@article{Ungelenk2021, author = {Ungelenk, Johannes}, title = {{\´E}mile Zola and the Literary Language of Climate Change}, series = {Nottingham French Studies}, volume = {60}, journal = {Nottingham French Studies}, number = {3}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2021.0331}, pages = {362 -- 373}, year = {2021}, abstract = {On 7 February 1861, John Tyndall, professor of natural philosophy, delivered a historical lecture: he could prove that different gases absorb heat to a very different degree, which implies that the temperate conditions provided for by the Earth's atmosphere are dependent on its particular composition of gases. The theoretical foundation of climate science was laid. Ten years later, on the other side of the Channel, a young and ambitious author was working on a comprehensive literary analysis of the French era under the Second Empire. {\´E}mile Zola had probably not heard or read of Tyndall's discovery. However, the article makes the case for reading Zola's Rougon-Macquart as an extensive story of climate change. Zola's literary attempts to capture the defining characteristic of the Second Empire led him to the insight that its various milieus were all part of the same 'climate': that of an all-encompassing warming. Zola suggests that this climate is man-made: the economic success of the Second Empire is based on heating, in a literal and metaphorical sense, as well as on stoking the steam-engines and creating the hypertrophic atmosphere of the hothouse that enhances life and maximises turnover and profit. In contrast to Tyndall and his audience, Zola sensed the catastrophic consequences of this warming: the Second Empire was inevitably moving towards a final d{\´e}b{\^a}cle, i.e. it was doomed to perish in local and 'global' climate catastrophes. The article foregrounds the supplementary status of Tyndall's physical and Zola's literary knowledge. As Zola's striking intuition demonstrates, literature appears to have a privileged approach to the phenomenon of man-induced climate change.}, language = {en} } @incollection{Ungelenk2021, author = {Ungelenk, Johannes}, title = {Shakespeares Meteopoetik}, series = {Verfahren literarischer Wetterdarstellung. Meteopoetik - Literarische Meteorologie - Meteopoetologie}, booktitle = {Verfahren literarischer Wetterdarstellung. Meteopoetik - Literarische Meteorologie - Meteopoetologie}, publisher = {De Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-11062-448-9}, doi = {10.1515/9783110624489-002}, pages = {21 -- 41}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Shakespeare war zweifellos ›Meteopoet‹. Obwohl es die fr{\"u}hneuzeitliche B{\"u}hne, die ohne Kulisse, k{\"u}nstliches Licht und mit nur sehr beschr{\"a}nkten Requisiten auskam, vor allerhand Darstellungsprobleme stellen musste, bilden Wetterereignisse einen festen Bestandteil vieler seiner Dramen. Der {\"u}ber sechs Szenen andauernde B{\"u}hnensturm aus King Lear geh{\"o}rt zu den ber{\"u}hmtesten meteorologischen Momenten der westlichen Literatur. Schon in Julius Caesar, etwa sieben Jahre zuvor entstanden, leitet die B{\"u}hnenanweisung »Thunder and lightning« (JC 1.3; JC 2.2) ein sich {\"u}ber mehrere Auftritte erstreckendes Unwetter ein, das mit den damaligen Mitteln auf der B{\"u}hne inszeniert werden musste: Vermutlich kamen dabei in Holztr{\"o}gen oder direkt auf dem die B{\"u}hne {\"u}berspannenden Dachboden gerollte Kanonenkugeln und an F{\"a}den gef{\"u}hrte Feuerwerksk{\"o}rper zum Einsatz, die Donner und Blitz simulierten. So auch in der Macbeth er{\"o}ffnenden Hexenszene, zumindest l{\"a}sst darauf die identische B{\"u}hnenanweisung schließen. Dass dieses B{\"u}hnenwetter hier nicht nur die {\"u}bernat{\"u}rliche Atmosph{\"a}re unterst{\"u}tzt, sondern tats{\"a}chlich auch meteorologisch relevant ist, verdeutlichen zwei Hinweise: Zum einen erfahren wir von Macbeth sp{\"a}ter selbst, dass er und seine Zeitgenossen den Hexen tats{\"a}chlich die F{\"a}higkeit zuschrieben, das Wetter zu machen: »Though you untie the winds, and let them fight / Against the churches« (Mac 4.1.52-53), ruft er den Hexen entgegen - es antworten drei Donnerschl{\"a}ge. Zum anderen berichten zwei Randfiguren von einem außergew{\"o}hnlichen Unwetter, das just in der Nacht, in der Macbeth Duncan ermordet, gew{\"u}tet hatte: »The night has been unruly: where we lay / The chimneys were blown down« (Mac 2.3.54-55), erz{\"a}hlt Lennox, eine Szene sp{\"a}ter erg{\"a}nzt ein alter Mann, dass er zu seinen Lebzeiten keine vergleichbare »sore night« (Mac 2.4.3) gesehen habe. Wetterschilderungen vergleichbarer Art begegnen auch in Othello.}, language = {de} } @incollection{UngelenkSohns2021, author = {Ungelenk, Johannes and Sohns, Hanna}, title = {Einleitung}, series = {Ber{\"u}hren Lesen}, booktitle = {Ber{\"u}hren Lesen}, publisher = {August Verlag}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-941360-84-6}, pages = {9 -- 13}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Ber{\"u}hren changiert zwischen Buchst{\"a}blichkeit und Metaphorik. Gegen{\"u}ber dem Distanzsinn des Sehens wird mit dem Ber{\"u}hren eine gr{\"o}ßere Unmittelbarkeit assoziiert. Doch die M{\"o}glichkeit des Kontaktes ist von Beginn an prek{\"a}r. Das Ber{\"u}hren kann sich selbst nicht ber{\"u}hren. In das Ber{\"u}hren schiebt sich ein Dazwischen, das den Entzug dieser ambivalenten Figur bedingt. Diese aporetische Bestimmung des Ber{\"u}hrens begr{\"u}ndet das Unternehmen des Bandes. Jeder Eintrag wiederholt eine Bewegung des Ber{\"u}hrens: In einzelnen Text- oder Bildlekt{\"u}ren werden Spuren verfolgt, die das Ber{\"u}hren im stetigen Sich-Entziehen in seinen mannigfaltigen Nachbarschaften hinterl{\"a}sst. Die einzelnen Eintr{\"a}ge generieren sich aus diesen Lekt{\"u}ren. Dabei spielt die Nachbarschaft der Eintr{\"a}ge selbst eine tragende Rolle. So wird das Ber{\"u}hren zum produktiven Prinzip von Philologie als einer kollektiven Lekt{\"u}re- und Schreibform.}, language = {de} } @incollection{Ungelenk2021, author = {Ungelenk, Johannes}, title = {Die Abweichung, nicht erregt zu sein}, series = {Was bleibt von Fragmenten einer Sprache der Liebe?}, booktitle = {Was bleibt von Fragmenten einer Sprache der Liebe?}, publisher = {Turia + Kant}, address = {Wien}, pages = {143 -- 162}, year = {2021}, language = {de} } @article{Ungelenk2021, author = {Ungelenk, Johannes}, title = {An Rilkes (sich) r{\"u}hrenden Figuren r{\"u}hren}, series = {Ber{\"u}hren Denken}, journal = {Ber{\"u}hren Denken}, publisher = {Kulturverlag Kadmos}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-86599-497-4}, pages = {213 -- 231}, year = {2021}, language = {de} } @article{ErwigUngelenk2021, author = {Erwig, Andrea and Ungelenk, Johannes}, title = {Vorwort}, series = {Ber{\"u}hren Denken}, journal = {Ber{\"u}hren Denken}, publisher = {Kulturverlag Kadmos}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-86599-497-4}, pages = {7 -- 16}, year = {2021}, language = {de} } @article{Ungelenk2021, author = {Ungelenk, Johannes}, title = {Was heißt Ber{\"u}hren Denken?}, series = {Ber{\"u}hren Denken}, journal = {Ber{\"u}hren Denken}, publisher = {Kulturverlag Kadmos}, isbn = {978-3-86599-497-4}, pages = {17 -- 45}, year = {2021}, language = {de} } @article{Ungelenk2021, author = {Ungelenk, Johannes}, title = {Nichts (Luce Irigaray)}, series = {Ber{\"u}hren Lesen}, journal = {Ber{\"u}hren Lesen}, isbn = {978-3-941360-84-6}, pages = {131 -- 138}, year = {2021}, language = {de} } @article{Moser2021, author = {Moser, Natalie}, title = {Praxis und Theorie der Prosa}, series = {Prosa: Theorie, Exegese, Geschichte}, journal = {Prosa: Theorie, Exegese, Geschichte}, publisher = {de Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-11-073701-1}, doi = {10.1515/9783110731569-009}, pages = {171 -- 196}, year = {2021}, language = {de} } @article{Moser2021, author = {Moser, Natalie}, title = {Wie narrativ sind Krisennarrative?}, publisher = {Brill}, address = {Paderborn}, isbn = {978-3-8467-6411-4}, doi = {10.30965/9783846764114_011}, pages = {203 -- 218}, year = {2021}, language = {de} } @article{Moser2021, author = {Moser, Natalie}, title = {Poetik der Ver{\"a}stelung}, series = {Gegenwartslyrik : Entw{\"u}rfe - Str{\"o}mungen - Kontexte}, journal = {Gegenwartslyrik : Entw{\"u}rfe - Str{\"o}mungen - Kontexte}, publisher = {B{\"u}chner}, address = {Marburg}, isbn = {978-3-96317-281-6}, pages = {45 -- 70}, year = {2021}, language = {de} } @article{WiemannRajaShaswati2021, author = {Wiemann, Dirk and Raja, Ira and Shaswati, Mazumdar}, title = {Postcolonial world literature}, series = {Thesis eleven : critical theory and historical sociology}, volume = {162}, journal = {Thesis eleven : critical theory and historical sociology}, number = {1}, publisher = {Sage}, address = {London [u.a.]}, issn = {0725-5136}, doi = {10.1177/0725513621994707}, pages = {3 -- 17}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Postcolonial criticism has repeatedly debunked the ostensible neutrality of the 'world' of world literature by pointing out that and how the contemporary world - whether conceived in terms of cosmopolitan conviviality or neoliberal globalization - cannot be understood without recourse to the worldly event of Europe's colonial expansion. While we deem this critical perspective indispensable, we simultaneously maintain that to reduce 'the world' to the world-making impact of capital, colonialism, and patriarchy paints an overly deterministic picture that runs the risk of unwittingly reproducing precisely that dominant 'oneworldness' that it aims to critique. Moreover, the mere potentiality of alternative modes of world-making tends to disappear in such a perspective so that the only remaining option to think beyond oneworldness resides in the singularity claim. This insistence on singularity, however, leaves the relatedness of the single units massively underdetermined or denies it altogether. By contrast, we locate world literature in the conflicted space between the imperial imposition of a hierarchically stratified world (to which, as hegemonic forces tell us, 'there is no alternative') and the unrealized 'undivided world' that multiple minor cosmopolitan projects yet have to win. It is precisely the tension between these 'two worlds' that brings into view the crucial centrality not of the nodes in their alleged singularity but their specific relatedness to each other, that both impedes and energizes world literature today and renders it ineluctably postcolonial.}, language = {en} }