@article{Waller2022, author = {Waller, Nicole}, title = {Marronage or underground?}, series = {MELUS : multi-ethnic literature of the U.S. / Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States}, volume = {47}, journal = {MELUS : multi-ethnic literature of the U.S. / Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States}, number = {1}, publisher = {Oxford Univ. Press}, address = {Oxford}, issn = {0163-755X}, doi = {10.1093/melus/mlac021}, pages = {45 -- 70}, year = {2022}, abstract = {I combine a reading of contemporary scholarship on US maroon histories and the Underground Railroad—and the concomitant notions of marronage and the underground—with a reading of two recent works of African American literature: Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad (2016) and Ta-Nehisi Coates's The Water Dancer (2019). Foregrounding the idea of Black geographies as a form of placemaking and "thinking otherwise" about land and water, I suggest that despite the differing, and at times contrasting, trajectories of maroon histories and the histories of Black flight to the North, African American maroon experiences and the Underground Railroad are conceptually connected in contemporary African American literature. I read the two novels as recent literary expressions of this conceptual link, which is played out via representations of relating to the land. By reimagining and intertwining marronage and the underground, both novels articulate a critique of settler-colonial and plantation modes of spatial practice, modes they identify as formative for US-American nationhood. They also, tentatively but forcefully, gesture toward alternative ways of being "above" and "below" the land while affirming African American connectedness to place.}, language = {en} } @article{Wilke2021, author = {Wilke, Heinrich}, title = {Character and perspective in cosmic horror}, series = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Anglistik und Amerikanistik : a quarterly of language, literature and cultur}, volume = {69}, journal = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Anglistik und Amerikanistik : a quarterly of language, literature and cultur}, number = {2}, publisher = {De Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {0044-2305}, doi = {10.1515/zaa-2021-2038}, pages = {173 -- 190}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Despite their overt focus on inexplicable alien forces, cosmic horror stories are also determined by their human cast. Far from being merely fodder for horror, the characters significantly contribute to the generation of meaning, including that of the supernatural entity or phenomenon itself. The same holds for the narrators' (implicitly) political perspectives on the world of which they are part. Much of the perspective propounded in Lovecraft's cosmic horror stories partakes of myth, adopting in particular the latter's universal view and pronounced sidelining of humanity as a whole, which it intensifies to the point of horror. Appearances to the contrary notwithstanding, this universal perspective is consistent with the racism permeating and structuring Lovecraft's writing. Though eschewing racism and universalism, the cosmic horror of Kiernan's "Tidal Forces" negotiates literary reflections of colonialism from an unreflective white perspective.}, language = {en} } @article{Roeder2011, author = {R{\"o}der, Katrin}, title = {Mobiles Gl{\"u}ck in den englischen Romanen des 18. Jahrhunderts}, series = {Mobilisierte Kulturen}, journal = {Mobilisierte Kulturen}, number = {1}, issn = {2192-3019}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-57356}, pages = {91 -- 133}, year = {2011}, language = {de} } @misc{Roeder2016, author = {R{\"o}der, Katrin}, title = {Engaging with T.S. Eliot: Four Quartets as a Multimedia Performance}, series = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Anglistik und Amerikanistik}, journal = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Anglistik und Amerikanistik}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-397808}, pages = {20}, year = {2016}, abstract = {This article explores a recent performance of excerpts from T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets (1935/36-1942) entitled Engaging Eliot: Four Quartets in Word, Color, and Sound as an example of live poetry. In this context, Eliot's poem can be analysed as an auditory artefact that interacts strongly with other oral performances (welcome addresses and artists' conversations), as well as with the musical performance of Christopher Theofanidis's quintet "At the Still Point" at the end of the opening of Engaging Eliot. The event served as an introduction to a 13-day art exhibition and engaged in a re-evaluation of Eliot's poem after 9/11: while its first part emphasises the connection between Eliot's poem and Christian doctrine, its second part - especially the combination of poetry reading and musical performance - highlights the philosophical and spiritual dimensions of Four Quartets.}, language = {en} } @article{Stillmark2015, author = {Stillmark, Hans-Christian}, title = {Perturbation als Analysemethode dramatischer Texte}, series = {Tendenzen der zeitgen{\"o}ssischen Dramatik}, journal = {Tendenzen der zeitgen{\"o}ssischen Dramatik}, editor = {Langner, Paul Martin and Mirecka, Agata}, publisher = {Lang-Ed.}, address = {Frankfurt, M.}, isbn = {978-3-631-65597-9}, pages = {11 -- 29}, year = {2015}, abstract = {Perturbation als Analysemethode f{\"u}r dramatische Texte wird hier am Beispiel von Brecht und M{\"u}ller ausprobiert.}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{Peitzker2000, author = {Peitzker, Tania}, title = {Dymphna Cusack (1902 - 1981) : a feminist analysis of gender in her romantic realistic texts}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-0000276}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, year = {2000}, abstract = {Das Dissertationsprojekt befasst sich mit der australischen Autorin Dymphna Cusack, deren Popularit{\"a}t in Ost und West zwischen 1955 und 1975 ihren H{\"o}hepunkt erreichte. In diesem Zeitraum wurde sie nicht nur in den westlichen Industriestaaten, in Australien, England, Frankreich und Nord Amerika viel gelesen, sondern auch in China, Russland, der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik und in vielen Sowjetrepubliken. Im Verlauf ihres Schaffens wurde ihr grosse Anerkennung f{\"u}r ihren Beitrag zur australischen Literatur zuteil; sie erhielt die \„Commonwealth Literary Pension\“, die \„Queen\′s Silver Jubilee Medal\“ und 1981 den \„Award of her Majesty\“. Trotz dieser Unterst{\"u}tzung durch den Staat in Australien und England {\"a}usserte Cusack immer wieder feministische, humanistisch-pazifistische, und anti-faschistisch bzw. pro-sowjetische Sozialkritik. Sie war auch f{\"u}r ihren starken Nationalismus bekannt, pl{\"a}dierte daf{\"u}r, eine \„einheimische\“ Literatur und Kultur zu pflegen. Besonders das australische Bildungssystem war das Ziel ihrer Kritik, basierend auf ihren Erfahrungen als Lehrerin in st{\"a}dtischen und l{\"a}ndlichen Schulen, die sie ihrer Autobiographie beschrieb. 'Weder ihr Intellekt, noch ihre Seele oder ihre K{\"o}rper wurden gef{\"o}rdert, um ganze M{\"a}nner oder ganze Frauen aus ihnen zu machen. Besonders letztere wurden vernachl{\"a}ssigt. M{\"a}dchen wurden ermutigt, ihren Platz dort zu sehen, wo deutsche M{\"a}dchen ihn einst zu sehen hatten: bei Kindern, K{\"u}che, Kirche.' Cusack engagierte sich stark f{\"u}r Bildungsreformen, die das Versagen australischer Schulen, das erw{\"u}nschte liberal-humanistische Subjekt zu herauszubilden, beheben sollten. Der liberale Humanismus der Nachkriegszeit schuf ein popul{\"a}res Bed{\"u}rfnis nach romantischem Realismus, den man in Cusacks Texten finden kann. Um verstehen zu k{\"o}nnen, wie Frauen sich zwischen \„Realismus und Romanze\“ verfingen, biete ich eine Dekonstruktion von Geschlecht innerhalb dieses \„hybriden\“ Genres an. Mittels feministischer Methodik k{\"o}nnen Einblicke in die konfliktvolle Subjektivit{\"a}t beider Geschlechter in verschiedenen historischen Perioden gewonnen werden: die Zeit zwischen den Kriegen, w{\"a}hrend des Pazifischen Krieges und den Weltkriegen, w{\"a}hrend des Kalten Krieges, zur Zeit der Aborigine-Bewegung, des Vietnamkrieges, sowie zu Beginn der zweiten feministischen Bewegung in den siebziger Jahren. Eine Rezeptionsanalyse des romantischen Realismus und der Diskurse, die diesen pr{\"a}gen, sind in Kapitel zwei und drei untersucht. Die Dekonstruktion von Weiblichkeit und eines weiblichen Subjekts ist in Kapitel vier unternommen, innerhalb einer Diskussion der Art und Weise, wie Cusacks romantischer Erz{\"a}hlstil mit dem sozialen Realismus interagiert. Nach der Forschung von Janice Radway, werden Cusacks Erz{\"a}hlungen in zwei Tabellen unterteilt: die Liebesgeschichte versagt, ist erfolgreich, eine Parodie oder Idealisierung (s. \„Ideal and Failed Romances\“; \„Primary Love Story Succeeds or Fails\“). Unter Einbeziehung von Judith Butlers philosophischem Ansatz in die Literaturkritik wird deutlich, dass diese Hybridisierung der Gattungen das fiktionale Subjekt davon abh{\"a}lt, ihr/sein Geschlecht \„sinnvoll\“ zu inszenieren. Wie das \„reale Subjekt\“, der Frau in der Gesellschaft, agiert die fiktionale Protagonistin in einer nicht intelligiblen Art und Weise aufgrund der multiplen Anforderungen an und den Einschr{\"a}nkungen f{\"u}r ihr Geschlecht. Demnach produziert die geschlechtliche Benennung des Subjektes eine Vielfalt von Geschlechtern: Cusacks Frauen und M{\"a}nner sind gepr{\"a}gt von den unterschiedlichen und konfliktvollen Anspr{\"u}chen der dichotom gegen{\"u}bergestellten Genres. Geschlecht, als biologisches und soziales Gebilde, wird danach undefinierbar durch seine komplexen und inkonsistenten Ausdrucksformen in einem romantisch-realistischen Text. Anders gesagt f{\"u}hrt die popul{\"a}re Kombination von Liebesroman und Realismus zu einer {\"U}berschreitung der Geschlechtsbinarit{\"a}t, die in beiden Genres vorausgesetzt wird. Weiterf{\"u}hrend dient eine Betrachtung von Sexualit{\"a}t und Ethnie in Kapitel f{\"u}nf einer differenzierteren Analyse humanistischer Repr{\"a}sentationen von Geschlecht in der Nachkriegsliteratur. Die Notwendigkeit, diese Repr{\"a}sentationen in der Popul{\"a}r- und in der Literatur des Kanons zu dekonstruieren, ist im letzten Kapitel dieser Dissertation weiter erl{\"a}utert.}, subject = {Cusack}, language = {en} } @misc{Honka2007, type = {Master Thesis}, author = {Honka, Agnes}, title = {Writing an alternative Australia : women and national discourse in nineteenth-century literature}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-16502}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, year = {2007}, abstract = {In this thesis, I want to outline the emergence of the Australian national identity in colonial Australia. National identity is not a politically determined construct but culturally produced through discourse on literary works by female and male writers. The emergence of the dominant bushman myth exhibited enormous strength and influence on subsequent generations and infused the notion of "Australianness" with exclusively male characteristics. It provided a unique geographical space, the bush, on and against which the colonial subject could model his identity. Its dominance rendered non-male and non-bush experiences of Australia as "un-Australian." I will present a variety of contemporary voices - postcolonial, Aboriginal, feminist, cultural critics - which see the Australian identity as a prominent topic, not only in the academia but also in everyday culture and politics. Although positioned in different disciplines and influenced by varying histories, these voices share a similar view on Australian society: Australia is a plural society, it is home to millions of different people - women, men, and children, Aboriginal Australians and immigrants, newly arrived and descendents of the first settlers - with millions of different identities which make up one nation. One version of national identity does not account for the multitude of experiences; one version, if applied strictly, renders some voices unheard and oppressed. After exemplifying how the literature of the 1890s and its subsequent criticism constructed the itinerant worker as "the" Australian, literary productions by women will be singled out to counteract the dominant version by presenting different opinions on the state of colonial Australia. The writers Louisa Lawson, Barbara Baynton, and Tasma are discussed with regard to their assessment of their mother country. These women did not only present a different picture, they were also gifted writers and lived the ideal of the "New Women:" they obtained divorces, remarried, were politically active, worked for their living and led independent lives. They paved the way for many Australian women to come. In their literary works they allowed for a dual approach to the bush and the Australian nation. Louisa Lawson credited the bushwoman with heroic traits and described the bush as both cruel and full of opportunities not known to women in England. She understood women's position in Australian society as oppressed and tried to change politics and culture through the writings in her feminist magazine the Dawn and her courageous campaign for women suffrage. Barbara Baynton painted a gloomy picture of the Australian bush and its inhabitants and offered one of the fiercest critiques of bush society. Although the woman is presented as the able and resourceful bushperson, she does not manage to survive in an environment which functions on male rules and only values the economic potential of the individual. Finally, Tasma does not present as outright a critique as Barbara Baynton, however, she also attests the colonies a fascination with wealth which she renders questionable. She offers an informed judgement on colonial developments in the urban surrounds of the city of Melbourne through the comparison of colonial society with the mother country England. Tasma attests that the colonies had a fascination with wealth which she renders questionable. She offers an informed judgement on colonial developments in the urban surrounds of the city of Melbourne through the comparison of colonial society with the mother country England and demonstrates how uncertainties and irritations emerged in the course of Australia's nation formation. These three women, as writers, commentators, and political activists, faced exclusion from the dominant literary discourses. Their assessment of colonial society remained unheard for a long time. Now, after much academic excavation, these voices speak to us from the past and remind us that people are diverse, thus nation is diverse. Dominant power structures, the institutions and individuals who decide who can contribute to the discourse on nation, have to be questioned and reassessed, for they mute voices which contribute to a wider, to the "full", and maybe "real" picture of society.}, language = {en} } @misc{Eckstein2009, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Transatlantic slavery and the literary imagination}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-59201}, year = {2009}, abstract = {Transatlantic slavery and the literary imagination The challenges of turning transatlantic slavery into literature A polyphony of historical voices: Caryl Phillips's dialogic imagination Literary imagination and the Zong Massacre: Fred D'Aguiar and David Dabydeen Perspectives}, language = {en} } @article{Crane2019, author = {Crane, Kylie Ann}, title = {Anthropocene Presences and the Limits of Deferral}, series = {Open library of humanities}, volume = {5}, journal = {Open library of humanities}, number = {1}, publisher = {Open library of humanities}, address = {Cambridge}, issn = {2056-6700}, doi = {10.16995/olh.348}, pages = {24}, year = {2019}, abstract = {Literary criticism, particularly ecocriticism, occupies an uneasy position with regard to activism: reading books (or plays, or poems) seems like a rather leisurely activity to be undertaking if our environment—our planet—is in crisis. And yet, critiquing the narratives that structure worlds and discourses is key to the activities of the (literary) critic in this time of crisis. If this crisis manifests as a 'crisis of imagination' (e.g. Ghosh), I argue that this not so much a crisis of the absence of texts that address the environmental disaster, but rather a failure to comprehend the presences of the Anthropocene in the present. To interpret (literary) texts in this framework must entail acknowledging and scrutinising the extent of the incapacity of the privileged reader to comprehend the crisis as presence and present rather than spatially or temporally remote. The readings of the novels Carpentaria (2006) and The Swan Book (2013) by Waanyi writer Alexis Wright (Australia) trace the uneven presences of Anthropocenes in the present by way of bringing future worlds (The Swan Book) to the contemporary (Carpentaria). In both novels, protagonists must forge survival amongst ruins of the present and future: the depicted worlds, in particular the representations of the disenfranchisement of indigenous inhabitants of the far north of the Australian continent, emerge as a critique of the intersections of capitalist and colonial projects that define modernity and its impact on the global climate.}, language = {en} } @article{Hartung2018, author = {Hartung, Heike}, title = {Longevity narratives}, series = {Journal of aging studie}, volume = {47}, journal = {Journal of aging studie}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {New York}, issn = {0890-4065}, doi = {10.1016/j.jaging.2018.03.002}, pages = {84 -- 89}, year = {2018}, abstract = {The essay looks at longevity narratives as an important configuration of old age, which is closely related to evolutionary theories of ageing. In order to analyse two case studies of longevity published in the early twentieth century, the American psychologist G. Stanley Hall's book Senescence (1922) and the British dramatist Bernard Shaw's play cycle Back to Methuselah (1921), the essay draws on an outline of theories of longevity from the Enlightenment to the present. The analysis of the two case studies illustrates that evolutionary and cultural perspectives on ageing and longevity are ambivalent and problematic. In Hall's and Shaw's texts this is related to a crisis narrative of culture and civilization against which both writers place their specific solutions of individual and species longevity. Whereas Hall employs autobiographical accounts of artists as examples of longevity to strengthen his argument about wise old men as exclusive repositories of knowledge, Shaw in his vision of longevity as an extended form of midlife for both genders encounters the limits of age representation.}, language = {en} } @incollection{Lottes2014, author = {Lottes, G{\"u}nther}, title = {Language and Content}, series = {Perspectives on English revolutionary republicanism}, booktitle = {Perspectives on English revolutionary republicanism}, publisher = {Ashgate}, address = {Farnham}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {53 -- 61}, year = {2014}, language = {en} } @misc{Reimer2017, author = {Reimer, Anna Maria}, title = {Pink, Katharina, Identitas Oriens: Discursive Constructions of Identity and Alterity in British Orient Travelogues / [reviewed by] Anna Maria Reimer}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, number = {126}, issn = {1866-8380}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-397856}, pages = {3}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Rezensiertes Werk Pink, Katharina, Identitas Oriens: Diskursive Konstruktionen von Identit{\"a}t und Alterit{\"a}t in britischer Orient-Reiseliteratur - W{\"u}rzburg, Ergon Verlag, 2014 337 S. - (Literatur - Kultur - Theorie, 19)}, language = {en} } @misc{Adair2017, author = {Adair, Gigi}, title = {The "Feringhi Hakīm": medical encounters and colonial ambivalence in Isabella Bird's travels in Japan and Persia}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, number = {120}, issn = {1866-8380}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-395316}, pages = {13}, year = {2017}, abstract = {This article considers Isabella Bird's representation of medicine in Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (1880) and Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan (1891), the two books in which she engages most extensively with both local (Chinese/Islamic) and Western medical science and practice. I explore how Bird uses medicine to assert her narrative authority and define her travelling persona in opposition to local medical practitioners. I argue that her ambivalence and the unease she frequently expresses concerning medical practice (expressed particularly in her later adoption of the Persian appellation "Feringhi Hakīm" [European physician] to describe her work) serves as a means for her to negotiate the colonial and gendered pressures on Victorian medicine. While in Japan this attitude works to destabilise her hierarchical understanding of science and results in some acknowledgement of traditional Japanese traditions, in Persia it functions more to disguise her increasing collusion with overt British colonial ambitions.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{OPUS4-8463, title = {Proceedings : Anglistentag 2012 Potsdam}, series = {Proceedings of the conference of the German Association of University Teachers of English}, volume = {34}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the conference of the German Association of University Teachers of English}, editor = {R{\"o}der, Kathrin and Wischer, Ilse}, publisher = {Wissenschaftlicher Verlag}, address = {Trier}, isbn = {978-3-86821-488-8}, pages = {406}, year = {2013}, language = {en} } @article{PetersvanHattum2021, author = {Peters, Arne and van Hattum, Marije}, title = {Pseudonyms as carriers of contextualised threat in 19th-century Irish English threatening notices}, series = {English world-wide : a journal of varieties of English}, volume = {42}, journal = {English world-wide : a journal of varieties of English}, number = {1}, publisher = {John Benjamins Publishing Co.}, address = {Amsterdam}, issn = {0172-8865}, doi = {10.1075/eww.00059.pet}, pages = {29 -- 53}, year = {2021}, abstract = {This paper explores functions of pseudonyms in written threatening communication from a cognitive sociolinguistic perspective. It addresses the semantic domains present in pseudonyms in a corpus of 19th-century Irish English threatening notices and their cognitive functions in the construction of both cultural-contextualised threat and the threatener's identity. We identify eight semantic domains that are accessed recurrently in order to create threat. Contributing to the notion of threat involves menacing war, violence, darkness and perdition directly, while also constructing a certain persona for the threatener that highlights their motivation, moral superiority, historical, local and circumstantial expertise, and their physical and mental aptitude. We argue that pseudonyms contribute to the deontic force of the threat by accessing cultural categories and schemas as well as conceptual metaphors and metonymies. Finally, we suggest that pseudonyms function as post-positioned semantic frame setters, providing a cognitive lens through which the entire threatening notice must be interpreted.}, language = {en} } @article{Ungelenk2020, author = {Ungelenk, Johannes}, title = {Touching this dreaded sight}, series = {Tangieren : Praktiken und Arrangements des Ber{\"u}hrens in den performativen K{\"u}nsten}, journal = {Tangieren : Praktiken und Arrangements des Ber{\"u}hrens in den performativen K{\"u}nsten}, editor = {Fluhrer, Sandra and Waszynski, Alexander}, publisher = {Rombach}, address = {Freiburg i. Br.}, isbn = {978-3-96821-002-5}, pages = {203 -- 220}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Ausgehend von der in Shakespeare zweimal wiederkehrenden Phrase „Touching this dreaded sight" widmet sich der Beitrag mithilfe ausgew{\"a}hlter Stellen aus Shakespeares Hamlet und The Tempest der Wirkkraft des fr{\"u}hneuzeitlichen Theaters. Er geht der Frage nach, wie Zuschauer*innen eines St{\"u}ckes aus der Distanz be-troffen und ge-r{\"u}hrt werden. Um dem nachzudenken, wie diese Distanz zwischen dem Visuellen, dem Schauen im Theater, und dem Haptischen, der Ber{\"u}hrung, {\"u}berbr{\"u}ckt werden kann, helfen fr{\"u}hneuzeitliche Vorstellungen von theatraler Ansteckungskraft und Hans Blumenbergs Konzept menschlicher Betreffbarkeit.}, language = {de} } @misc{Ungelenk2012, author = {Ungelenk, Johannes}, title = {Narcissus and Echo}, number = {186}, issn = {1866-8380}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-59996}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-599966}, pages = {142}, year = {2012}, abstract = {George Eliot's late novel Daniel Deronda tackles big, fundamental political questions that radiate from the societal circumstances of the novel's production and reach deep into our present-day life. The novel critically analyses the capitalistic, morally flawed and standard-less English society and narrates the title hero's proto-Zionist mission to found a Jewish nation that re-establishes history, meaning and ethical values. This study attempts to trace the novel's two models of society and time by bringing them into resonance with the myth of Narcissus and Echo famously rendered by Ovid. The unloving, self-referential, visual Narcissus is read as the model for the capitalistic world of spectacle and speculation. Echo's loving, memory-bearing voice forms an important part in the construction of the sublating unity of the Jewish nation-to-come. Guided by this resonance between George Eliot's novel and Ovid's myth pieces of critical theory and philosophy are woven into the study's fabric. The resulting analysis dissects and deconstructs the novel's fascinating and highly complex patterns of conditions of possibility for the fabrication of the redeeming Jewish nation, the very same conditions that the novel presents as the conditions of possibility for narrating a meaningful story.}, language = {en} } @misc{Roeder2014, author = {R{\"o}der, Katrin}, title = {Reparative Reading, Post-structuralist Hermeneutics and T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, number = {115}, issn = {1866-8380}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-94204}, pages = {58 -- 77}, year = {2014}, abstract = {This essay approaches T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets (1935-1942) from the perspectives of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's critical practice of reparative reading and of Paul Ricoeur's poststructuralist hermeneutics. It demonstrates that Sedgwick's and Ricoeur's approaches can be productively combined to investigate hermeneutic processes in which the textual energy of a dissemination of meaning is redirected by a reparative or integrative impulse. In Four Quartets, this impetus induces the creation of semantic innovation through a violation of semantic pertinence, that is, through novel, tensional and provisional connections between formerly separate textual elements and semantic units.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Bickert2013, author = {Bickert, Stefanie}, title = {Floras rastlose T{\"o}chter hinter dem Gartentor : die Entwicklung weiblichen Selbstbewusstseins im Hausgarten des 19. Jahrhunderts}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-269-8}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-68172}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {313}, year = {2013}, abstract = {Die Dissertation untersucht von Autorinnen (Louisa Johnson, Jane Loudon, Maria Theresa Earle, Gertrude Jekyll, Elizabeth von Arnim) verfasste Ratgeberliteratur zum Hausgarten f{\"u}r ein weibliches Lesepublikum, mit dem Anspruch an eine praktische Gartent{\"a}tigkeit, im Zeitraum von 1839 bis 1900. Die Genderperspektive steht hieraus folgend im Mittelpunkt der vorliegenden Arbeit. Der Fokus auf die b{\"u}rgerliche Mittelklasse ergibt sich aus der Autorinnenperspektive und der angesprochenen Leserschaft. Die Behandlung des Gartens wird einer Analyse unterzogen, die nach der weiblichen Sicht auf den Garten und einem spezifisch weiblichen Selbstverst{\"a}ndnis der garteninteressierten bzw. g{\"a}rtnernden Frauen fragt. In ihrer Besch{\"a}ftigung mit dem Garten leisten die Frauen einen Beitrag zur Konzeption von m{\"a}nnlich und weiblich, zur Bewertung von Geschlechternormen und deren Verhandlung. Das Schreiben und Lesen {\"u}ber den Garten sowie hieraus resultierende Handlungen waren mit der Konstruktion weiblicher Identit{\"a}t verkn{\"u}pft. In ihrer befreienden Konzeption des Gartens heben sich diese Frauenstimmen zu Weiblichkeitsvorstellungen von anderen gesellschaftlichen zugeschriebenen Wirkungsbereichen ab. An die b{\"u}rgerliche Frau herangetragene Rollenerwartungen werden in den Werken weder affirmativ best{\"a}tigt noch offen subversiv hinterfragt. Es handelt sich vielmehr um ein subtiles Unterlaufen durch das Anbieten von Handlungsfeldern, die dem Wunsch nach Selbstverwirklichung und Selbstbestimmung entgegen kamen. Im Garten als vermeintlich kleinem, hausnah-restriktivem Kontext nehmen die Frauen neue Rollen an und variieren diese. Der Besch{\"a}ftigung mit dem Garten kommt daher ein protofeministischer Charakter vor dem Einsetzen der Ersten Frauenbewegung zu, so dass von einem Gartenfeminismus als Instrument zur weiblichen Bewusstwerdung gesprochen werden kann.}, language = {de} } @misc{Eckstein2011, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Saturday on Dover Beach : Ian McEwan, Matthew Arnold, and post-9/11 melancholia}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-59228}, year = {2011}, abstract = {This essay revisits Ian McEwan's extremely successful novel Saturday, and interrogates its exemplary assessment of the British cultural climate after 9/11. The particular focus is on McEwan's extensive recourse to the writings of Matthew Arnold, whose melancholy outlook on culture and anarchy McEwan basically translates into the 21st century without much ideological fraction. This relapse into Victorian liberal humanism as consolation for a Western world besieged by the contingencies of terrorism is extremely problematic. Not only does it wilfully ignore the transcultural realities of modern Britain, it also promotes an ahistorical and apolitical mode of critical inquiry which may be called reductive at best in view of the global challenges that the novel addresses.}, language = {en} } @misc{RadfordFelserBoxell2012, author = {Radford, Andrew and Felser, Claudia and Boxell, Oliver}, title = {Preposition copying and pruning in present-day English}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe}, number = {527}, issn = {1866-8364}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-41489}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-414898}, pages = {24}, year = {2012}, abstract = {This article investigates the nature of preposition copying and preposition pruning structures in present-day English. We begin by illustrating the two phenomena and consider how they might be accounted for in syntactic terms, and go on to explore the possibility that preposition copying and pruning arise for processing reasons. We then report on two acceptability judgement experiments examining the extent to which native speakers of English are sensitive to these types of 'error' in language comprehension. Our results indicate that preposition copying creates redundancy rather than ungrammaticality, whereas preposition pruning creates processing problems for comprehenders that may render it unacceptable in timed (but not necessarily in untimed) judgement tasks. Our findings furthermore illustrate the usefulness of combining corpus studies and experimentally elicited data for gaining a clearer picture of usage and acceptability, and the potential benefits of examining syntactic phenomena from both a theoretical and a processing perspective.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Reimer2015, author = {Reimer, Anna Maria}, title = {The poetics of the real and aesthetics of the reel}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-95660}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {298}, year = {2015}, abstract = {The dissertation proposes that the spread of photography and popular cinema in 19th- and 20th-century-India have shaped an aesthetic and affective code integral to the reading and interpretation of Indian English novels, particularly when they address photography and/or cinema film, as in the case of the four corpus texts. In analyzing the nexus between 'real' and 'reel', the dissertation shows how the texts address the reader as media consumer and virtual image projector. Furthermore, the study discusses the Indian English novel against the backdrop of the cultural and medial transformations of the 20th century to elaborate how these influenced the novel's aesthetics. Drawing upon reception aesthetics, the author devises the concept of the 'implied spectator' to analyze the aesthetic impact of the novels' images as visual textures. No God in Sight (2005) by Altaf Tyrewala comprises of a string of 41 interior monologues, loosely connected through their narrators' random encounters in Mumbai in the year 2000. Although marked by continuous perspective shifts, the text creates a sensation of acute immediacy. Here, the reader is addressed as implied spectator and is sutured into the narrated world like a film spectator ― an effect created through the use of continuity editing as a narrative technique. Similarly, Ruchir Joshi's The Last Jet Engine Laugh (2002) coll(oc)ates disparate narrative perspectives and explores photography as an artistic practice, historiographic recorder and epistemological tool. The narrative appears guided by the random viewing of old photographs by the protagonist and primary narrator, the photographer Paresh Bhatt. However, it is the photographic negative and the practice of superimposition that render this string of episodes and different perspectives narratively consequential and cosmologically meaningful. Photography thus marks the perfect symbiosis of autobiography and historiography. Tabish Khair's Filming. A Love Story (2007) immerses readers in the cine-aesthetic of 1930s and 40s Bombay film, the era in which the embedded plot is set. Plotline, central scenes and characters evoke the key films of Indian cinema history such as Satyajit Ray's "Pather Panchali" or Raj Kapoor's "Awara". Ultimately, the text written as film dissolves the boundary between fiction and (narrated) reality, reel and real, thereby showing that the images of individual memory are inextricably intertwined with and shaped by collective memory. Ultimately, the reconstruction of the past as and through film(s) conquers trauma and endows the Partition of India as a historic experience of brutal contingency with meaning. The Bioscope Man (Indrajit Hazra, 2008) is a picaresque narrative set in Calcutta - India's cultural capital and birthplace of Indian cinema at the beginning of the 20th century. The autodiegetic narrator Abani Chatterjee relates his rise and fall as silent film star, alternating between the modes of tell and show. He is both autodiegetic narrator and spectator or perceiving consciousness, seeing himself in his manifold screen roles. Beyond his film roles however, the narrator remains a void. The marked psychoanalytical symbolism of the text is accentuated by repeated invocations of dark caves and the laterna magica. Here too, 'reel life' mirrors and foreshadows real life as Indian and Bengali history again interlace with private history. Abani Chatterjee thus emerges as a quintessentially modern man of no qualities who assumes definitive shape only in the lost reels of the films he starred in. The final chapter argues that the static images and visual frames forwarded in the texts observe an integral psychological function: Premised upon linear perspective they imply a singular, static subjectivity appealing to the postmodern subject. In the corpus texts, the rise of digital technology in the 1990s thus appears not so much to have displaced older image repertories, practices and media techniques, than it has lent them greater visibility and appeal. Moreover, bricolage and pastiche emerge as cultural techniques which marked modernity from its inception. What the novels thus perpetuate is a media archeology not entirely servant to the poetics of the real. The permeable subject and the notion of the gaze as an active exchange as encapsulated in the concept of darshan - ideas informing all four texts - bespeak the resilience of a mythical universe continually re-instantiated in new technologies and uses. Eventually, the novels convey a sense of subalternity to a substantially Hindu nationalist history and historiography, the centrifugal force of which developed in the twentieth century and continues into the present.}, language = {en} } @misc{Wiemann2014, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {George, Rosemary Marangoly, Indian English and the Fiction of National Literature / [rezensiert von] Dirk Wiemann}, series = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Anglistik und Amerikanistik : ZAA ; a quarterly of language, literature and culture}, volume = {62}, journal = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Anglistik und Amerikanistik : ZAA ; a quarterly of language, literature and culture}, number = {4}, publisher = {DeGruyter}, address = {T{\"u}bingen}, issn = {0044-2305}, doi = {10.1515/zaa-2014-0039}, pages = {385 -- 388}, year = {2014}, abstract = {Rezensiertes Werk George, Rosemary Marangoly, Indian English and the Fiction of National Literature - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. - Hb. viii, 285 pp. - (Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Anglistik und Amerikanistik ; 62(4)) ISBN 978-1-107-04000-7.}, language = {en} } @misc{Priewe2011, author = {Priewe, Marc}, title = {Walter W. Woodward, Prospero´s America: John Winthrop, Jr., Alchemy, and the Creation of New England Culture, 1606-1676 / [rezensiert von] Marc Priewe}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-93713}, pages = {199 -- 200}, year = {2011}, abstract = {Rezensiertes Werk: Walter W. Woodward: Prospero's America: John Winthrop, Jr., Alchemy, and the Creation of New England Culture, 1606-1676. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Hb. 336pp. ISBN 978-0-8078-3301-8.}, language = {en} } @book{WiemannMahlbergDzelzainisetal.2014, author = {Wiemann, Dirk and Mahlberg, Gaby and Dzelzainis, Martin and Cuttica, Cesare and Lottes, G{\"u}nther and Davis, J. C. and Pankratz, Anette and Sedlmayr, Gerold and Vallance, Edward and Vanderbeke, Dirk and Borot, Luc and Champion, Justin and Burgess, Glenn}, title = {Perspectives on English revolutionary republicanism}, editor = {Wiemann, Dirk and Mahlberg, Gaby}, publisher = {Ashgate}, address = {Farnham}, isbn = {978-1-4094-5567-7}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {IX, 228}, year = {2014}, abstract = {Perspectives on English Revolutionary Republicanism takes stock of developments in the scholarship of seventeenth-century English republicanism by looking at the movements and schools of thought that have shaped the field over the decades: the linguistic turn, the cultural turn and the religious turn. While scholars of seventeenth-century republicanism share their enthusiasm for their field, they have approached their subject in diverse ways. The contributors to the present volume have taken the opportunity to bring these approaches together in a number of case studies covering republican language, republican literary and political culture, and republican religion, to paint a lively picture of the state of the art in republican scholarship. The volume begins with three chapters influenced by the theory and methodology of the linguistic turn, before moving on to address cultural history approaches to English republicanism, including both literary culture and (practical) political culture. The final section of the volume looks at how religion intersected with ideas of republican thought. Taken together the essays demonstrate the vitality and diversity of what was once regarded as a narrow topic of political research.}, language = {en} } @article{WiemannMahlberg2014, author = {Wiemann, Dirk and Mahlberg, Gaby}, title = {Introduction : Perspectives on English revolutionary republicanism}, series = {Perspectives on English revolutionary republicanism}, journal = {Perspectives on English revolutionary republicanism}, editor = {Wiemann, Dirk and Mahlberg, Gaby}, publisher = {Ashgate}, address = {Farnham}, pages = {1 -- 12}, year = {2014}, language = {en} } @misc{Wiemann2013, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {Cities of the Mind - Villages of the Mind}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, number = {109}, issn = {1866-8380}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-93951}, pages = {14}, year = {2013}, abstract = {Deep into the second half of the twentieth century the traditionalist definition of India as a country of villages remained dominant in official political rhetoric as well as cultural production. In the past two decades or so, this ruralist paradigm has been effectively superseded by a metropolitan imaginary in which the modern, globalised megacity increasingly functions as representative of India as a whole. Has the village, then, entirely vanished from the cultural imaginary in contemporary India? Addressing economic practices from upper-class consumerism to working-class family support strategies, this paper attempts to trace how 'the village' resurfaces or survives as a cultural reference point in the midst of the urban.}, language = {en} } @misc{Wiemann2014, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {George, Rosemary Marangoly, Indian English and the Fiction of National Literature / [reviewed by] Dirk Wiemann}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, number = {135}, issn = {1866-8380}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-398664}, pages = {4}, year = {2014}, abstract = {Rezensiertes Werk: George, Rosemary Marangoly, Indian English and the Fiction of National Literature - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. - Hb. viii, 285 pp. - (Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Anglistik und Amerikanistik ; 62(4)) ISBN 978-1-107-04000-7.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Behrendt2020, author = {Behrendt, Aileen Jorena}, title = {Gender Politics and British Women Writers of the 1930s}, series = {Epistemata : W{\"u}rzburger wissenschaftliche Schriften. Reihe Literaturwissenschaft}, journal = {Epistemata : W{\"u}rzburger wissenschaftliche Schriften. Reihe Literaturwissenschaft}, number = {937}, publisher = {K{\"o}nigshausen \& Neumann}, address = {W{\"u}rzburg}, isbn = {978-3-8260-7177-5}, issn = {2699-5859}, pages = {298}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Today's focus on the 1930s as a time of radical politics paving the way for the apocalypse of the Second World War ignores the complexity of the decade's cultural responses, especially those by British women writers who highlighted gender issues within their contemporary political climate. The decade's literature is often understood to capture the political unrest, either narrating people's chaotic movement or their paralysed shock. This book argues that 1930s novels collapse the distinction between movement and standstill and calls this phenomenon Dynamic Stasis. This Dynamic Stasis thematically and structurally informs the novels of Nancy Mitford, Stevie Smith, Rosamond Lehmann and Jean Rhys. By disrupting the oft-repeated clich{\´e} of the 1930s as the age of political extremes, gender politics and negotiations of femininity can emerge from the discursive periphery. This book therefore corrects a persistent gender blind spot, which opens up a (re)consideration of authors that have been overlooked in literary criticism of 1930s to this day.}, language = {en} } @misc{Lampart2023, author = {Lampart, Fabian}, title = {Rezension zu: Per un atlante geostorico della letteratura tedesca (1900-1930) / Hrsg.: Francesco Fiorentino, Milena Massalongo, Gianluca Paolucci. - Roma: Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici, 2021. - 326 S. - ISBN: 978-88-95868-56-1}, series = {Studi Germanici}, volume = {2023}, journal = {Studi Germanici}, number = {23}, publisher = {Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici}, address = {Rome}, issn = {0039-2952}, pages = {289 -- 291}, year = {2023}, language = {en} }