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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.

Literature and mental illness. --- Neurasthenia --- Civilization, Modern, in literature --- Civilization, Modern, in literature. --- Neurasthenia. --- Mann, Thomas,

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"A familiar story holds that modernization radiates out from metropolitan origins. The whole machinery explores representations of people and places, objects and occasions, that reverse that trajectory, demonstrating how modernizing agents move in a contrary direction as well--from the country to city. In a crucial reversal, these figures aren't pulled by or into urban modernity so much as they bring alternate--and transformative--iterations of the modern to the urban world. This book upends the U.S. South's reputation as retrograde and unresponsive to modernity by showing how the effects of national and transnational exchange (particularly via the cotton trade), emergent technologies, and industrialization animate environments and bodies associated with, or performing, versions of the rural. To this end, it also searches out the shadow side of the cosmopolitan modern by investigating the rural sources--the laboring bodies and raw materials--that made such urban spaces possible. The whole machinery explores a range of canonical and noncanonical figures: Paul Laurence Dunbar, Frances E.W. Harper, W.E.B. Du Bois, Allen Tate, Don West, the authors of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union pamphlet The Disinherited Speak, Charlie Poole, and Zora Neale Hurston among them. It uncovers signs of the rural modern in a variety of texts and media, including narrative fiction and poetry, as well as photographs, sound recordings, radio broadcasts, letters, newspaper reports, and magazine profiles. These readings convey diverse and individuated desires for escape or entrenchment, often in the same conflicted voice, ultimately creating multivalent expressions and experiences of rurality that are, in their way, as thoroughly modern as those of more widely canonized urban figures"--

Civilization, Modern, in literature. --- Rural conditions in literature. --- American literature --- History and criticism.

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Civilization, Modern, in literature. --- Literature and society --- History --- Buchan, John, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Fruto de más de dos décadas de estudio sobre La Celestina, este volumen propone una lectura de la Tragicomedia como conflicto entre distintos sistemas de valores. Expresión de un proceso cultural de secularización, con firmes raíces en una cultura urbana y una economía mercantil, en La Celestina, sin embargo, la relación entre el texto y el mundo en el que nace no puede entenderse en términos de mero reflejo (Widerspiegelung), sino que presupone la mediación de un recurso literario, que remite al modelo teórico de "formación de compromiso" (F. Orlando), según el cual la comicidad suele actuar como cobertura para la expresión de contenidos o valores no aceptados por la cultura de la época, o bien aceptados o incluso autorizados, pero no por todos los códigos sociales y culturales entonces vigentes. Una lectura de la obra que se vale de este modelo teórico permite también resaltar un vínculo más complejo que el texto establece con la cultura humanística, cuyos temas fundadores emergen y se defienden en la obra no por vía directa, sino a través de la cobertura o negación de la fachada cómica. En "la ley universal de la vida" cabe reconocer el conflicto perenne que anima cada partícula de lo creado. Es por eso que del cuestionamiento de todo principio de orden preexistente, de la violenta ruptura de equilibrios y estructuras del pasado, en La Celestina se genera y se instaura lo nuevo, en relación con lo cual la obra termina por dar la voz más poderosa a las contradicciones y contrastes que pertenecen a la trama más profunda de la modernidad.

Civilization, Modern, in literature. --- Disorderly conduct in literature. --- Rojas, Fernando de,

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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.

Literature --- Civilization, Modern, in literature. --- Comparative literature --- Philosophy. --- English and Chinese. --- Chinese and English.