Die 10 Beitrage dieses Bandes richten den Blick ins facettenreiche Innere der Germanistik. Aus chinesischer und deutscher bzw. vergleichender Sicht werden aktuelle Themen aus den Bereichen Linguistik, Literatur und Medien in ihrer gegenwartstypischen Verflechtung eroertert. Im Fokus stehen dabei Probleme der Entlehnung und Interferenz, des Spracherwerbs und der Sprachdidaktik sowie die Analyse und Reflexion kultureller und politischer Entwicklungen.

Muse du poete W.B. Yeats mais aussi activiste anglaise au service de l'independance de l'Irlande, Maud Gonne n'etait pas a un paradoxe pres. Le plus frappant et le moins etudie est sans doute qu'elle fut une revolutionnaire irlandaise en France. C'est a Paris qu'elle passa les annees les plus intenses de son engagement politique, au tournant des XIXe et XXe siecle. L'objet de cet ouvrage est donc de considerer la France, son environnement politique, culturel et social, non pas comme un decor mais comme l'explication majeure au militantisme etaux choix politiques de Maud Gonne. Maud Gonne fut boulangiste avant d'etre muse, avant meme d'etre une nationaliste irlandaise. Au travers d'approches historique et culturelle qui se completent et se renforcent, le portrait de Maud Gonne devient aussi le recit d'un imaginaire nationaliste ou la place accordee a la femme et a son lien avec la terre est essentielle. Cet imaginaire, base en grande partie sur une pensee mythique, engendra des circulations d'idees et de personnes et fit des nationalismes francais et irlandais de proches parents.En mots et en actes, par l'enthousiasme ou l'irritation qu'elle provoquait, Maud Gonne etait l'un des membres les plus en vue de l'internationale nationaliste.

Este volumen reune los trabajos del equipo de investigacion PRESEEA-Sevilla y aborda de manera integral una variedad de aspectos del espanol hablado en Sevilla: las unidades fraseologicas y la informalidad lexica; elementos gramaticales, como los diminutivos y los pronombres personales atonos; cuestiones foneticas como la -/d/- intervocalica y el seseo-ceceo o las estrategias de impersonalizacion y formulas de tratamiento. Todo ello pretende ofrecer un panorama global de la rentabilidad de estos fenomenos y su distribucion sociolinguistica en esta comunidad de habla.

Can anyone really own a culture? This magnificent account argues that the story of global civilisations is one of mixing, sharing, and borrowing. It shows how art forms have crisscrossed continents over centuries to produce masterpieces. From Nefertiti's lost city and the Islamic Golden Age to twentieth century Nigerian theatre and Modernist poetry, Martin Puchner explores how contact between different peoples has driven artistic innovation in every era - whilst cultural policing and purism have more often undermined the very societies they tried to protect. Travelling through Classical Greece, Ashoka's India, Tang dynasty China, and many other epochs, this triumphal new history reveals the crossing points which have not only inspired the humanities, but which have made us human.

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was one of the most influential and controversial women of her age. No writer, except perhaps her political foe, Edmund Burke, and her fellow reformer, Thomas Paine, inspired more intense reactions. In her brief literary career before her untimely death in 1797, Wollstonecraft achieved remarkable success in an unusually wide range of genres: from education tracts and political polemics, to novels and travel writing. Just as impressive as her expansive range was the profound evolution of her thinking in the decade when she flourished as an author. In this collection of essays, leading international scholars reveal the intricate biographical, critical, cultural, and historical context crucial for understanding Mary Wollstonecraft's oeuvre. Chapters on British radicalism and conservatism, French philosophes and English Dissenters, constitutional law and domestic law, sentimental literature, eighteenth-century periodicals and more elucidate Wollstonecraft's social and political thought, historical writings, moral tales for children, and novels.

Im Jahre 1904 schreibt der junge Stefan Zweig zum ersten Mal an die von ihm verehrte Schwedin Ellen Key. Sie ist uber 50, Zweig ist 23 Jahre alt. Es entwickelt sich ein fast 20 Jahre dauernder, vertrauensvoller Briefwechsel. In diesen Briefen spiegelt sich zunachst die Entwicklung des jungen Dichters wider, spater vor allem unglaubiges Entsetzen, als die kulturell verbundenen Menschen und Nationen Europas mit Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkrieges zu Feinden werden. Ab 1915 wird in der Korrespondenz zwischen Zweig und Key deutlich, dass Resignation an Raum gewinnt. Der Krieg als humanitare Katastrophe und Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit lasst den Glauben an die Kraft von Literatur und Kunst schwinden. Beide kampfen aber weiter mit der Schreibfeder fur den Frieden und warnen in Wort und Schrift vor Radikalisierung. Sie hoffen weiter, dass ein menschliches Gewissen mittels Sprache nachhaltig angeruhrt werden kann.

Jasmin Humburg provides evidence of naturalist narrative strategies, tropes, and character variations in six contemporary American television series: The Wire, Treme, Shameless, Ozark, Orange is the New Black and 2 Broke Girls. The author investigates how poverty is negotiated through classic literary naturalism and contemporary televisual articulations, and how the latter may have been influenced by the former in the age of the Great Recession. By connecting literary studies, television studies, and concepts of social mobility, this project contributes to the field of new poverty studies.

Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals was Iris Murdoch's major philosophical testament and a highly original and ambitious attempt to talk about our time. Yet in the scholarship on her philosophical work thus far it has often been left in the shade of her earlier work. This volume brings together 16 scholars who offer accessible readings of chapters and themes in the book, connecting them to Murdoch's larger oeuvre, as well as to central themes in 20th century and contemporary thought. The essays bring forth the strength, originality, and continuing relevance of Murdoch's late thought, addressing, among other matters, her thinking about the Good, the role and nature of metaphysics in the contemporary world, the roles of art in human understanding, questions of unity and plurality in thinking, the possibilities of spiritual life without God, and questions of style and sensibility in intellectual work.

Explores the tension between the abstract intellect and material bodies in May Sinclair's writing May Sinclair was a bestselling author of her day whose versatile literary output, including criticism, philosophy, poetry, psychoanalysis and experimental fiction, now frequently falls between the established categories of literary modernism. In terms of her contribution to dominant modernist paradigms she was, until recently, best remembered for recasting the psychological novel as 'stream of consciousness' narrative in a 1918 review of Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage. This book brings together the most recent research on Sinclair and re-contextualises her work both within and against dominant Modernist narratives. It explores Sinclair's negotiations between the public and private, the cerebral and the corporeal and the spiritual and the profane in both her fiction and non-fiction. Key Features Brings together the most recent research undertaken by foremost Sinclair scholars and early-career researchers Considers Sinclair's contribution to contemporary aesthetic and philosophical debates about the nature and representation of human identity Explores a wide range of Sinclair's work, including fiction, psychology, philosophy and short stories

Das seit jeher spannungsreiche Verhaltnis zwischen Autor und Subjekt bildet in der Gegenwartslyrik ein Experimentierfeld, das eine Herausforderung fur die Lyriktheorie darstellt. Die Beitrage diskutieren zentrale Positionen zu den Konzepten 'abstrakter Autor' und 'lyrisches Subjekt' unter Berucksichtigung ihrer unterschiedlichen Genese sowie Terminologie in den verschiedenen Philologien. Aus der Gedichtanalyse werden Perspektiven oder Alternativen zu diesen Konzepten entwickelt, um ein Instrumentarium zur Beschreibung der neuen Autor-Subjekt-Relationen in der Lyrik zu gewinnen. Der Band mit germanistischen, slavistischen, anglistischen und komparatistischen Beitragen ist Ergebnis des DFG-Projekts zur "Typologie des Subjekts in der russischen Dichtung der 1990-2010er Jahre" und der DFG-Kollegforschungsgruppe "Russischsprachige Lyrik in Transition - Poetische Formen des Umgangs mit Grenzen der Gattung, Sprache, Kultur und Gesellschaft zwischen Europa, Asien und Amerika".

Every age has characteristic inventions that change the world. In the 19th century it was the steam engine and the train. For the 20th, electric and gasoline power, aircraft, nuclear weapons, even ventures into space. Today, the planet is awash with electronic business, chatter and virtual-reality entertainment so brilliant that the division between real and simulated is hard to discern. But one new idea from the 19th century has failed, so far, to enter reality-time travel, using machines to turn the time dimension into a two-way highway. Will it come true, as foreseen in science fiction? Might we expect visits to and from the future, sooner than from space? That is the Time Machine Hypothesis, examined here by futurist Damien Broderick, an award-winning writer and theorist of the genre of the future. Broderick homes in on the topic through the lens of science as well as fiction, exploring some fifty different time-travel scenarios and conundrums found in the science fiction literature and film.

Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horried Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia.

The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present day. This new systematic conception and presentation of the evidence differs in three ways from Hermann Diels's groundbreaking work, as well as from later editions: it renders explicit the material's thematic organization; it includes a selection from such related bodies of evidence as archaic poetry, classical drama, and the Hippocratic corpus; and it presents an overview of the reception of these thinkers until the end of antiquity. Volume I contains introductory and reference materials essential for using all other parts of the edition. Volumes II-III include chapters on ancient doxography, background, and the Ionians from Pherecydes to Heraclitus. Volumes IV-V present western Greek thinkers from the Pythagoreans to Hippo. Volumes VI-VII comprise later philosophical systems and their aftermath in the fifth and early fourth centuries. Volumes VIII-IX present fifth-century reflections on language, rhetoric, ethics, and politics (the so-called sophists and Socrates) and conclude with an appendix on philosophy and philosophers in Greek drama.

Las crisis sociales y economicas no solo obligan a romper con las rutinas de la vida cotidiana, sino que ademas afectan y transforman las identidades individuales y colectivas. El acto de afrontar las crisis es a menudo un acto de comunicacion que tematiza la propia identidad. Puesto que tanto la crisis como la identidad representan fenomenos multidimensionales, este volumen, de orientacion interdisciplinaria, reune aportes provenientes de la linguistica, la ciencia de la literatura, los estudios culturales, la historia y la sociologia. De este modo interconecta analisis empiricos de discursos y de textos literarios con la discusion de teorias y modelos de estas diversas disciplinas. El foco de interes se centra en America Latina.

Criticism of the work of David Foster Wallace has tended to be atomistic, focusing on a single aspect of individual works. A Companion to the Work of David Foster Wa ll ace is designed as a professional study of all of Wallace's creative work. This volume includes both thematic essays and focused examinations of each of his major works of fiction.

A quelles conditions est-il possible d'enseigner la litterature par le questionnement ethique ? Quelles difficultes pedagogiques cela pose-t-il ? Quels sont les effets sur les eleves, en termes d'engagement dans la lecture et de reflexivite sur soi ? Apres la vague structuraliste, l'enseignement de la litterature s'est construit contre une lecture psychologique et moralisante des textes. Le present ouvrage inaugure un tournant ethique de la discipline des lettres, a la faveur d'une convergence nouvelle entre la philosophie morale, les theories du sujet-lecteur et des lectures actualisantes, ainsi que la didactique du philosopher avec les enfants. Il reinterroge les corpus scolaires, les demarches d'enseignement, les postures du professeur, et les gestes de lecture des eleves.

This timely collection engages with representations of women and ageing in literature and visual culture. Acknowledging that cultural conceptions of ageing are constructed and challenged across a variety of media and genres, the editors bring together experts in literature and visual culture to foster a dialogue across disciplines. Exploring the process of ageing in its cultural reflections, refractions and reimaginings, the contributors to Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture analyse how artists, writers, directors and performers challenge, and in some cases reaffirm, cultural constructions of ageing women, as well as give voice to ageing women's subjectivities. The book concludes with an afterword by Germaine Greer which suggests possible avenues for future research.

This exciting new collection examines the relationships between warfare, myths, and fairy tales, and explores the connections and contradictions between the narratives of war and magic that dominate the ways in which people live and have lived, survived, considered and described their world. Presenting original contributions and critical reflections that explore fairy tales, fantasy and wars, be they "real" or imagined, past or present, this book looks at creative works in popular culture, stories of resistance, the history and representation of global and local conflicts, the Holocaust, across multiple media. It offers a timely and important overview of the latest research in the field, including contributions from academics, story-tellers and artists, thereby transcending the traditional boundaries of the disciplines, extending the parameters of war studies beyond the battlefield.

This book is the first study of writers who are both Victorian and indigenous, who have been educated in and write in terms of Victorian literary conventions, but whose indigenous affiliation is part of their literary personae and subject matter. What happens when the colonised, indigenous, or 'native' subject learns to write in the literary language of empire? If the romanticised subject of colonial literature becomes the author, is a new kind of writing produced, or does the native author conform to the models of the coloniser? By investigating the ways that nineteenth-century concerns are adopted, accommodated, rewritten, challenged, re-inscribed, confronted, or assimilated in the work of these authors, this study presents a novel examination of the nature of colonial literary production and indigenous authorship, as well as suggesting to the discipline of colonial and postcolonial studies a perhaps unsettling perspective with which to look at the larger patterns of Victorian cultural and literary formation.

This book examines manufactured waste and remaindered humans in literary critiques of capitalism by twentieth-century writers associated with the historical avant-garde and their descendants. Building on recent work in new materialism and waste studies, Rachele Dini reads waste as a process or phase amenable to interruption. From an initial exploration of waste and re-use in three Surrealist texts by Giorgio de Chirico, Andre Breton, and Mina Loy, Dini traces the conceptualization of waste in the writing of Samuel Beckett, Donald Barthelme, J.G. Ballard, William Gaddis, and Don DeLillo. In exploring the relationship between waste, capitalism, and literary experimentation, this book shows that the legacy of the historical avant-garde is bound up with an enduring faith in the radical potential of waste. The first study to focus specifically on waste in the twentieth-century imagination, this is a valuable contribution to the expanding field of waste studies.

Dieses Buch versammelt Artikel, die in ihrer Ursprungsversion auf einer internationalen wissenschaftlichen Konferenz vorgestellt wurden, die vom Institut fur Polnische Philologie der Adam-Mickiewicz-Universitat Posen sowie vom Institut fur Slavistik der Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel in Posen organisiert wurde. Der Konferenzband tragt der Vielfaltigkeit des deutsch-polnischen Beziehungsgeflechts Rechnung und vereint literaturwissenschaftliche, sprachwissenschaftliche und historische Beitrage. Unter den Autorinnen und Autoren sind Polonisten, Germanisten, Slawisten, Historiker sowie ein Vertreter aus der Philosophie.

Popular fiction follows literature professors wherever they go. At coffee shops or out for drinks, after faculty meetings or classes, even at family reunions - they are persistently pressed to talk about bestselling novels. Questions immediately follow: What do I mean when I say a book is "good"? Why do contemporary novels like these, conversations like these, matter to professors of literature? Shouldn't they be spending their time re-reading The Great Gatsby? The Ulysses Delusion confronts these questions and answers their call for more engaged conversations about books. Through topics like the Oprah's Book Club, Harry Potter, and Chick Lit, Cecilia Konchar Farr explores the lively, democratic, and gendered history of novels in the US as a context for understanding how avid readers and literary professionals have come to assess them so differently.

Kierkegaard and the Refusal of Transcendence challenges the standard view that Kierkegaard's God is infinitely other than the world. It argues that his work immerses us in the paradoxical nature of existence itself, and opposes any flight into another world.

Against the backdrop of the polarized debate on the ethical significance of storytelling, Hanna Meretoja's The Ethics of Storytelling: Narrative Hermeneutics, History, and the Possible develops a nuanced framework for exploring the ethical complexity of the roles narratives play in our lives. Focusing on how narratives enlarge and diminish the spaces of possibilities in which we act, think, and re-imagine the world together with others, this book proposes a theoretical-analytical framework for engaging with both the ethical potential and risks of storytelling. Further, it elaborates a narrative hermeneutics that treats narratives as culturally mediated practices of (re)interpreting experiences and articulates how narratives can be oppressive, empowering, or both. It also argues that the relationship between narrative unconscious and narrative imagination shapes our sense of the possible. In her book, Meretoja develops a hermeneutic narrative ethics that differentiates between six dimensions of the ethical potential of storytelling: the power of narratives to cultivate our sense of the possible; to contribute to individual and cultural self-understanding; to enable understanding other lives non-subsumptively in their singularity; to transform the narrative in-betweens that bind people together; to develop our perspective-awareness and capacity for perspective-taking; and to function as a form of ethical inquiry. This book addresses our implication in violent histories and argues that it is as dialogic storytellers, fundamentally vulnerable and dependent on one another, that we become who we are: both as individuals and communities. The Ethics of Storytelling seamlessly incorporates narrative ethics, literary narrative studies, narrative psychology, narrative philosophy, and cultural memory studies. It contributes to contemporary interdisciplinary narrative studies by developing narrative hermeneutics as a philosophically rigorous, historically sensitive, and analytically subtle approach to the ethical stakes of the debate on the narrative dimension of human existence.