Der traditionell behauptete Gattungsunterschied von wahrheitsorientierter philosophischer Prosa und fiktionaler Literatur stellt sich nicht zuletzt dann als problematisch heraus, wenn Formen des Denkens und Erkennens aus der Betrachtung herausfallen, die sich keinem der beiden Modelle zuordnen lassen.
This book examines the ways in which literary form facilitates mentalization and our ability to be aware of our own and others' mental states, showing how we can use this awareness to make sense of our experiences and interactions.
Ausgehend von den Rändern der gegenwärtigen literarischen Praxis wirft Annette Gilberts komparatistische Studie neues Licht auf eine zentrale Kategorie der Literatur(wissenschaft): das Werk als pragmatische Instanz literarischer Kommunikation.
Der Band untersucht in praxeologischer und philologischer Perspektive Auftritte und Gerede, Schriftsprache und Mündlichkeitseffekte, vor allem aber all das, was diese Phänomene literarisch untrennbar miteinander verbindet.
Das Planetaritäts-Narrativ, das um 1920 im Niemandsland zwischen Literatur, Rechtsgeschichte und Technikphilosophie entsteht, unterbricht die an der Kugelform des Globus ausgerichtete Vorstellung von Bewegungen, die zu sich selbst zurückkehren.
Kafka ist ein Virtuose der doppelten Verneinung: Die schon in der Alltagssprache angelegte Unsicherheit - was nicht falsch ist, muss nicht schon richtig sein - nutzt er immer wieder als listige Strategie.
This book explores representations of female sexuality and subjectivity in contemporary Chinese fiction by three women writers, published from 1986 to 2000, from the perspective of poststructuralist feminism.
Walter Benjamin is one of the most influential authors in contemporary humanities, exerting a deep fascination for students and garnering scholarly interest in a variety of fields, such as history of philosophy, literature, film and media studies, political science, religion, architecture, art and history.
This book examines the ways in which literary form facilitates mentalization and our ability to be aware of our own and others' mental states, showing how we can use this awareness to make sense of our experiences and interactions.
Alice's Adventures in Lacan-Land is an accessible exploration of Lacanian psychoanalysis through the prism of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass.
This book offers a consistent, theoretically grounded, accessible account of adaptation across a range of instances, employing Relevance Theory as its explanatory framework and arguing that every adaptation is an independent communicative act.
This collection explores how women writers in the English-speaking world transform personal intimacy into political engagement, challenging cultural oppression across genres—life writing, novels, poetry, and theatre—from the 19th century to today.
Robert Walsers Institutionenportraits und Lebensläufe verkrachter Adliger, unsteter Angestellter und müßiggängerischer Drifter erzählen in besonderer Weise von der Entstehung des Sozialstaats um 1900.
Die Frage nach der Dialektik der Säkularisierung und nach den Formen des Fortlebens des Religiösen in der Moderne ist im Zuge des aktuellen ›religious turn‹ virulenter denn je.
This collection explores how women writers in the English-speaking world transform personal intimacy into political engagement, challenging cultural oppression across genres—life writing, novels, poetry, and theatre—from the 19th century to today.
Caribbean Futurism and Beyond is a tripartite combination of interviews with writers of the sf (speculative fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and folklore) genre, literary and cultural analysis of those interviews within the context of seven discrete yet overlapping dimensions - folklore, mythology, children's and young adult literature, science, technology, climate disaster, and identity; and a theoretical basis of Caribbean futurism as an esthetic practice reflecting not just future but also past and present experiences of Caribbean people.
This book considers how the presence or absence of writing can influence a culture’s distinctive styles of visual art, proposing that many of the most profound developments in the art world are directly correlative with a cultural transition from orality to literacy (that is, from a culture which only has a spoken form of language, to one which has both a spoken and written form).
