TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lubrich, Oliver
T1  - "Como antiguas estatuas de bronce"
T1  - "Like antique bronze statues"
T1  - "Wie antike Bronzestatuen"
BT  - Sobre la disolución del clasicismo en la Relación histórica de un viaje a las regiones equinocciales del Nuevo Continente, de Alejandro de Humboldt
BT  - Dissolving classicism in Alexander von Humboldt's Relation historique du Voyage aux Régions équinoxiales du Nouveau Continent
BT  - Von der Antikisierung Amerikas zur Auflösung des Klassizismus in Alexander von Humboldts Reisebericht
JF  - HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies
N2  - La "antiquización" de América – implementar motivos clásicos como modelos de apropriación imperial – es una de las estrategias retóricas más importantes en la relación de viaje de Alexander von Humboldt. Mediante la experiencia colonial, sin embargo, este discurso se deestabiliza: Se ponen en contradicción referencias metafóricas y metonímicas, connotaciones positivas y negativas, diferentes modos de temporalización, identificaciones coloniales y disidentes etc. El concepto de Antigüedad se de-autoriza – está deconstruido. Observamos la disolución del clasicismo europea como dispositivo político-estético en el contacto con la diferencia cultural.
N2  - The "antiquization" of America, using classicist motifs as imperial models of appropriation, is a central rhetorical strategy in Alexander von Humboldt's travelogue. Over the course of the colonial experience this discourse is infused with tension: metaphoric and metonymic types of references collide; positive and negative connotations are superimposed; incompatible modes of temporalization are contrasted; colonial as well as dissident identifications are laid out. The concept of "antiquity" is de-authorized, deconstructed. Readers witness the dissolution of European classicism as a politico-aesthetic 'dispositif' due to contact with cultural difference.
N2  - Die "Antikisierung" Amerikas, die Anwendung antiker Motive als imperialer Muster der Aneignung, ist eine zentrale rhetorische Strategie in Alexander von Humboldts Reisebericht. Im Verlauf der kolonialen Erfahrung jedoch wird dieser klassizistische Diskurs irritiert durch Spannungen zwischen metaphorischer und metonymischer Referenz, positiver und negativer Konnotation, synchroner und retrospektiver Temporalisierung, hegemonialer und dissidenter Perspektive etc. Das Konzept der Antike verliert seine Autorität – es wird dekonstruiert. Wir beobachten die Erosion des zeitgenössischen Klassizismus als ästhetisch-politischen Dispositivs im Kontakt mit der kulturellen Fremde.
KW  - 1814-1831
KW  - Antikisierung
KW  - Klassizismus
KW  - Relation historique
Y1  - 2004
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-35110
SN  - 2568-3543
SN  - 1617-5239
VL  - V
IS  - 9
SP  - 60
EP  - 73
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
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  -