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Our own birth and death elude our conscious experience. The world’s literatures give us the opportunity to access the beginning and end of a life, to represent, reflect upon, and (re)stage birth, life, dying, and death. This highly mobile configuration releases a tremendous creative energy, which this volume analyzes against the backdrop of the question of the knowledge of life. Unsere eigene Geburt und unser eigener Tod entziehen sich unserem reflektierten Erleben. Die Literaturen der Welt bieten uns die Chance, Zugriff auf Anfang und Ende eines Lebens zu erhalten, Geburt, Leben, Sterben und Tod zu repräsentieren, zu reflektieren und zu (re)inszenieren. Aus dieser hochmobilen Konfiguration ergeben sich ungeheure kreative Kräfte, welche dieser Band mit Blick auf die Frage des Lebenswissens analysiert. Welche literaturgeschichtlich und ästhetisch relevanten Aspekte treten in den Geburts- und Sterbeszenen in den romanischen Literaturen der Moderne hervor? Inwieweit enthalten die Gestaltungsformen von Geburt und Sterben erzähltechnische Programmierungen, die uns nicht notwendigerweise den Schlüssel zum eigenen Leben, sicherlich aber den zum Leben der Literaturen der Welt in die Hand geben? Furchtlos sollen diese Vorlesungen das Zusammenleben von Liebe und Tod, von Leben und Lesen, das (literarische) Erleben von Geburt oder das (literarische) Überleben des eigenen Todes anhand von Texten aus der Romania des 18. bis 20. Jahrhunderts untersuchen.
Death in literature. --- Life in literature. --- Romance fiction --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General. --- History and criticism. --- Life/death. --- Romance literatures. --- literature and life sciences. --- world literatures. --- Love stories --- Romances (Love stories) --- Romantic fiction --- Romantic stories --- Fiction
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In 1842, a young Cuban woman living in Spain published a novel that was so passionate and boldly feminist in content, it did not appear in her homeland until more than seventy years later. Two Women tells the riveting tale of a tumultuous love triangle among three wealthy Spaniards: a brilliant, young, widowed countess named Catalina, her inexperienced lover Carlos, and his pure and virtuous wife Luisa. The two women start out as rivals, yet in an insightful twist, they ultimately find they are both victims of a patriarchal society that ruthlessly pits women against each other. As the story builds to its thrilling climax, they confront the stark truth that in nineteenth-century Spain, women have few paths to a happy ending. This first English translation of the novel captures the lyrical romanticism of its prose and includes a scholarly introduction to the work and its author, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, a pioneering feminist and anti-slavery activist who based the character of Catalina on her own experience. Two Women is a searing indictment of the stern laws and customs governing marriage in the Hispanic world, brought to life in a spellbinding, tragic love story.
Man-woman relationships --- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) --- Nobility --- early feminist fiction, nineteenth-century women’s fiction, romantic fiction, Cuban fiction, Latin American fiction, Spanish literature in translation, Spanish fiction, translation, femme fatale, love stories, angel of the house.
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