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Schwache Nerven, starke Texte : Thomas Mann, die bürgerliche Gesellschaft und der Neurasthenie-Diskurs
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ISBN: 9783465028048 346502804X Year: 2021 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main : Vittorio Klostermann,

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Um 1900 war das medizinische Phänomen der Neurasthenie zu einem allgemeinen Störungsbild angewachsen, an dem sich das Unbehagen an der Moderne manifestierte. Die Neurasthenie war immer mehr als das psychische Leiden einzelner - sie war auch der Preis, den Gesellschaft für den Fortschritt zu zahlen hatte. Auch Thomas Mann war vom Nervendiskurs seiner Zeit wie auch vom Wissen um die Neurasthenie beeinflusst. Vor allem im frühen Werk, so in Buddenbrooks und Tonio Kröger, versammeln sich diese Themen wie in einem Brennglas: Zwischen Degeneration und Psychologie des Selbst ist die Neurasthenie zum Symptom einer Krise des bürgerlichen Subjekts geworden; so kann z.B. aus heutiger Sicht die Symptomatik Thomas Buddenbrooks als erste Fallvignette in der Geschichte des Burnouts gelesen werden. In diesem Band geht es aber nicht darum, die zur Schablone gewordene Deutung der Neurasthenie als Zeitkrankheit um 1900 auf die Gegenwart zu legen. Vielmehr sollen die Diskurse um Nervenkrankheit und künstlerisches Potential als zeitgebundene Debatten befragt und nach den Bedingungen des Schreibens im Spiegel der Neurasthenie gefragt werden. Die Wiederbesichtigung eines berühmten Topos - Krankheit und Kunst bei Thomas Mann - will damit einen neuen Blick auf ein altes Thema werfen.


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Walt Whitman and His Caribbean Interlocutors: José Martí, C.L.R. James, and Pedro Mir : Song and Countersong
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ISBN: 9789004462748 9789004462687 Year: 2021 Publisher: Leiden; Boston : BRILL

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Walt Whitman and His Caribbean Interlocutors: José Martí, C.L.R. James, and Pedro Mir explores the writings of Whitman (1819-1892) and of three Caribbean authors who engaged with them: the Cuban poet, essayist and revolutionary José Martí (1853-1895); the Trinidadian activist, historian and cultural critic C.L.R. James (1901-1989), and the Dominican poet Pedro Mir (1913-2000). Whitman and his Caribbean interlocutors are discussed against the background of the contradictions of capitalist modernity, as exemplified by the United States between the 1840s and the 1940s. Marx's exploration of the liberating and oppressive dimensions of capitalist expansion frames the discussion of each author and of Martí's, James's and Mir's responses to Whitman and, more generally, to North American capitalist and industrial civilisation and its imperial projections.


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On the horizon of world literature : forms of modernity in romantic England and Republican China
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ISBN: 0823294811 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York : Fordham University Press,

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On the Horizon of World Literature compares literary texts from asynchronous periods of incipient literary modernity in different parts of the world: Romantic England and Republican China. These moments were oriented alike by "world literature" as a discursive framework of classifications that connected and re-organized local articulations of literary histories and literary modernities. World literature thus provided-and continues to provide-a condition of possibility for conversation between cultures as well as for their mutual provincialization.The book offers readings of a selection of literary forms that serve also as textual sites for the enactment of new socio-political forms of life. The literary manifesto, the tale collection, the familiar essay, and the domestic novel function as testing grounds for questions of both literary-aesthetic and socio-political importance: What does it mean to attain a voice? What is a common reader? How does one dwell in the ordinary? What is a woman? In different languages and activating heterogeneous literary and philosophical traditions, works by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lu Xun, Charles and Mary Lamb, Lin Shu, Zhou Zuoren, Jane Austen, and Eileen Chang explore the far-from-settled problem of what it means to be modern in different lifeworlds.Sun's book brings to light the disciplinary-historical impact world literature has had in shaping literary traditions and practices around the world. The book renews the practice of close reading by offering the model of a deprovincialized close reading loosened from confinement within monocultural hermeneutic circles. By means of its own focus on England and China, the book provides methods useful for comparatists working between other Western and non-Western languages. It establishes the critical significance of Romanticism for the discipline of literary studies and opens up new paths of research in global Romanticism and global nineteenth-century studies. And it offers a new approach to analyzing the cosmopolitan character of the literary and cultural transformations of early twentieth-century China.


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On the horizon of world literature : forms of modernity in Romantic England and Republican China
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ISBN: 0823297292 0823294803 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York : Fordham University Press,

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'On the Horizon of World Literature' compares literary texts from asynchronous periods of incipient literary modernity in different parts of the world: Romantic England and Republican China. These moments were oriented alike by 'world literature' as a discursive framework of classifications that connected and re-organized local articulations of literary histories and literary modernities. World literature thus provided - and continues to provide - a condition of possibility for conversation between cultures as well as for their mutual provincialization. The book offers readings of a selection of literary forms that serve also as textual sites for the enactment of new socio-political forms of life.


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Biopolitics, materiality and meaning in modern European drama
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ISBN: 1474491057 1474467458 Year: 2021 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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Arguing that existing modernisation theories have been unnecessarily one-sided, Hedwig Fraunhofer offers a rewriting of modernity that cuts across binary methodologies - nature and culture, mind and matter, epistemology and ontology, critique and affirmative writing, dramatic and postdramatic theatre.


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Dostoevsky at 200 : the novel in modernity
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ISBN: 1487538642 1487541376 Year: 2021 Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press,

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"Marking the bicentenary of Dostoevsky's birth, Dostoevsky at 200: The Novel in Modernity takes the writer's art--specifically the tension between experience and formal representation--as its central theme. While many critical approaches to Dostoevsky's works are concerned with spiritual and philosophical dilemmas, this volume focuses instead on questions of design and narrative to explore Dostoevsky and the novel from a multitude of perspectives. Contributions situate Dostoevsky's formal choices of narrative, plot, genre, characterization, and the novel itself within modernity and consider how the experience of modernity led to Dostoevsky's particular engagement with form. Conceived as a forum for younger scholars working in new directions in Dostoevsky scholarship, the chapters that comprise this volume ask how narrative and genre shape Dostoevsky's works, as well as how they influence the way modernity is represented. Of interest not just to readers and scholars of Russian literature, but also to those interested in the genre of the novel more broadly, Dostoevsky at 200 is pathbreaking in its approach to the question of Dostoevsky's contribution to the novel as a form. "--

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Civilization, Modern, in literature. --- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, --- Dostoevskij, Fëdor Mihajlovič --- Dostoevskij, Fjodor Mihajlovič --- Dostoevskij, Fedor Mikhajlovich --- Dostojevski, Fjodor Michajlovitsj --- Dostojewski, Fedor --- Dostojevski, Fedor --- Dostojewski, Fjodor --- Dostojevski, Fjodor --- Dostojewski, Fjodor Michailowitsj --- Dostojewskij, Fjodor M. --- Dostoïevski, Fiodor --- Dostoïevsky, Fedor Mihajlovic --- Достоевский, Федор, --- Dostoevskiĭ, Fedor, --- Dostoievski, Fédor Mikhailovitch, --- Dostoievski, Fiodor, --- Dostojevski, F. M., --- Dostojewskij, Fjodor M., --- Tʻo-ssu-tʻo-yeh-fu-ssu-chi, --- Tuosituoyefusiji, --- Dostoevsky, Fyodor, --- Zuboskal, --- Dostoevskiĭ, Fedor Mikhaĭlovich, --- Dostoevskiĭ, F. M. --- Dostojewski, Fjedor Michailowitsch, --- Dustūyafskī, Fīdūr, --- Dostoievsky, F., --- Dosztojevszkij, Fjodor Mihajlovics, --- Tu-ssu-tʻo-yeh-fu-ssu-chi, --- Dusituoyefusiji, --- Dostojewski, --- Dostojewski, Fiodor, --- Dostoevskij, Fedor, --- Dostojewskij, F. M. --- Dostojevskij, F. M., --- Dostojevskij, Fjodor, --- D̲ostogiephski, Ph. M., --- Dostoïevsky, Th. M., --- D̲ostogiephsky, Phiontor Michaēlovits, --- Dostoiewskij, --- Dostojewski, Fjodor, --- Dostoevsky, Fedor, --- Dostoïevsky, Fédor, --- Dostoevsky, F. M. --- Dostojevskis, F., --- Dostoevski, F., --- Dostojewsky, --- Dosṭoyevsḳi, Fyodor Mikhailovits', --- Dostogephskē, Th., --- Dostojewski, Teodor, --- Dāstavaskī, --- D̲ostogephski, --- Dostojevskis, Fjodors, --- D̲ostogievskē, Phiontor, --- Dostoyewski, Fedor, --- Dosztojevszkij, F. M. --- Dosṭoyeṿsḳi, F. M., --- Dostojevskij, Fedor Michajlovič, --- Tāstayēvski, K̲apiyōtar, --- Dostoievski, Fedor, --- Dastoyaveski, Fiyodar, --- Dosṭoyevsḳi, Fyodor, --- Dāstāyivskī, --- ドストエフスキー --- דאםטאיעווםקי, פ. --- דאסטאיעווסקי, פ. --- דאסטאיעווסקי, פ. מ. --- דאסטאיעווסקי, פ. מ., --- דאסטאיעוועסקי, פ. --- דאסטאיעװסקי, פ.מ --- דאסטאיעװסקי, פ., --- דוסטויבסקי --- דוסטויבסקי, פדור מיכאילוביץ --- דוסטויבסקי, פיודור מיכאילוביץ, --- דוסטויבסקי, פיודור ניכילוביץ' --- דוסטויבסקי, פיודור, --- דוסטויבסקי, פי., --- דוסטויבסקי, פ. מ., --- דוסטויבסקי, ת. ד. --- דוסטוייבסקי, פיודור --- דוסטוייבסקי, פיודור, --- 陀司妥也夫斯基, --- 陀思妥也夫斯基, --- 陀思妥耶夫斯基, --- F. ドストエフスキー, --- Crime and Punishment. --- Dostoevskii. --- Fyodor Dostoevsky. --- Notes from Underground. --- Russian literature. --- Russian realism. --- The Idiot. --- modernity. --- nineteenth-century. --- representation. --- the novel.

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