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Touching at a Distance
(2023)
Studies the capacity of Shakespeare’s plays to touch and think about touchBased on plays from all major genres: Hamlet, The Tempest, Richard III, Much Ado About Nothing and Troilus and CressidaCentres on creative, close readings of Shakespeare’s plays, which aim to generate critical impulses for the 21st century readerBrings Shakespeare Studies into touch with philosophers and theoreticians from a range of disciplinary areas – continental philosophy, literary criticism, psychoanalysis, sociology, phenomenology, law, linguistics: Friedrich Nietzsche, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Lacan, Luce Irigaray, Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Niklas Luhmann, Hans Blumenberg, Carl Schmitt, J. L. AustinTheatre has a remarkable capacity: it touches from a distance. The audience is affected, despite their physical separation from the stage. The spectators are moved, even though the fictional world presented to them will never come into direct touch with their real lives. Shakespeare is clearly one of the master practitioners of theatrical touch. As the study shows, his exceptional dramaturgic talent is intrinsically connected with being one of the great thinkers of touch. His plays fathom the complexity and power of a fascinating notion – touch as a productive proximity that is characterised by unbridgeable distance – which philosophers like Friedrich Nietzsche, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, Luce Irigaray and Jean-Luc Nancy have written about, centuries later. By playing with touch and its metatheatrical implications, Shakespeare raises questions that make his theatrical art point towards modernity: how are communities to form when traditional institutions begin to crumble? What happens to selfhood when time speeds up, when oneness and timeless truth can no longer serve as reliable foundations? What is the role and the capacity of language in a world that has lost its seemingly unshakeable belief and trust in meaning? How are we to conceive of the unthinkable extremes of human existence – birth and death – when the religious orthodoxy slowly ceases to give satisfactory explanations? Shakespeare’s theatre not only prompts these questions, but provides us with answers. They are all related to touch, and they are all theatrical at their core: they are argued and performed by the striking experience of theatre’s capacities to touch – at a distance
Rumbo a Venecia
(2023)
Esta investigación explora la representación de viajes a Venecia en la literatura latinoamericana y de lengua alemana del siglo XX. Aplicando planteamientos teóricos de literatura de viaje, se descodifica la estructura mítica que subyace en la descripción del desplazamiento hacia la ciudad lacustre. El objetivo es exponer los recursos narrativos y estilísticos utilizados para entrelazar este recorrido, en su mayoría oblicuo, con la emersión gradual del conflicto de los y las protagonistas. Además, a partir del estudio comparativo de algunos elementos arquitectónicos emblemáticos como son los palacios, los puentes y, sobre todo, la conformación laberíntica, se muestran las peculiaridades de la representación de Venecia en obras de Julieta Campos, Alejo Carpentier, Julio Cortázar, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Thomas Mann y Sergio Pitol. Con ello se busca, primeramente, visibilizar el papel de Venecia en la literatura latinoamericana y, segundo, ofrecer nuevas claves de lectura a obras que han sido ampliamente estudiadas, mas no en una confrontación transareal.
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(2023)
Topik und Memoria
(2023)
In diesem Buch werden Topik und Memoria in ihren antiken Grundlagen und ihrer neuzeitlichen Rezeption und Transformation untersucht. Der Autor widmet sich diesen einzuübenden rhetorischen Fertigkeiten anhand von Platon und Kleist, Simonides von Keos und Pausanias, Lichtenberg und Forster, Schliemann, Freud und Ernst Robert Curtius. In unterschiedlicher Akzentuierung erörtert er den komplexen Zusammenhang von Topik und Memoria, von Argumentation und Fantasie, Erinnerung und Affekt. Eine interdisziplinäre Topos-Forschung, die sich ihrer Herkunft und Geschichte, wie sie hier entfaltet wird, bewusst ist, dürfte sich als ein methodisches Paradigma einer anthropologischen Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft empfehlen.