series: Mimesis

Published by De Gruyter

Mimesis

Romanische Literaturen der Welt

Edited by: Ottmar Ette

ISSN: 0178-7489

Overview
Volumes

With its new subtitle, Romance Literatures of the World, the book series mimesis presents an innovative and integral understanding of the Romance world and Romance Studies from the perspective of literary studies and cultural theory. It takes account of the fact that the fascinating development of Romance literatures and cultures both in Europe and beyond has set in motion worldwide dynamics which continue the great traditions of the Romance world and open up new horizons for them. mimesis works from a transareal understanding of Romance Studies which integrates Romance literatures and cultures both within and outside Europe and which transcends the national and disciplinary boundaries which often conceal the interactions between different traditions and developments in Europe and the Americas, in Africa and Asia. In the archipelago of Romance Studies, mimesis reveals how the representation of reality in the Romance literatures of the world opens the door to a multilingual cosmos of diverse logics.

Supplementary Materials

Topics

book: Zwischen De- und Reterritorialisierung

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Zwischen De- und Reterritorialisierung

Raumproduktion US-karibischer Diasporaliteraturen

Anne Brüske

Volume 111 in this series

US-Caribbean diaspora literatures of the 2000s constitute social spaces as spaces of diaspora. This volume looks at the literary production of space in works by Ernesto Quiñónez, Achy Obejas, Edwidge Danticat, and Junot Díaz to identify how these literatures perform the complex task of positioning themselves, their writers, and their ethnic communities between the US and the Caribbean, and between de- and reterritorialization.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111339214
ISBN:: 9783111339214
ISBN:: 9783111339252
ISBN:: 9783111339405
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 21st Century
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Hispanic Literature
Subject:: 21st Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Memory
Subject:: Postcolonial Studies
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book: The idea of freedom in Vargas Llosa's fiction

Book 2023

The idea of freedom in Vargas Llosa's fiction

From socialist beginnings to a liberal world view

Friedrich Ahnert

Volume 109 in this series

Mario Vargas Llosa’s intellectual transformations, from socialism to pragmatism, and liberalism, are reflected in his political and historical fiction. From Sartrean anti-authoritarianism in La ciudad y los perros to an increasingly liberal world view in Cinco esquinas, El héroe discreto, or Travesuras de la niña mala, this monograph documents the Peruvian Nobel Prize winner’s philosophical and literary journey.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111319407
ISBN:: 9783111319407
ISBN:: 9783111319841
ISBN:: 9783111319346
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Hispanic Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Prose
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book: La literatura como reescritura

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La literatura como reescritura

El caso de Reinaldo Arenas

Ofek Kehila

Volume 108 in this series

This book explores the concept of rewriting in literary discourse through the work of Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas. Examining both published novels and unpublished manuscripts, the study considers the multifaceted character of Arenas' rewriting practice, the interrelationships between its various dimensions, the broad spectrum of textual reworking that Arenas' work reveals, and the role of empathy in the rewriting process.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111315690
ISBN:: 9783111315690
ISBN:: 9783111315447
ISBN:: 9783111314877
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Hispanic Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Prose
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Emotion
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book: Elective Affinities

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Elective Affinities

Rethinking Entanglements between Latin America and East Central Europe

Agnieszka Helena Hudzik, Joanna M. Moszczyńska, Jorge Estrada, Patricia A. Gwozdz, Freie Universität Berlin, Publikationsfonds für Open-Access-Monografien des Landes Brandenburg

Volume 107 in this series

From the nineteenth century to the present, literary entanglements between Latin America and East Central Europe have been socio-politically and culturally diverse, but never random. The Iron Curtain, in particular, forced both regions to negotiate transatlantic «elective affinities», to take a stance in relation to the West, and to position themselves within world literature. As a result, the intellectual fields and creative productions of these regions have critically engaged with notions such as «post-imperial», «marginal», or «peripheral».

In this edited volume, scholars from Germany, Brazil, Czech Republic, Hungary, Mexico, Poland, Slovenia, and Spain cross the globe from South to East and back to uncover transcultural and transareal convivialities. Their papers explore literary history, poetics, intellectual networks, and aesthetic theory, while discussing new key concepts in global literary history.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111247861
ISBN:: 9783111247861
ISBN:: 9783111247458
ISBN:: 9783111248752
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Hispanic Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: 21st Century
Subject:: Literature of other Nations and Languages
Subject:: Slavic Literature
Subject:: Literary History
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book: Epistemologien der Geste

Book 2023

Epistemologien der Geste

Körper – Medien – Künste

Luca Viglialoro, Johannes Waßmer

Volume 106 in this series

This volume explores the immanent reflexivity of gestures as forms of material knowledge creation, i.e., an aesthetic epistemology that processes its performances at the intersection of body and media. To this end, the operative aesthetics of images, texts, and other media are explored with a view to capturing their specific gestures.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111077000
ISBN:: 9783111077000
ISBN:: 9783111077048
ISBN:: 9783111076737
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Media Studies
Subject:: Media Aesthetics
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Knowledge
Subject:: Mediality, Intermediality
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Renaissancen des Realismus?

Book 2023

Renaissancen des Realismus?

Romanistische Beiträge zur Repräsentation sozialer Ungleichheit in Literatur und Film

Patrick Eser, Jan-Henrik Witthaus

Volume 105 in this series

Social inequality is one of the burning issues of our time. Literature has always dealt with this on the level of form and on the level of content, which has received little attention so far. The contributions gathered in this volume respond in particular to recent trends in French and Latin American narratives and filmmaking, in which the representation of social worlds has once again become problematic.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111022369
ISBN:: 9783111022369
ISBN:: 9783111021898
ISBN:: 9783111022901
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Genres and Media in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Film
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: French Literature, general
Subject:: Hispanic Literature
Subject:: Hispanic Literature, general
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Sociology of Literature
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book: De/lirios

Book 2023

De/lirios

Las líricas desviadas de Mario Levrero y Alberto Laiseca

Gabrielle Cornefert

Volume 104 in this series

Drawing on the concept of de/lirio—which articulates a series of disorders in the first-person literary enunciation, on the one hand, and the psychopathological characterization of this first person, on the other hand—the study explores the deviant lyric of Mario Levrero and Alberto Laiseca, and shows how they respond productively to aesthetic, ethical and ontological problems of the turn of the millennium, in the Río de la Plata and beyond.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110980516
ISBN:: 9783110980516
ISBN:: 9783110980578
ISBN:: 9783110993677
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Hispanic Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: 21st Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Emotion
Subject:: Psychology, Psychoanalysis
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book: Ecce figura

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Ecce figura

Lektüren eines Konzepts in Konstellationen (100 v. Chr.–1946)

Patricia A. Gwozdz, Publikationsfonds für Open-Access-Monografien des Landes Brandenburg

Volume 103 in this series

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Figures emerge from movement. We live and think in figures. This monograph pursues the literary, theological, and philosophical traces of the concept of figura in comparative constellations from antiquity to modernity, starting with Erich Auerbach, developing them into a method of literary-philosophical figuralogy and opening up a compendium of connections between conceptual history and literary theory.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110985863
ISBN:: 9783110985863
ISBN:: 9783110986242
ISBN:: 9783110997224
Subject:: Arts
Subject:: Art Theory
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Unzuverlässiges Erzählen

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Unzuverlässiges Erzählen

Neue Blicke auf narrative Strategien in den romanischen Literaturen

Sarah Burnautzki, Jobst Welge

Volume 102 in this series

In narrative studies, the topic of unreliable narration plays a central role. But when exactly is a narrator "unreliable"? This edited volume investigates unreliable narrators in selected case studies from French, Spanish, and Latin American literature in order to sound out historical perspectives on narrative strategies, looking at a range of texts that goes beyond canonical examples.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783110799637
ISBN:: 9783110799637
ISBN:: 9783110799576
ISBN:: 9783110799682
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Prose
Subject:: Narratology
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book: Die verletzte Republik

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Die verletzte Republik

Erzählte Gewalt im Frankreich des 21. Jahrhunderts

Markus Alexander Lenz, Publikationsfonds für Open-Access-Monografien des Landes Brandenburg

Volume 101 in this series

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This study examines the literary discourse about forms of violence in French society at the beginning of the twenty-first century. How and why does French contemporary literature tell stories about the now historical, violent traumas of the twentieth century, the terrorism of the twenty-first century, racism and classicism, femicide and homophobia, and the structural violence of unemployment and poverty?

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110799620
ISBN:: 9783110799620
ISBN:: 9783110799668
ISBN:: 9783110799552
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 21st Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Prose
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Memory
Subject:: Sociology of Literature
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book: José Martí

Book 2023

José Martí

Teil II: Denker der Globalisierung

Ottmar Ette

Volume 100 in this series

On the basis of José Martí: Part I. Apostle – Poet – Revolutionary: A History of his Reception (1991), this second part develops an understanding of the specific conditions that allowed José Martí to become a great thinker of globalization. It thus paints a vivid picture of this forward-thinking poet of Hispano-American Modernismo that goes beyond the conventional patterns and positions that can be found in Martí research.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110788471
ISBN:: 9783110788471
ISBN:: 9783110788389
ISBN:: 9783110788570
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Latin America
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Hispanic Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Postcolonial Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: In the Footsteps of Dante

Book 2023

In the Footsteps of Dante

Crossroads of European Humanism

Teresa Bartolomei, Joao R. Figueiredo

Volume 99 in this series

Dante, the pilgrim, is the image of an author who stubbornly looks ahead, seeking and building the "Great Beyond" (Manguel). Following in his footsteps is therefore not a return to the past, going à rebours, but a commitment to the future, to exploring the potential of humanity to "transhumanise".

This dynamic of self-transcendence in Dante’s humanism (Ossola), which claims for European civilisation a vocation for universalism (Ferroni), is analysed in the volume at three crucial moments: Firstly, the establishment of an emancipatory relationship between author and reader (Ascoli), in which authorship is authority and not power; secondly, the conception of vision as a learning process and horizon of eschatological overcoming (Mendonça); finally, the relationship with the past, which is never purely monumental, but ethically and intertextually dynamic, in an original rewriting of the original scriptural, medieval, and classical culture (Nasti, Bolzoni, Bartolomei).

A second group of contributions is dedicated to the reconstruction of Dante’s presence in Portuguese literature (Almeida, Espírito Santo, Figueiredo, Marnoto, Vaz de Carvalho): they attest to the innovative impact of Dante’s work even in literary traditions more distant from it.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110796049
ISBN:: 9783110796049
ISBN:: 9783110796094
ISBN:: 9783110795943
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Italian Literature
Subject:: 13th-15th Century
Subject:: Literary History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Algunos «animales feroces» en el teatro venezolano

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Algunos «animales feroces» en el teatro venezolano

Teatralidad de la violencia en la dramaturgia de los 70 en Venezuela

Carlos Dimeo-Álvarez

Volume 98 in this series

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This monograph studies the development of Venezuelan theater in the 70s, characterized by psychological, physical as well as verbal violence and cruelty. Throughout the decade, violence pervaded not only drama, but every sphere of social, political and cultural life in Venezuela. While these dramaturgies of violence disrupted the aesthetic field in many ways, they also interpreted the development of Venezuelan society.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110795936
ISBN:: 9783110795936
ISBN:: 9783110796155
ISBN:: 9783110795912
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Hispanic Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Drama, Theater
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Perspectives on Dante Politico

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Perspectives on Dante Politico

At the Crossroad of Arts and Sciences

Donatella Stocchi-Perucchio

Volume 97 in this series

The book argues that political concerns, inseparable from Dante’s biography, permeate his entire corpus, emerging at the intersection of the multiple fields of knowledge he explores, from the liberal arts, to law, philosophy and theology. It also shows that Dante, by elucidating the natural integration of the humanities with the sciences, continues to be a source of provocative insights and inspirations on how to be political beings today.　

The essays collected in the volume offer a range of close textual and contextual readings of Dante’s life and works grouped in four parts: 1. The Self and History, 2. Visions of the World: Cosmology and Utopia, 3. From the Language of Politics to the Language of Theology, 4. Instances of Political Reception in Asia and South America. The different disciplinary angles adopted by the contributors include history, economics, jurisprudence, linguistics, ethics, metaphysics, theology, cosmology, social thought, ecology, and the performing and visual arts.

The collection addresses a specialized audience of Dante scholars, medievalists, historians, political philosophers and scientists, reception scholars, and legal and cultural historians.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783110790894
ISBN:: 9783110790894
ISBN:: 9783110790863
ISBN:: 9783110790962
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Italian Literature
Subject:: 13th-15th Century
Subject:: Literary History
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Religion
Subject:: Knowledge
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book: La buena distancia

Book 2022

La buena distancia

Escritores «migrantes» de África y Oriente Medio en España (2001–2008)

Sara Bernechea Navarro

Volume 96 in this series

The volume offers a panorama of Romance-language migration literature (Castilian, Catalan, Galician) in 21^st-century Spain, with special attention being paid to writers from Africa and the Middle East. It includes a comprehensive review of current research in the field, with the critical analysis of a systemized corpus of authors and works providing a solid base for future investigation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110762358
ISBN:: 9783110762358
ISBN:: 9783110762372
ISBN:: 9783110762327
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Hispanic Literature
Subject:: 21st Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Prose
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Postcolonial Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Poéticas espectatoriales en Hispanoamérica y Brasil (1800–1847)

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Poéticas espectatoriales en Hispanoamérica y Brasil (1800–1847)

Ilustración – emancipación – convivencias excluyentes

Hans Fernández

Volume 95 in this series

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This book offers the first panoramic study on the development and characteristics of the literary-journalistic genre of spectator periodicals in Hispanic America and Brazil. After contextualizing these publications within the emancipation processes of 19^th-century American Enlightenment, it explores the new coexistence modes and esthetics they disseminated.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110758900
ISBN:: 9783110758900
ISBN:: 9783110758986
ISBN:: 9783110758894
Subject:: Library and Information Science, Book Studies
Subject:: Media and Press
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Hispanic Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Prose
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Vitale Mystik

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Vitale Mystik

Formen und Rezeptionen mystischen Schreibens in der Lyrik von Anna de Noailles, Ernestina de Champourcin und Antonia Pozzi

Jenny Haase

Volume 94 in this series

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This study examines the form and reception of mystical writing in poetry by Anna de Noailles (France, 1876–1933), Ernestna de Champourcin (Spain 1905–1999), and Antonia Pozzi (Italy, 1912–1938) from the perspective of current transsecular approaches, cultural studies mysticism research, and feminist literary studies, making original links to (neo-)vitalist philosophy.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110753554
ISBN:: 9783110753554
ISBN:: 9783110753547
ISBN:: 9783110753622
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Poetry
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Gender and Literature
Subject:: Religion
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book: Juana Borrero

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Juana Borrero

Choreografien einer Künstlerin

Anne Kern

Volume 93 in this series

This study takes a comprehensive look at the aesthetics and oeuvre of Juana Borrero y Pierra (1877–1896), one of the most important and yet little-known representatives of Cuban Modernismo. Her aesthetics of the wholeness of art and life unfolds in the artist’s poems, literary love letters, drawings, paintings, and literary prose, produced in the light of late Cuban modernism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783110748499
ISBN:: 9783110748499
ISBN:: 9783110748352
ISBN:: 9783110748574
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Hispanic Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Poetry
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Gender and Literature
Subject:: Mediality, Intermediality
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Ästhetik Apollinaires und der frühen Avantgarde

Book 2021

Die Ästhetik Apollinaires und der frühen Avantgarde

Mythos als Modus

Katarina Rempe

Volume 92 in this series

"Tu marches vers Auteuil tu veux aller chez toi à pied / Dormir parmi tes fétiches d’Océanie et de Guinée [...]" – this study follows the clues in the final verses of Apollinaire’s poem Zone, which has become near iconic for the avant-garde, rediscovering Apollinaire’s aesthetics and the poets with whom he was acquainted – Cendrars, Reverdy, Soffici, and Marinetti – against the backdrop of the primitivism discourse in the early 20^th century.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110736267
ISBN:: 9783110736267
ISBN:: 9783110736304
ISBN:: 9783110739633
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Poetry
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Avantgarde
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book: Poetas hispanoamericanas contemporáneas

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Poetas hispanoamericanas contemporáneas

Poéticas y metapoéticas (siglos XX–XXI)

Milena Rodríguez Gutiérrez, Knowledge Unlatched

Volume 91 in this series

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This volume brings together studies on poetics, poetic arts, and other metapoetic texts by contemporary women poets from Spanish America. The fundamental contribution of the book lies in the valorization of the metapoetic and self-reflexive element in poetry written by women, since research on the topic has focused primarily, until today, on male authors.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110736274
ISBN:: 9783110736274
ISBN:: 9783110739626
ISBN:: 9783110737042
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Hispanic Literature
Subject:: 21st Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Poetry
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Gender and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Bilder in Bewegung

Book 2021

Bilder in Bewegung

Ansichten des Bildlichen zwischen Kunst und Wissenschaft

Patricia Gwozdz, Tobias Kraft, Markus Alexander Lenz

Volume 90 in this series

Iconotextuality plays a central role in the academic oeuvre of the Romance and cultural studies scholar Ottmar Ette. The three sections in this volume in honor of his 65th birthday examine the dynamics between image and text, going beyond the static understanding of ekphrasis as a mere strategy for providing evidence. It investigates the intersections between imagery and writteness as dynamic forms of movement and knowledge.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110730340
ISBN:: 9783110730340
ISBN:: 9783110730487
ISBN:: 9783110735246
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Mediality, Intermediality
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Kolumbus-Epik

Book 2021

Kolumbus-Epik

Die Inszenierung eines Helden in französischen und neulateinischen Texten ab 1750

Gerd Johann König

Volume 89 in this series

It seems like no hero could have been more predestined for an epic than Columbus. And yet, he did not become the focus of epic poetry in France until after 1750. This volume shows how, in this new variation on heroic poetry, familiar ancient and early modern epic motifs interacted with historic events, the fabulous, and contemporary faibles. Columbus was sometimes the emissary of Enlightenment knowledge, sometimes the bearer of Christian values.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110732405
ISBN:: 9783110732405
ISBN:: 9783110737370
ISBN:: 9783110732481
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Poetry
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
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book: Koloniale Gewalt literarisch vermessen

Book 2021

Koloniale Gewalt literarisch vermessen

Das Schreiben von Boubacar Boris Diop und Mia Couto im Kontext der afrikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur

Lucia Weiß

Volume 88 in this series

Against the backdrop of the historic experience of colonialism, this study examines how three novels by the contemporary authors Boubacar Boris Diop (Senegal) and Mia Couto (Mosambique) measure violence literarily. Their writing reflects upon the way that violence inscribes itself into time, bodies, and language in the long term. Moreover, the analyses reveal the extent to which Diop’s and Couto’s texts understand narrative as a mode of critique.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110723366
ISBN:: 9783110723366
ISBN:: 9783110723274
ISBN:: 9783110723434
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Memory
Subject:: Postcolonial Studies
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book: L’esthétique populiste

Book 2021

L’esthétique populiste

« L’Amour du peuple » dans la culture française de l’entre-deux-guerres

Matthias Kern

Volume 87 in this series

The French interwar period sees a complete aesthetic renewal: both the novels of the 1929-born ‘populist’ literary movement and the talking films of the time seek to dive into the daily lives of employees and workers in order to give them more visibility. The present study explores this new populist aesthetics and the powerful working class imaginary it succeeded in building.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110721157
ISBN:: 9783110721157
ISBN:: 9783110721164
ISBN:: 9783110721126
ISBN:: 9783111116419
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Genres and Media in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Film
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Popular Culture
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Mediality, Intermediality
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book: Literaturgeschichte und Ideologie

Book 2020

Literaturgeschichte und Ideologie

Ferdinand Wolfs literaturpolitisches Projekt «Le Brésil littéraire» (1863)

Laura Rivas Gagliardi

Volume 86 in this series

This study reveals the implications of literary historiography when it is instrumentalized to control how the past is perceived, of which Le Brésil littéraire (1863) is a paradigmatic example. This volume by the Austrian civil servant Ferdinand Wolf supported an ideology that furthered the claims of both the Brazilian and the Habsburg imperial regime under the cloak of scholarship.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110697889
ISBN:: 9783110697889
ISBN:: 9783110697797
ISBN:: 9783110697926
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Literary History
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Postcolonial Studies
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book: Das französische Chanson

Book 2020

Das französische Chanson

Genre und Mythos

Juliane Ebert

Volume 85 in this series

This study offers a new perspective in cultural studies on French chanson by combining approaches native to genre and myth theory and relating them to chanson. For the first time, chanson is described as a modern myth.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110686029
ISBN:: 9783110686029
ISBN:: 9783110686067
ISBN:: 9783110995084
ISBN:: 9783110685923
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Mythology and Folk Literature
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book: Guimarães Rosa und Meyer-Clason

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Guimarães Rosa und Meyer-Clason

Literatur, Demokratie, ZusammenLebenswissen

Ottmar Ette, Paulo Astor Soethe

Volume 84 in this series

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This edited volume, which features essays from prominent German, Brazilian, and Portuguese scholars, deals with the personal relations and intensive intellectual collaboration between Joao Guimaraes Rosa (1908–1967) and his German translator Curt Meyer-Clason (1910–2012), a special case of German–Brazilian cultural exchange.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110677713
ISBN:: 9783110677713
ISBN:: 9783110677706
ISBN:: 9783110677782
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
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book: Schreiben in Archipelen

Book 2020

Schreiben in Archipelen

Kleine Formen in post-kolonialen Kontexten

Miriam Lay Brander

Volume 83 in this series

Short form literature is highly popular across the world today. In the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, and Oceania, they have long held a predominant place. This study uses the example of aphorisms and proverbs to illustrate the diversity of literary, cultural, and ethnographic functions of small literary forms in former French, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110639483
ISBN:: 9783110639483
ISBN:: 9783110639629
ISBN:: 9783110639377
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Other Genres
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Postcolonial Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Topografien des 20. Jahrhunderts

Book Open Access 2020

Topografien des 20. Jahrhunderts

Die memoriale Poetik des Stolperns in Haroldo de Campos' «Galáxias»

Jasmin Wrobel, Freie Universität Berlin

Volume 82 in this series

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The polyphonic world poem Galáxias (1984) by Brazilian poet Haroldo de Campos has, to date, mainly been discussed in the broader context of concrete poetry and the Latin American neo-baroque. In this book, Jasmin Wrobel offers a completely new reading of the work as a poetic testimony to a century of catastrophes: references to traumatic historical events are embedded as ‘stumbling blocks’ in the textual architecture, guiding the reader towards a ‘Poetics of Stumbling’.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110639445
ISBN:: 9783110639445
ISBN:: 9783110639353
ISBN:: 9783110639568
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Hispanic Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Poetry
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Physiognomien des Lebens

Book 2020

Physiognomien des Lebens

Physiognomik im Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Biopolitik und Ästhetik

Vittoria Borsò, Sieglinde Borvitz, Luca Viglialoro

Volume 81 in this series

The correspondence between physical features and the character of a person, which was the matrix for the natural sciences of the 19^th century, is today a basis for lifestyle norms, and even for psychological and medical diagnostics. This volume historically and systematically examines the biopolitical performativity of physiognomic practices, their mediality, and the knowledge of life implied in the aesthetics of texts and media.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110665055
ISBN:: 9783110665055
ISBN:: 9783110664683
ISBN:: 9783110664645
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: History of Science
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Sciences
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Aesthetics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Narkoprosa

Book 2019

Narkoprosa

Darstellungsparadigmen und erzählerische Funktionen in der lateinamerikanischen Literatur zum Drogenhandel

Lisa Quaas

Volume 80 in this series

The ongoing war on drugs has left deep marks on Latin America and the entire world. It intervenes in the imagination and affective states of every social stratum, as literature graphically reveals. This study analyzes and interprets recognized and lesser-known works of Spanish prose fiction and provides a first outline of the genre of narcoprose.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110661408
ISBN:: 9783110661408
ISBN:: 9783110660517
ISBN:: 9783110660616
ISBN:: 9783110766073
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Hispanic Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: 21st Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Wildes Wissen in der «Encyclopédie»

Book 2020

Wildes Wissen in der «Encyclopédie»

Koloniale Alterität, Wissen und Narration in der französischen Aufklärung

Karen Struve

Volume 79 in this series

Knowledge of the colonial Other represents a real challenge in the final work of the French Enlightenment: Diderot’s and d’Alembert’s Encyclopedia (1751–1772). This knowledge is a challenge for the self-positioning of European philosophy, for the rational categories of European knowledge, and especially for encyclopedic construction and narration.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110660425
ISBN:: 9783110660425
ISBN:: 9783110658224
ISBN:: 9783110658163
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: History of Knowledge
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Roberto Bolaños wilde Bibliothek

Book 2019

Roberto Bolaños wilde Bibliothek

Eine Ästhetik und Politik der Lektüre

Benjamin Loy

Volume 78 in this series

Roberto Bolaño is generally regarded as the first classic of 21^st-century world literature. His work pursues a radical intertextual poetics. This book studies the aesthetic and political dimensions of that work and of the numerous references to Latin American, Spanish, French, German, and English-language literature, thereby opening up a new perspective on the complexity of Bolaño’s writing.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110658941
ISBN:: 9783110658941
ISBN:: 9783110658156
ISBN:: 9783110766066
ISBN:: 9783110658255
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Hispanic Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Littérature française et savoirs biologiques au XIXe siècle

Book Open Access 2019

Littérature française et savoirs biologiques au XIXe siècle

Traduction, transmission, transposition

Thomas Klinkert, Gisèle Séginger

Volume 77 in this series

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In the 19^th century, biological knowledge fascinated writers, who found it the source of a new poetry, of an imaginary beyond positivist logic, but also of a renewal of textual forms. This volume studies the processes of translation, transmission, and transposition of this knowledge as they manifest themselves in the field of French literature.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110665833
ISBN:: 9783110665833
ISBN:: 9783110665826
ISBN:: 9783110665963
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Sciences
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Migration und Avantgarde

Book Open Access 2020

Migration und Avantgarde

Paris 1917–1962

Stephanie Bung, Susanne Zepp

Volume 76 in this series

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This volume is devoted to the literature and art created in Paris in 1917–1962. The starting point is Vilém Flusser’s conviction that migration and cultural innovation are closely interlinked. In addition to the languages of Romania, the essays in this volume take into account Arabic, Hebrew, German, Russian, and Polish literature. This comparative approach discloses unique perspectives.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110679366
ISBN:: 9783110679366
ISBN:: 9783110633085
ISBN:: 9783110679458
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Avantgarde
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Offene Dialektik

Book 2019

Offene Dialektik

Poetische Form und Geschichtsdenken im Werk von Octavio Paz

Catarina von Wedemeyer

Volume 75 in this series

This study interprets the writings of Mexican Nobel Prize laureate Octavio Paz as an open dialectics staged in poetic form and offers new perspectives on his works. By highlighting Paz’s convergence with the Frankfurt School, it offers a key to his thinking about history. Tracing the outlines of his writing against the horizon of the global fault lines of the 20^th century, this book makes it relevant to the conflicts of the 21^st century.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110633986
ISBN:: 9783110633986
ISBN:: 9783110766011
ISBN:: 9783110631203
ISBN:: 9783110631449
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Hispanic Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Der Affekt der Ökonomie

Book 2018

Der Affekt der Ökonomie

Spekulatives Erzählen in der Moderne

Gesine Hindemith, Dagmar Stöferle

Volume 74 in this series

Until now, the theory metaphor “affect economy” has been interpreted to mean the disciplinary power of the economy over the affects, and in this context, the metaphor became key to the function of literature in modernity. However, the underlying paradox of the juxtaposition suggests a substantially more dynamic reading: shouldn’t we also think about the affect of economy, which potentially opens up another, speculative poetics of modernity?

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110479638
ISBN:: 9783110479638
ISBN:: 9783110477443
ISBN:: 9783110477610
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Humanismus, Utopie und Tragödie

Book 2020

Humanismus, Utopie und Tragödie

Carmen Rivero

Volume 73 in this series

Comment redonner un sens au mot humanisme? This question, which Jean Beaufret addressed to Martin Heidegger in 1946, exemplifies the crisis of the concept of humanism in the post-war era. Using the examples of the French and Spanish genres of utopia and tragedy, this study shows how the question has been answered.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110610376
ISBN:: 9783110610376
ISBN:: 9783110609035
ISBN:: 9783110609141
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Hispanic Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: Humanism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Literatura y política

Book 2019

Literatura y política

Nuevas perspectivas teóricas

Azucena González Blanco

Volume 72 in this series

In the past decades, with the decline of the Grand Narratives and the subsequent need for new historical and political orientation, literary studies have been reflecting on the role of literature in the world. Together with Jacques Rancière—and in dialogue with Althusser, Foucault, or Fischer-Lichte—the present volume analyzes this political turn of literary studies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110624137
ISBN:: 9783110624137
ISBN:: 9783110621921
ISBN:: 9783110520262
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Aesthetics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Power and Literature

Book 2018

Power and Literature

Strategies of Subversiveness in the Romanian Novel

Florin Oprescu

Volume 71 in this series

At the core of this book lies the relation between Power (as socio-political phenomenon) and the novel (as literary discourse). It shows that, in a society facing the excess of power in its various forms, novelistic fiction mediates knowledge about societal Power structures and uses specific strategies to subvert and denounce them.

The first part of the study is theoretical: it presents some of the most prominent theories of Power, from Plato, Machiavelli, Nietzsche to Weber, Dahl, Lukes, Parsons, Bourdieu or Foucault. After offering a critical approach to the concepts of Power defined in the social, political and philosophical fields, it articulates the relations of Power imprinted in literary discourse within a typology of four categories.

In the second part of the book, this taxonomy of Power is applied to four key novels in the context of Romanian "literary crossroads", showing how novelistic fiction not only assume a critical and subversive position against the excess of Power, but also unveils our fragility when experiencing History.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110605372
ISBN:: 9783110605372
ISBN:: 9783110602944
ISBN:: 9783110709773
ISBN:: 9783110603057
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Prose
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Political Philosophy and Social Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Le théâtre « de l’absurde » en RFA

Book 2018

Le théâtre « de l’absurde » en RFA

Les œuvres d’Adamov, Beckett, Genet et Ionesco outre-Rhin

Marie-Christine Gay

Volume 70 in this series

The present volume analyses the reception of the French “Theatre of the Absurd” in West Germany from the 1950s on, as this groundbreaking dramatic écriture gained national and international recognition. Based on previously unpublished archives, this synthesis work sheds a new light on drama history and French-German cultural relations from 1949 to 1989.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110589184
ISBN:: 9783110589184
ISBN:: 9783110709698
ISBN:: 9783110586978
ISBN:: 9783110585391
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Drama, Theater
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Representing Algerian Women

Book 2019

Representing Algerian Women

Kateb, Dib, Feraoun, Mammeri, Djebar

Edward John Still

Volume 68 in this series

This monograph explores the ways in which canonical Francophone Algerian authors, writing in the late-colonial period (1945–1962), namely Kateb Yacine, Mohammed Dib, Mouloud Feraoun, Mouloud Mammeri and Assia Djebar, approached the representation of Algerian women through literature. The book initially argues that a masculine domination of public fields of representation in Algeria contributed to a postcolonial marginalization of women as public agents. However, it crucially also argues that the canonical writers of the period, who were mostly male, both textually acknowledged their inability to articulate the experiences and subjectivity of the feminine Other and deployed a remarkable variety of formal and conceptual innovations in producing evocations of Algerian femininity that subvert the structural imbalance of masculine symbolic hegemony. Though it does not shy from investigating those aspects of its corpus that produce ideologically conditioned masculinist representations, the book chiefly seeks to articulate a shared reluctance concerning representativity, a pessimism regarding the revolution's capacity to deliver change for women, and an omnipresent subversion of masculine subjectivity in its canonical texts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110586107
ISBN:: 9783110586107
ISBN:: 9783110736410
ISBN:: 9783110583861
ISBN:: 9783110583700
Subject:: Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Subject:: Culture and Society
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Gender and Literature
Subject:: Postcolonial Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Ein atlantisches Siglo de Oro

Book 2017

Ein atlantisches Siglo de Oro

Literatur und ozeanische Bewegung im frühen 17. Jahrhundert

Mark Minnes

Volume 67 in this series

The Iberian Peninsula links two oceans and thus, several continents of the world. This fact, too long overlooked by Romance language scholars, raises philological, aesthetic, and cultural questions that go beyond the confines of the 21^st century. The study suggests a new reading of the history Romance language scholarship and of 17^th century canonical texts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110540444
ISBN:: 9783110540444
ISBN:: 9783110647754
ISBN:: 9783110538700
ISBN:: 9783110538694
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Hispanic Literature
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: Literary History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Poetischer Widerstand im Estado Novo

Book 2017

Poetischer Widerstand im Estado Novo

Die Dichtung von Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

Diana Gomes Ascenso

Volume 66 in this series

This is the first comprehensive study by German-speaking Portuguese scholars on Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1919–2004), one of the most acclaimed Portuguese poets of the 20^th century. It presents a re-evaluation of her work as a political poetry of the putative a-political.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110525144
ISBN:: 9783110525144
ISBN:: 9783110522952
ISBN:: 9783110522822
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Hispanic Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Poetry
Subject:: Literary History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Das Grenzwesen Mensch

Book 2017

Das Grenzwesen Mensch

Vormoderne Naturphilosophie und Literatur im Dialog mit Postmoderner Gendertheorie

Marlen Bidwell-Steiner

Volume 65 in this series

In this study, which compares vastly different text corpora, early modern texts on natural philosophy and literature are juxtaposed against modern gender studies. This daring venture is based on the hypothesis that these two text corpora pursue analogous interests and strategies, both striving to create holistic models for the interplay between matter and spirit and the use rhetorical figures for the purpose of generating knowledge.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110521825
ISBN:: 9783110521825
ISBN:: 9783110519518
ISBN:: 9783110519471
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Gender and Literature
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Early Modern Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Writing-between-Worlds

Book 2016

Writing-between-Worlds

TransArea Studies and the Literatures-without-a-fixed-Abode

Ottmar Ette, Vera M. Kutzinski

Volume 64 in this series

This book proposes that there is no better, no more complex way to access a community, a society, an era and its cultures than through literature. For millennia, literature from a wide variety of geocultural areas has gathered knowledge about life, about survival, and about living together, without either falling into discursive or disciplinary specializations or functioning as a regulatory mechanism for cultural knowledge. Literature is able to offer its readers knowledge through direct participation in the form of step-by-step intellectual and affective experiences. Through this ability, it can reach and affect audiences across great spatial and temporal distances. Literature – what different times and cultures have been able to understand as such in a broad sense – has always been characterized by its transareal and transcultural origins and effects. It is the product of many logics, and it teaches us to think polylogically rather than monologically. Literature is an experiment in living, and living in a state of experimentation.

About the author

Ottmar Ette has been Chair of Romance Literature at the University of Potsdam, Germany, since 1995. He is Honorary Member of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) (elected in 2014), member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (elected in 2013), and regular member of the Academia Europaea (since 2010).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110462876
ISBN:: 9783110462876
ISBN:: 9783110461121
ISBN:: 9783110461091
ISBN:: 9783110578683
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: General Cultural Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Der traumatisierte Raum

Book 2016

Der traumatisierte Raum

Insistenz, Inschrift, Montage bei Freud, Levi, Kertész, Sebald und Dante

Judith Kasper

Volume 63 in this series

In "traumatized space," psychoanalysis and the spatial sciences converge. Europe emerges as a real and simultaneously phantasmic landscape of concentration camps. Literature unsettles all representations of this landscape. In stories of entrapment and exclusion with no way out, ruptures occur. The mission of philology is to validate such moments as being authentically literary without thereby transforming them into signs of salvation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110451221
ISBN:: 9783110451221
ISBN:: 9783110449228
ISBN:: 9783110449396
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Literary History
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Memory
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Molière et le théâtre arabe

Book 2016

Molière et le théâtre arabe

Réception moliéresque et identités nationales arabes

Angela Daiana Langone

Volume 62 in this series

Molière, often considered the ‘godfather of Arab theatre’, was first introduced to the Arab world in 1847 by Marun Naqqaš and his adaptation of The Miser. Since then, Molière has never ceased to influence Arab dramaturgy. Discussing a series of plays by authors from Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco, this study aims at defining Molière’s role in the development of a national Arab theatre.

Considéré souvent comme le «parrain du théâtre arabe», Molière arrive dans le monde arabe grâce à une adaptation de L’Avare par le libanais Marun Naqqaš (1847): à partir de ce moment, la dramaturgie arabe ne cessera plus de puiser à son répertoire. À travers un corpus de pièces provenant du Liban, de l’Egypte, de la Tunisie et du Maroc, ce travail entend définir la place de Molière dans la genèse d’un théâtre national arabe.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110436846
ISBN:: 9783110436846
ISBN:: 9783110578652
ISBN:: 9783110442342
ISBN:: 9783110434453
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: Literature of other Nations and Languages
Subject:: Other Nations and Languages
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Drama, Theater
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Petrarch and Boccaccio

Book Open Access 2018

Petrarch and Boccaccio

The Unity of Knowledge in the Pre-modern World

Igor Candido

Volume 61 in this series

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The early modern and modern cultural world in the West would be unthinkable without Petrarch and Boccaccio. Despite this fact, there is still no scholarly contribution entirely devoted to analysing their intellectual revolution. Internationally renowned scholars are invited to discuss and rethink the historical, intellectual, and literary roles of Petrarch and Boccaccio between the great model of Dante’s encyclopedia and the ideas of a double or multifaceted culture in the era of Italian Renaissance Humanism. In his lyrical poems and Latin treatises, Petrarch created a cultural pattern that was both Christian and Classical, exercising immense influence on the Western World in the centuries to come. Boccaccio translated this pattern into his own vernacular narratives and erudite works, ultimately claiming as his own achievement the reconstructed unity of the Ancient Greek and Latin world in his contemporary age. The volume reconsiders Petrarch’s and Boccaccio’s heritages from different perspectives (philosophy, theology, history, philology, paleography, literature, theory), and investigates how these heritages shaped the cultural transition between the end of the Middle Ages and the early modern era, as well as European identity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110419306
ISBN:: 9783110419306
ISBN:: 9783110425147
ISBN:: 9783110419580
ISBN:: 9783110684919
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Medieval History
Subject:: Early Modern History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Italian Literature
Subject:: 13th-15th Century
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Early Modern Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Literatur der Roma Frankreichs

Book 2015

Die Literatur der Roma Frankreichs

Julia Blandfort

Volume 60 in this series

Literary works by Romani authors offer rare and intimate insights into the lifeworld of Europe’s largest minority. Until now, literary scholarship has largely ignored such internal perspectives on Romani life. This book attempts to close the research gap and provides a comprehensive analysis of the works of Romani authors in France, seen from the perspective of how collective memory develops in a diaspora society.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110366655
ISBN:: 978-3-11-037176-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036665-5
ISBN:: 9783110554984
ISBN:: 9783110393293
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Society
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: French Literature, general
Subject:: Literature of other Nations and Languages
Subject:: Other Nations and Languages
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Figuren des Wissens bei Alexander von Humboldt

Book 2014

Figuren des Wissens bei Alexander von Humboldt

Essai, Tableau und Atlas im amerikanischen Reisewerk

Tobias Kraft

Volume 59 in this series

Humboldt’s American journey occupies a central place in his work. Three conceptual tropes (Essay, Tableau, Atlas) offer new insights into the Humboldtian model of knowledge as developed in Voyage aux regions équinoxales du Nouveau Continent.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110351200
ISBN:: 978-3-11-035051-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-035120-0
ISBN:: 9783110394030
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Subject:: Travel
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Sprache, Literatur und nationale Identität

Book 2014

Sprache, Literatur und nationale Identität

Die Debatten über das Universelle und das Partikuläre in Frankreich und Deutschland

Joseph Jurt

Volume 58 in this series

German and French concepts of nation were often defined antithetically – through an idealized contrast between the “nation state” and the “cultural nation.” This study undertakes a political, linguistic, and literary historical reconstruction of the significance of language and literature in the construction of national identity since the early modern period, revealing that this process was far more complex than previously thought.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110340372
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034036-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034037-2
ISBN:: 9783110395334
ISBN:: 9783110555035
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Society
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: French Literature, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Lebenswelten

Book 2013

Lebenswelten

Imaginationsräume der europäischen Literatur

Hans Sanders

Volume 57 in this series

In his book Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, first published in 1946, Erich Auerbach sought to examine the emergence of literary realism from a pan-European perspective. Life Worlds is linked to Auerbach’s work in that it seeks to formulate a literary history of all Europeans. However, while Auerbach pursued a question that is immanent to literature, this work views the history of literature as a process of literary modernization that is related to history in general.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110292657
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029252-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029265-7
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Weltenvielfalt

Book 2013

Weltenvielfalt

Eine romantheoretische Studie im Ausgang von Gabriel García Márquez, Sandra Cisneros und Roberto Bolaño

Pablo Valdivia Orozco

Volume 56 in this series

This study, focusing on Latin American literature, discusses the motif of a variety of worlds as a key concept of the modern novel in terms of genre, culture, and fiction theory: the world of the modern novel is always already in contact with another one. This concept, developed against the backdrop of (literary) history, goes hand in hand with the theoretical assumption that modern novel forms have brought about a turn in genre theory. Differently from genuine poetics, genre theory is always also concerned with and contingent on a certain history/back story.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110308242
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028974-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030824-2
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Hispanic Literature
Subject:: Hispanic Literature, general
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Prose
Subject:: Literary Theory
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Der lyrische Augenblick

Book 2015

Der lyrische Augenblick

Eine Denkfigur der Romania

Milan Herold, Michael Bernsen

Volume 55 in this series

Every moment represents eternity – Goethe’s words poignantly capture the nuances and special complexity of the term “moment.” It can refer to such varied notions as ecstasy, empty presence, and epiphany. This volume examines the semantic richness of the “moment” using paradigmatic examples from Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Brazilian poetry from their beginnings to the modern era.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110354447
ISBN:: 978-3-11-035424-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-035444-7
ISBN:: 9783110394085
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Poetry
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: TransArea

Book 2012

TransArea

Eine literarische Globalisierungsgeschichte

Ottmar Ette

Volume 54 in this series

This volume takes the view that globalization is not a recent phenomenon, but instead an enduring process, marked by four periods of accelerated change. The Early Modern period in European historiography is linked to our present experience of globalization by way of the diverse global trends that took place during the Age of Modernity. The literatures of the world provide a visceral understanding of what can only be understood from the perspectives of multiple logics – namely, the life of our planet and its inhabitants. The wisdom of literature cannot be replaced by any other kind of knowledge: it is life’s wisdom about life.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110287202
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028709-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028720-2
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Knowledge
Subject:: Postcolonial Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die koloniale Karibik

Book 2012

Die koloniale Karibik

Transferprozesse in hispanophonen und frankophonen Literaturen

Gesine Müller

Volume 53 in this series

This analysis of the kaleidoscopic world of the 19th-century Caribbean and the literary and cultural transfers that took place during that time offers completely new insights into early processes of cultural globalization. Racist discourses, established models of “white” abolitionists, the politics of memory, and the previously ignored importance of the Haitian revolution come together to form an amalgam that challenges the traditional notion of a purely Western modernity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110281590
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028116-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028159-0
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Latin America
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Postcolonial Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Versionen Montezumas

Book 2011

Versionen Montezumas

Lateinamerika in der historischen Imagination des 19. Jahrhunderts. Mit dem vollständigen Manuskript von Oswald Spenglers "Montezuma. Ein Trauerspiel" (1897)

Anke Birkenmaier

Volume 52 in this series

The cultural philosopher Oswald Spengler was the first universal historian of the 20th century. His work The Decline of the West was devoted to analyzing eight “high cultures” ‑ the Classical and Western, the Indian, Babylonian, Chinese, Egyptian, Arab and Mexican cultures (although Mexican culture was only touched on briefly). Spengler’s as yet unpublished literary debut Montezuma. Ein Trauerspiel [Montezuma. A Tragedy] (1897) sheds new light on Spengler's interest in old Mexico, the country that paradoxically became the exception and the first cornerstone of his cultural morphology.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110254778
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025476-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025477-8
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Latin America
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Max Aub und die spanische Literatur zwischen Avantgarde und Exil

Book 2012

Max Aub und die spanische Literatur zwischen Avantgarde und Exil

Albrecht Buschmann

Volume 51 in this series

This book is the first German-language study of the complete works of Max Aub (1903–1972). It aims to analyze a representative selection of his works and make it accessible to a broad academic readership. Another focus lies on Aub’s complete works as an example of the generation of Spanish authors born around 1900 who mostly published their first works in the context of the avant-garde movements of the 1920s.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110252835
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025276-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025283-5
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Hispanic Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Avantgarde
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Das Europa der Literatur

Book 2010

Das Europa der Literatur

Schriftsteller blicken auf den Kontinent 1815–1945

Anne Kraume

Volume 50 in this series

Europe? That is an invention of poets, Heinrich Mann said, referring to a relationship which has existed for centuries: the relationship between European literature and Europe as its theme. Empire, civilization, United States, regulatory force or peace project - especially in the 19th and 20th centuries the most diverse ideas of Europe were formulated and discussed in literary works. From their exemplary analysis of the works of nine authors, the study develops an understanding of the special relationship between literature and Europe.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110232080
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023207-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023208-0
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Hispanic Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Patagoniens verflochtene Erzählwelten

Book 2009

Patagoniens verflochtene Erzählwelten

Der argentinische und chilenische Süden in Reiseliteratur und historischem Roman (1977-1999)

Jenny Haase

Volume 49 in this series

The end of the world, wide open spaces, wind, gigantic dimensions and weird characters ‑ these are widespread associations with the southernmost region of the American continent. At the same time, Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego have fascinated travellers and writers from time immemorial. However, the wildly romantic imaginations of the adventurers are counter-balanced by the memory of the violence of the history of settlement in the region. The author uses contemporary narrative texts to test the stereotypes mentioned and analyse the relations between Europe and South America represented in them.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783484971233
ISBN:: 978-3-484-55049-0
ISBN:: 978-3-484-97123-3
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Hispanic Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Subject:: Postcolonial Studies
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Stereophonie der Autobiographie

Book 2009

Stereophonie der Autobiographie

Autobiographisches Schreiben von Paaren am Beispiel von María Teresa León und Rafael Alberti

Maria Teresa Quirós Fernández

Volume 48 in this series

This study demonstrates that autobiographies are far more than individual life-stories. Autobiographies of couples in particular testify to the interfaces of togetherness in life and writing. They provide a marvellous opportunity to examine the life and writing of couples as a duet and to perceive relational dimensions of life in creative artistic processes as an ethical and aesthetic factor. The present study traces the complex relational network of autobiographies using the example of the well-known Spanish writing couple of María Teresa León and Rafael Alberti. María Teresa Quirós Fernández reveals how, beyond the individual characters of the autobiographies, there is a web spun between both authors and their texts in their autobiographical writings which provides space for a stereophonic autobiography.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783484970908
ISBN:: 978-3-484-55048-3
ISBN:: 978-3-484-97090-8
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Hispanic Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Biography and Autobiography
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Nanophilologie

Book 2008

Nanophilologie

Literarische Kurz- und Kürzestformen in der Romania

Ottmar Ette

Volume 47 in this series

Literary short forms, whose history is as old as Western culture, have undergone an enormously dynamic development in the second half of the twentieth century, especially in Romance literatures. This book examines this development through surveying numerous examples from Spanish, French, and Portuguese literature. The investigation of compact forms exposes fundamental literary operations - with nano-philology, it's about the entirety.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783484970656
ISBN:: 978-3-484-55047-6
ISBN:: 978-3-484-97065-6
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Hispanic Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Der Edelmann am Schreibpult

Book 2006

Der Edelmann am Schreibpult

Zum Selbstverständnis aristokratischer Literaten zwischen Renaissance und Revolution

Edoardo Costadura

Volume 46 in this series

The subject of this study is the understanding of literature displayed by important French and Italian authors from Castiglione and Montaigne to Chateaubriand and Alfieri, who as members of the high aristocracy refused to adopt institutionalized auctorial roles. As 'the last witness of feudal mores' Frangois-Reni de Chateaubriand experienced the decline of the aristocratic way of life at first hand and engaged with this phenomenon in his works. In Romanticism, which he himself helped to establish, the aristocracy is transformed from the subject to the object of literature, thus becoming a fiction in its own right.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110910728
ISBN:: 978-3-484-55046-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091072-8
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: French Literature, general
Subject:: Italian Literature
Subject:: Italian Literature, general
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Sociology of Literature
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: 'Satura' und 'pasticcio'

Book 2005

'Satura' und 'pasticcio'

Formen und Funktionen der Bildlichkeit im Werk Carlo Emilio Gaddas

Martha Kleinhans

Volume 45 in this series

The study is the first to engage in a detailed examination of imagery in the works of the Milanese engineer, philosopher, and writer Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973). It explores different kinds of imagery in Gadda's letters, in his texts on poetology, literary criticism, and art criticism, and in his novels »La cognizione del dolore« and »Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana«. Gadda's style is notable for its elaborate descriptions and springs from radical epistemological skepticism. In his writing, he ranges from the satirical distortion of reality to the a-mimetic literary work of art.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110939675
ISBN:: 978-3-484-55045-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093967-5
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Italian Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Mediality, Intermediality
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Poetik der Memoria im Romanwerk von Jean Rouaud

Book 2004

Poetik der Memoria im Romanwerk von Jean Rouaud

Mnemonisches Schreiben als Archäologie des Selbst

Jens Oliver Müller

Volume 44 in this series

Human beings remember and have a memory. But what happens when memories figure in literary narrative? Narratological and poetological ideas on memory, history, and identity are brought together in this study to form a new approach to the problem: mnemonic writing is understood as archeology of the self. The ambitious novels by the French author Jean Rouaud (* 1952) employ all the resources of the post-modernist narrative repertory and humorously combine these central anthropological categories to weave a complex tapestry of the French past that poses existential issues and draws upon primal human experiences.

L'Homme se souvient et il a une mémoire. Mais qu'est-ce qu'il se passe quand il s'agit de raconter ses souvenirs dans un récit littéraire? Des réflexions narratologiques et poétologiques sur la problématique de la mémoire, l'histoire et l'identité sont ici mises ensemble afin d'établir une approche de critique littéraire. L'oeuvre romanesque de Jean Rouaud (* 1952), romancier français ambitieux qui vise à réaliser un style proprement personnel, montre toutes les astuces de l'esthétique et de la poétique postmodernes. Dans ses oeuvres, l'écrivain explore les trois catégories anthropologiques centrales tout en les combinant avec une écriture pleine d'humour et d'ironie. Il compose ainsi un tableau complexe de l'histoire de la France qui répond à des questions existentielles et met en scène des expériences primordiales de l'Homme.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110939682
ISBN:: 978-3-484-55044-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093968-2
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Memory
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: 21st Century
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Französische Schriftsteller und ihre Nation im Ersten Weltkrieg

Book 2004

Französische Schriftsteller und ihre Nation im Ersten Weltkrieg

Almut Lindner-Wirsching

Volume 43 in this series

This study examines the construction of national identity in the First World War as exemplified by representative French war novels. Central to the textual interpretation is the question of the connection between identity and (self-)demarcation. It transpires that the function of the image of the enemy as a constitutive factor in identity formation needs to be relativized. With reference to the hitherto neglected reception of war literature, it is possible to explain the special status accorded by the French public to writers active at the war front, who are compared here for the first time with civilian writers.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110939699
ISBN:: 978-3-484-55043-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093969-9
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Contemporary History until 1945
Subject:: Other Topics
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: Western Europe
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Untersuchungen zum französisch-jüdischen Roman nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg

Book 2003

Untersuchungen zum französisch-jüdischen Roman nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg

Beate Wolfsteiner

Volume 42 in this series

This book looks at the Franco-Jewish novel in the first few decades after the Second World War. Beginning with Elie Wiesel's autobiographical narrative »La Nuit« (1958) there is discussion of a total of seven novels and stories by Ashkenazi and Sephardi writers. Central to the study's concerns is an inquiry into the existence of a specifically Jewish sub-genre within the overall range of the modern French novel.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110939705
ISBN:: 978-3-484-55042-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093970-5
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Jewish Literature
Subject:: Modern Jewish Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Prose
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Ich, Region, Nation

Book 2003

Ich, Region, Nation

Maurice Barrès im französischen Identitätsdiskurs seiner Zeit und seine Rezeption in Deutschland

Wiebke Bendrath

Volume 41 in this series

Maurice Barrès (1862--1923), forgotten as a writer, but still remembered as a nationalist, is discussed here for the first time in terms of his three-tiered construction of identity and the response it aroused in two different national contexts. With reference to his literary works and political activities, the study demonstrates how, in the face of the crisis triggered by 1870/71, Barrès (who had moved to Paris from his native Lorraine) mapped out a wide-ranging identity concept encompassing self, region, and nation. The analysis of the hitherto neglected reception accorded to him in Germany indicates the way in which, from 1905, Barrès was taken there as a negative model, a 'bone of contention' generating counter-concepts of identity on the German side.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110916515
ISBN:: 978-3-484-55041-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091651-5
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Political Science
Subject:: Political Thought
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Reisen zum Ursprung

Book 2002

Reisen zum Ursprung

Das Mauritius-Projekt von Jean Marie Gustave Le Clézio

Laetitia Rimpau

Volume 40 in this series

The study discusses J.M.G. Le Clézio's (*1940) travel writings from the period 1985-1995 (»Le chercheur d'or«, »Voyage à Rodrigues«, »La quarantaine«) as a project geared to poetological self-enactment. Initiatory structure and écriture are analogous processes that bring the writing self to the limits of awareness and language. Taking its methodological bearings from the literary theories of C.G. Jung and Gaston Bachelard, and drawing upon dream discourses from Romanticism and Surrealism, the analysis of figures and imagery reveals that doppelgänger and elemental natural spaces are poetic projections of the origin of the text.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110945744
ISBN:: 978-3-484-55040-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094574-4
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Travel
Subject:: Postcolonial Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Vom Selbstverlust zur Selbstfindung

Book 2002

Vom Selbstverlust zur Selbstfindung

Erzählte Eifersucht im Frankreich des 17. Jahrhunderts

Alexandra-Bettina Peter

Volume 39 in this series

The book examines enactments of jealousy in French narrative literature from the latter half of the 17th century. It studies the relative status of the subject in the texts selected and the functions performed by engagement with it, the approach to the phenomenon, narrative strategies employed, and the way in which, in some cases, jealousy is the actual product of the writing. Other significant issues are the extent to which subjectivity is constituted via engagement with jealousy, the forms of subjectivity involved, and the literary techniques used to model it.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110923391
ISBN:: 978-3-484-55039-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092339-1
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Emotion
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Des Dandys Wort als Waffe

Book 2002

Des Dandys Wort als Waffe

Dandyismus, narrative Vertextungsstrategien und Geschlechterdifferenz im Werk Jules Barbey d'Aurevillys

Susanne Rossbach

Volume 38 in this series

In Barbey d'Aurevilly's (1808-1889) literary works the dandy takes on an important role not merely as protagonist but also as narrator. The properties that characterize him and his antibourgeois revolt also define the aesthetic principles and narrative structures of Barbey's text. In spite of this subtle revolt against middle-class values as well as against traditional strategies of textual production, the author's dandies do not challenge the bourgeois concept of gender polarity that shaped nineteenth-century French society.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110923407
ISBN:: 978-3-484-55038-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092340-7
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Gender and Literature
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Du Bellay und Petrarca

Book 2001

Du Bellay und Petrarca

Das Rom der Renaissance

Barbara Vinken

Volume 37 in this series

The highly ambivalent relationship of the Renaissance to antiquity can best be illustrated with reference to Rome. Oscillating between euphoria and melancholy, humanist thought revolved around Rome as the centre of all its hopes. Francesco Petrarca's (1304-1374) vision was a rebirth of Rome, while Joachim du Bellay (1522-1560) was preoccupied with finally laying it to rest together with all it stood for. In a sophisticated intertextual dovetailing of writings from antiquity, Du Bellay pits against Petrarch's restauratio not translatio but the religious schema of grace. In the name of Marguerite, poetry redeems us from the curse of history that bears the name of Rome.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110923414
ISBN:: 978-3-484-55037-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092341-4
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: Italian Literature
Subject:: 13th-15th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Antiquity
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Nation, Gott und Modernität

Book 2001

Nation, Gott und Modernität

Grenzen literarischer Autonomie in Frankreich 1919–1929

Michael Einfalt

Volume 36 in this series

The study draws on Pierre Bourdieu's literary field theory and recent French historiography on intellectualism to submit the literary field in France in the decade after the First World War to as exhaustive an analysis as possible. The major debates of this period on national and/or international commitment, Catholicism, and the generation conflict collide with the notion of literary autonomy gaining greater momentum in the course of the 1920s. At the heart of these controversies are authors such as Jacques Rivière, André Gide, Philippe Soupault, Jean Cocteau, and Jacques Maritain.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110923421
ISBN:: 978-3-484-55036-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092342-1
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Society
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: »Du mauvais goût«: Annie Ernauxs Bildungsaufstieg als literatur- und gesellschaftskritische Selbstzerstörung

Book 2001

»Du mauvais goût«: Annie Ernauxs Bildungsaufstieg als literatur- und gesellschaftskritische Selbstzerstörung

Eine Untersuchung ihres Werks mithilfe textlinguistischer, psychologischer und soziologischer Kriterien

Heike Ina Kuhl

Volume 35 in this series

The works of Annie Ernaux (b. 1940, Prix Renaudot 1983) have been a source of ongoing controversy. Their central concern is the autobiographically inspired motif of self-improvement via education. This study is the first to essay a comprehensive appreciation extending from analyses of individual works to a synoptic overview revealing the multi-faceted quality of the oeuvre as a whole. The works themselves display a number of highly remarkable characteristics, notably the unusual degree to which content is mirrored by form. The social criticism implicit in the description of social improvement as a radically stigmatic experience denying the upwardly mobile individual any kind of self-affirming identity is echoed at the textual level by a diatribe against a bourgeois ideal of literature which by virtue of its smoothly coherent surface features is bound to play down the searing conflicts experienced by an individual moving up to higher social status.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110910254
ISBN:: 9783110910254
ISBN:: 9783484550353
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Gegendichtungen

Book 2000

Gegendichtungen

Fallstudien zum Phänomen der literarischen Replik

Jürgen von Stackelberg

Volume 34 in this series

The ten case studies on the phenomenon of the literary riposte centre largely on French authors of the 17th and 18th centuries but also extends to Italian and Spanish writers and writers of the 20th century, including examples from French-speaking Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110910261
ISBN:: 978-3-484-55034-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091026-1
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: French Literature, general
Subject:: Italian Literature
Subject:: Italian Literature, general
Subject:: Hispanic Literature
Subject:: Hispanic Literature, general
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Spanischer Naturalismus

Book 2000

Spanischer Naturalismus

Entwurf eines Epochenprofils im Kontext des >Krausopositivismo<

Sabine Schmitz

Volume 33 in this series

Naturalism is one of the last white patches on the historical map of Spanish literature. Up to now it was mainly the reference to the idealistically oriented history of ideas in Spain, and notably krausismo, that discouraged an 'ordinance survey' in any greater depth. But in Spain as elsewhere, as this study is the first to show, the naturalist literary debates, naturalist poetics and literary works were marked by a system of reference that was receptive to positivist and scientific influences: krausopositivismo. This phenomenon here supplies the dispositif for a structured analysis of naturalist literature in Spain, which as an epoch displays a very different profile from its counterpart in France.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110910278
ISBN:: 978-3-484-55033-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091027-8
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Hispanic Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: 20th Century
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Gedankenexperimente

Book 1999

Gedankenexperimente

Wissenschaft und Roman im Frankreich des 19. Jahrhunderts

Frank Wanning

Volume 32 in this series

The complex debates on the relationship between science and literature in the 19th century are marked by numerous misprisions on the part of scholars and authors alike. The study shows how Auguste Comte, Hippolyte Taine, and Ernest Renan attempted to compensate for scientific deficits by literary means. Vice versa, Honoré de Balzac, the brothers Goncourt, and Emile Zola attempted in their theoretical writings to use reconceptualizations and innovative presentation methods to confer specifically scientific qualities on the way their novels could be read and experienced. Paradoxically, at the end of the discussion aesthetic autonomy and artistic subjectivity stand affirmed.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110910285
ISBN:: 9783110910285
ISBN:: 9783484550322
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Die beweinte Nation

Book 1999

Die beweinte Nation

Melodramatik und Patriotismus im >romanzo storico risorgimentale<

Peter Ihring

Volume 31 in this series

As an early form of committed literature for the masses, the romanzo storico risorgimentale between 1820 and 1870 held up the heroic past of the country to a wide Italian readership. In a melodramatic and stylized form it offered contemporary audiences historical figures and action models by means of which they were enable to experience themselves as Italians and as part of a national community welded together by destiny. Alessandro Manzoni's novel »I promessi sposi« (1827) also qualifies for treatment from this specific historical vantage, though with its dialectic and reflective description of history it has qualities that far exceed the normal run of romanzi storici risorgimentali.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110910292
ISBN:: 9783110910292
ISBN:: 9783484550315
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Gesualdo Bufalino

Book 1999

Gesualdo Bufalino

Ein europäischer Sizilianer ... in carta e ossa

Martin H. Neumann

Volume 30 in this series

Between 1981, when the 60-year-old author won the prestigious Premio Campiello with his first novel »Diceria dell'untore«, and his death in 1996, Bufalino published novels, short stories, plays, poems, aphorisms, essays, anthologies, and various works on his native Sicily. The appeal and success of this motley list of works stems from the specific situation Bufalino found himself in, oscillating in his life and in his works between a congenital collective Sicilian identity and a personal identity of European dimensions gained by voracious reading, and constantly reflecting both these poles in his writing.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110910308
ISBN:: 978-3-484-55030-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091030-8
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Babylo minima

Book 1996

Babylo minima

Mailand in der Erzählliteratur des späten Ottocento

Beate Wins

Volume 28 in this series

Italian litterati of the Ottocento coined the phrase 'Babylo minima' to refer to Milan (in analogy to the 'Babylo maxima', Paris), thus underlining the special role played by Milan in ottocento Italy and also alluding to the specific problems of Italian urban literature. In the 19th century Milan developed into a metropolis of genuinely European dimensions. So far, however, the Italian literature of the Ottocento has been flatly denied any urban dimension whatsoever. The study centres around the specific development of Italian urban literature in the 19th century and the special role played by the reception of French literature, notably that of a naturalist persuasion. Drawing upon the discussion of the 'urban' phenomenon in literary criticism, the study also points to structural and stylistic features in the Italian literature of the period heralding the advent of modernism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110911558
ISBN:: 9783110911558
ISBN:: 9783484550285
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Avantgarde und Faschismus

Book 1996

Avantgarde und Faschismus

Spanische Erzählprosa 1925–1940

Mechthild Albert

Volume 27 in this series

The problematic connection between avant-garde and fascism is looked at in the present study for the first time with specific reference to Spanish literature. Inquiry into the reactionary visage of modernism opens up a perspective on a forgotten sector of narrative prose (Giménez Caballero, Borrás, Ximénez de Sandoval, Ros, Obregón). Without indulging in reductionist theorizing, the study draws upon texts by these authors to delineate the ideological functionalization of certain elements of avant-garde discourse. On the content plane this development is traceable in the portrayal of identity problems and the depiction of relations between individual and society. The volume closes with remarks on various aspects of the fascist >aestheticization< of things political.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110963410
ISBN:: 9783110963410
ISBN:: 9783484550278
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Romain Gary – Das brennende Ich

Book 1996

Romain Gary – Das brennende Ich

Literaturtheoretische Implikationen eines Pseudonymenspiels

Astrid Poier-Bernhard

Volume 26 in this series

The study focuses on the confusion created by Romain Gary`s (1914-1980) adoption of a pseudonym in the years 1974-1980 and the specific issues for literary studies by the disparate reception accorded to the novels published in that period under the name of Romain Gary and Emile Ajar respectively. Alongside the poetological relationship between the two series of texts, Poier-Bernhard discusses more general theoretical questions such as the constitution of literary irony, the significance of an author's name, pseudonymity and heteronymity. In so doing he draws upon numerous texts from other literatures, thus enriching the study with a comparative dimension. The work also takes up the discussion on autobiography as a genre and attempts to provide a fundamental clarification of the concept serving as a basis for a precise delineation of autobiography as a text variety.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110963427
ISBN:: 978-3-484-55026-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096342-7
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Die 'Novelas ejemplares' von Cervantes

Book 1996

Die 'Novelas ejemplares' von Cervantes

Wahrnehmung und Perspektive in der spanischen Novellistik der frühen Neuzeit

Caroline Schmauser

Volume 25 in this series

Against the backdrop of discussion on spatial experience in the early modern age the author compares the portrayal of perception and perspective in Cervantes' novellas with that evidenced in other Spanish novellas of the 16th and 17th centuries. The focus here is an innovative one, concentrating on the spatial perspectivization of perception and the act of perception itself. From this vantage the author is able to cast light on what Hatzfeld called the "mysterious perspective effect" of Cervantes' texts. In contrast to an opposition between engaño and desengaño (illusion and disillusion) the novellas are shown to operate around a contextualized, subject-related and dynamically developed epistemology and concept of truth. This places them at odds with what Maravall calls the 'guided nature' of Spanish Baroque society. The study provides numerous impulses for a new approach to Cervantes, the 'Golden Age' and novella production and narrative theory from the early modern age up to today.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110913804
ISBN:: 978-3-484-55025-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091380-4
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Rabelais zwischen Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit

Book 1997

Rabelais zwischen Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit

Gargantua: Literatur als Lebensführung

Bettina Rommel

Volume 24 in this series

The evolution of ever more sophisticated communication technologies sharpens our perception of the complex relationship between media-specific techniques and cultural innovation. Contemplation of François Rabelais' novel in terms of the pragmatic situation in which it originated and the media available to its author restores to it the quality of historical difference progressively masked by the role it has played as a touchstones in the generation of modern theories of narrative literature. The study also breaks new ground in the methods it employs. Drawing upon categories of research into oral and written traditions developed in the context of cultural studies, it elaborates a dynamic model which takes the example of "Gargantua" as a basis for a detailed description of Rabelais' status on the contemporary book market and his literary strategy vis-à-vis the lay written culture of the time and the reading and writing conventions operative within that culture. The study is also significant in resolving a central problem in Rabelais` research. Pointing up for the first time the eminent importance of ars memorativa in Rabelais` literary approach, it provides the key to the otherwise apparently inexplicable construction of the 'abbaye de Thélème'.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110913811
ISBN:: 978-3-484-55024-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091381-1
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Femme poète

Book 1996

Femme poète

Madeleine de Scudéry und die 'poésie précieuse'

Renate Kroll

Volume 23 in this series

Das wissenschaftliche Interesse galt bisher fast ausschließlich der Romanschriftstellerin Madeleine de Scudéry, der Preziösen und ihrem literarischen Salon. Mit diesem Band wird eine nahezu vollständige Sammlung ihres lyrischen Werks vorgelegt und die Autorin in ihren unterschiedlichen Funktionen als Panegyrikin, Liebeslyrikerin, Salon- und Gelegenheitsdichterin vorgestellt. - Ausgehend von unterschiedlichen Selbstbestimmungsversuchen intellektueller Frauen im Grand Siècle, ihren begrenzten Entfaltungsmöglichkeiten innerhalb des Kulturbetriebs, ihrer condition féminine zwischen Selbstbewußtsein und Selbstverleugnung, wird die Frage nach einem 'weiblichen Schreiben' im Umkreis von Preziosität und lyrischen Gattungstraditionen gestellt. Der aus neueren Theorien (Gender Studies) entwickelte Differenzbegriff erweist sich dabei als sinnvolles Kriterium, topisches und konventionelles Textmaterial in seinen Feinstrukturen neu lesbar zu machen und individuelle Handschriften zu entdecken.

Mit der Absage an den offiziellen Wertekanon und die gängigen Weiblichkeitsmodelle, aber auch der Subversion herrschender Diskurse ist die Alterität der Scudéryschen Lyrik postuliert. Die längst fällige Berücksichtigung des Beitrags der Preziösen bei der Begriffsbestimmung von préciosité und poésie précieuse läßt die bedingte Tauglichkeit dieser Etiketten erkennen und den Begriff einer poésie des précieuses notwendig erscheinen. Mit der hier vorgelegten Neudefinition der Scudéryschen Ethik und Ästhetik (dé-brutaliser) läßt sich diese poésie des précieuses auch als poésie précieuse dekonstruierende poésie dé-précieuse lesen.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110913828
ISBN:: 9783110913828
ISBN:: 9783484550230
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Chronos und Thanatos

Book 1995

Chronos und Thanatos

Zum Existentialismus des >nouveau romancier< Claude Simon

Till R. Kuhnle

Volume 22 in this series

Die vorliegende Untersuchung behandelt die von 1945/46 bis 1962 erschienenen Romane Claude Simons (* 1913). Ihr liegt ein fiktiver Dialog zwischen dem nouveau romancier und Jean-Paul Sartre zugrunde. Dabei folgt sie einem mehrschichtigen Erkenntnisinteresse: (1) Das genuin literaturwissenschaftliche Anliegen ist die Interpretation der Romane Simons nach den Prämissen einer ideologiekritischen Hermeneutik. (2) Seit den 40er Jahren stehen in Frankreich Literatur, Literaturtheorie und Philosophie in einer besonders engen Beziehung zueinander. Diese soll anhand der zu interpretierenden Werke konkretisiert werden. (3) Schließlich versteht sich die Untersuchung als Beitrag zur literaturwissenschaftlichen Methodologie. Sie will versuchen, Wege aufzuzeigen, wie unterschiedliche, ja konkurrierende Diskurse - z.B. der Psychoanalyse und der Tiefenpsychologie - innerhalb eines Werkes oder einer Gruppe von Werken sinnvoll zu einer stringenten Interpretation zusammengeführt werden können. Den Auftakt bildet die Rekonstruktion der Genese eines existentialistischen Diskurses, die auf frühe Schriften von Sartre und Emmanuel Lévinas zurückgreift. Der Ansatz widerspricht nicht kategorisch einer 'postmodernen' Lektüre der Romane Simons, die dem dekonstruktivistischen Interpretationsparadigma der Differentialität folgt oder nach der Partikularität einer écriture simonienne forscht. Die Möglichkeit einer solchen Lektüre ist bereits in nuce mit der dem französischen Poststrukturalismus und dem nouveau roman gemeinen Absetzung vom französischen Existentialismus angelegt. Eine 'postmoderne' bzw. 'differentielle' Annäherung an die Romane Simons soll daher aus der Kontinuität des Oeuvres heraus vorbereitet werden. Simon bedient sich in Anlehnung an Rousset eines 'mißbrauchten' (Adorno) Barockbegriffs und verleiht seinen Romanen einen emblematischen Charakter, der auf eine mögliche 'differentielle' Lesart verweist. Den Abschluß der Untersuchung bildet ein Epilog zu den "Cinq Notes sur Claude Simon" von Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110913835
ISBN:: 978-3-484-55022-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091383-5
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Die Legende von der »Neuen Welt«

Book 1993

Die Legende von der »Neuen Welt«

Montaigne und die >littérature géographique< im Frankreich des 16. Jahrhunderts

Angela Enders

Volume 21 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110913842
ISBN:: 978-3-484-55021-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091384-2
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Ins Ungebundene

Book 1993

Ins Ungebundene

Über Literatur nach Blanchot

Gerhard Poppenberg

Volume 20 in this series

Maurice Blanchot a exercé une influence indiscutable dans les débats littéraires de l'après-guerre. L'analyse de son oeuvre accentue sa présence aux discussions structuralistes, poststructuralistes et déconstructivistes.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110913859
ISBN:: 978-3-484-55020-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091385-9
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Die Darstellung der historischen Wirklichkeit in Alessandro Manzonis "I Promessi Sposi"

Book 1993

Die Darstellung der historischen Wirklichkeit in Alessandro Manzonis "I Promessi Sposi"

Karin Lizium

Volume 19 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110913866
ISBN:: 9783110913866
ISBN:: 9783484550193
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Ideal und Ironie

Book 1993

Ideal und Ironie

Baudelaires Ästhetik der "modernité" im Wandel vom Vers- zum Prosagedicht

Thorsten Greiner

Volume 18 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110912753
ISBN:: 9783110912753
ISBN:: 9783484550186
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Transformationen der Lebenswelt – Metamorphosen der Romanwelt: Anatole Frances frühes Romanwerk (1879–1895)

Book 1992

Transformationen der Lebenswelt – Metamorphosen der Romanwelt: Anatole Frances frühes Romanwerk (1879–1895)

Ein Beitrag zur intertextuellen Erzählforschung

Peter Stolz

Volume 16 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110912777
ISBN:: 9783110912777
ISBN:: 9783484550162
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Senacas Tod und andere Rezeptionsfolgen in den romanischen Literaturen der frühen Neuzeit

Book 1992

Senacas Tod und andere Rezeptionsfolgen in den romanischen Literaturen der frühen Neuzeit

Jürgen von Stackelberg

Volume 14 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110912791
ISBN:: 9783110912791
ISBN:: 9783484550148
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Marcel Prousts Selbstfindung oder Die Überwindung der Médiocrité

Book 1992

Marcel Prousts Selbstfindung oder Die Überwindung der Médiocrité

Versuch einer Deutung des "Sainte-Beuve"-Essai

Bernhard Heinser

Volume 13 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110912807
ISBN:: 9783110912807
ISBN:: 9783484550131
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Zur Autonomie der Poesie

Book 1992

Zur Autonomie der Poesie

Literarische Debatten und Dichterstrategien in der ersten Hälfte des Second Empire

Michael Einfalt

Volume 12 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110912814
ISBN:: 9783110912814
ISBN:: 9783484550124
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Don Quijotes Ideale im Umbruch der Werte vom Mittelalter bis zum Barock

Book 1991

Don Quijotes Ideale im Umbruch der Werte vom Mittelalter bis zum Barock

Heinz-Peter Endress

Volume 11 in this series

Die Studie gilt dem System der Ideale Don Quijotes. Wenn in der weitverstreuten Cervantes-Literatur über Don Quijotes Ideale im allgemeinen viele scharfsinnige Bemerkungen gemacht und einzelnen dieser Ideale Spezialstudien gewidmet wurden, so gab es jedoch bislang keine Darstellung der Ideale in ihrer inneren Kohärenz und in ihrem inneren Zusammenhang. Diese Forschungslücke soll hier mit Hilfe eines historischen und thematologischen Methodenansatzes und unter Aufarbeitung der umfangreichen einschlägigen Sekundärliteratur geschlossen werden.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110960860
ISBN:: 9783110960860
ISBN:: 9783484550117
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: José Martí

Book 1991

José Martí

Teil I: Apostel - Dichter - Revolutionär. Eine Geschichte seiner Rezeption

Ottmar Ette

Volume 10 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110960877
ISBN:: 9783110960877
ISBN:: 9783484550100
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Der moderne französische Aphorismus

Book 1991

Der moderne französische Aphorismus

Innovation und Gattungsreflexion

Werner Helmich

Volume 9 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110926774
ISBN:: 978-3-484-55009-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092677-4
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Albert Camus und der Algerienkrieg

Book 1990

Albert Camus und der Algerienkrieg

Die Auseinandersetzung der algerienfranzösischen Schriftsteller mit dem "directeur de conscience" im Algerienkrieg (1954–1962)

Wolf-Dietrich Albes

Volume 8 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110926781
ISBN:: 9783110926781
ISBN:: 9783484550087
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: La genèse sociale de l'individualisme romantique

Book 1989

La genèse sociale de l'individualisme romantique

Esquisse historique de l'évolution du roman en France du dix-huitième au dix-neuvième siècle

Michel Condé

Volume 7 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110926798
ISBN:: 978-3-484-55007-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092679-8
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Diskursivität und Aphoristik

Book 1989

Diskursivität und Aphoristik

Untersuchungen zum Formen- und Wertewandel in der höfischen Moralistik

Frank Wanning

Volume 6 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110926804
ISBN:: 9783110926804
ISBN:: 9783484550063
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Schrift, Buch und Lektüre in der französischsprachigen Literatur Afrikas

Book 1990

Schrift, Buch und Lektüre in der französischsprachigen Literatur Afrikas

Zur Wahrnehmung und Funktion von Schriftlichkeit und Buchlektüre in einem kulturellen Epochenumbruch

Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink

Volume 5 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110926811
ISBN:: 9783110926811
ISBN:: 9783484550056
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: L'épopée ou la >case vide<

Book 1988

L'épopée ou la >case vide<

La réflexion poétologique sur l'épopée nationale en France

Siegbert Himmelsbach

Volume 3 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110926828
ISBN:: 9783110926828
ISBN:: 9783484550032
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Der Skeptiker im Gespräch mit dem Leser

Book 1985

Der Skeptiker im Gespräch mit dem Leser

Studien zum Werk von Anatole France und zu seiner Rezeption in der französischen Presse 1879–1905

Albert Gier

Volume 1 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110930009
ISBN:: 9783110930009
ISBN:: 9783484550018
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Feminizid in Recht und Literatur

Book Open Access 2024

Feminizid in Recht und Literatur

Diego Zúñiga, Laura Restrepo und Fernanda Melchor im völker- und strafrechtlichen Kontext

Elena von Ohlen

Volume 112 in this series

This study examines the crime of femicide in the Latin American context in the novels of Diego Zúñiga (Chile), Laura Restrepo (Colombia), and Fernanda Melchor (Mexico). It reveals how these literary texts shed light on the systematic and intersectional dimensions of femicide and its impunity. Analyses of the novels draw out the ambivalences of juristic frameworks and legal practice.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111362489
ISBN:: 9783111362489
ISBN:: 9783111355412
ISBN:: 9783111362632
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Hispanic Literature
Subject:: 21st Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Gender and Literature
Subject:: Law
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Sprache des erlittenen Krieges (1914‒1938)

Book Ahead of Publication 2024

Die Sprache des erlittenen Krieges (1914‒1938)

Französische Front- und Veteranenlyrik der Grande Guerre

Martina Meidl

Volume 113 in this series

This volume focuses on poems by French frontline soldiers that address the suffering resulting from the experience of war. They bear witness, bring charges, and function as a medium for coping with traumatic experiences. Some of the texts examined come from the literary canon of the time (Apollinaire, Cocteau, Drieu La Rochelle), but the volume also considers an extensive corpus of neglected and forgotten poetic texts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111355436
ISBN:: 9783111355436
ISBN:: 9783111364278
ISBN:: 9783111363974
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Contemporary History until 1945
Subject:: World War I
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Poetry
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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