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BRT --- van Cauwenberge, Conz --- Cromheecke, Luc --- De Moor, Johan --- De Poortere, Pieter --- Devadder, Guido --- Dupré, Steven --- Herr Seele --- IKKE --- Ilah --- Jacobs, Axel --- Gisquière, Stijn --- Van de Perre, Gerolf --- Janssen, Jeroen --- Paquet, Philip --- Schrauwen, Olivier --- Joris, Eric --- Marvano --- Nix --- Vandewalle, Luc --- Van der Gucht, Virginie --- Bosschaert, Jan

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»Schrift besitzt die Macht, zu verewigen.« Diese Vorstellung begleitet Schriftzeichen seit ihrer Erfindung und hat bis heute nichts von ihrer Wirkmächtigkeit eingebüßt. Aus zeichentheoretischer Perspektive ließe sich jedoch entgegenhalten: »Nichts« ist flüchtiger als ein Zeichen und jene Vorstellung eine bloße Behauptung. Vor diesem paradoxen Hintergrund unternimmt die Monographie den Versuch, systematisch innersprachlichen Verfahren nachzugehen, die dazu eingesetzt werden, Informationen möglichst dauerhaft festzuhalten. Sie stützt sich dabei auf literarische Texte zwischen 1755 und 1821 sowie deren historische Ko- und Kontexte. Es gelingt ihr so, im Schnittfeld von Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft sowie der Semiotik erstmals eine Typologie vorzulegen, die weit über die Zeit um 1800 und die Literatur hinaus zeichenhafte Verfahren im Dienste der »Verewigung« zu beschreiben vermag. Semiotics of Eternalization At the interface of literary and cultural studies as well as semiotics, this monograph systematically examines intralinguistic procedures intended to record information for eternity. It succeeds, for the first time, in presenting a typology that describes semiotic procedures in the pursuit of »eternalization« that are not only limited to the period around 1800. An extended English general survey and summary is included.

Ewigkeit --- Schrift --- Unendlichkeit --- Hermeneutik --- Autorschaft --- Performativität --- Aufklärung --- Genie --- Idealismus --- eternity --- preservation --- time --- infinity --- hermeneutics --- authorship --- performative --- Enlightenment --- Genius --- Idealism --- Lebens-Ansichten des Katers Murr --- Miss Sara Sampson --- Der Spinnerin Nachtlied --- Ermunterung --- Wallenstein --- Der Zauberlehrling --- Nänie --- Der Phönix --- Hesperus --- Fabeln --- Orpheus und Eurydike --- Wilhelm Meister --- Kalligone --- Kallias-Brief --- Shakespeare-Aufsatz --- Rede zum Schäkespears Tag --- Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 --- 1800-1899

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From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens. Angela Davis provides the historical, social, and political contexts with which to reinterpret the performances and lyrics of Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday as powerful articulations of an alternative consciousness profoundly at odds with mainstream American culture. The works of Rainey, Smith, and Holiday have been largely misunderstood by critics. Overlooked, Davis shows, has been the way their candor and bravado laid the groundwork for an aesthetic that allowed for the celebration of social, moral, and sexual values outside the constraints imposed by middle-class respectability. Through meticulous transcriptions of all the extant lyrics of Rainey and Smith -- published here in their entirety for the first time -- Davis demonstrates how the roots of the blues extend beyond a musical tradition to serve as a consciousness-raising vehicle for American social memory. A stunning, indispensable contribution to American history, as boldly insightful as the women Davis praises, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism is a triumph. -- Back cover.

Blues (Music) --- History and criticism --- Texts --- Feminism and music --- United States --- Women blues musicians --- Smith, Bessie --- Rainey, Ma --- African American women --- muziek --- muziekgeschiedenis --- Verenigde Staten --- Afro-Amerikanen --- Afro-Amerikaanse cultuur --- blues --- jazz --- vrouwen --- vrouwelijkheid --- feminisme --- seksualiteit --- 78 --- Afro-American women --- Women, African American --- Women, Negro --- Women --- Blues musicians --- Women musicians --- Music and feminism --- Music --- Rainey, Ma, --- Smith, Bessie, --- Holiday, Billie, --- Holliday, Billie, --- Fagan, Eleanora, --- Holiday, Eleanora, --- McKay, Eleanora, --- Holiday, Billy, --- Lady Day, --- Smith, Elizabeth, --- Rainey, Gertrude Malissa Nix Pridgett, --- Pridgett, Gertrude, --- Holiday, Billie --- anno 1900-1999 --- Empress of the Blues --- United States of America --- Pop music --- Singing --- Black feminism