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6 Comparative Literature · Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft · Littérature comparée
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Péter Gáal-Szabó
«Ah done been tuh de horizon
and back»
Zora Neale Hurston’s Cultural Spaces
in Their Eyes Were Watching God
and Jonah’s Gourd Vine
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles,
New York, Oxford, Wien, 2011 . 134 pp .
Debrecener Studien zur Literatur . Bd . 16
Herausgegeben von Tamás Lichtmann
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he book investigates African American
writer and anthropologist Zora Neale
Hurston’s cultural space . More specifically,
different aspects of the interplay of space and
place are studied in two of her novels: Their
Eyes Were Watching God (1937) and Jonah’s
Gourd Vine (1934) . Besides representing the
peak of her art as a novelist, the novels present
fine examples of her philosophy of culture,
her conceptions of space, and ways of place
construction . The richness and vitality of her
novels denote a particular view of culture
and an African American way of authentication
that enable her to construct a fulfilling
cultural universe for the individual, with/despite
inbuilt tensions . The cultural space
Hurston establishes is embedded in an African
American cultural context associated
with the South . At the same time her cultural
space proves to be diverse, due to inward heterogeneity
and external contexts .
Horst Albert Glaser • Sabine Rossbach
The Artificial Human
A Tragical History
rtificial humans were always there,
moving and sleeping amongst us . Their
first traces are in the ancient myths of Prometheus
and Pygmalion . In the eighteenth
century they took the form of mechanical
dolls, forerunners of the hi-tech Japanese robots
of our own day produced in the engineering
labs of Waseda and Osaka Universities
. The authors follow the track of these humanoid
constructs through various countries
and across more than two thousand years of
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2011 .
258 pp ., 20 coloured fig .
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Germán Gil-Curiel
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history, reflecting on the ideas that spawned
them (Descartes, Leibniz, LaMettrie) and the
social, technological and medical developments
that accompanied and to a great extent
explain them .
Horst alBert Glaser is professor emeritus
of Aesthetics and Comparative Literature
at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) .
saBine rossBaCH teaches cultural history
at the University of Adelaide (Australia)
and the University of the Saarland (Germany) .
A Comparative Approach: The
Early European Supernatural Tale
Five Variations on a Theme
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles,
New York, Oxford, Wien, 2011 . 201 pp .
European University Studies . Series 18:
Comparative Literature . Vol . 131
pb . ISBN 978-3-631-61564-5
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his book explores the supernatural literature
of Walter Scott, James Hogg,
Théophile Gautier, Charles Nodier and Gérard
de Nerval from a European perspective that
casts them as part of a network rather than
as the discrete, isolated artistic outcomes of
different national literatures, by focusing on
the central role played by the literature of
E .T .A . Hoffmann during the first half of the
nineteenth century . The author claims that
Hoffmann had a seminal role through the
reactions that his literature aroused . These
reactions took place both in the realm of theory,
for Hoffmann’s works provoked a great
deal of discussion on the nature and purposes
of supernatural literature, and also in
the realm of their literary writings themselves,
with much cross-fertilisation taking
place, sometimes enabled through translation
and sometimes from direct experience .
The author focuses on shared themes like the
idealized dead beloved, and dreams, reveries
and altered states .
Jérôme Game
Poetic Becomings
Studies in Contemporary
French Literature
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main,
New York, Wien, 2011 . X, 253 pp .
Modern French Identities Vol . 74
Edited by Peter Collier
pb . ISBN 978-3-03911-401-6
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W
hat does contemporary French poetry
do to the subject? This book examines
the means and effects of the subject’s
transmutation into various processes of (de-)
subjectivation by looking at the works of four
contemporary writers: Christian Prigent, Dominique
Fourcade, Olivier Cadiot and Hubert
Lucot . The author explores their work in the
context of Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy, building
a critical apparatus – a ‘poetics of becoming’
– that informs close readings of poems
and prose . Moving beyond established criteria
of classical literary criticism, the book
both offers a comparative discussion of Deleuze’s
notions of literature and provides new
insights into French writing, addressing the
political dimension of contemporary poetry
from the perspective of current theoretical
radicalism .
JérôMe GaMe is Associate Professor of
Philosophy and Film Studies at the American
University of Paris and Associate Researcher
at Université Paris 8 and the Ecole
Normale Supérieure-Lettres et Sciences Humaines
. After receiving his PhD in French
from the University of Cambridge, he spent
two years as Andrew W . Mellon Post-Doctoral
Fellow at University College London . He is
the editor of the volumes Porous Boundaries:
Texts and Images in Twentieth-Century French
Culture (2007), Jacques Rancière : Politique de
l’esthétique (2009), Images des corps/Corps
des images au cinéma (2010) and Le Récit
aujourd’hui : Art et littérature (2011) .
Marko Juvan
Literary Studies
in Reconstruction
An Introduction to Literature
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