag zu Debatten um Interkulturalität und (Post-)Kolonialismus.

The music reviews of Robert Schumann and Richard Wagner are central documents of 19th-century German musical culture. This book takes a closer look at the way these texts were written and explores the significant contributions Schumann and Wagner made to the discourse of musical appraisal. To that effect, the author raises fundamental questions that have thus far remained unaddressed: What textual features characterize the critical writings? How do Schumann and Wagner understand their roles as critics of music? And in what way do they reach out to the reader? Rather than understanding these critical writings exclusively as a gateway to the compositions and musical aesthetics of Schumann and Wagner, this book analyzes the texts through the lens of pragmatics, narratology and discourse analysis. Using this interdisciplinary perspective, the author proposes to understand Schumann and Wagner within the broader medial and discursive context of German 'Kritik'. He challenges the dominant narrative that brands Schumann and Wagner as elitist Romantic critics, demonstrating instead that they actively encourage their readers to form their own judgements. This volume is an indispensable resource for scholars of German literature, periodicals and music alike.