TY - JOUR A1 - Neis, Cordula T1 - Mithridates in paradise : Small history of language thinking Y1 - 2004 SN - 0302-5160 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Haßler, Gerda T1 - Rosenfeld, S., A Revolution in Language: the Problem of Signs in Late Eighteenth-Century France; Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2001 BT - A revolution in language: the problem of signs in late eighteenth-century France; Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2001 Y1 - 2004 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Faulstich, Andrea T1 - Modality: Issues in the semantics-pragmatics interface Y1 - 2004 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hartwig, S. T1 - Saving memory? Media, commemoration and memory from a system-theoretical perspective Y1 - 2004 SN - 0019-0993 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lindquist, Jason H. T1 - “Under the influence of an exotic nature...national remembrances are insensibly effaced” BT - Threats to the European subject in Humboldt’s personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of the New Continent JF - HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies N2 - My essay attends to a number of passages in Alexander von Humboldt’s Personal Narrative in which the Prussian explorer expresses anxiety about the apparent dangers posed by the overwhelmingly productive tropical landscapes he observes. In these passages, the excesses of an “exotic nature” threaten European identity and modes of civilization—and they trouble the accuracy of Humboldt’s own observational project. I also explore Humboldt’s related worry that South American vegetable (and visual) overload will exert a destabilizing effect on his aesthetic sensibility, disrupting his ability to represent the “New Continent” accurately in writing. Finally, I sketch the influence of Humboldt’s representations of tropical excess on nineteenth-century British cultural thought and literary practice. Studying the instabilities experienced by Personal Narrative’s expatriates and colonists promises to draw out important tensions latent in Humboldt’s treatment of tropical landscape and to illuminate broader epistemological and aesthetic shifts being worked out during the period. KW - 1799-1804 KW - Europa KW - Relation historique Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-35109 SN - 2568-3543 SN - 1617-5239 VL - V IS - 9 SP - 44 EP - 59 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER -