Papers by Lena Henningsen
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This chapter provides an overview of approaches to ‘unknown time’, outlining historical and philo... more This chapter provides an overview of approaches to ‘unknown time’, outlining historical and philosophical conceptions of time and specifying the connection between unknown time and fascination. Underlining the paradoxical ontological status of time and based on a survey of various attempts to measure, define, and represent time, it foregrounds processes and cultural practices of (de)familiarising time as indications of the on-going fascination with time and the unknown. Drawing on the etymological roots of the term ‘fascination’, the authors argue that the attraction of unknown time derives from the paradoxical dynamics arising from inherent tensions between the desire to arrest time and the anxiety and potential risks associated with filling unknown time. The chapter concludes with a summary of the individual contributions to this volume.
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Cultural Revolution Manuscripts
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This chapter and the next situate manuscript fiction within the wider Cultural Revolution reading... more This chapter and the next situate manuscript fiction within the wider Cultural Revolution reading cosmos. To this end, this chapter investigates which texts were particularly popular among the educated youth. Autobiographical documents about texts read during the era are analyzed for which texts impacted how on their readers at the time. For this purpose, more than 1000 reading acts, i.e., interactions with texts recorded in almost 100 autobiographical accounts, were sampled in the ReadAct database. A combination of distant and close reading of these sources brings to light which genres, authors and concrete texts were read most widely at the time—and considered memorable in hindsight by the former educated youth. The chapter ends with elaborations on the blind spots in the sample.
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Vergleichende Weltliteraturen / Comparative World Literatures
Die chinesische Kulturrevolution (1966–1976) gilt als eine Epoche intellektueller und literarisch... more Die chinesische Kulturrevolution (1966–1976) gilt als eine Epoche intellektueller und literarischer Abschottung. Das literarische und kulturelle Leben war extremer Kontrolle unterworfen. Auslandische Autoren waren grostenteils verboten und wurden lediglich ausgewahlten Parteikadern als ‚interne Publikation‘ zur Verfugung gestellt. Stellt man dieser Sichtweise jedoch tatsachliche Praktiken des Lesens gegenuber, ergibt sich ein ganz anderes Bild: eines von Weltoffenheit und Kosmopolitismus unter den Pramissen einer totalitaren Gesellschaft. In diesem Beitrag zeige ich daher, wie Lekturepraktiken der Kulturrevolution weltliterarisch gedeutet werden konnen und damit einen literarischen Wandel vorwegnahmen, der ublicherweise der Zeit nach der Kulturrevolution zugeschrieben wird.
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Papers by Lena Henningsen
Unknown time(s) may be situated in the past, the present, or the future. Predictions and prophecies indicate the human need to
come to terms with unknown time, to ascribe it meaning, to make it known. Science, culture, and the arts have approached unknown periods of time in diverse ways. While historians and archaeologists attempt to dissect and rationalize these times, in literature and art, unknown time(s) is/are often carefully constructed and preserved. The fine arts, in particular, play a crucial role in the representation, conceptualisation, and construction of unknown time. They relate to or represent unknown time (as, for instance,in utopian or dystopian fiction) or may even create new forms of an unknown, future time, as presented, for instance, in science fiction.
This conference explores the connection between time and the fascination of the unknown as well as variuos forms, functions, and effects of unknown time.
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