Sammenlignende litteratur

Die klassische Gattung des Versepos von Milton bis Klopstock ist nach dem Ende ihrer letzten Hochphasen im europäischen Raum (je nach Sprachkultur zwischen 1750 und 1850) wenig beachtet, obschon weiterhin eine erstaunliche Breite an Formen und Inhalten zu finden ist. Das Handbuch will den bekannten klassischen und vor allem den modernen, vielsprachigen Bestand von Versepik interdisziplinär und systematisch beschreiben und dabei zugleich Wege für weitergehende Arbeiten weisen. Ein erster Teil des Handbuchs beleuchtet allgemeine literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Aspekte. Ein weiterer Teil rekapituliert die ¿klassischen¿ Epochen von der Antike bis ins 17. Jahrhundert. Der dritte Teil widmet sich dezidiert ausführlicher dem bis heute wohl größten offenen Feld, nämlich der Weiterentwicklung der europäischen Versepiken in den wichtigsten Sprachkulturen (v.a. Romania, anglo-amerikanischer, deutschsprachiger, slavischer Raum) seit der vorgeblichen Ablösung der alten Gattung durch die ¿modernere¿ Prosa bzw. Romanliteratur.

Jack Kerouac: Tracing the Theme of Epiphany invites readers to survey and analyze Jack Kerouac's works with particular focus on his constant exploration to discover what it means to live a meaningful life. The text helps readers understand how Kerouac contributed to and influenced American literature, becoming one of the most famous writers of the 20th century. Divided into eight chapters, the book begins with a chapter that examines the historical, cult

After more than a century of genocides and in the midst of a global pandemic, this book focuses on the critique of biopolitics (the government of life through individuals and the general population) and the counterdevelopment of biopoetics (an aesthetics of life elaborating a self as a practice of freedom) realized in texts by Virginia Woolf, Michel Foucault, and Michael Ondaatje. Their world fiction produces transhistorical, transnational experiences offered to the reader for collective responsibility in these critical times. Their books function as heterotopias: spaces and processes that recall and confront regimes of recognized truths to dismantle fixed identities and actualize possibilities for becoming other. Higgins and Leps define and explore a slant, biopoetic perspective that is feminist, materialist, anti-racist, and anti-war.

Mediterranean studies flourish in literary and cultural studies, but concepts of the Mediterranean and the theories and methods they use are very disparate. This is because the Mediterranean is not a simple geographical or historical unity, but a multiplicity, a network of highly interconnected elements, each of which is different and individual. Talking about Mediterranean literature raises the question of whether the connectivity of Mediterranean literature can or should be limited in some way by constructing an inside and an outside of the Mediterranean. What kind of connectivity and fragmentation do literary texts produce, how do they build and interrupt references (to the real, to fictional forms of representation, to history, but also to other texts and discourses), how do they create and deny communication, and how do they engage with and reflect literary and non-literary concepts of the Mediterranean? These and other questions are considered and discussed in the over twenty contributions gathered in this volume.

The volume asks how the literatures of the Americas and the Caribbean present multiple or internally differentiated spaces and how these are distinguished or traversed by different temporalities. The historical and (post)colonial experiences of these areas turns them into especially fertile ground for the exploration of the connections between landscape/geography and historical/temporal palimpsests as well as the specificities of literary form. The contributions are dedicated to individual, yet conceptually interconnected studies of staggered, multiple, non-simultaneous temporalities in modern and contemporary literature. The volume adopts a comparative perspective throughout and intends to foster the dialogue between the study of Latin/American and Caribbean literatures-in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English. Therefore, the individual essays are not grouped according to geographical or linguistic areas, but follow a trajectory from spatiotemporal constellations of the 19th century to ruined/catastrophic landscapes and the geopoetic inscriptions of time in regions. The essays should appeal to all readers interested in World Literature, Hemispheric Studies as well as temporal approaches to space and geography.

While the very existence of global literary studies as an institutionalised field is not yet fully established, the global turn in various disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences has been gaining traction in recent years. This book aims to contribute to the field of global literary studies with a more inclusive and decentralising approach. Specifically, it responds to a double demand: the need for expanding openness to other ways of seeing the global literary space by including multiple literary and cultural traditions and other interdisciplinary perspectives in the discussion, and the need for conceptual models and different case studies that will help develop a global approach in four key avenues of research: global translation flows and translation policies, the post-1989 novel as a global form, global literary environments, and a global perspective on film and cinema history. Gathering contributions from international scholars with expertise in various areas of research, the volume is structured around five target concepts: space, scale, time, connectivity, and agency. We also take gender and LGBTQ+ perspectives, as well as a digital approach.

Welchen Stellenwert haben Texte in verschiedenen Kulturen? Dieser Frage nähert sich der vorliegende Band von verschiedenen Seiten. Beginnend mit der semiotischen Vorgeschichte der unabhängig voneinander entstandenen Schriftsprachen in Mesopotamien, Ägypten und Mesoamerika und ihrer linguistischen Konvergenz, wird sodann das Verhältnis von Schriftlichkeit und Mündlichkeit unter sinologischen und japanologischen Gesichtspunkten beleuchtet. Mit Blick auf Europa spannt sich der Bogen von den unterschiedlichen Wegen, die die in der lateinischen Kultur vorausgesetzte Einheit von Sprache und Schrift bei der Entstehung der europäischen Volkssprachen ging, bis zu Überlegungen zu Genettes Texttheorie. Das Phänomen Text aus kulturübergreifender Perspektive zu untersuchen, ist wichtig, denn schließlich lassen sich in der geistes- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Forschungsgeschichte zahlreiche Beispiele für eine eurozentristisch verkürzte Interpretation außereuropäischer Kulturpraktiken anführen, so dass sicher geglaubte Erkenntnisse über die genuinen Leistungen der Sprache oder des Textes allenfalls vor dem Hintergrund der europäisch-westlichen Geistes- und Kulturgeschichte gewisse Geltung für sich beanspruchen können, nicht aber darüber hinaus.

Phenomena such as the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, or the surge of political populism show that the current phase of accelerated globalization is over. New concepts are needed in order to respond to this exhaustion of the global project: the volume scrutinizes these responses in the aesthetic realm and under a "post-global" banner, while incorporating alternative, non-Western epistemologies and literatures of the post-colonial Global South.

Master's Thesis from the year 2020 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, University of Koblenz-Landau, language: English, abstract: This thesis examines the depiction of time and the settings in the two children's novels "The Chimneys of Green Knowe" by Lucy M. Boston and "Tom¿s Midnight Garden" by Philippa Pearce. A cognitive perspective of the two books is employed. The relationship between the real author and the readership is assumed to be dialogical; i.e. the meaning of a work is determined by both the author and the reader. Time structures the works follow are analyzed. A distinction is made between linear and mystical time and the consequences for the stories, for the protagonists and for the reader are emphasized. With reference to the socio-historical circumstances at the time the works were created, the significance of the mansions and their gardens as historical archives is analyzed. For the stories, these are an important place for oral transmission, without which it is difficult to make sense of the past. In the last part, the narrative structure of both works, namely the ¿story in the story¿, is used in order to be able to make statements about the textual strategies used, which can improve processing by the readership and achieve a higher level of reading motivation. Easier identification, sympathy, as well as pretend play are suggested as underlying strategies. The thesis closes with a change of perspective and takes a look at child readers' views.

This open access book explores literary works and practices - always existing in the dynamic relation between locations and orientations - in a series of carefully designed case studies. Explicitly expressed or implied, manifesting itself sometimes as dislocation and disorientation, the claiming of space by any symbolic means necessary is revealed as a constant effect of literary endeavors. In dialogue with geopolitics of culture, sociology and anthropology, attention to literary locations and orientations brings spatial particularity into the study of world literatures. These case studies demonstrate that four key terms (cosmopolitan, vernacular, location, orientation) can frame analyses of very different types of literary acts and texts in the contemporary period, allowing for distinctions that are not captured within the grids of other conceptual pairs like centre-periphery, local-global, postcolonial-metropolitan, North-South. With this framing, expressive practices in a wide range of regions - including Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the Pacific - are analysed in ways that bring out how spatiality is at stake in the cosmopolitan-vernacular dynamic.The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

How and why do we write about mourning? How does narrative assist us when we dwell on, in, and with grief? What forms of community and even consolation do mournful texts offer? In this broad-ranging volume, twelve contributors grapple with these questions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives: Comparative Literature, Modern Languages, English, Music, Politics, and Biology. Chapters reflect upon different forms and expressions of grief across a very broad expanse of time, from the earliest evidence of human burial to contemporary grief memoirs, environmental mourning, and the coronavirus pandemic. In between, particular attention is paid both to medieval poetic traditions of mourning and to the responses of later readers to such texts. Four creative critical contributions are interspersed throughout the volume as witnesses to the imbrication of life and art in grief.Simona Corso is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Roma Tre; Florian Mussgnug is Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies at University College London; Jennifer Rushworth is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at University College London.

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'Poetry at Present' (1930), written by Charles Williams, a reader of significant works of contemporary poetry. Williams' described the essays in his book as 'utilitarian', and he intended them to be used as a non-critical aid to poetry reading and interpretation. Charles Williams (1886-1945) was a British theologian, playwright, novelist and poet. As a member of the 'Inklings' literary group at Oxford, his work supported a strong sense of narrative. Williams acknowledged the spiritual undercurrents present in life and his literary explorations into Christian fantasy writing, such as 'Descent into Hell' (1937), earned him many followers. This classic work is now being republished in a new modern edition with a specially commissioned introductory biography.

'The Figure of Beatrice' is an analytical discussion of the character by the same name who features heavily in the writings of Dante. Originally published in 1943, Williams' essay is a thought-provoking interpretation of Dante and both the human and divine aspects associated with love. Charles Williams (1886-1945) was a British theologian, playwright, novelist and poet. As a member of the 'Inklings' literary group at Oxford, his work supported a strong sense of narrative. Williams acknowledged the spiritual undercurrents present in life and his literary explorations into Christian fantasy writing, such as 'Descent into Hell' (1937), earned him many followers. This classic work is now being republished in a new modern edition with a specially commissioned introductory biography.

"Romantik. Journal for the Study of Romanticisms" is a multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the study of romantic-era cultural productions and concepts. The journal promotes innovative research across disciplinary borders. It aims to advance new historical discoveries, forward-looking theoretical insights and cutting-edge methodological approaches. The articles range over the full variety of cultural practices, including the written word, visual arts, history, philosophy, religion, and theatre during the romantic period (c. 1780-1840). But contributions to the discussion of pre- or post-romantic representations are also welcome. Since the romantic era was characterized by an emphasis on the vernacular, the title of journal has been chosen to reflect the Germanic root of the word. But the journal is interested in all European romanticisms - and not least the connections and disconnections between them - hence, the use of the plural in the subtitle.Romantik is a peer-reviewed journal supported by the Nordic Board for Periodicals in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOP-HS).

>deutschen< Identität und der ihr inhärenten Ablehnung und Abgrenzung vom >FremdenAndere< und das >Eigene< spiegeln, aber auch auf narrative und gattungsspezifische Stereotype zurückgreifen. Hinter Arjounis Ironie, Situationskomik und Sprachwitz scheint eine Ästhetik des Scheiterns an individuellen und gesellschaftlichen Voraussetzungen im Deutschland der Nachkriegszeit durch. Zehn Jahre nach Arjounis Tod präsentiert dieser Band Forschungsergebnisse und -tendenzen zu seinem Werk.Arjouni's texts tell the stories of losers and impostors who desperately try to uphold their identity concepts or satisfy social demands. They also adress the 'German' identity and its inherent rejection and demarcation from the 'foreign'. Stereotyping and subversion are central narrative devices in Arjouni¿'s work, mirroring the superficial view of the 'other' and the 'own', but also encompassing narrative and genre-specific stereotypes. Behind Arjouni's irony, situational comedy, and wit, an aesthetic of failure to satisfy individual and social conditions in postwar Germany shines through. Ten years after Arjouni's death, this book presents research findings and tendencies on his work.

This book comprises what may be called exercises in ¿comparative cinemä. Its focus on endings, near-endings and ¿late style¿ is connected with the author¿s argument that comparative criticism itself may constitute an endgame of criticism, arising at the moment at which societies or individuals relinquish primary adherence to one tradition or medium. The comparisons embrace different works and artistic media and primarily concern works of literature and film, though they also consider issues raised by the interrelationship of language and moving and still images, as well as inter- and intra-textuality. The works probed most fully are ones by Theo Angelopoulos, Ingmar Bergman, Harun Farocki, Theodor Fontane, Henry James, Krzysztof Kie¿lowski, Chang-dong Lee, Roman Poläski, Thomas Pynchon, and Paul Schrader, while the key recurrent motifs are those of dusk, the horizon, the labyrinth, and the ruin.

Scourged Souls takes place during the American Civil War, however, it is not the war itself. Instead, it takes the reader into the lives and settings of the characters whose lives cross, for a brief few days during horrific battle, whether directly or indirectly through relationships. It reflects on thCe innocence of the characters and daily life. It also enters into personal reflections and the beliefs and plans of those involved. Author Keith N. Corman's work will leave readers with a sense that personal lives in previous eras were much like our own now, and that war is harsh and leaves scars on the those left behind, whether in the area of conflict or those back out of harm's way on the home front.