ISBN: 978-3-8260-3769-6 Reihen Nr: ZAAM Band Nr: 7 Erscheinungsahr: 2007 Seitenanzahl: 332 Sprache: deutsch Kurzinhalt: Our primary notions of home, orientation and the very principle of our spatial existence are threatened by territorial controversies. ‘Terror‘ thus becomes both the passive experience and the active instrument that characterize territorial threats and impositions. Such terrors are as old as the mythical loss of paradise, but their ancient implications have not blunted our present-day sensitivities nor limited the proliferating associations and connotations in our terror-ridden political present. Analysing and understanding the mechanisms at work in the creation and the experience of ‘territorial terrors‘ is a complex task but it may serve peaceful purposes in the discursive turmoil of our globalising planet. In the present survey, a group of young scholars from the Universities of Tübingen and Maryland, in a transatlantic effort, approached the wide field of territorial terrors from diverse perspectives. They were guided by recent theories of space and place, and they weighed and utilized recent conceptual developments in cultural theory and postcolonial discourse. In their investigations, literature (and film) can take the role of a passionate but non-violent public and educational forum through which we may possibly understand and come to terms with contested spaces and their burning questions before they kindle new forms of terror.
ISBN: 978-3-8260-3740-5 Reihen Nr: KBAA Band Nr: 23 Erscheinungsahr: 2007 Seitenanzahl: 276 Sprache: deutsch Kurzinhalt: Seit Anfang der 1970er Jahre ist George F. Walker einer der bekanntesten anglokanadischen Dramatiker, dessen Bühnenstücke auch in Deutschland zunehmend Beachtung fi nden. Ein auffallendes, aber bisher nur am Rande betrachtetes Merkmal seines dramatischen Werkes ist der Einsatz von Elementen des Grotesken. Das Buch betrachtet die verschiedenen Formen des Grotesken in Walkers Dramen, ihre Verwendung und ihre möglichen Implikationen. Die Autorin Sabine Schlüter studierte die Fächer Anglistik, Romanistik und Dänisch an der Universität Kiel.
ISBN: 978-3-8260-3683-5 Reihen Nr: TeTh Band Nr: 7 Erscheinungsahr: 2007 Seitenanzahl: 420 Sprache: deutsch Kurzinhalt: Im Kontext der interdisziplinären Biographieforschung untersucht das Buch die Herausbildung der modernen biographischen Subjektivität am Gegenstand der - für die Zeit so bedeutsamen - biographischen Prosa in der englischen Literatur des 18. Jahrhunderts von Daniel Defoe und Samuel Johnson über den sentimentalen Roman Samuel Richardsons, Laurence Sternes und Frances Burneys bis hin zu James Boswell, Edward Gibbon und William Godwin. Im Zentrum des Interesses stehen das Verhältnis von Selbst und Anderem in der biographischen Reflexion vor dem Hintergrund der zeitgenössischen Moralphilosophie ebenso wie das Widerspiel zwischen tradierten Identitätsmustern und subjektivem Lebensentwurf im Hinblick auf das eigene und das fremde Leben, auf den gesamten Lebenszusammenhang in der (auto-) biographischen Rückschau und die fortlaufende Selbstthematisierung im Journal. So rücken verschiedene Entwicklungslinien einer zunehmenden Autonomisierung, Individualisierung und Subjektivierung eines biographisch gedachten modern self in den Blick. Die Autorin Helga Schwalm studierte Deutsch, Englisch und Erziehungswissenschaft an der Universität Hamburg. Nach der Promotion (Dekonstruktion im Roman. Erzähltechnische Verfahren und Selbstreflexion in den Romanen von Vladimir Nabokov und Samuel Beckett Heidelberg: Winter, 1991) und Habilitation (2002) an der Universität Hamburg ist sie seit 2002 Professorin für Neueste Englische Literatur an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Zu ihren Forschungsschwerpunkten zählen die Literatur des 20.-21. Jhdts., Literaturtheorie, interdisziplinäre Biographieforschung sowie landscape studies.
ISBN: 978-3-8260-3652-1 Reihen Nr: ZAAM Band Nr: 6 Erscheinungsahr: 2007 Seitenanzahl: 264 Sprache: deutsch Kurzinhalt: O.Scheiding: Ideas of Order in Contemporary American Poetry - J. Rothenberg: The Future of Poetry in the Computer Age: The Medusa Interview - Part I: Poetry as the Other Language - H. Zapf: Structure and Event in Poetry: "122" by Charles Bernstein - G. M. Grabher: "Playing Hide and Seek in the Nothing that Is": 'Silent' Meaning and Order in the Poetry and Aesthetics of John Cage - D.von Finck: "what am i doing here?": David Antin's Talk Poems - K.-A. Tan: "To Catch the World / at Pure Idea": Structures of Order and Disorder in Jorie Graham's Poetry - C. Albers: Can Meter Matter? Ideas of Order in the Poetry of Dana Gioia - Part II: Poetry as Social Act - C. Spahr: Holding up the "Poetry Front": A. Waldman's Politics of the Aesthetic - G. W. Foust: "Not [Not] the Poet, Not [Not] Me": Frederick Seidel and Lisa Jarnot after 9/11 - N. W. Balestrini: Between California and Camp: Space and Structure in the Multipart Poems of Lawson Fusao Inada - Part III: Poetry and the Self - A. Cazé: Alterna(rra)tives: Syntactic Spaces and Self-Construction in the Writing of Lyn Hejinian and Leslie Scalapino - S. Fritz: "What were Caesar's battles but Caesar's prose": Self-Writing and the Open Text in Lyn Hejinian's My Life - P. Phillips: "Shade of a Shade": The Doomed Order of Alan Shapiro's Song and Dance - T. Steffen: The Idea of Order in Rita Dove's Mother Love - Contributors - Index Die Herausgeber Diana von Finck has written numerous essays on contemporary American poets. In 1995, she was awarded a PhD in American Literature by the University of Tübingen. Oliver Scheiding is Professor and Chair of American literature and culture at the University of Mainz. He has written many essays and books on American literature from the Colonial period to the present.
ISBN: 978-3-8260-3596-8 Erscheinungsahr: 2007 Seitenanzahl: 662 Sprache: englisch Kurzinhalt: Of Frederick Philip Grove many things still need to be said or need saying again. In the years since his active role in the shaping of the Canadian literary institution much has changed. Canadian literature has developed enormously; it has recovered equally from traumas of colonial and post-colonial heritage to develop a firm identity of its own. Now the time has come to reassess some of what has been both said and left unsaid about Grove, but also about Canadian literature. Often pushed aside in more recent compilations of Canadian literary history, Frederick Philip Grove, as the first Canadian writer of intercultural significance, needs now to be introduced to a new audience as an intriguing avant-garde author in his own right, but also as a figure central to the inception of modern Canadian literature after the Great War. In support of this claim, the book presents many previously unpublished or untranslated letters and notes by Grove and his most important Canadian and European correspondents. In addition, a wealth of other papers, contemporaneous documentation, and many photos and other illustrations cast new light on his career and life and provide as fully rounded a picture of the author and man as possible. This is supplemented by passages from work by Grove and some of his contemporaries, writers and critics alike, framed and intersected by the editor's commentaries, summaries and analyses. The book tells three interlocking stories: First, the story of Grove's personal struggles and accomplished literary past in Europe. Second, the odyssey of the teacher through the small towns and the lonely villages of pioneer Manitoba and his human struggles as a Canadian writer and family man. Third, the story of Canada's literary and cultural development in the 1920s to 1940s told, for the first time, in the form of lively epistolary exchanges between the principals involved. An epilogue includes a short evaluation of Grove's place in Canadian letters and a review of recent criticism. Der Herausgeber Klaus Martens is the author and editor of a range of comparatist scholarly books and articles on American, Canadian and European literary subjects. As a literary editor and translator he has published editions and single works by John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, Christopher Middleton, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas, and Derek Walcott.
