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Amerikanistik
huisman, marijke
ribberink, anneke
soeting, monica
hornung, alfred (Eds.)
Life Writing Matters in Europe
2012. 326 Seiten. (American Studies –
A Monograph Series, Volume 217)
Geb. € 42,–
isbn 978-3-8253-5963-8
Ersch.-Termin: Februar 2012
Both the practice and study of life
writing flourish worldwide, especially
since the fall of the Berlin Wall in
1989. This major watershed in the
history of Europe has generated
intensive memory work through life
writing, in the former satellite states
of the Soviet Union and far beyond.
Bringing together the work of scholars
from a wide range of European
countries, this volume investigates
cross-cultural understandings of self
and identity. Because of its familiarity
with the crossing of linguistic,
cultural, economic and political
borders, the loose patchwork known
as ‘Europe’ provides a fruitful starting
point for comparative research
into auto/biographical writing. From
a wide range of scholarly disciplines
and highlighting auto/biographical
practices in western and eastern, old
and new or future parts of Europe,
the essays in this volume discuss the
construction of individual, cultural or
political identities within a changing
landscape from the late eighteenth
century until the present. As such
they represent an important addition
to the prevalent Anglo-American
autobiography scholarship.
kinzel, till
mildorf, jarmila (Eds.)
Imaginary Dialogues in English
Explorations of a Literary Form
2012. 266 Seiten. (Germanisch-Romanische
Monatsschrift, Beiheft 46)
Geb. € 39,–
isbn 978-3-8253-5989-8
Ersch.-Termin: Januar 2012
The essays in this volume provide
exemplary readings of dialogical
texts in English literature and philosophy,
combining literary, linguistic,
and philosophical scholarship. From
Early Modern literature and philosophy
to the periods of the Enlightenment
and Romanticism, this volume
stresses the importance of imaginary
dialogues by providing wide-ranging
overviews and detailed textual analyses.
Discussions of the dialogical
form in Victorianism, Modernism,
and Post-Modernism further extend
the study to more recent major
examples of the multiple functions
of imaginary dialogues. Drawing on
a wealth of material, this book will
appeal to everyone with an interest
in the complexities of literary and
philosophical dialogues.
The volume contains contributions
by Christoph Ehland, Till Kinzel,
Anja Merbitz, Jürgen Meyer, Jarmila
Mildorf, Heinz-Joachim Müllenbrock,
Virgil Nemoianu, Christoph
Schubert, Hans Ulrich Seeber, Horst
Seidl, Michael Szczekalla, and Bronwen
Thomas.
leicht, alexander
The Search for a Democratic
Aesthetics
Robert Rauschenberg, Walker
Evans, William Carlos Williams
2012. ca. 280 Seiten, 10 farbige
Abbildungen. (American Studies –
A Monograph Series, Volume 214)
Geb. € 42,–
isbn 978-3-8253-5948-5
Ersch.-Termin: April 2012
If democracy were an artwork,
what would it look like? – Starting
from this question and examining
the work of three crucial figures
from 20th-century American painting,
photography, and poetry, this
monograph proposes a specific way
of conceptualizing the link between
democracy and aesthetics. The book
argues that a democratic aesthetics
can be properly understood by interpreting
a number of formal features
of artworks as metaphors for particular
key elements of democracy
as it is framed in important strands
of democratic theory. For example,
a certain kind of loose collage
composition can be seen to stand in
a metaphorical relationship with the
structure of a pluralist democratic
polity. Systematically developed, this
account helps better to understand
the democratic quality of individual
artworks, and also makes plausible
how aesthetics can contribute to the
discourse of democratic theory.
lucht, bente
Writing Empire
Latin Quotations in Texts
on the British Empire
2012. iv, 239 Seiten, 4 Abbildungen.
(Anglistische Forschungen, Band 425)
Geb. € 44,–
isbn 978-3-8253-5969-0
Ersch.-Termin: März 2012
This study explores instances of
Latin citation in late nineteenth- and
twentieth-century colonial writing
(Kipling, Conrad and Orwell), and
then also in the postmodern/postcolonial
work of Friel and Stoppard.
The thesis makes two interlocking
cases: first there is the intertextual
case for how the investigation of
Latin quotation in English texts on
the British Empire makes possible
a reconsideration of those same
colonial or postcolonial texts, and
of the value or interpretation they
place upon the colonial experience.
Second there is the methodological
case for how the Latin quotations
act as ‘loopholes’ within the text
which can be used to generate meanings
against the grain.
The thesis makes important contributions
to subfields within colonial
discourse analysis and postcolonial
critique, expanding our understanding
of classical references within
British imperial discourse and imperial
learning, of post/colonial irony,
and of the intertextual values and
uses of citation.
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