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Literatur
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ISBN: 3868410910 9783868410914 9783868410907 3868410902 Year: 2013 Publisher: Lich/Hessen: AV,

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Gustav Landauer war ein detaillierter Kenner der deutschsprachigen und internationalen Literatur. Zugleich verstand er sich immer auch als Literaturvermittler und Entdecker zeitgenössischer Autoren und Autorinnen. Seine zahlreichen, noch heute lesenswerten Essays, Zeitungs- und Zeitschriftenartikel, Vorträge, Buch- und Theaterbesprechungen, belegen dies deutlich. Landauer erkannte rasch, welche gesellschaftliche Sprengkraft etwa der Vermittlung von Dramen - Tragödien und Komödien - vor allem des englischen Schriftstellers William Shakespeare in Schrift und Vortrag sowie auf der Theaterbühne innewohnt. Viele Autoren - Honoré de Balzac, Rabindranath Tagore, Leo N. Tolstoi, Walt Whitmann, Oscar Wilde - hat er, häufig gemeinsam mit seiner Lebensgefährtin, der Lyrikerin Hedwig Lachmann, durch erstmalige Übersetzungen und umfassende Betrachtungen dem deutschsprachigen Kulturleben zur Verfügung gestellt.


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Rubaiyat
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Year: 2013 Publisher: Deventer Tarcisius

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Of palm wine, women, and war : the Mongolian naval expedition to Java in the 13th century
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ISBN: 9789814517836 Year: 2013 Publisher: Singapore Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

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A history of classical Malay literature
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ISBN: 9789814459891 Year: 2013 Publisher: Singapore ISEAS

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Indian English and the fiction of national literature
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ISBN: 9781139626903 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Modernism today
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ISBN: 9401209952 9789401209953 1306315581 9781306315586 9789042037441 904203744X Year: 2013 Publisher: Amsterdam, Netherlands ; New York : Rodopi,

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This book manifests at least four recent shifts and tendencies within Modernist studies in general that point at the expansion of this increasingly interdisciplinary field. First, Modernist studies has seen a temporal expansion, to the extent that scholars in the field have come to turn to both the pre- and posterior history of Modernism. Second, the field has witnessed a spatial expansion, in that increasingly so researchers have also come to scrutinize the Modernisms of regions at the fringes of Europe, and beyond. Thirdly, a vertical expansion too has marked Modernist studies in recent decades, not only by further expanding the canon of women writers and exploring the continuum between high- and lowbrow, but also by looking at the artistic and mediatized hierarchies and cross-fertilizations operative in the period. A fourth conceptual expansion of the field shows that whereas concepts such as “middlebrow”, “arrière-garde”, and to some extent even “avant-garde”, were once exotic notions of at best marginal importance in European Modernist studies, they now form part and parcel of the field, complicating and expanding it conceptually.


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Writing Postcommunism : towards a literature of the East European Ruins
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ISBN: 9781137330079 1137330074 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Palgrave Macmillan,

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"Moving through the elegiac ruins of the Berlin Wall and the Yugoslav disintegration, Writing Postcommunism explores literary evocations of the pervasive disappointment and mourning that have marked the postcommunist twilight. With particular reference to the writings of Croatian e;migre; Dubravka Ugrešić, and those of Milan Kundera, Clemens Meyer, Ingo Schulze, Jáchym Topol, Christa Wolf, and others, it is argued that a significant body of postcommunist literature is underpinned and scarred by the semantic field of ruins: melancholia and nostalgia, presence and absence, pride and shame, and not least, remembering and forgetting. Taken together, the writings considered suggest a post-1989 'literature of the ruins', an amorphous, anti-formative framework that also dramatically illuminates the post-1989 ruins of east European literature itself - what remains when, as György Konrád put it, 'something is over'"--


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Readings in twenty-first-century European literatures
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ISBN: 9783034308083 3034308086 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford : Peter Lang,

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European literature and the Latin Middle Ages
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ISBN: 069101793X 1299402771 1400846153 9781400846153 9781299402775 9780691157009 0691157006 Year: 2013 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey

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Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles. In what T. S. Eliot called a "magnificent" book, Ernst Robert Curtius establishes medieval Latin literature as the vital transition between the literature of antiquity and the vernacular literatures of later centuries. The result is nothing less than a masterful synthesis of European literature from Homer to Goethe. European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a monumental work of literary scholarship. In a new introduction, Colin Burrow provides critical insights into Curtius's life and ideas and highlights the distinctive importance of this wonderful book.


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Liminal Semiotics
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ISBN: 3050064536 9783050064536 3050059567 1306206405 Year: 2013 Publisher: Berlin De Gruyter

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Grenzen, ihre Überschreitung, ihre Auflösung und ihre Wiederherstellung sind ein Schlüsselkonzept für das Verständnis romantischer Literatur. Die Studie analysiert vergleichend literarische Entgrenzungsphänomene in der Romantik in Deutschland, den USA und Großbritannien auf der Basis eines aus der Semiotik der Romantik und der postmodernen Theorie abgeleiteten "a-limitation"-Modells. Dabei geht sie über das etablierte Verständnis romantischer Entgrenzung als subjektphilosophisches Konzept der Transgression oder Transzendenz hinaus. A-limitation ist ein transepochales romantisches Phänomen, das in drei interdependenten Dimensionen (Zeichen, Subjekt, Raum) auftritt. Der Mechanismus von A-limitation, die Überschreitung von internen Grenzen bei gleichzeitiger Annäherung an ein externes Limit, tritt in den drei verschiedenen Dimensionen als eine Spannung hervor zwischen adamitisch-bedeutungsvollem Zeichen und arbiträrem Sprachspiel, zwischen ganzheitlichem Individuum und Entgrenzungsphantasie, zwischen gekerbtem Zivilisationsraum und offenem Naturraum. Dass dieses Spannungsverhältnis leicht verschoben in der postmodernen Theoriebildung fortlebt, zeigt eine Lektüre von Deleuze und Guattaris geophilosophischer Schrift "Tausend Plateaus", die als theoretischer Referenztext das Begriffsinventar liefert. Die Methode der Arbeit erforscht die Grenzzonen zwischen Text und Theorie. In drei Hauptkapitel und drei "Theorieplateaus" wird dieser Grundspannung nachgegangen. Dabei werden in den Lektürekapiteln jeweils mindestens drei verschiedene Texte aus den drei Nationalliteraturen in möglichst weiter zeitlicher und thematischer Streuung untersucht, in den und Theoriekapiteln eine Verallgemeinerung der A-limitations-Theorie und damit ihre Übertragbarkeit auf andere Texte ermöglicht. Die Lektüre von kanonischen und weniger bekannten Texten, von Charlotte Smiths Sonetten über Josef von Eichendorffs "Taugenichts" zu Herman Melvilles "Moby-Dick", bietet den ersten systematischen Zugang zu einem genuin romantischen Phänomen, das sich bis zu posthumanen Ideen der zeitgenössischen Literatur verfolgen lässt. Die Studie wurde 2012 mit dem von der Ernst-Reuter-Gesellschaft der Freunde, Förderer und Ehemaligen der Freien Universität Berlin e.V. gestifteten Ernst-Reuter-Preis als herausragende und zukunftsweisende Promotionsarbeit ausgezeichnet. Boundaries constitute a key concept in Romanticism: their transgression, their elimination, but also their reconstruction. By analyzing the triad of sign, subject, and space, this study provides a comprehensive analysis of boundaries in German, English, and American Romanticism. Its trans-epochal approach reveals a shared dynamic of a multiplicity of heterogeneous boundary phenomena ranging from the late 18th century to postmodern Romantic texts and constructs a model for the examination of limits: a theory of a-limitation. Drawing upon diverse semiotic theories in Romanticism, "Liminal Semiotics" uncovers a tension between the idea of a meaningful protolanguage and the arbitrary language games that pervade linguistic thinking in the late 18th and early 19th century. Boundary phenomena in Romantic texts are thus defined by this tension which is mirrored in spatial concepts and the philosophy of the subject. The oscillation of the Romantic subject between the desire for individuality and dissolution, which has hitherto been the focus of scholarship on Romanticism, is complemented by a more comprehensive approach to boundary phenomena. This study is the first to explore the mechanisms of different boundary phenomena in detail. With a creative theoretical design that allows the reader to survey readings of individual texts as well as situating them in a broader theoretical framework, "Liminal Semiotics" offers a new perspective on a variety of literary texts and theories. After an introductory chapter on boundaries that establishes a terminology for the theory of a-limitation derived from postmodern thinking, a detailed mapping of the semiotics of Romanticism forms the basis for the ensuing exploration of Romantic boundaries. Each main chapter is devoted to the analysis of a-limitation in three Romantic texts as diverse as William Blake's "Jerusalem", Josef von Eichendorff's "Der Taugenichts", and Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass". The ensuing theoretical chapter offers a detailed account of the theoretical instruments employed in the preceding analysis. Methodologically, "Liminal Semiotics" is therefore placed at the intersection between textual analysis, literary theory and cultural studies. The thesis was awarded the Ernst-Reuter-Prize 2012 for outstanding dissertations at Freie Universität Berlin.

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