Sammenlignende litteratur

"Oversættelsen af Shakespeares 37 skuespil har været mit skriverlivs største, sværeste og mest berigende opgave. Det tog mig over tredive år. Berigelsen og udfordringen ligger i, at Shakespeare er enestående. Et litterært og dramatisk geni. Og selvfølgelig er det ikke uden hjertebanken, at man nærmer sig den hemmelighed, som indeholdes i det geniale." – Niels BrunseNiels Brunse er prisbelønnet forfatter og oversætter. Bogen indgår i serien 'Babette'.

Denne bog handler om bøger og litteratur. Nærmere bestemt handler den om begrebet det litterære værk, som inden for litteraturvidenskaben er en kompleks størrelse. Bogen og værket udfordrer feltet på dets manglende refleksion over dette vigtige begreb og nuancerer definitionen af litteraturanalysens genstand. Når vi læser et litterært værk, sker det altid via et medie – oftest en bog trykt på papir – og denne fysiske genstand udgør en central del af vores læseoplevelse. Bøgerne er stadig vores primære adgang til litteraturen. Men til trods for denne dominerende position spiller bogen som medie kun en marginal rolle inden for litteraturvidenskaben, hvor materielle betragtninger sjældent indgår i fortolkningen. Det er et problem for fagets videnskabelighed og akribi. For hvad er det egentlig, vi analyserer, når vi giver os i kast med et litterært værk? Denne bog syntetiserer disciplinerne boghistorie og litteraturteori og præsenterer en række værktøjer til at indarbejde den boghistoriske refleksion i sine analyser. Bogens primære målgruppe er litteraturstuderende på universiteterne.Bogens eksempelmateriale består af dansk såvel som udenlandsk litteratur. Som demonstration af metodens anvendelighed analyseres Per Højholts publikumssucces Gittes monologer, der udkom i årene 1981-84.Klaus Nielsen er ph.d. og udgaveleder ved Grundtvigs Værker, Grundtvig Centeret, Aarhus Universitet. Han er medlem af Det Danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab.

A look at 100 inspiring novels that have left a significant mark on the world of literature and popular culture.

'Lacrimae Rerum' lægger tre mosaiske mosaikker, digterskæbner underlagt 1900-tallets ideologiske vanvid og gru. Karsten Sand Iversen (f. 1944), oversætter og forfatter. Tidligere er udkommet på Forlaget Virkelig 'Omskrivninger' (2017) og 'Tid af jern og ild' (2018).

Kort essay om science fiction-genrens poetik, faldgruber og nødvendighed.

Kort essay om science fiction-genrens poetik, historie og perspektiver.

Mikkel Fønsskov og Anders Magelund har interviewet ni af landets absolutte topledere og en kendt og elsket forfatter. Resultatet er en inspirerende bog, der ikke alene stimulerer læselysten, men også blotlægger, hvorfor læsning af skønlitteratur er det mentale brændstof, som driver disse ledere.I Hvem er bange for Moby Dick? hører vi fra lederne selv, hvorfor de til hver en tid hellere læser en god roman end en ledelsesbog – hvordan det styrker deres empati, gør dem bedre til at kommunikere og motivere, og hvordan skønlitteratur lærer dem at træde i karakter.Det er de gode historier, der gør dem klogere på værdier, trends, og hvad der egentlig driver mennesker og medarbejdere, og på hvordan man leder gennem store transformationer og forløser potentialer.Hvem skulle have troet, at nogle af Danmarks vigtiste topledere baserer deres lederskab på Karen Blixen, John Steinbeck og Henrik Pontoppidan?Samtalepartnere:Knud Bartels, Marianne Dahl, Mette Frederiksen, Christian Jensen, Morten Hesseldahl, Hanne-Vibeke Holst, Henrik Mulvad, André Rogaczewski, Sine Sunesen og Margrethe Vestager

DET PSEUDONYME FIRMA er resultatet af 25 års studier i Søren Kierkegaards forfatterskab. Poul Behrendt er ophavsmanden bag begrebet dobbeltkontrakten, dvs. opdagelsen af, at en særlig række autofiktive værker gør krav på at blive læst både som realistisk afspejling af sandheden og som frit opfundet fiktion. I Søren Kierkegaards tilfælde går dobbeltkontrakten langt videre. Kierkegaard skriver en stor del af sit forfatterskab under pseudonym og indskyder dermed en ’forfatter’ mellem personen Søren Kierkegaard og læserne. Ja, i samme år som Georg Carstensen etablerede Tivoli som aktieselskab, opretter Kierkegaard endda et firma, der organiserer disse forskellige pseudonymers forhold til den juridiske person, Søren Kierkegaard. Deraf bogens titel. Hvad dette betyder for læsningen af et af de vigtigste og fortsat fascinerende forfatterskaber i verdenslitteraturen udfoldes i detaljerede analyser bl.a. af det berømte Jordrystelses-fragment, som Behrendt rekonstruerer som netop ikke selvbiografisk, sådan som det ellers traditionelt er blevet læst. I det hele taget gør Behrendt op med bestræbelsen på at søge frem til personen Kierkegaard gennem forfatterskabet for i stedet at lade værkernes komplicerede spil træde frem og se det, som det blev tænkt.

Das Verhältnis von Technik und Gender ist in den vergangenen Jahren immer stärker in den Blick der Forschung gerückt. Prozesse der Technisierung und Digitalisierung haben nicht nur Einfluss auf Geschlechter- und Machtverhältnisse, sondern erzeugen eine historisch wirksame Reziprozität zwischen Technologie und Geschlecht: Technik ist dabei nicht nur als Ursache, sondern auch als Konsequenz der Transformation von Geschlechterbeziehungen beschreibbar. Im frühen 20. Jahrhundert entstehen so neue Berufsbilder wie die Stenotypistin, die Sekretärin und die Telefonistin, bei denen Technologie Arbeit geschlechterspezifisch strukturiert. Gegenwärtig ist eine Genderisierung technologischer Artefakte u.a. an sogenannten intelligenten persönlichen Assistenten wie Siri und Alexa wahrnehmbar, die mit weiblichen Stimmen ausgestattet sind und an das tradierte Rollenschema anzuknüpfen scheinen. Das aktuelle Themenheft "Gender through technology" des komparatistischen Journals Variations versammelt daher deutsch-, französisch- und englischsprachige Beiträge, welche die vielfältigen Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Genderdiskursen und Technologie in den Blick nehmen. Dabei kommen kulturwissenschaftliche Ansätze ebenso zum Zug wie literatur- und filmwissenschaftlich geprägte Analysen.

Stephen Romer's essays range from the key figures of French and English Modernism to the contemporary practice of poetry, and its translation. At the heart of Chaos and the Clean Line is an enquiry into the talismanic power that a source of order can possess for the poet who lives in a disordered world. It is what drives Mallarmé's 'fury against the formless'. Sometimes it may be found in a longed-for sense of psychological detachment, as when Laforgue invents the figure of Pierrot. Or it may be the craft and genius of a former age, safely removed from the alienating cities of today, such as Eliot finds in Dante, or in Gautier's chiseled verse. For Pierre Reverdy, the clean line of order may come from a Cubist painting; for Ezra Pound, it may be an epiphany of angled sunlight fallen on stone in Provence; for Apollinaire, the shockingly original analogies he draws between physical eroticism and trench warfare.Stephen Romer is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tours, and Lecturer in French at Brasenose College, Oxford.

Crossings is a gathering of essays whose preoccupations converge in the idea that the workings of poetry and trans­lation are closely related. This is especially true in the work of Hölderlin, in whose poems the kinship is coupled with a way of reading the world and an attentiveness to transitions of all kinds: what can come over to us from the past, and what will pass on from us to posterity? What are the consequences for poetry if the present moment is understood as a perpetual transition? Translation can be a means of testing this understanding, and poetry perhaps negotiates the crossing itself. Later writers like Philippe Jaccottet, who thought of the poet's work as a work of translation, continue this line: the poem becomes a form of attention and, as such, a thing permeable to an elsewhere. Touching on bird-flight and sonnets, aqueducts and metamorphosis, what these readings have in common is a fidelity to the movement of particular poems.Charlie Louth is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the Queen's College, University of Oxford.

This book presents rich information on Romanian mythology and folklore, previously under-explored in Western scholarship, placing the source material within its historical context and drawing comparisons with European and Indo-European culture and mythological tradition. The author presents a detailed comparative study and argues that Romanian mythical motifs have roots in Indo-European heritage, by analyzing and comparing mythical motifs from the archaic cultures, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Sanskrit, and Persian, with written material and folkloric data that reflects the Indo-European culture. The book begins by outlining the history of the Getae-Dacians, beginning with Herodotus' description of their customs and beliefs in the supreme god Zamolxis, then moves to the Roman wars and the Romanization process, before turning to recent debates in linguistics and genetics regarding the provenance of a shared language, religion, and culture in Europe. The author then analyzes mythcreation, its relation to rites, and its functions in society, before examining specific examples of motifs and themes from Romanian folk tales and songs. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of folklore studies, comparative mythology, linguistic anthropology, and European culture.

Navigating the complex tapestry of the Dune universe, William Mitchell interweaves the motifs of Jungian alchemy and Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophical teachings in "Alchemy and Anthroposophy in the Dune Saga." Mitchell casts a discerning eye on the Dune series, drawing parallels between Leto's descent into mineral intelligence and the metamorphic stages of alchemical transformation. The book also highlights Bene Gesserit and Tleilaxu practices, relating them to anthroposophical tenets. Compiling podcasts, lectures, essays, and speculative writings, this work traverses the series, from the original trilogy to the ethics of "God Emperor of Dune" and delves into the dynamics of the later novels. From the melange-fueled prescience to the intergenerational memories echoing Samuel Butler's notions of ancestral recall and the cautionary tales of the edicts of the Butlerian Jihad, Mitchell presents a compelling argument for the profound spiritual undertones in Frank Herbert's magnum opus. Published by pontos fathom press, this work invites readers to journey through Arrakis with renewed insight, unearthing the philosophical and spiritual treasures embedded within its sands.

Toute perception paysagère a tendance à dissocier les composantes physiques de ses résonances existentielles et symboliques. Nonobstant, peut-on penser autrement les paysages méditerranéens¿et s¿affranchir de ce dualisme omniprésent dans la pensée occidentale¿? Autrement dit, peut-on considérer quelques paysages de l¿eau qualifiés de méditerranéens comme un objet global¿? En interrogeant de façon holistique ces quelques espaces «¿en trompe l¿¿il¿», ce volume étudie les manières dont ces lieux hydriques sont conditionnés par leur environnement culturel et symbolique. Dès lors, c¿est grâce au rôle joué par la mémoire et par l¿invariance thématique que la réalité paysagère ici analysée peut être singularisée en géographie affective, en matrice archétypale, en «¿pensée-paysage méditerranéenne¿».

El espacio geográfico manchego está indefectiblemente ligado a la figura de Miguel de Cervantes. Su constitución física y la correspondiente figuración literaria forman parte del imaginario colectivo y constituyen, desde tiempos inmemoriales, una fuente inagotable de inspiración viajera y artística a la cual pretendemos contribuir con el presente volumen colectivo. En esta monografía nos proponemos revisitar la vida, la obra y el legado de Cervantes ahondando en cuestiones esenciales para abordar la rica producción de uno de los autores capitales de la literatura española y universal. A través de once estudios firmados por prestigiosos cervantistas y con el aval de un especializado Comité científico, el lector podrá sumergirse, mediante novedosos enfoques, en cuestiones esenciales cervantinas, de ayer, de hoy y de siempre.

Examines the reception of Brazil's most-canonized writer in the United States to shed light on questions of Blackness and hemispheric American experience.

Shows how the method of close reading traveled from the United States to Brazil and Israel, revealing its profound impact on global modernisms and reframing the lasting significance of New Criticism.

Popular culture encompasses and draws on a rich history of works by musicians, filmmakers, writers, photographers, and performers who question the contours of traditional sexual and gender identities, including but not limited to members of LGBTQIA* communities. When encountered on the stage or screen, for instance, in the guise of drag performances, forms of sexual ambiguity often spark fascination. Yet in everyday life in various socio-cultural contexts, sexual and bodily difference in all its forms is still met with hostility, rendering vulnerable those human beings that deviate from the white, male, straight, able-bodied norm. Queer artists today respond to social stigma in multiple creative ways, for example, by transforming negative affect, fostering a politics of care, and rewriting history. This volume considers how feminist, queer, and trans* musicians, filmmakers, curators, and performance artists contribute to popular culture. It explores the many ways of relating to difference, however this is conceived, that their contributions enable. What affects do their works engender? How do they rouse their audience, and to what ends? How do they fabricate and circulate provocative messages about new forms of gender, race, class, and desire? What other visions do they inspire?

Dieses Buch untersucht, wie phänomenologische Ansätze zu den Themen Verleiblichung, Wahrnehmung und gelebte Erfahrung innerhalb der Disability Studies, der Critical Race Theory und der Queer Studies diskutiert werden. Auf Grundlage dieser Disziplinen analysiert der Autor Autobiografien und Romane, die sich mit den Folgen von Stigmatisierung und den körperlichen Dimensionen sozialer Ungleichheit auseinandersetzen. Die untersuchten Texte sind Robert F. Murphys The Body Silent, Simi Lintons My Body Politic, Rod Michalkos The Two-in-One: Walking with Smokie, Walking with Blindness, drei autobiografische Texte von Stephen Kuusisto, Vincent O. Carters The Bern Book sowie zwei Romane, Matthew Griffin's Hide und Armistead Maupin's Maybe the Moon. All dieseTexte haben die Bedeutung von Körpergedächtnis und Wahrnehmungsgewohnheiten, den Einfluss von Sprache und Kultur für Prozesse der Verleiblichung, die Bedeutung von Relationalität und Gemeinschaft,die Auswirkungen von Beleidigung und Nichtanerkennung sowie Emanzipation und soziale Anerkennung zum Thema. Folglich werden sie als bahnbrechende Beiträge zur kritischen Phänomenologie diskutiert.

This book provides a Latino reading of John¿s prologue with special attention to how the themes of race, kinship, and the empire are part of the gospel¿s racial rhetoric. By drawing from the insights of Latinx texts and theology, this book reveals how the prologue provides a lens to read the entire gospel with a keen awareness of Jesus¿s engagement with people groups¿from his own family to the Roman authorities. The prologue participates in the gospel¿s racial rhetoric by shaping the reader¿s racial imagination even before a person enters the narrative. By doing so, Jesus¿s identity becomes constructed and defined through racial rhetoric since the opening verses of John¿s gospel.

Georg Brandes (1842-1927) er mest kendt for sit storværk "Hovedstrømninger i det 19de Aarhundredes Litteratur" (udg. i seks bind 1872-1890), hvori han talte den politiske friheds sag og gav en opsang til dansk litteratur, som dyrkede gamle romantiske idealer og ikke lukkede op for nye europæiske strømninger.Georg Brandes havde også stærke æstetiske sider. De er på forskellig måde hovedemnet i de artikler, Pil Dahlerup i årenes løb har skrevet om ham, og som udgives samlet i denne antologi. Georg Brandes' sprog var noget særligt. Sol-metaforik indgik i det, og hans livslange interesse for billedkunst fik ham til at give sit sprog farve og form, så det kunne ses, ligesom maleri og skulptur. Se artiklerne "Georg Brandes' sol", "Georg Brandes' billeder" og "En visuel poetik". Antologien indeholder desuden artikler om Georg Brandes' syn på naturalisme, impressionisme, fædrelandskærlighed og på den katolske kirke. Nogle kapitler fra "Det moderne gennembruds kvinder" (1983) er genoptrykt under overskriften "Fader, Don Juan og Tristan". Blandt de nyere bidrag er "Festtale for Georg Brandes" i anledning af 150-året for Indledningsforelæsningen til "Hovedstrømninger" (3. nov. 1871) og "Georg Brandes' aske", som handler om en oplevelse i Brandes-Arkivet på Det Kongelige Bibliotek.Pil Dahlerup (f. 1939), dr.phil., litteraturhistoriker; 1969-2009 ansat ved Nordisk Filologi, Københavns Universitet, fra 1989 som docent. Leder af Georg Brandes Skolen samme sted 2002-2009, en international Ph.D. Skole for skandinavisk litteratur. Gæstelærer ved University of California, Berkeley 1987-1988. Anmelder ved Information 1970-1995. Modtager af Georg Brandes Prisen 1983, af ALT for Damernes Kvindepris 1984. Medlem af Statens Humanistiske Forskningsråd 1988-1993. Tildelt livsvarig kunstnerydelse af Statens Kunstfond (2010). Har bl.a. skrevet "Det moderne gennembruds kvinder" (1983, disputats), "Liv og lyst" (1987), "Dekonstruktion - 90'ernes litteraturteori" (1990), "Dansk litteratur. Middelalder" (1998), "Sanselig senmiddelalder" (2010), "Litterær reformation" (2016). Søster til Ulla Dahlerup og Drude Dahlerup.

Die vorliegende Studie stellt einen Versuch dar, Diskurse und Gedächtnismodi herauszuarbeiten, die der neueren Diskussion zur Kolonisation zugrunde liegen. Die Studie beantwortet die Frage, wie Kolonialismus in zeitgenössischen Erzählungen zur Kolonialzeit erinnert wird, d.h. in welchen Begriffen Literatur Bezug auf den Kolonialismus nimmt und zu welchem Zweck. Aus dem komparatistischen Vergleich geht hervor, dass die meisten Narrative, ob afrikanische oder europäische, zwar einen postkolonialen Blick auf die koloniale Vergangenheit (ent)werfen, der diskursive Standpunkt der Erzählungen aber weitgehend von dem historisch-kulturellen Gefüge abhängt, aus dem die Texte und deren Autor:innen stammen, wobei einzelne Texte sich über dieses gedächtniskulturelle Paradigma hinwegsetzen.The study represents an attempt to work out the discourses and modes of remembrance that underlie the recent discussion on colonization. It deals with the question of how colonialism is remembered in contemporary narratives of the colonial era, i.e. in what terms literature refers to colonialism and for what purpose. The comparative analysis of selected african and european postcolonial narratives shows that while most of them design a postcolonial view of the colonial past, the discursive point of view of those narratives is largely dependent on the cultural-historical structure from which the texts emerged and that informed their authors, though single narratives, especially autobiographical texts by European contemporary witnesses, defy the postcolonial paradigm.

This volume examines a selection of life writing in English by authors from the South West Indian Ocean, namely South Africa, East Africa, Mauritius and Sri Lanka. The two motifs that run through the chapters ¿ mourning and resilience ¿ are theoretical frameworks that have so far not been brought into conversation in this way. The combination of trauma studies and autobiographical analysis sharpens the focus of the discussions on Indian Ocean life writing, privileging an Indian Ocean imaginary that is transnational and cross-oceanic in its orientation and pointing to networks of connections that transcend the nation state, which is often the origin of trauma in the first place. Filling a gap in Indian Ocean studies in its close readings of trauma and resilience, the book also broadens perspectives on postcolonial life writing since little attention has been paid so far to Indian Ocean autobiographical literary products. By the same token, the volume also enriches the field of Indian Ocean literary studies by incorporating life writing as an aesthetic strategy which helps to configure Indian Ocean subjectivities.

Wenngleich der Forschungsstand, wenn es sich um die intendierte Textaussage des Musil¿schen ¿uvre handelt, durch das Fehlen einer Opinio communis gekennzeichnet ist, tritt die vorliegende Studie den Beweis an, dass eine ebensolche freizulegen ist. In Musils Opus magnum laufen die konzeptionellen Fäden zusammen, die bereits in seinem ersten Roman angelegt sind. In seiner trieb-teleologischen Skepsis beschäftigte ihn die Realisierbarkeit eines neuen Menschentypus ¿ eines Mannes ohne Eigenschaften ¿, dessen Zweck darin bestanden hätte, dem Zueilen auf den großen Weltuntergang etwas von seiner Dynamik zu nehmen und möglichen Großkonflikten so vorzubeugen. Denn die Freud¿sche Triebskepsis, die Musil früh zu eigen war, wurde zu seinem treuen weltanschaulichen Begleiter und gewann von Werk zu Werk an geschichtlicher Schärfe.

"A thoroughly revised and expanded edition of Thomas C. Foster's classic guide-a lively and entertaining introduction to literature and literary basics, including symbols, themes and contexts, that shows you how to make your everyday reading experience more rewarding and enjoyable. While many books can be enjoyed for their basic stories, there are often deeper literary meanings interwoven in these texts. How to Read Literature Like a Professor helps us to discover those hidden truths by looking at literature with the eyes-and the literary codes-of the ultimate professional reader, the college professor. What does it mean when a literary hero is traveling along a dusty road? When he hands a drink to his companion? When he's drenched in a sudden rain shower? Ranging from major themes to literary models, narrative devices and form, Thomas C. Foster provides us with a broad overview of literature-a world where a road leads to a quest, a shared meal may signify a communion, and rain, whether cleansing or destructive, is never just a shower-and shows us how to make our reading experience more enriching, satisfying, and fun. This revised edition includes new chapters, a new preface and epilogue, and incorporates updated teaching points that Foster has developed over the past decade. Foster updates his classic text with ore writers and books in the contemporary pantheon, including: Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give, Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven, Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, Elizabeth Acevedo's The Poet X ), Helen Oyeyemi's Mr. Fox and Boy, Snow, Bird, Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street, Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet, Madeline Miller's Circe, Pat Barker's The Silence of the Girls, and Tahereh Mafi's A Very Large Expanse of Sea"--

The book contains contributions on the significance of German culture for Romanian art, language, and literature. Not only will the direct influence of German role models on Romanian culture be discussed, but it will also show how this influence set in motion a whole series of socio-cultural and artistic shifts that allowed Romanian culture to better understand its position in the European world.Das Buch enthält Beiträge zur Bedeutung der deutschen Kultur für die rumänische Kunst, Sprache und Literatur. Erörtert wird nicht nur der direkte Einfluss deutscher Vorbilder auf die rumänische Kultur, sondern es wird auch aufgezeigt, wie dieser Einfluss eine ganze Reihe soziokultureller und künstlerischer Veränderungen in Gang gesetzt hat, die der rumänischen Kultur ermöglichten, ihren Platz in der europäischen Welt besser zu verstehen.

This book compares the Victorian British poet Robert Browning and the twentieth-century Ghanaian poet and novelist Kojo Laing¿two writers whose texts frequently foreground multi-scalar transregional cartographies, points of connection and translation, and imaginative kinships between different linguistic and cultural communities. Starting from the numerous and surprising points of connection and resemblance between both authors¿ texts, this book puts pressure on critical practices that would keep writers like Laing and Browning separate, positing instead the importance of paying attention to the transnational, cross-cultural, and cross-temporal imaginative relationships texts themselves generate. By comparing two writers whose texts represent different points of view on a number of shared and congruent contexts, this book seeks an original way of understanding the relationship between texts and (post-) colonial contexts, texts and other texts. Browning¿s and Laing¿s shared tendencyto foreground trans- and post-national cartographies of relation and difference, and their similarly translational aesthetics, both demand a probing of the disciplinary separation between ¿English Literature¿ and ¿Comparative Literature¿, as well as ¿literature¿ and ¿comparison¿, and a fresh awareness of the ways in which literature itself makes comparisons and affiliations. It also involves a version of ¿world literature¿ intent on accentuating the relational worlds (linguistic, imaginative, ethical) that texts themselves generate; a criticism sensitive to the ways in which writers from different times and places can still be seen to overlap.

Analyzes the different feelings, drives and instincts we have inherited from other species, to suggest a new understanding of ourselves as part of an eco-political community.

By examining non-fiction travel narratives and travel fictions in relationship to each other, Daniel Cooper Alarcón highlights the sophisticated ways that both types of writing have anticipated ideas central to critical studies of travel, tourism, and migration.