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Rewind, Forward, Skip: Tabs of Memory to play with the Narrative Tempo Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Shipra Tholia, Amar Singh
Memory narratives, like all fictional narratives, are characterized by variation in narrative pace, resulting from a variety of staging strategies. In memory literature, the change in narrative pace is particularly evident because the representation of memory encourages a variety of narrative pacing strategies – from acceleration to deceleration. A great deal of attention is given to the representation
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Imitation and the Inimitable: Scenes of (Failing) Translation in Goethe’s Lehrjahre and Novelle Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Dirk Weissmann
This paper explores the theme of translation, pseudo-translation, and multilingualism in Goethe’s Lehrjahre and Novelle. Both texts stage processes of (failing) translation in order to reflect on issues of linguistic identity and linguistic homogeneity. Overall, Goethe’s latent inclusion of different languages in these texts demonstrates his deep engagement with language diversity, as he resisted the
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Robert Walsers Sprachbildlichkeit: Im Trialog mit Thomas Hirschhorns Ruinen und Mark Wallingers Schattenspielen Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Ulrike Steierwald
In the linguistic imagery of his texts and also in his consistent biographical retreat, the author Robert Walser presents the riddles of an aesthetic relationship between self and other to the world. From the diversity of his extremely relational view of the world emerges a tension-rich charge of his texts, which is taken up by numerous visual artists. The tension consists in the simultaneity of abstraction
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Nizami, Profane Love and the Melancholy Tradition: Uncovering Amor Heroes in the Indian Princess’ Tale in Seven Beauties Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Javid Aliyev
Nizami Ganjavi’s fourth epic poem, Seven Beauties offers a cohesive picture of many variations or ‘colors’ of love and occupies a prominent position in his prolific oeuvre. Although much has been written on mystical love in Nizami’s works, the status of profane love remains somewhat neglected. A concept introduced through the Latin translation of an Arabic medical treatise on love during the medieval
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The stage-within-the-screen: Peter Brook’s film adaptation of King Lear Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Paulo da Silva Gregório
In his film of King Lear (1971), Peter Brook reimagined his landmark production of the play on screen through an intricate interplay of theatrical and cinematic codes. This article revisits Brook’s adaptation, focusing on how its much-discussed debt to theatrical traditions relates to broader issues regarding the production and reception of Shakespearean films in the UK. I argue that the film’s overt
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Reimagining the Body Without Organs Through Exchange Value in Never Let Me Go Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Daniel R. Adler
Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the body without organs (BwO) is one of their most abstruse, yet it remains integral to their larger project of experimentation. While the BwO has previously been described by contemporary posthuman theorists as a force of desire, in the context of the organ harvesting scheme in Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go, clones are raised until they are mature enough
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Reisen ohne Bewegung: Oskar Loerkes lyrische Deterritorialisierungen Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Arne Klawitter
The article analyzes the ‘distant topography’ in the lyrical work of German poet Oskar Loerke (1884–1941) by referring to Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of deterritorialization. It takes as its starting point a reading of “China” in Loerke’s poems, which appears as an ultimate distance but at the same time as mediated by Chinoiserie and Orientalism. However, for Loerke, China not only implies a topos
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Übersetzungstheorie aus Brasilien: Haroldo de Campos im Dialog mit Christian Morgenstern Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Marília Jöhnk
An innovative and dynamic way of practicing and thinking about translation emerged in 1950 s Brazil and became entangled with German literature. However, due to linguistic barriers, this constellation remains almost invisible today. The main protagonist of this translation discourse was Haroldo de Campos who, together with his brother Augusto de Campos, translated texts from world literature into Brazilian
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Engagement et mélancolie dans Écoutez nos défaites de Laurent Gaudé Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Isabelle Bernard
This article analyzes the place of commitment and melancholy in the novel Écoutez nos défaites (Listen to our defeats) by French writer Laurent Gaudé (born in 1972). A dense, complex and multi-generic novel, it has a strong anchoring in contemporary historical events. Gaudé’s singular work, begun more than twenty years ago, scrutinizes the melancholy and lyricism which cross it in filigree, using universal
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Decolonized Trauma: Narrative, Memory and Identity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Behzad Pourgharib, Moussa Pourya Asl, Somayeh Esmaili
Even though literary works serve as excellent media for bearing witness to trauma, postcolonial and diasporic literary texts are often dismissed for their falsified accounts of traumatic life experiences. Recent studies on African American literature have stressed the need for a decolonized conceptualization of trauma that would not only disrupt the long-existing white Global Northern perspectives
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A Second Concealment: Quasimodo in Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Seong Joo Lee
This essay attempts to examine the intertextuality of the fictional character Quasimodo in Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus. Thomas Mann readily professes his affection for his fictional character Adrian, and admits to the existence of a close yet secret connection between Adrian and Mann himself. It can be concluded that Thomas Mann identifies not only with Adrian but also with Quasimodo, who himself
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Colossal Scrawls and Divine Naughts: Images of Formlessness in Gottfried Keller’s Der grüne Heinrich and Robert Walser’s Jakob von Gunten Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Jana Vijayakumaran
In Robert Walser’s novel Jakob von Gunten (1909), a specific metanarrative revolves around the long-standing opposition between form and formlessness. This metanarrative redefines the ill-reputed non-form, establishing it as the core of aesthetic and linguistic productivity. At the same time, it provides insights into the literary precursors and theoretical contexts that reverberate throughout the
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Haunted by the Past: Understanding History and the Aftermath of War in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Aparna Nandha, Sanra Reji
This article explores the spectral presence of the past in the form of skulls and emotional trauma in a story about a country ravaged by a protracted war. It analyzes Anil’s Ghost (2000), a novel by Michael Ondaatje, a Sri Lankan Canadian writer renowned for constructing revisionist and fictional historiographic narratives. The novel speaks about a phase of the ethno-nationalist civil war in contemporary
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Doktor Faustus and its Variations on Lateness Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Cecily Cai
Thomas Mann’s novel Doktor Faustus, first published 1947, tells the story of a fictional German musician, Adrian Leverkühn, paralleled with the rise and fall of Germany in the first half of the 20th century. In fact, the idea of Doktor Faustus predated Mann’s exile, and it had been already conceived as a work of lateness – a Faust, a Parsifal in prose. In the process of creating variations on lateness
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When Translation Reshapes Reception: The Curious Case of Zeruya Shalev in the German Literary Sphere of World Literature Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Tom Kellner
This article sets out to explore the conditions that paved the way for the unique success of the German translation of Zeruya Shalev’s second novel, Love Life (Hayei ahava, 1997), offering a specific example of the potential benefits that arise from cross-cultural translations. Upon its publication in Israel, Love Life was received quite critically; it was considered too simplistic, straightforward
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An Aesthete in Despair: Reading Lolita through Kierkegaard’s Aesthetic Sphere of Existence Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Alireza Safari QotbAbadi, Mahsa Hashemi
Since its publication in 1955, Vladimir Nabokov’s contentious novel Lolita has stirred heated controversies that originated from Nabokov’s treatment of a thorny subject matter. What makes his achievement so stupendous is that he penned a book about a forbidden desire and succeeded in persuading his reader to feel for the deviant. The present study intends to fathom Nabokov’s success in his art of deception
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Beyond Thought’s Limits: Celan, Heidegger, and the Crooked Path of Art Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Asif Rahamim
In this article I contend that Paul Celan’s poem, “Todtnauberg,” written as a follow up to his visit to Martin Heidegger’s Berghütte, should be read not only as a challenge to Heideggerian philosophy’s fundamental assumptions – primarily the notion of dwelling in the world via poetic language – but also to the very structure of philosophical thought, with its biases and inadequacies. Drawing on Celan’s
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Eigentum und Metapher: Überlegungen zu Franz Kafkas „Der Bau“ Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Ansgar Mohnkern
Franz Kafka’s “Der Bau” is, among others, a story about dwelling and real estate. This essay makes visible how Kafka’s late fragment considers aspects of law, narration, and metaphor in order to establish a (bourgeois) form of property. The character of this proprietary order is explored in the text. Particularly the often-neglected framework of property that Kafka assigns to the burrow and its monologuing
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Szene im Kirschgarten: Zu einem Gedicht von Paul Celan, mit einem methodologischen Exkurs Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Andrei Corbea-Hoisie
The reconstruction of the creation of Paul Celan’s posthumous poem “In meinem zerschossenen Knie” enables an examination of the complex network of elements of his own biography – the traces of formative readings, his identity questions projected in his positions towards Judaism and Zionism, the obsessional poetic motives etc. – from which the poet lets the lyrical text ‘coagulate.’ The relationship
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Scientific surrealism: Creation and rigour in Paul Nougé’s experimental method Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-06-17 Sami Sjöberg
The surrealists saw their activity as research, which often resulted in art. However, in surrealist scholarship less attention has been paid to how individual surrealists understood research and how their methods were developed. Many of them, such as Paul Nougé and Roger Caillois, launched serious investigations into the irrational with the aim of acknowledging the affective dimensions of (rational)
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A Man Who Is Not a Dog: Thomas Mann and the Question of the Jew, the Human and the Animal Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-06-17 Omri Ben Yehuda
In this study I confront the work of Thomas Mann with the Jewish question in order to examine the relationship between literary (human) agency and the inferior margins that enable it: those creatures who do not share the language of (the European and civilized) man. Through a reading of several of Mann’s narratives that concern the relationship between human beings and animals as well as texts by Jewish
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The Nietzschean Premise of Eliot’s Historical Sense Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-06-17 Tomislav Brlek
No critical concept has been more readily associated with the critical writings of T. S. Eliot than tradition, yet the reception of his views in this regard is one of misprision. The paper demonstrates that Eliot’s equally misunderstood notion of historical sense is compatible with, even derives from, Nietzsche’s understanding of the term, as both authors reject the substantialist idea of tradition
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Berührung auf Todeshöhe: Maurice Blanchots Uneingestehbare Gemeinschaft (Bataille, Nancy, Duras) Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-06-17 Martina Bengert
Focusing on Maurice Blanchot’s La Communauté inavouable (1983), this text investigates possibilities of thinking and performing communities that interact with and constitute one another “à hauteur de mort” (Bataille).Following the twofold structure of Blanchot’s text, the first part of the essay in its first part unfolds the notion of communitas in order to show how Maurice Blanchot, Georges Bataille
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Das Politische spüren: Heiner Müllers Horatier und das Körpergefühl der Repräsentation Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-06-17 Sandra Fluhrer
Representation as a form of embodiment relates to the human body’s capacity to experience emotion. While this dimension for the most part remains latent in institutional politics, theatre as a medium of physical co-presence can foreground it and explore its potential for a critique of practices and institutions of political representation. This article reads Heiner Müller’s Roman play Der Horatier
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If you prick us: Shylock and the Politics of Touch Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-06-17 Tobias Döring
Shylock is the most celebrated and contested figure of a stage Jew, who makes his memorable appearance in Shakespeare’s problematic comedy The Merchant of Venice (c. 1596). His best-known speech “If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh?” – often cited out of context as a plea for tolerance – engages with the politics of touch as a way to constitute and at the same time question
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Kiss me (not!), Cressida – Or: The social touch of lips and tongue Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-06-17 Johannes Ungelenk
The article is dedicated to the problem of social bonds that is negotiated in Troilus and Cressida. Troilus and Ulysses embody an old, traditional order of the world that is out of joint, while Cressida’s behaviour and her way of interacting indicate a different and new regime of social regulation that is about to take over. With its complex superposition of (touches of) love and war, Troilus and Cressida
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Frontmatter Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-01
Article Frontmatter was published on November 1, 2021 in the journal arcadia (volume 56, issue 2).
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A Digital Revolution? Insiders, Outsiders, and the “Disruptive Potential” of Instapoetry Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Alyson Miller
Whilst frequently dismissed as “cliché, banal, derivative, portentous, repetitive, and manipulative” (Hodgkinson), offering little other than “fidget-spinner” distractions to appease the masses (Roberts), Instapoetry is a slippery, intricate mode. The simplicity of its aesthetic belies its complex political manoeuvrings, marked by an imperative towards a progressive ideology that contests the sexism
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„Wir Nichtgnostiker“: Die Hitler-Engelhardt-Parallele in Christian Krachts Imperium Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Stephan Feldhaus
In 2012 Georg Diez provoked a literary scandal with his review of Christian Kracht’s novel Imperium . Since then, almost ninety informed studies which show an ongoing academic interest in the book have been published. Many of these studies attempted to explain the apparently failing analogy between Hitler and Engelhardt that the novel claimed in an irritating manner. Nevertheless, none of them took
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How Not to Become Tolerant: Habitus and Affects in Lessing’s Nathan the Wise Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Manuel Clemens
The coincidences and phantasms that open Lessing’s play Nathan the Wise reappear throughout the entire drama and even bring about its happy ending. While the usual interpretation of the plot maintains that the illusions held by the protagonists of the play – such as their superstitions, unrestrained affects, and prejudices – are overcome via a learning process and transformed into tolerance, I propose
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Satirische Metabolistik: Jean Pauls Skizze „Über die Schriftstellerei“ Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Alexander Waszynski
Jean Paul’s collection Grönländische Prozesse, oder Satirische Skizzen (1783–4/1821) has been scrutinized regarding its exuberant similes and its satirical wit, but ranked low compared to his novels. From the beginning, however, it exposes a groundbreaking strategy resonating in his more famous literary and theoretical works alike. The first sketch “On literary writing. An opusculum posthumum” converts
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The Exemplarity of Particulars: Arendt on Validity Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Martin Blumenthal-Barby
When Hannah Arendt delivered her Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in 1970, she held a seminar on Kant’s Critique of Judgment to explore aspects of her lecture course in greater detail. This essay probes Arendt’s seminar notes with an eye to the concept of ‘exemplary validity,’ which is at the core of her theory of judgment. Notably, her analysis repeatedly
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Ehe- und Ehebruchsnarrative in der Literatur Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Joachim Harst, Dagmar Stöferle
Article Ehe- und Ehebruchsnarrative in der Literatur was published on November 1, 2021 in the journal arcadia (volume 56, issue 2).
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Martina Wernli und Alexander Kling, Hgg.: Das Verhältnis von „res“ und „verba“: Zu den Narrativen der Dinge. Freiburg i. Br., Berlin und Wien: Rombach, 2018. 260 Seiten. Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Sergej Rickenbacher
Article Martina Wernli und Alexander Kling, Hgg.: Das Verhältnis von „res“ und „verba“: Zu den Narrativen der Dinge. Freiburg i. Br., Berlin und Wien: Rombach, 2018. 260 Seiten. was published on November 1, 2021 in the journal arcadia (volume 56, issue 2).
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Thomas Nail: The Figure of the Migrant. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2015. 295 S. Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 David Martyn
Article Thomas Nail: The Figure of the Migrant. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2015. 295 S. was published on November 1, 2021 in the journal arcadia (volume 56, issue 2).
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Frontmatter Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01
Article Frontmatter was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal arcadia (volume 56, issue 1).
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Las ninfas de los ríos: Echo(s) zwischen Miguel de Cervantes, Paul Valéry und Jorge Luis Borges als Grundlegung einer Theorie literarischer Resonanz Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Anita Traninger
The article takes as its starting point a reading of Jorge Luis Borges’ short story Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote , focusing on the first passage from Cervantes’ Quijote that is quoted verbatim in the text. An invocation of the river nymphs and the nymph Echo („las ninfas de los ríos, la húmida y dolorosa Eco“), it is singled out by the narrator as bearing the voice of Pierre Menard despite having
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„Das indianische Kanaan“: Weltliteratur, Exil und epischer Fluss in Alfred Döblins Amazonas Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Daniel Weidner
The paper reads Alfred Döblin’s novel Amazonas (1937/1938) in the context of current debates about world literature. It argues that these debates not only refer to a certain group of texts or to a literary system, but concern problems of reading and representation, namely how to read literature beyond the paradigms of national and comparative literature and how to represent a world, especially the
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Frieder von Ammon und Dirk von Petersdorff, Hgg.: Lyrik / Lyrics. Songtexte als Gegenstand der Literaturwissenschaft. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2019. 424 S. Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Werner Bies
Article Frieder von Ammon und Dirk von Petersdorff, Hgg.: Lyrik / Lyrics. Songtexte als Gegenstand der Literaturwissenschaft. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2019. 424 S. was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal arcadia (volume 56, issue 1).
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Ulrich Gaier und Monika Küble: Der politische Mörike und seine radikalen Freunde. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2019. 338 S. Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Andrei Corbea-Hoisie
Article Ulrich Gaier und Monika Küble: Der politische Mörike und seine radikalen Freunde. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2019. 338 S. was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal arcadia (volume 56, issue 1).
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Malika Maskarinec: The Forces of Form in German Modernism. Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 2018. 240 pp. Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Mirta Devidi
Article Malika Maskarinec: The Forces of Form in German Modernism. Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 2018. 240 pp. was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal arcadia (volume 56, issue 1).
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Simon Strauss, Hg.: Spielplanänderung! 30 Stücke, die das Theater heute braucht. Stuttgart: Tropen Verlag, 2020. 262 S. Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Hannah Fissenebert
Article Simon Strauss, Hg.: Spielplanänderung! 30 Stücke, die das Theater heute braucht. Stuttgart: Tropen Verlag, 2020. 262 S. was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal arcadia (volume 56, issue 1).
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Pola Groß: Adornos Lächeln. Das „Glück am Ästhetischen“ in seinen literatur- und kulturtheoretischen Essays. Berlin und Boston: De Gruyter (Studien zur deutschen Literatur, Bd. 222), 2020. 422 S. Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Matthias Kandziora
Article Pola Groß: Adornos Lächeln. Das „Glück am Ästhetischen“ in seinen literatur- und kulturtheoretischen Essays. Berlin und Boston: De Gruyter (Studien zur deutschen Literatur, Bd. 222), 2020. 422 S. was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal arcadia (volume 56, issue 1).
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Diana Hitzke: Nach der Einsprachigkeit. Slavisch-deutsche Texte transkulturell. Berlin: Peter Lang (Postcolonial Perspectives on Eastern Europe, Bd. 6), 2019. 167 S. Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Stefan Simonek
Article Diana Hitzke: Nach der Einsprachigkeit. Slavisch-deutsche Texte transkulturell. Berlin: Peter Lang (Postcolonial Perspectives on Eastern Europe, Bd. 6), 2019. 167 S. was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal arcadia (volume 56, issue 1).
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DS Mayfield: Rhetoric and Contingency: Aristotle, Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Blumenberg. Berlin und Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. 888 S. Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Alexander Waszynski
Article DS Mayfield: Rhetoric and Contingency: Aristotle, Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Blumenberg. Berlin und Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. 888 S. was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal arcadia (volume 56, issue 1).
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Jasmin Wrobel: Topografien des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die memoriale Poetik des Stolperns in Haroldo de Campos’ Galáxias. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020. 409 S. Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Jobst Welge
Article Jasmin Wrobel: Topografien des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die memoriale Poetik des Stolperns in Haroldo de Campos’ Galáxias. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020. 409 S. was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal arcadia (volume 56, issue 1).
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Agency and Agnosis in the Orlando furioso Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Václav Gabriel Piňos
This article foregrounds human epistemological disorientation in the Orlando furioso with a view to theological implications which, if not rigorously followed up by Ariosto’s verse (too supple to endure rigor), are nevertheless made possible by its discourse. Beginning with the recurring fantasy-inducing impotence of will (madness) that unite the narrator with the characters , the article examines
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The Ethnographer from Within: Wild Thought in Stefano D’Arrigo’s Horcynus Orca Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Chiara Caradonna
The present article aims to demonstrate how ethnography is present, discussed, and criticized in Stefano D’Arrigo’s novel Horcynus Orca (1975). Through a comparison with a passage from Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Tristes Tropiques (1955), the novel is shown to adopt and challenge central tenets of ethnography. D’Arrigo imagines the possibility of an ‘ethnographer from within,’ a member of a Sicilian fishermen
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Frontmatter Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-11-01
Article Frontmatter was published on November 1, 2020 in the journal arcadia (volume 55, issue 2).
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Silencing the Present? Decolonization, Nationalization, and Natural Right(s) in Émeric Bergeaud’s Stella (1859) Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Jonas Ross Kjærgård
Abstract Émeric Bergeaud wrote Stella (1859), his novelistic account of the Haitian revolution (1791–1804), at a most turbulent moment in Haitian history. Faustin Soulouque rose to power in the late 1840 s and soon began to pursue his political opponents with violent means. Coming from a “Boyerist” background, Bergeaud fled the country in 1848 and settled in St. Thomas where he worked on his novel
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Interfiguralitätsstrategien: Fontanes realistische Melusine als transfiktionales Phänomen Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Paula Wojcik
Abstract Realistic conceptions of genuinely fantastic literary or mythical characters, such as Theodor Fontane’s Melusine, represent what Umberto Eco refers to as “floating individuals.” These characters are transfictional as they are highly decontextualized from their narrative origin and thus a challenge for intertextuality and intermedia studies: the name implies a relationship with another text
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Kafka Shared Between Blanchot and Sartre Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Aukje van Rooden
Ever since their translation in the course of the 20 th century, the works of Kafka have been widely appreciated by French intellectuals. Kafka’s greatest admirers include Maurice Blanchot and Jean-Paul Sartre, both of whom consider his work an exemplary illustration of their own poetical-philosophical views. This is remarkable, because Blanchot’s and Sartre’s respective views are generally conceived
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German-Italian Literary Connections in the Late Middle Ages: Boccaccio’s The Decameron in Light of Some Late Medieval German Narrative Precedents Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Albrecht Classen
Abstract Comparative research focused on medieval literature continues to be characterized by many desiderata, especially with regard to the fruitful relationships between late medieval verse narratives, mæren, and the famous Italian storyteller Boccaccio and his Decameron. This paper brings to light four significant Middle High German verse narratives from the 13th or early-14th century that demonstrate
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Daniel Göcht: Mimesis – Subjektivität – Realismus. Eine kritisch-systematische Rekonstruktion der materialistischen Theorie der Kunst in Georg Lukács’ Die Eigenart des Ästhetischen. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag (Lukács-Studien, Bd. 2), 2017. 331 S. Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Zoltán Hidas
Article Daniel Göcht: Mimesis – Subjektivität – Realismus. Eine kritisch-systematische Rekonstruktion der materialistischen Theorie der Kunst in Georg Lukács’ Die Eigenart des Ästhetischen. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag (Lukács-Studien, Bd. 2), 2017. 331 S. was published on November 1, 2020 in the journal arcadia (volume 55, issue 2).
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Ulisse Dogà: „Von der Armut am Geiste.“ Die Geschichtsphilosophie des jungen Lukács. Bielefeld: Aisthesis (Lukács-Studien, Bd. 3), 2019. 376 S. Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Anna Zsellér
Ulisse Dogà, dessen zweites Buch über Celan einem einzigen Gedicht gewidmet ist, folgt mit seinem neuen Buch ebenfalls dem Prinzip der exzentrischen Konzentration auf ein Werk. Mit »Von der Armut am Geiste«: Die Geschichtsphilosophie des jungen Lukács eröffnet er wieder ein „unheimliches Panorama“ durch eine „philologisch präzise Lektüre“, wie Johannes Steinzinger anlässlich des Celan‐ Buches bemerkte;
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Éva Knapp und Gábor Tüskés: Litterae Hungariae. Transformationsprozesse im europäischen Kontext (16.–18. Jahrhundert). Münster: readbox unipress, 2018. 592 S. Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Károly Kókai
Article Éva Knapp und Gábor Tüskés: Litterae Hungariae. Transformationsprozesse im europäischen Kontext (16.–18. Jahrhundert). Münster: readbox unipress, 2018. 592 S. was published on November 1, 2020 in the journal arcadia (volume 55, issue 2).
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Dorothea Flothow, Markus Oppolzer und Sabine Coelsch-Foisner, Hgg.: The Essay. Forms and Transformations. Heidelberg: Winter, 2017. 337 S. Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Albert Göschl
Article Dorothea Flothow, Markus Oppolzer und Sabine Coelsch-Foisner, Hgg.: The Essay. Forms and Transformations. Heidelberg: Winter, 2017. 337 S. was published on November 1, 2020 in the journal arcadia (volume 55, issue 2).
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Andrej Platonov: Frühe Schriften zur Proletarisierung 1919–1927. Übers. Maria Rajer. Hgg. Konstantin Kaminskij und Roman Widder. Wien: Turia+Kant, 2019. 244 S. Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Sandra Fluhrer
Article Andrej Platonov: Frühe Schriften zur Proletarisierung 1919–1927. Übers. Maria Rajer. Hgg. Konstantin Kaminskij und Roman Widder. Wien: Turia+Kant, 2019. 244 S. was published on November 1, 2020 in the journal arcadia (volume 55, issue 2).
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Moritz Csáky: Das Gedächtnis Zentraleuropas. Kulturelle und literarische Projektionen auf eine Region. Wien, Köln und Weimar: Böhlau Verlag, 2019. 392 S. Arcadia (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-06-05 Andrei Corbea-Hoisie
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