Comparative Literature - Peter Lang

10 Comparative Literature · Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft · Littérature comparée
China • Kathleen L. Komar: A Punk-Rock Elektra:
Ruth Margraff’s The Elektra Fugues • Ross
Shideler: Per Olov Enquist’s and Racine’s Phaedra
• Dorothy Figueira: Theories of Myth and
Myths of Theory in Thomas Mann and Girish
Karnad • John Burt Foster: Soyinka (Euripides-
Nietzsche) Thomas Mann: Intertextual Dialogues
across the Twentieth Century.
«[T]he volume is exquisitely executed and a very
stimulating read, in particular as it offers glimpses
of so many different literatures. But glimpses
they do not stay as none of the articles included
in the collection can possibly be called superficial.
All of them are broad ranging, comprehensive
and intriguing, something that cannot be
said about that many collections of essays.» (Michael
Heinze, theaterforschung.de)
Dorothy Figueira is Professor of Comparative
Literature at the University of Georgia
(USA). Her most recent book is Otherwise Occupied:
Pedagogies of Alterity and the Brahminization
of Theory.
Marc Maufort is Professor of English,
American and postcolonial literatures at the
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. He is
the current European Secretary of the International
Comparative Literature Association (ICLA).
Sylvie Vranckx is a Research Fellow with
the National Fund for Scientific Research-Belgium.
A PhD candidate at the Université Libre
de Bruxelles, she is writing a doctoral dissertation
on the representation of trauma in the
works of Aboriginal Canadian writers.
Weijia Li
China und China-Erfahrung
in Leben und Werk
von Anna Seghers
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main,
New York, Wien, 2010. XVI, 253 S.
German Life and Civilization. Vol. 53
Edited by Jost Hermand
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as vorliegende Buch rekonstruiert und
analysiert als erste Studie dieser Art
Anna Seghers’ Begegnung mit den Chinesen,
der chinesischen Kultur und Geschichte, der
Politik sowie der Gesellschaft des Landes chronologisch.
Durch die Darstellung und Analyse
Seghers’ China-Begegnung, und der Einflüsse
auf ihr Leben und Werk wird eine seit Langem
existierende Wissenslücke in der Seghers-Forschung
geschlossen. Gleichzeitig bietet diese
Arbeit neue Perspektiven und Ansätze für weitere
Forschungen in verwandten Gebieten wie
in der Sinologie, Politikwissenschaft und -geschichte,
Kulturwissenschaft und der interkulturellen
Kommunikation. Beim Arbeitsverfahren
werden sinologische, geschichts-, kultur-,
politik-, literatur- und kunstwissenschaftliche
Methoden verwendet. Als eine der wichtigsten
Quellengrundlagen dienen die Archivmaterialien
des Anna-Seghers-Archivs in der Akademie
der Künste in Berlin.
«Weijia Li’s study is an informative and important
contribution to the scholarship on
Seghers, and beyond that on 20th-century German
intellectual interest in China.» (Christiane
Zehl Romero, Monatshefte)
Weijia Li wurde 1972 in China geboren.
1994 wurde er Dozent für deutsche Sprache
und Landeskunde an der Zweiten Fremdsprachenhochschule
(ERWAI) in Peking. Seit 2003
lebt er in den USA. Er promovierte im Fach
Germanistik an der Ohio State University.
Zur Zeit ist er Germanistikprofessor an der
Western Illinois University.
Francesca Orestano •
Francesca Frigerio (eds)
Strange Sisters
Literature and Aesthetics
in the Nineteenth Century
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main,
New York, Wien, 2009. XX, 304 pp., 20 ill.
Cultural Interactions. Studies in the Relationship
between the Arts. Vol. 9
Edited by J.B. Bullen
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his collection of essays stems from the
conference ‘Nineteenth-Century Literature
and Aesthetics’, which was held at the University
of Milan in 2006 and organised by the
editors of this volume. The interface between
word and image covered in these essays embraces
the fields of literature, architecture,
painting, photography, music and art criticism.
The authors stress the role of aesthetics in a
number of contexts ranging from the early
1830s to the fin de siècle and beyond, as far as
the last influences of Victorian taste on the
early years of the twentieth century.
During the nineteenth century the ancient
interaction between literature and aesthetics
was challenged and criticised by Martineau,
Rossetti, Ruskin, Pater, Wilde, Beardsley, Cameron
and Carroll, among others: their awareness
of the complexity of visual perception
problematised the existing categories of realism,
artistic conventions, discourse of description,
translation and representation.
The essays cover almost a century of debate
between literature and aesthetics. They
focus on the intersection of word and image
by emphasising transgressions in art hierarchies,
forms and languages, which restyle existing
categories and project them into new
aesthetic dimensions beyond the conventional
idea of the sister arts.
Contents: Francesca Orestano: Introduction
• Luisa Calè: Belinda and Exhibition Culture:
Fiction, Pictures and Imaginary Ekphrasis
• Maria Luisa Roli: A Voyage by Balloon:
Stifter’s Condor • Lucy Bending: ‘Fishing in a
Strange Element’: Harriet Martineau and the
Visible World • J.B. Bullen: Mid-Nineteenth-
Century British Primitivism and the Continent
of Europe • Paola Spinozzi: Journeying through
Translation: Dante among the Victorians, Dante
Gabriel Rossetti in Medieval Italy • Francesca
Orestano: Across the Picturesque: Ruskin’s Argument
with the Strange Sisters • Alberta
Gnugnoli: Famous Men and Fair Ladies: Genius,
Creativity and Beauty in the Portraits of
Julia Margaret Cameron • Francesca Frigerio:
Out of Focus: A Portrait of Charles Lutwidge
Dodgson, a.k.a. Lewis Carroll • Graham Smith:
Michelangelo’s Duke of Urbino in Literature,
Travel-Writing and Photography of the Nineteenth
Century • Marialuisa Bignami: Sir Joshua
and the Historian: Portraits in George Eliot’s
Daniel Deronda • Hilary Fraser: Through the
Looking-Glass: Looking like a Woman in the
Nineteenth Century • Elisa Bizzotto: Blurring
the Confines of Art and Gender: Aubrey Beardsley’s
Legend of Venus and Tannhäuser, ‘The
Fragment of a Story’ • Linda Goddard: Gauguin’s
Guidebooks: Noa Noa in the Context of
Nineteenth-Century Travel-Writing • Alexandra
Harris: The Antimacassar Restored: Victorian
Taste in the Early Twentieth Century.
«Un volume très riche et très divers, où tout victorianiste
trouvera de quoi faire son miel.»
(Laurent Bury, Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens)
Francesca Orestano is Associate Professor
of English Literature at the State University
of Milan.
Francesca Frigerio received her Ph.D.
in English Literature from the State University
of Milan. She was awarded a fellowship
with the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies
at Columbia University.
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