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"M'illumino/d'immenso" - "Ich erleuchte mich/Durch Unermessliches", so übersetzte Ingeborg Bachmann Giuseppe Ungarettis Gedicht Mattina , das minimalistisch auf Maximales verweist: auf den Reichtum dichterischer Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten wie die Macht poetischen Denkens. Wie die ästhetischen Ideen der Literatur Leserinnen und Lesern dazu verhelfen, die Grenzen des Eigenen im Fiktionalen zu überschreiten, ja, laut Kant, sogar Vorstellungen vermitteln können vom empirisch wie begrifflich kaum Fassbaren, davon handeln die Fallstudien dieses Bandes: u.a. von Mythen des Schöpferischen, von Bildern des Todes, des Jenseits und der Seele nach dem ,Tode Gottes', von der Melancholie als dunklem Grund des Genies, von den Metamorphosen des Bösen wie des Guten, von der Ekstase, von der Ökonomie des Selbstopfers, vom Widerstand und den Gegenworten der Poesie sowie von Figurationen der Biografik und des Porträts als Annäherungen an das Besondere, das in keinem Allgemeinen aufgeht.
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German literature --- anno 1940-1949 --- anno 1950-1959 --- German fiction --- History and criticism.
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This volume explores current images of afterlife/afterdeath and the presence of the dead in the imaginations of the living in Indian and Western traditions. Specifically, it focuses on the deepest and most fundamental uncertainty of human existence---the awareness of human mortality, on which depends any assignment of meaning to earthly existence as also to notions of worldly and otherworldly salvation. This central idea is addressed in the literature, arts, audiovisual media and other cultural artefacts of the two traditions. The chapters are based on two main assumptions: First, that one cannot report on the direct experience of death; so it is only possible to speak allegorically of it. Second, in contemporary Western societies, marked by structural atheism, people look at literature, the arts and mass media to study their depiction and reading of traditionally religious questions of disease, death and the Beyond. This is in contrast to Asian civilizations whose preoccupation with death and Beyond is persistent and perhaps central to the civilizations’ highest thought. The chapters cover a wide spectrum of disciplinary approaches, from psychoanalysis to religious, anthropological, literary and film studies, from sociology and philosophy to art history, and address issues of unsettling power: comforting illusions of afterlife; the relations between afterlife and fertility; visions of technological immortalization of mankind; the problem of thinking about death after the “death of God”; socialist utopias of bodily immortality; fear of Hell and punishment; different concepts in relating the living and the dead; near-death experiences; and cultural practices of spiritualism, occultism and suicide.
Culture --- Religions. --- Ethnology. --- Psychology and religion. --- Cultural and Media Studies. --- Cultural Anthropology. --- Religion and Psychology. --- Comparative Religion. --- Religion and psychology --- Religion --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Comparative religion --- Denominations, Religious --- Religion, Comparative --- Religions, Comparative --- Religious denominations --- World religions --- Civilization --- Gods --- Cultural studies --- Study and teaching. --- Death --- Religious aspects. --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Eschatology --- Intermediate state --- Philosophy
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Form (Aesthetics) --- Form perception --- Culture
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This volume explores current images of afterlife/afterdeath and the presence of the dead in the imaginations of the living in Indian and Western traditions. Specifically, it focuses on the deepest and most fundamental uncertainty of human existence---the awareness of human mortality, on which depends any assignment of meaning to earthly existence as also to notions of worldly and otherworldly salvation. This central idea is addressed in the literature, arts, audiovisual media and other cultural artefacts of the two traditions. The chapters are based on two main assumptions: First, that one cannot report on the direct experience of death; so it is only possible to speak allegorically of it. Second, in contemporary Western societies, marked by structural atheism, people look at literature, the arts and mass media to study their depiction and reading of traditionally religious questions of disease, death and the Beyond. This is in contrast to Asian civilizations whose preoccupation with death and Beyond is persistent and perhaps central to the civilizations’ highest thought. The chapters cover a wide spectrum of disciplinary approaches, from psychoanalysis to religious, anthropological, literary and film studies, from sociology and philosophy to art history, and address issues of unsettling power: comforting illusions of afterlife; the relations between afterlife and fertility; visions of technological immortalization of mankind; the problem of thinking about death after the “death of God”; socialist utopias of bodily immortality; fear of Hell and punishment; different concepts in relating the living and the dead; near-death experiences; and cultural practices of spiritualism, occultism and suicide.
Psychology --- Religious studies --- Comparative religion --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Veterinary medicine --- etnologie --- psychologie --- religie --- culturele antropologie --- India
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Wie wird man zu einem vielstimmigen Erzähler, der Texthäuser wie »Harmonia Cælestis« oder »Einführung in die schöne Literatur« zu bauen weiß, in denen sich Europas Autoren und Leser gleichermaßen wohlfühlen können? Péter Esterházy erklärt in einer Poetikvorlesung die Architektonik seiner Prosa und grenzt seinen Begriff von Weltliteratur von dem Goethes ab. Günter Blamberger würdigt den Reichtum und die Experimentierkunst von Esterházys fiktiven Palästen in einer Laudatio. Beide Reden wurden zum Anlass der Ernennung Esterházys zum Literator 2011 gehalten und werden in diesem Band erstmals veröffentlicht. Der Literator ist eine Dozentur für Weltliteratur an der Universität zu Köln, begründet vom Internationalen Kolleg Morphomata und finanziert mit Mitteln des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung.
Literature, Modern. --- Authorship. --- Themes, motives. --- Esterházy, Péter,
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"Sollen doch die Literaturwissenschaftler sich damit beschäftigen, etwas Übersehenes zu finden, der Literat aber darf sich auch einmal den Luxus erlauben, über das Beliebteste zu sprechen, also jenes weltgewinnende Werk, das für immer das Bild eines Kontinents verändert hat. Südamerika, so ließ García Márquez einst jemanden in seiner frühen Novelle Der Oberst hat niemand, der ihm schreibt klagen, das sei für die meisten Menschen doch nur ein Mann mit Schnurrbart, Gitarre und Pistole. Das stimmte dereinst sicher, aber heute ist Südamerika eher ein unheimliches Haus, umgeben von Moor und buntem Regenwald, ein Land bizarrer und melancholischer Wunder. Unsere Vorstellungen sind hier so sehr durch einen einzigen Roman geprägt, dass wir es kaum mehr bemerken." Daniel Kehlmann
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