Litteraturstudier: fra 2000

Das Buch untersucht deutschsprachige Texte von KZ-Überlebenden aus Buchenwald und Dachau, die in den zwei produktivsten Phasen der Holocaustliteratur (1945-1949/1979-Gegenwart) veröffentlicht wurden. Die Autorin untersucht das Täterbild narratologisch und erinnerungskulturell vergleichend. Sie zeigt, dass die Autoren der frühen Lagerliteratur die von ihnen erlebten NS-Täter mit aller größter Intensität und Anschaulichkeit darstellen, während sich die der späten Lagerliteratur außer der Täterdarstellung auch auf der Konstruktion ihrer in den KZs verlorenen Identitäten hinwenden. Dementsprechend werden die Opferbilder viel konkreter und detaillierter als zuvor, während die Täterbilder mittlerweile amorpher, abstrakter und allgemeiner scheinen.

Mit der Digitalisierung erfährt der Literaturbetrieb der Gegenwart einen massiven Wandel. Autor*innen schaffen mithilfe der sozialen Medien zusätzliche Kommunikations- und Inszenierungsräume - mit der Konsequenz, dass sich die Literaturwissenschaft in ihrer klassischen Terminologie herausgefordert sieht. Der Sammelband setzt sich zum Ziel, diese Auswirkungen der sozialen Medien auf die Gegenwartsliteratur zu erforschen. Er geht von der Beobachtung aus, dass das Experimentieren mit den ästhetischen Möglichkeiten sozialer Medien vor allem im Bereich der Popliteratur stattfindet, die gegenwärtig eine dritte Konjunkturwelle erlebt. Ob die Literarisierung von SMS- und E-Mail-Messages oder Chatprotokollen einschließlich ihrer Codes der Emojis, GIFs, Memes im zeitgenössischen Pop-Roman, ob Twitter-Literatur, Poetry Bots oder Instagram-Feeds auf den Social-Media-Kanälen: als Pop 3.0 ist die digitale ,Kultur der Masse' in der Gegenwartsliteratur angekommen. https://www.degruyter.com/publishing/publikationen/openaccess/open-access-buecher/open-access-transformationspakete?lang=de

Als popkulturelles Medium bieten gerade Comics vielfältige Perspektiven auf zeitgenössische und historische Familienkonzepte und -metaphern. Die interdisziplinären Beiträge der Publikation reflektieren kritisch, welche medienspezifischen narrativen, (produktions-)ästhetischen und/oder pädagogischen Potentiale und Funktionen Comics aufweisen, um un/gewöhnliche Familienkonzepte und -strukturen in Text und Bild zu de/konstruieren.

In Literatur und Film der Gegenwart sind intermediale Bezüge, welche über die eigene Medialität und diejenige anderer Medien reflektieren, weit verbreitet. Diese vermehrte Reflexion gründet nicht nur in einer postmodernen Lust am Spiel, sondern auch in einer prekären Situation: Die Buchbranche steckt in einer tiefen Krise und das Kinosterben wurde durch Corona nur noch verstärkt. Angesichts der harten Medienkonkurrenz durch Internet und digitales Fernsehen reflektieren die beiden älteren und in gleicher Weise bedrohten Medien, Literatur und Kinofilm, in wechselseitiger Bespiegelung vermehrt ihre Potentiale und Grenzen. Romane der Gegenwartsliteratur wie Christian Krachts Imperium oder Die Toten, Benjamin Steins Replay oder Thomas von Steinäckers Geister nehmen Bezug auf das Medium Film, und Filme nach 2000 wie Finding Forrester, Stranger Than Fiction oder Atonement beziehen sich metafiktional auf das Medium Literatur und eröffnen damit intermediale Reflexionsräume zwischen Literatur und Film. Der Band untersucht Formen und Funktionen dieser gehäuft auftretenden intermedialen Reflexivität zwischen Literatur und Film angesichts des digitalen Umbruchs.

This new study provides fresh readings of Thomas Hardy¿s work and illuminates the social and cultural history of dress in the nineteenth century. The book argues that Hardy had a more detailed and acute understanding of the importance of dress in forming and regulating personal identity and social relations than any other writer of his time. Structured thematically, it takes into account both nineteenth-century and modern theoretical approaches to the significance of what we wear.The author gives an extended analysis of individual works by Hardy, showing, for example, that A Pair of Blue Eyes is central to the study of the function of clothing in the expression and perception of sexuality. The Hand of Ethelberta, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the d¿Urbervilles and The Woodlanders are examined in order to show the extent to which dress obscures or reveals the nature of the self. Hardy¿s other novels, as well as the short stories and poems, are used to confirm the centrality of dress and clothing in Hardy¿s work. The book also raises issues such as the gendering of dress, cross-dressing, work clothes and working with clothes, dress and the environment, the symbolism of colour in clothes, and the dress conventions relating to death.

Modernitalia provides a map of the Italian twentieth century in the form of twelve essays by the celebrated cultural historian Jeffrey T. Schnapp. Shuttling back and forth between literature, architecture, design, and the visual arts, the volume explores the metaphysics of speed, futurist and dada typography, real and imaginary forms of architecture, shifting regimes of mass spectacle, the iconography of labour, exhibitions as modes of public mobilization and persuasion, and the emergence of industrial models of literary culture and communication.The figures featured in the book include Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Mario Morasso, Julius Evola, Piero Portaluppi, Giuseppe Terragni, Alessandro Blasetti, Massimo Bontempelli, Giorgio de Chirico, Bruno Munari, Curzio Malaparte, and Henry Furst. Alongside these human protagonists appear granite blocks that drive the design of modern monuments, military searchlights that animate civilian shows, worker armies viewed as machines, sunglasses that tiptoe along the boundary of the private and public, newsreels as twentieth-century interpretations of Trajan¿s column, and book covers and bindings that act as authorial self-portraits. The volume captures the Italian path to cultural modernity in all of its brilliance and multiplicity.

Giorgio Manganelli (1922-1990), one of Italy¿s most radical and original writers, went further than most in exploring the creative possibilities of hybrid genres and open forms. Ostentation, theatricality, and a love of drapery and verbal excess are defining features of his body of work, which ranges from prose fiction, literary criticism, and drama to travel writing, treatises, commentaries, and imaginary interviews.This study examines the wealth of Manganelli¿s imagination ¿ his grotesque animals, speaking corpses, and melancholy spectres ¿ and argues that his spectacular eloquence was shaped by an exceptional awareness of literary and philosophical models. Following Manganelli¿s lead, the author addresses issues such as the boundaries of meaningful language, the relationship between literary and visual texts, fantasy and realism, and the power of literature to express the apprehensions and intimations of human consciousness.

Le flux ininterrompu des migrations contemporaines, en particulier celles qui ont atteint l¿Europe en 2015, pose des interrogations vitales sur notre humanité en marche. Réfugiés climatiques, migrants économiques ou fuyant les guerres, naufragés de la Méditerranée, apatrides, exilés, ces figures aiguës des crises mondiales de notre planète heurtent notre conscience de l¿altérité, nos valeurs, nos idéologies, notre tolérance, nos démocraties.Comment parler de ces invisibles, de ces humains en errance, de leurs projets, de leurs vies, de leurs inscriptions, provisoires ou définitives, dans un pays européen, sur un sol qui ne les désire pas ? Relayées par les médias, les migrations sont devenues des sujets d¿écriture à part entière dans tous les genres littéraires, pour les adultes comme pour les enfants. Leur réélaboration des littératures francophones post-coloniales et migrantes ainsi que leur hybridité imposent l¿idée d¿une dynamique de la déterritorialisation.Ce volume tente d¿interroger les formes d¿écriture et les discours qui définissent les trajectoires individuelles, mais aussi les conceptions de la nation, du divers et de l¿universel. Qui voit ? Qui raconte¿? Qui accueille¿? Qui dénonce¿?Du côté du roman pour adultes et pour enfants, ce sont les formes polyphoniques, dystopiques ou hospitalières qui tentent de saisir la figure du migrant, tandis que l¿album pose la question de la représentation par l¿image, stylisée ou référencée, à hauteur d¿enfant. Pour le cinéma, l¿interrogation porte sur l¿esthétisme des images chargées de dire l¿à- côté et l¿à-présent, tandis que le théâtre nous plonge dans une errance géopoétique. Le migrant est-il dès lors une figure de la conquête et de l¿aventure¿? Ou l¿expression des tragiques contemporains¿?

Through the burgeoning fields of Posthumanities and Environmental Humanities, this edition examines the changing conception of human subjectivity, agency, and citizenship as shaped by the dynamic interplays between nature, technology, science, and culture. The proposed ¿symbiotic turn¿, (the awareness of the multitude of interactions and mutual interdependencies among humans, non-humans and their environment) aspires to explore the complex recompositions of the ¿human¿ in the 21st century. By organizing and promoting interdisciplinary dialogue at multiple levels, both in theory and practice, Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies is suggested as a new narrative about the biosphere and technosphere, which is embodied literarily, philosophically, and artistically.

Ethics for Apocalyptic Times is about the role literature can play in helping readers cope with our present-day crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and the shift toward fascism in global politics. Using the lens of Mennonite literature and their own personal experience as a culturally Mennonite, queer, Latinx person, Daniel Shank Cruz investigates the age-old question of what literature's role in society should be, and argues that when we read literature theapoetically, we can glean a relational ethic that teaches us how to act in our difficult times.In this book, Cruz theorizes theapoetics-a feminist reading strategy that reveals the Divine via literature based on lived experiences-and extends the concept to show how it is queer, decolonial, and equally applicable to secular and religious discourse. Cruz's analysis focuses on Mennonite literature-including Sofia Samatar's short story collection Tender and Miriam Toew's novel Women Talking-but also examines a non-Mennonite text, Samuel R. Delany's novel The Mad Man, alongside practices of haiku and tarot, to show how reading theapoetically is transferable to other literary traditions.Weaving together close reading and personal narrative, this pathbreaking book makes a significant and original contribution to the field of Mennonite literary studies. Cruz's arguments will also be appreciated by literary scholars interested in queer theory and the role of literature in society.

This study offers a novel perspective of the poetry of acclaimed Spanish poet Ana Rossetti. It examines Posthumanism and the mystical in late 20th and early 21st Century Iberian poetics, and explores how Rossetti's more recent poetry expresses a search for an essential meaning in a context criticized for its ontological emptiness.

Childhood in neo-Victorian fiction for both child and adult readers is an extremely multifaceted and fascinating field. This book argues that neo-Victorian fiction projects multiple, competing visions of childhood and suggests that they can be analysed by means of a typology, the 'childhood scale', which provides different categories along the lines of power relations, and literary possible-worlds theory. The usefulness of both is exemplified by detailed discussions of Philippa Pearce's "Tom's Midnight Garden" (1958), Eva Ibbotson's "Journey to the River Sea" (2001), Sarah Waters' "Fingersmith" (2002) and Dianne Setterfield's "The Thirteenth Tale" (2006).

Seit den Enthüllungen Edward Snowdens ahnt die Öffentlichkeit das Ausmaß geheim- und nachrichtendienstlicher Massenüberwachung. Neben dem Staat üben in einer digitalen Gesellschaft auch (Technologie-) Konzerne und jede:r Einzelne Formen der (Selbst-)Überwachung aus. Die Strukturen der Überwachung im 21. Jahrhundert sind aufgrund zahlreicher Systeme heterogener und vernetzter als im 20. Jahrhundert. Wie sehr die Überwachungsdiskurse der Gegenwart im Zwischenraum zwischen Fiktion und Wirklichkeit angesiedelt sind, verdeutlicht dieses Buch. Die Studie betrachtet Romane und andere literarische Texte der Gegenwartsliteratur und stellt ihnen eine Untersuchung faktualer Texte gegenüber. In der Konfrontation von Fiktion und Realität werden Vorstellungen, Narrative und ihre Vermittlungsstrukturen gegenwärtige Überwachung deutlich, die Aufschluss über die der Gemeinschaft zur Verfügung stehenden Interpretationsmuster geben können. Die literarischen wie faktualen Textbeispiele entspringen denjenigen Kontexten von Überwachung und Privatheit, mit denen Individuen in ihrer Alltagswelt Berührungspunkte haben: Terror- und Sicherheitspolitik, Videoüberwachung im öffentlichen Raum, Gesundheitspolitik und -prävention, Praktiken der Selbstüberwachung in sozialen Netzwerken, etwa mithilfe von Tracker-Technologien. Die Fiktion erlaubt es, alternative Verläufe zu erproben, und imaginiert Chancen, Risiken und Gefahren gegenwärtiger Überwachungsphänomene oder -praktiken. Das Textkorpus besteht aus den literarischen Werken (2009-2017) von Juli Zeh sowie den Romanen 1WTC (2011) von Friedrich von Borries und Follower (2016) von Eugen Ruge. Im Bereich der faktualen Texte werden Beispiele aus der Politik und der Werbung untersucht, die konkrete Überwachungsmaßnahmen, -ereignisse oder -produkte vermitteln. Es handelt sich um die politischen Sprech- und Erzählweisen der Innenminister nach Terrorwarnungen sowie des RKI am Beginn der Covid-19-Pandemie wie um Werbekampagnen zum autonomen Fahren, zu Fitnesstrackern und Smart Watches sowie zu sozialen Netzwerken. In der Gesamtschau zeigen die Lektüren nicht nur Vorstellungswelten und Narrative sowie deren Implikaturen, sondern es werden vor allem literarische und faktuale Erzählverfahren wie die Perspektivierung gegenwärtige Überwachungserzählungen analytisch erarbeitet und nach der Rolle von Erzählungen und Fiktion im Diskurs befragt.

Tying in with political and cultural changes in Europe, this volume focuses on current discourses on the significance of democratic systems in opposition to authoritarian regimes, to fathom the transformations but also the continuities in children's and young adult literature from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. One aim of the book is to calibrate the political, poetic, and receptive examination of children's and young adult literature and to depict it from a historical and systematic perspective. Characterized by an internationally comparative scope this volume revolves around the following questions with a view to childhood constructions: What continuities but also changes are discernible? What political and ideological concepts are inherent in children's and young adult literature? How are World War II and the postwar period represented in children's books? What role do trauma and (post)memory play? And how is the discourse on flight and migration shaped?

Michael Lentz' opus magnum "Schattenfroh" ist eine Zumutung: Umfang und Komplexität stellen der Lektüre immense Hindernisse in den Weg. Aber zugleich erhebt der Text den Anspruch, eine umfassende literarische Enzyklopädie zu sein. Er stellt sich in die Reihe der großen Avantgardetexte seit Moderne. Der vorliegende Band sondiert erste Zugänge und unternimmt Versuche, Lektürewege in die äußerst dichte Textur dieser Prosa zu bahnen.

Latin American female writers and artists use their work to voice dissent against social issues including neo-liberal consumerism, environmental degradation, mass migration and gender violence.

An original and thought-provoking journey into J. R. R. Tolkien’s world, revealing how his visionary creation of Middle-Earth is more relevant now than ever before. *Shortlisted for the 2024 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies* *Finalist for the 2023 Tolkien Society Best Book Award*> Beginning with Tolkien's earliest influence—and drawing on key moments from his life, Tolkien in the Twenty-First Century is an engaging and vibrant reinterpretation of the beloved author's work. Not only does it trace the genesis and inspiration for the original books, but the narrative also explores the later film and literary adaptations that have cemented his reputation as a cultural phenomenon. Delving deep into topics such as friendship, failure, the environment, diversity, and Tolkien's place in a post-Covid age, Nick Groom takes us on an unexpected journey through Tolkien's world, revealing how it is more relevant now than perhaps Tolkien himself ever envisioned.

Diaspora is an ancient term that gained broad new significance in the twentieth century. At its simplest, diaspora refers to the geographic dispersion of a people from a common originary space to other sites. It pulls together ideas of people, movement, memory, and home, but also troubles them. In this volume, established and newer scholars provide fresh explorations of diaspora for twenty-first century literary studies. The volume re-examines major diaspora origin stories, theorizes diaspora through its conceptual intimacies and entanglements, and analyzes literary and visual-cultural texts to reimagine the genres, genders, and genealogies of diaspora. Literary mappings move across Africa, the Americas, Middle East, Asia, Europe, and Pacific Islands, and through Atlantic, Pacific, Mediterranean, Gulf, and Indian waters. Chapters reflect on diaspora as a key concept for migration, postcolonial, global comparative race, environmental, gender, and queer studies. The volume is thus an accessible and provocative account of diaspora as a vital resource for literary studies in a bordered world.

Metafiktion ist ein in der Literaturwissenschaft seit den 1970-er Jahren immer wieder diskutiertes und untersuchtes Phänomen: Es bezeichnet die auf sehr unterschiedliche Weise erzeugte Hervorhebung der Fiktionalität eines literarischen Werkes durch das Werk selbst. Dieser Band widmet sich der Kategorisierung der Formen und Funktionen von Metafiktion mit besonderem Augenmerk auf erzählende Texte für Kinder und Jugendliche. Neben einer detaillierten Untersuchung aktueller Werke mit einer Übersicht zahlreicher Verfahren zur Erzeugung von Metafiktion liefert er auch eine Darstellung der historischen Entwicklung von Metafiktion in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur.

Neoreaction is not your grandfather's conservatism, but the web 2.0 era marriage between modern engineering principles and classical anti-democratic thought. Its central tenet is that the Enlightenment was a mistake, and in The Dark Enlightenment, Nick Land burns progressivism to the ground, salts the earth around its ashes, and raises an altar to anti-humanism in its place.Land explicates the main ideas of neoreaction-the Cathedral, neocameralism, formalism, etc.-always viewing democracy, liberalism, and politics in general through the lens of Darwinism. The result is something like Thomas Hobbes as ghostwritten by H. P. Lovecraft. Included in this volume is an unreleased essay by Land on the writing and impact of The Dark Enlightenment.Absolutely none of this incendiary work has been proven wrong in the ten years since it was written. No doubt it will remain relevant for many years to come.

From the celebrated and national bestselling novelist and critic, an eye-opening and groundbreaking collection of essays on the state of cultural criticism and what meaning art has in our ever-challenging world.

This book addresses a research gap in the study of eugenics in fictional literature: the analysis of the nexus of eugenics and genetics in 21st-century novels, detached from their authors¿ ideological beliefs. It is based on an understanding of literature as an interdiscourse in Jürgen Link¿s sense. The study employs categories developed by Rabinow and Rose in the context of Foucault¿s concept of ¿biopower.¿ It thereby demonstrates that, though officially fallen from grace in light of the Nazi atrocities committed in the name of racial hygiene, eugenic ideas remain surprisingly resilient in the sciences as well as in fiction. Thus, the nexus between eugenics and genetics continues to serve as an important force in the structuring of scientific and contemporary popular (inter-)discourses.

Graphic narratives are one of the world's great art forms, but graphic novels and comics from Europe and the United States dominate scholarly conversations about them. Building upon the little extant scholarship on graphic narratives from the Global South, this collection moves beyond a narrow Western approach to this quickly expanding field. By focusing on texts from the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Asia, these essays expand the study of graphic narratives to a global scale. Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature is also interested in how these texts engage with, fit in with, or complicate notions of World Literature. The larger theoretical framework of World Literature is joined with the postcolonial, decolonial, Global South, and similar approaches that argue explicitly or implicitly for the viability of non-Western graphic narratives on their own terms. Ultimately, this collection explores the ways that the unique formal qualities of graphic narratives from the Global South intersect with issues facing the study of international literatures, such as translation, commodification, circulation, Orientalism, and many others.

Based on readings of some of the leading literary voices in contemporary Irish writing, this book explores how these authors have engaged with the events of Ireland's recent economic 'boom' and the demise of the Celtic Tiger period, and how they have portrayed the widespread and contrasting aftermaths. Drawing upon economic literary criticism, affect theory in relation to shame and guilt, and the philosophy of debt, this book offers an entirely original suit of perspectives on both established and emerging authors. Through analyses of the work of writers including Donal Ryan, Anne Haverty, Claire Kilroy, Dermot Bolger, Deirdre Madden, Chris Binchy, Peter Cunningham, Justin Quinn, and Paul Murray, author Eóin Flannery illuminates their formal and thematic concerns. Paying attention to generic and thematic differences, Flannery's analyses touch upon issues such as: the politics of indebtedness; temporality and narrative form; the relevance of affect theory to understandings of Irish culture and society in an age of austerity; and the relationship between literary fiction and the mechanics of high finance. Insightful and original, Form, Affect and Debt in Post-Celtic Tiger Irish Fiction provides a seminal intervention in trying to grasp the cultural context and the literature of the Celtic Tiger period and its wake.

Scholarship has traditionally characterized elegy as a Eurocentric tradition - a genealogy spanning from ancient Greek pastoral poems via the "English elegy" to English and Anglo-American Modernist contemporary poets.Perry examines how these genealogical constructions operate as a means of framing which guides interpretation. This book argues that they reflect a necropoetics - a system of principles, precepts and techniques which serve to establish and maintain ideas about whose lives are worthy of being mourned publicly and whose losses matter.Examining elegies that challenge questions of whose deaths may be grieved; elegies which articulate the various ways in which certain lives are made precarious and disposable; and elegies which interrogate colonial violence, structures of white power, militarized forms of policing, prison-industrial and military-industrial complexes, Perry explores possibilities for radical new ways of understanding elegy beyond established genealogical frames.This study retheorizes some basic terms of analysis of contemporary US poetry and poetics, critical race and ethnic studies, racial capitalism and contemporary theories of comparative and relational racialization.