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<strong>Comparative</strong> <strong>Literature</strong> · Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft · Littérature comparée<br />

nority and Masculinity in Annika Luther’s Ivoria<br />

• Ulla Tuomarla : Purge de Sofi Oksanen – un<br />

roman migrant ?<br />

Svante Lindberg’s research interests include<br />

the contemporary French-language novel,<br />

literary theory, comparative studies of the Québécois<br />

and Swedish novels as well as the work of<br />

Michel del Castillo.<br />

Duncan McColl Chesney<br />

Silence Nowhen<br />

Late Modernism, Minimalism, and<br />

Silence in the Work of Samuel Beckett<br />

New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main,<br />

Oxford, Wien, 2013. 248 pp.<br />

Currents in <strong>Comparative</strong> Romance <strong>Lang</strong>uages<br />

and <strong>Literature</strong>s. Vol. 217<br />

General Editors: Michael G. Paulson,<br />

Tamara Alvarez-Detrell<br />

T<br />

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he dramatic and prose works of Samuel<br />

Beckett have long been understood as central<br />

to twentieth-century literature and particularly<br />

to questions about aesthetics, ethics, and<br />

the modernism-postmodernism distinction.<br />

Duncan McColl Chesney addresses many of the<br />

T<br />

Alyson Miller<br />

Haunted by Words<br />

Scandalous Texts<br />

his book critically examines a wide<br />

range of contemporary literary scandals<br />

in order to identify the cultural and literary<br />

anxieties revealed by controversial<br />

works. It explores how scandal predominantly<br />

emerges in relation to texts which offer challenging<br />

representations concerning children,<br />

women, sexuality, religion and authenticity,<br />

and how literary controversies bring to the<br />

surface a series of concerns about the complex<br />

construction of identity, history and reality.<br />

Including works such as J.K. Rowling’s<br />

main issues in Beckett criticism by focusing on<br />

a key aspect of Beckett’s work throughout his<br />

long career: silence. Chesney links Beckett’s language<br />

and silence back to his predecessors, especially<br />

Joyce and Proust – laterally to contemporary<br />

movements of minimalism in the sister arts<br />

and theoretically in in-depth discussions of Blanchot<br />

and Adorno. By doing so, Chesney addresses<br />

how Beckett’s works remain true, to the end, to<br />

a minimalist impulse that is essentially modernist<br />

or late modernist without giving over to the<br />

rising dominant of postmodernism. Chesney delineates<br />

a sigetics – a discourse of silence whose<br />

main strategies in Beckett are reticence and ellipsis<br />

– and through studies of Godot, Endgame,<br />

Krapp’s Last Tape, Happy Days, the Trilogy, Company,<br />

and other works, teases out of Beckett’s<br />

minimal aesthetics a Beckettian minimal ethics.<br />

In brief glimmers in his texts Beckett provides<br />

proleptic hints at reconciliation and the<br />

possibility of ethical life that are neither theological<br />

nor mystical, but that minimally hold to an<br />

alternate rationality from that of the reified world<br />

of exchange and catastrophe.<br />

Duncan McColl Chesney is Associate Professor<br />

of <strong>Comparative</strong> <strong>Literature</strong> in the Department<br />

of Foreign <strong>Lang</strong>uages and <strong>Literature</strong>s at<br />

the National Taiwan University in Taipei. He<br />

holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from<br />

Yale University and has published on various<br />

literary, cinematic, and film theoretical topics<br />

including pieces on Proust, Faulkner, Joyce,<br />

Coetzee, and Visconti.<br />

Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2013.<br />

246 pp.<br />

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Harry Potter series (1996–2007), Bret Easton<br />

Ellis’ American Psycho (1991), James Frey’s A<br />

Million Little Pieces (2003), Misha Defonseca’s<br />

Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust (1997), Salman<br />

Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses (1988) and<br />

Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy<br />

(1995–2000), the author analyses a broad spectrum<br />

of texts in order to examine why books<br />

continue to provoke public debate and outrage,<br />

and what the arguments surrounding<br />

scandalous works suggest about literature<br />

and the world.<br />

Deutsche Titel<br />

Alena Diedrich • Julia Hoffmann •<br />

Niels Penke (Hrsg.)<br />

Archetypen, Artefakte<br />

Komparatistische Beiträge<br />

zur kulturellen und literarischen<br />

Repräsentation von Tieren<br />

Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles,<br />

New York, Oxford, Wien, 2013. 236 S., 18 s/w Abb.<br />

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W<br />

ie werden Tiere in der Literatur dargestellt?<br />

Welche spezifischen Funktionen<br />

übernehmen sie in verschiedenen<br />

kulturellen Traditionen? Wie differieren ihre<br />

Darstellungen in unterschiedlichen Medien?<br />

Am Beispiel prominenter Tierfiguren sowie<br />

an bis dato eher unberücksichtigten Tiergattungen<br />

werden kultur- und literaturhistorische<br />

Prozesse untersucht und auf ihre Mechanismen<br />

befragt. Dabei wird besonders<br />

auch ein Blick auf die historische Entwicklung<br />

bestimmter Tiere und ihre spezifischen<br />

literarischen Repräsentationen geworfen.<br />

Der komparatistische Band sondiert zum einen<br />

Fragestellungen aus dem Bereich der Cultural<br />

and Literary Animal Studies und beleuchtet<br />

darüber hinaus einzelne Stationen<br />

der Forschung am Beispiel unterschiedlicher<br />

Textgattungen – von der Naturkunde bis zum<br />

Manga, von der populären Kinder- und Jugendliteratur<br />

bis hin zu kanonischen Texten<br />

der Weltliteratur.<br />

Inhalt: Sebastian Schmideler: Die tierische<br />

Komödie – Literarische Kategorien der<br />

Anthropomorphisierung in Alfred Brehms<br />

Illustri[e]rtem Thierleben • Mattias Teichert:<br />

Der Kraken. Ein maritimer Mythos und seine<br />

Vorgeschichte in der altnordischen Kryptozoologie<br />

• Silke Förschler: Blickende Tiere als<br />

Initiatoren naturhistorischer Beobachtung<br />

in Malerei und Grafik des 18. Jahrhunderts •<br />

Niels Penke: «Ein Zerrbild der Hunde» als<br />

Zerrbild bürgerlicher Normativität. Der Mops<br />

in den skandinavischen <strong>Literature</strong>n des 19.<br />

Jahrhunderts (Andersen, Bang, Ibsen, Strindberg)<br />

• Daniel Stein: Der Alligator und seine<br />

kulturpoetischen Funktionen in der Geschichte<br />

der USA • Katerina Kroucheva: Das<br />

Göttliche im Kalbhaften. Die Schlachthöfe<br />

von Chicago in religiösen Diskursen des 19.<br />

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