Interview Bertrand Westphal
In: Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, Band 67, Heft 3, S. 83-92
ISSN: 2065-9652
In: Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, Band 67, Heft 3, S. 83-92
ISSN: 2065-9652
In: Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, Band 67, Heft 3, S. 79-82
ISSN: 2065-9652
In: Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, Band 64, Heft 3, S. 221-227
ISSN: 2065-9652
Frères Ennemis focuses on Franco-American tensions as portrayed in works of literature. An Introduction is followed by nine chapters, each focused on a French or American literary text which shows the evolution/devolution of the relations between the two nations at a particular point in time. While the heart of the analysis consists of close textual readings, social, cultural and political contexts are introduced to provide a better understanding of the historical reality influencing the individual novels, a reality to which these novels are also responding. Chapters One through Five, covering a period from the mid-1870s to the end of the Cold War, discuss significant aspects of the often fraught relationship from the theoretical perspective of Roland Barthes' theory of modern myth, described in his Mythologies. Barthes' theory helps situate Franco-American tensions in a paradigmatic structure, while at the same time it is supple enough to allow for shifts and reversals within the paradigm. Subsequent chapters explore new French attitudes toward the powerful, potentially dominant influence of American culture on French life. In these sections I argue that recent French fiction displays more openness to the American experience than has existed in the past, and as such contrasts with the more static American approach to French culture.
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In: Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress 12
Part 1: Institutions of Life -- Chapter 1. Bio-Poetics and the Dynamic Multiplicity of Bios: How Literature Challenges the Politics, Economics and Sciences of Life (Vittoria Borsò) -- Chapter 2. Institution and Life as an Institution: Uterus: Mother's Body, Father's Right (Life and Norm) (Petar Bojanić) -- Chapter 3. Towards a Poetics of Worldlessness: Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Human Action (Roland Végső) -- PART 2: Anthropology, Performativity, And Language -- Chapter 4. Man and Other Political Animals in Aristotle (Attila Simon) -- Chapter 5. Is There an Essential Convergence Between Signification and Animals? On the Truth and Lying of Animal Names in a Nietzschean Sense (Hajnalka Halász) -- Chapter 6. Noble Promises: Performativity and Physiology in Nietzsche (Csongor Lőrincz) -- Chapter 7. Austin's Animals (Zoltán Kulcsár-Szabó) -- Chapter 8. Self-interpreting Language Animal: Charles Taylor's Anthropology (Csaba Olay) -- Part 3: Anthrozoology, Ethics, And Language -- Bio-Aesthetics -- Chapter 9. The Theriomorphic Face (Georg Witte) -- Chapter 10. 'Step by step into ever greater decadence': Discourses of Life and Metamorphic Anthropology (Márió Z. Nemes) -- Chapter 11. Bio-Aesthetics: The Production of Life in Contemporary Art (Jessica Ullrich) -- Part 4: Biopoetics, Zoopoetics, Biophilology -- Chapter 12. Io's Writing: Human and Animal in the Prison-House of Fiction (Ábel Tamás) -- Chapter 13. 'Lizard on a sunlit stone': Lőrinc Szabó and the Biopoetical Beginnings of Modern Poetry (Ernő Kulcsár Szabó) -- Chapter 14. Of Mice and Men: Dissolution and Reconstruction of 'Nature's Larger Scheme': Burns, Mészöly, Kertész (Tamás Lénárt) -- Chapter 15. Towards a Literary Entomology: Arthropods and Humans in William H. Gass (Gábor Tamás Molnár) -- Chapter 16. Biophilology and the Metabolism of Literature (Susanne Strätling).
In: Journal of European studies, Band 12, Heft 45, S. 71-72
ISSN: 1740-2379
In: Comparative Literature and Culture
Mediating Vulnerability examines vulnerability from a range of connected perspectives. It responds to the vulnerability of species, their extinction but also their transformation. This tension between extreme danger and creativity is played out in literary studies through the pressures the discipline brings to bear on its own categories, particularly those of genre. Extinction and preservation on the one hand, transformation, adaptation and (re)mediation on the other. These two poles inform our comparative and interdisciplinary project. The volume is situated within the particular intercultural and intermedial context of contemporary cultural representation. Vulnerability is explored as a site of potential destruction, human as well as animal, but also as a site of potential openness. This is the first book to bring vulnerability studies into dialogue with media and genre studies. It is organised in four sections: 'Human/Animal'; Violence/Resistance'; 'Image/Narrative'; and 'Medium/Genre'. Each chapter considers the intersection of vulnerability and genre from a comparative perspective, bringing together a team of international contributors and editors. The book is in dialogue with the reflections of Judith Butler and others on vulnerability, and it questions categories of genre through an interdisciplinary engagement with different representational forms, including digital culture, graphic novels, video games, photography and TV series, in addition to novels and short stories. It offers new readings of high-profile contemporary authors of fiction including Margaret Atwood and Cormac McCarthy, as well as bringing lesser-known figures to the fore.
In: The Slavonic and East European review: SEER, Band 87, Heft 3, S. 530-532
ISSN: 2222-4327
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 34, Heft 1, S. 205-206
ISSN: 2325-7784
In this paper, I argue that Greek poetry is a living tradition characterized by a diversity of voices and styles and that Greek poetry is a vital part of contemporary World Literature. The diversity of voices in contemporary Greek poetry gives it both aesthetic value and political relevance. Greek poetry, as it survives translation into a number of languages, including English, gives us a model for the successful translation of texts in both World literature and Comparative literature. A thematic analysis of some poems is presented in this paper. The aim is not to chronicle the contemporary Greek poetic production but to show how Greek poetic tradition continues to expand beyond national boundaries.
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In: Textxet, 66
The years following the attacks of September 11, 2001 have seen the publication of a wide range of scientific analyses of terrorism. Literary studies seem to lag curiously behind this general shift of academic interest. The present volume sets out to fill this gap. It does so in the conviction that the study of literature has much to offer to the transdisciplinary investigation of terror, not only with respect to the present post-9/11 situation but also with respect to earlier historical contexts. Literary texts are media of cultural self-reflection, and as such they have always played a crucial role in the discursive response to terror, both contributing to and resisting dominant conceptions of the causes, motivations, dynamics, and aftermath of terrorist violence. By bringing together experts from various fields and by combining case studies of works from diverse periods and national literatures, the volume Literature and Terrorism chooses a diachronic and comparative perspective. It is interested in the specific cultural work performed by narrative and dramatic literature in the face of terrorism, focusing on literature's ambivalent relationship to other, competing modes of discourse.
In: Comparative Literature and Culture
The study of literature and culture is marked by various distinct understandings of passages – both as phenomena and critical concepts. These include the anthropological notion of rites of passage, the shopping arcades (Passagen) theorized by Walter Benjamin, the Middle Passage of the Atlantic slave trade, present-day forms of migration and resettlement, and understandings of translation and adaptation. Whether structural, semiotic, spatial/geographic, temporal, existential, societal or institutional, passages refer to processes of (status) change. They enable entrances and exits, arrivals and departures, while they also foster moments of liminality and suspension. They connect and thereby engender difference.
This volume is an exploration of passages as contexts and processes within which liminal experiences and encounters are situated. It aims to foster a concept-based, interdisciplinary dialogue on how to approach and theorize such a term. Based on the premise that concepts travel through times, contexts and discursive settings, a conceptual approach to passages provides the authors of this volume with the analytical tools to (re-)focus their research questions and create a meaningful exchange across disciplinary, national and linguistic boundaries.
Contributions from senior scholars and early-career researchers whose work focuses on areas such as cultural memory, performativity, space, media, (cultural) translation, ecocriticism, gender and race utilize specific understandings of passages and liminality, reflecting on their value and limits for their research.
In: Textxet 66
Preliminary Material -- LITERATURE AND TERRORISM: INTRODUCTION /Michael C. Frank and Eva Gruber -- SERGEY NECHAEV AND DOSTOEVSKY'S DEVILS: THE LITERARY ANSWER TO TERRORISM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY RUSSIA /Gudrun Braunsperger -- PLOTS ON LONDON: TERRORISM IN TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY BRITISH FICTION /Michael C. Frank -- ENMITY AND THE ARCHIVE: AESTHETICS OF DEFIGURATION IN LITERATURE AND CRIMINOLOGY, 1900/1970 /Hendrik Blumentrath -- NARRATING TERRORISM ON THE EVE OF 9/11: ANN PATCHETT'S BEL CANTO /Eva Gruber -- SELF, IDENTITY AND TERRORISM IN CURRENT AMERICAN LITERATURE: AMERICAN PASTORAL AND TERRORIST /Martina Wolff -- THE 9/11 NOVEL AND THE POLITICS OF NARCISSISM /Roy Scranton -- AFTER THE APOCALYPSE: NOVELISTS AND TERRORISTS SINCE 9/11 /Margaret Scanlan -- LITERARY ACCOUNTS OF TERRORISM IN RECENT GERMAN LITERATURE: AN ATTEMPT AT MARGINALIZATION? /Michael König -- DOUBLE-MEDIATED TERRORISM: GERHARD RICHTER AND DON DELILLO'S "BAADER-MEINHOF" /Ulrich Meurer -- A FANTASTIC TALE OF TERROR: ARGENTINA'S "DISAPPEARED" AND THEIR NARRATIVE REPRESENTATION IN JULIO CORTÁZAR'S "SECOND TIME ROUND" /Kirsten Mahlke -- MIDDLE HOURS: TERRORISM AND NARRATIVE EMPLOTMENT IN ANDRE DUBUS III'S THE GARDEN OF LAST DAYS /Georgiana Banita -- NARRATIVES OF TERROR: A NEW PARADIGM FOR THE NOVEL? /Marie-Luise Egbert -- THE IMPACT OF "SEPTEMBER 11": DRAMATIC AND NARRATIVE CREATIONS /Herbert Grabes -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.
In: Routledge studies in comparative literature
In: Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, Band 67, Heft 3, S. 217-240
ISSN: 2065-9652
"Literary Historiography and the Problem of the Author: Mihai Iovănel's History and Recent Developments in Authorship Studies. The present paper examines the dynamics between literary historiography and authorship studies and the way in which these problems related to Mihai Iovănel's recent History. Ciorogar argues that authorship theories have always determined the workings of canonicity. Furthermore, the metamorphoses of literary histories could be viewed, he insists, as a series of conceptual revolutions. Consequently, arguments related to authorship have given rise to both new fields of research and disciplines. Finally, Ciorogar also suggests that the evolution of literary criticism and theory is more or less coeval with the history of auctorial models. Keywords: authorship studies, literary history, criticism and theory, the death and return of the author, research methodologies, Mihai Iovănel"