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Aula

Ottmar Ette

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Die Reihe Aula präsentiert die von Ottmar Ette an der Universität Potsdam in den Bereichen Romanistik sowie Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft gehaltenen Vorlesungen. Ausgehend von einer transarealen Konzeption der weit über die Romania hinausgehenden Literaturen der Welt werden sowohl literaturgeschichtliche Vorlesungen etwa zur Aufklärung, zur Romantik oder zu den Literaturen des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts vorgestellt wie themenspezifische Vorlesungen, die sich u.a. mit dem Thema Liebe, mit Geburt, Leben, Sterben und Tod oder mit Reiseliteratur beschäftigen. Die Potsdamer Vorlesungen legen höchsten Wert auf eine komplexe literaturtheoretische Fundierung bei gleichzeitig zugänglicher Sprache.

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ReiseSchreiben

Potsdamer Vorlesungen zur Reiseliteratur

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The volume systematically presents the genre of travel literature in historical perspective and its broad relevance for contemporary societies. It examines the historical, economic, social, and political backdrops of travel. The focus of the lectures is on French, Spanish, and Italian speaking travelers along with German and English travel literature from the early modern period to the 20^th and 21^st centuries.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110650686
ISBN:: 9783110650686
ISBN:: 9783110653106
ISBN:: 9783110650709
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Travel
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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LiebeLesen

Potsdamer Vorlesungen zu einem großen Gefühl und dessen Aneignung

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The lecture volume plumbs a seductively diverse and infinitely confusing subject: love. From Tristan and Isolde to Don Juan, Cecilia Valdes, Emma Bovary, and the love fables of modern mass media, the relationship between love and life, and between literature and passion, is analyzed in this volume with scholarly dispassion.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110665093
ISBN:: 9783110665093
ISBN:: 9783110665062
ISBN:: 9783110665390
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Emotion
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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Von den historischen Avantgarden bis nach der Postmoderne

Potsdamer Vorlesungen zu den Hauptwerken der Romanischen Literaturen des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts

Ottmar Ette

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This lecture presents an overview of the world’s Romance literatures on their journey from the historic avant-gardes of the early twentieth century to the literatures following postmodernity at the beginning of our century. It thus captures a historic time-space that envelops an entire century, and also a space-time that encompasses a tremendous diversity of literary developments.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110703450
ISBN:: 9783110703450
ISBN:: 9783110703511
ISBN:: 9783110703337
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Literary History
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Avantgarde
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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Romantik zwischen zwei Welten

Potsdamer Vorlesungen zu den Hauptwerken der Romanischen Literaturen des 19. Jahrhunderts

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This transareal lecture inquires into the (perhaps already lost) unity of Romanticism behind the polymorphism of the Romantic discourses that took place between two worlds, Europe and America. This lecture reveals the scope of cultural relations between countries and continents in the century of nationalisms and questions the monological focus on national literatures.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110703443
ISBN:: 9783110703443
ISBN:: 9783110703559
ISBN:: 9783110703344
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Literary History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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Aufklärung zwischen zwei Welten

Potsdamer Vorlesungen zu den Hauptwerken der romanischen Literaturen des 18. Jahrhunderts

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This transareal lecture inquires into the (lost) unity of the Enlightenment and into the entangled transatlantic histories of the eighteenth century, in full awareness of the multifaceted nature of Enlightenment discourses between two worlds, Europe and America. Was there one Enlightenment or were there many? The lecture aims to scrutinize monocultural ideas of nascent modernity from a comparative perspective.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110703467
ISBN:: 9783110703467
ISBN:: 9783110703351
ISBN:: 9783110703504
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Literary History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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Erfunden / Gefunden

Potsdamer Vorlesungen zur Entstehung der Amerikas

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During the genesis of the Americas, "invention" was not the same thing as "discovery": what was invented preceded what was found and changed that discovery to the extent that both mutually permeated each other. This formed the foundation for both the indigenous population and their "discoverers," for deported slaves and for procured coolies. This lecture volume traces this process in detail, which still continues to this day.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110724097
ISBN:: 9783110724097
ISBN:: 9783110723243
ISBN:: 9783110724134
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Postcolonial Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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Geburt Leben Sterben Tod

Potsdamer Vorlesungen über das Lebenswissen in den romanischen Literaturen der Welt

Ottmar Ette

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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.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110751321
ISBN:: 9783110751321
ISBN:: 9783110751505
ISBN:: 9783110751307
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Emotion
Subject:: Sciences
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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Was heisst und zu welchem Ende studiert man romanische Literaturwissenschaft?

Potsdamer Vorlesungen zur Romanistik

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This Potsdam lecture attempts to more closely define the object of “Romance literary studies” within the context of the literatures of the world, to define the exceptional, even essential significance of this object of study, and to prospectively inquire into future opportunities for research, study, and life in the field of Romance literary studies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110788419
ISBN:: 9783110788419
ISBN:: 9783110788525
ISBN:: 9783110788396
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter