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Discusses literary dreams by Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg), Gérard de Nerval, and Thomas De Quincey.
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      Comparative LiteratureRomanticismLiteratureComparative Cultural Studies
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      Science Fiction and FantasyVergleichende LiteraturwissenschaftTranshumanismusKünstliche Intelligenz
The essay tries to define affinities between dream and literature beyond the too simple and too easy identification of both by Sigmund Freud. It sketches an anthropological basis for the cultural dream work in dream-discourse, literature,... more
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      Cultural StudiesGerman StudiesComparative LiteratureLiterature
Warum dichten Menschen als einzige uns bekannte Lebewesen? Und zu welchem Zweck tun sie dies, müssen sie es vielleicht sogar tun? Und wie wird aus Nichtkunst eigentlich Dichtkunst? Gibt es etwa grundlegende, poetogene Strukturen, die... more
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      Cultural StudiesGerman StudiesComparative LiteratureGerman Literature
Sketches the basics of a cultural and literary history, distinguishing it from the approach of an analyst to literature (example: Wilhelm Stekel) and that of the psychoanalytical approach practise by some literary critics (example: Carl... more
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      Cultural HistoryCultural StudiesGerman StudiesComparative Literature
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      Comparative LiteratureMedienwissenschaftMediengeschichte und LiteraturgeschichteVergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
Il volume presenta un'esposizione per percorsi dedicati alle competenze fondamentali e irrinunciabili dello studio della letteratura e al contempo attenti ai cambiamenti in atto nel sistema della cultura contemporanea nonché al ruolo che... more
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      Comparative LiteratureTranslation StudiesDigital HumanitiesLiterature and Medicine
Discusses concepts of the "Schwärmer" (enthusiast) in German late Enlightenment and Romanticism. It starts with a reconstruction of the "Schwärmerdebatte" (debate on enthusiasm) which was launched in 1776 in Wieland's journal... more
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      Cultural StudiesGerman StudiesComparative LiteratureRomanticism
A broad survey of the cultural, literary, and medial history of the dream, with examples from Homer, Artemidorus, Aelius Aristides, Charles Sorel, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Francisco Goya, Novalis, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka, and Alfred... more
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      Cultural StudiesComparative LiteratureArt HistoryFilm Studies
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      ReligionGerman StudiesComparative LiteratureMythology
Discusses the use of dreams in Novalis's novel "Heinrich von Ofterdingen" (1802), in E.T.A. Hoffmann's narrative "Die Bergwerke zu Falun" (1819) and in Charles Nodier's "Smarra" (1821) as the origin of fantastic literature.
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      Comparative LiteratureRomanticismLiteratureGerman Romanticism
1. The >Bildungsroman« (novel of formation): Towards a definition -- 2. The Bildungsroman in the High Romantic mode - 2.1 Beginnings: Goethe's »Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre« (Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Years, 1795/96) - 2.2 Novalis's... more
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      Comparative LiteratureRomanticismJohann Wolfgang von GoetheWilliam Wordsworth
Dieser Band vereint Originalbeiträge zur aktuellen Debatte um den Stellenwert und die Ausrichtung der Literaturwissenschaft. Dabei reflektieren die Texte die Bedingungen und Möglichkeiten der Disziplin auf vielfältige Weise... more
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      Interkulturelle GermanistikGermanistikgeschichteallgemeine und vergleichende LiteraturwissenschaftFestschrift Stefan Bodo Würffel
In meinem Vortrag möchte ich die philologische und methodologische, aber auf jeden Fall zutiefst geistige Abhängigkeitsbeziehung und Verwandtschaft, die zwischen Peter Szondi und Walter Benjamin besteht, als eine „unüberwindliche... more
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      Philosophyallgemeine und vergleichende LiteraturwissenschaftDeutsche Philologie
The paper discusses the pre-history of the Romantic concept of a "new mythology" in culture and literature of the European Enlightenment. Authors discussed include Diderot, Lessing, Rousseau, Robespierre, Winckelmann, Herder and Moritz.
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      German StudiesComparative LiteratureGerman LiteratureMythology
Digitale Tagung des Kleist-Museums Frankfurt (Oder) Diversität und Darstellung. Zugehörigkeit und Ausgrenzung im Literaturmuseum und in den Literaturwissenschaften 9. bis 11. März 2022 Anmeldungen und Link unter:... more
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      German LiteratureRomanticismMuseum EducationHeinrich von Kleist
The paper discusses the concept of a "new mythology" from German Romanticism from a comparatist point-of-view. Examples are William Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" (c. 1790) and Klingsohr's fairy-tale in Novalis' novel "Heinrich... more
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      German StudiesComparative LiteratureGerman LiteratureMythology
Die Konferenz untersucht Figuren der Endlichkeit in der europäischen Romantik. Ausgangspunkt ist die Beobachtung, dass Figuren des Letzten – letzte Menschen (J.-B. Grainville: Le dernier homme (1805); M. Shelley: The Last Man (1826)),... more
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      French LiteratureGerman LiteratureRussian LiteratureRomanticism
Rilke - wie kaum ein anderer deutschsprachiger Dichter der Moderne - ist vor allem in Zusammenhang mit der Weltliteratur zu verstehen. Sein poetisches Werk bezieht sich immer wieder auf die Literatur Europas und es wurde nach seinem Tod... more
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      German StudiesWorld LiteraturesComparative LiteratureGerman History
Ding und Bild sind Schlüsselbegriffe der romantischen Poetik und Philosophie. Das hat auch die jüngste kultur- und literaturwissenschaftliche Romantikforschung erkannt. Allerdings untersucht sie Dinglichkeit und Bildlichkeit bislang als... more
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      BildwissenschaftÄsthetikKunstgeschichteRomantik
Conference Date: April 3–5, 2018 Location: Department of Comparative Literature, University of Vienna, Sensengasse 3a, 1090 Wien, Austria Organizers: Katharina Edtstadler, Sandra Folie, Andrea Kreuter, Sophie Mayr, and Gianna Zocco for... more
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      World LiteraturesComparative LiteratureGenre studiesPostcolonial Studies
Un vigilante de un cine porno está sentado, piensa, escribe, espera. Su majestad pone la música es una reflexión sobre el oficio de la escritura, una defensa de la imaginación ante la miseria de la realidad y un desfile de máscaras detrás... more
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      Latin American StudiesLatin American literatureContemporary Mexican LiteratureContemporary Latin American Literature
Bibliography on the theory and methodology of Cultural Studies.
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      Cultural StudiesResearch Methods and MethodologyLiterary CriticismLiterary Theory
Shows how the literary representation of dreams helped to enlarge the poetic repertoire of French and English Romanticism. Examples discussed include "Smarra ou les démons de Ia nuit" (1821) by Charles Nodier and "The Dream-Fugue" (1849)... more
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      Comparative LiteratureRomanticismLiteratureBritish Romanticism
The book is the most important mass medium in human history. What is the reason for its success? The book's efficacy as a medium relies on its constitutive and material properties. And it is above all its typography and design that affect... more
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      Non Fiction WritingAmerican LiteraturePhilologyGerman Studies
Ein Problem von Übersetzungsanalysen liegt darin, dass es für das literarische und weltanschauliche Voraussetzungssystem der Übersetzer und für ihren besonderen hermeneutischen Zugang zu Autor und Werk meist nur spärliche Zeugnisse gibt,... more
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      German StudiesComparative LiteratureGerman LiteratureTranslation Studies
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      European HistoryEuropean StudiesGerman StudiesComparative Literature
Discusses the canon - and the heated canon-debate of recent years - from the point of view of pragmatic necessities in literary studies.
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      LiteratureLiterary CanonLiterary TheoryLiterary studies
Discusses the metaphor of the sunrise between Enlightenment and Romanticism. Text analyzed include the poem "Der Morgen" by Barthold Hinrich Brockes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's novel "Émile ou De l’éducation", Georg Christoph Lichtenberg's... more
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      Cultural HistoryCultural StudiesComparative LiteratureRomanticism
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      Critical TheoryComparative LiteratureWalter BenjaminModern Hungarian Jewish History
Bibliography on selected subjects of Cultural Studies.
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      Cultural StudiesBibliographyLiterary CriticismCultural studies and interpretive research
Although working with contexts is one of the most basic operations of literary criticism (and particularly of cultural literary studies), there is still a definite shortage of theoretical reflection on this question. My essay will first... more
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      German StudiesLiterary CriticismContextualismDreams (History)
Discusses differences between the concept of "Cultural Studies" in the English-speaking world and the German "Kulturwissenschaft". Also sketches the project of a cultural and literary history of the dream as an example for "cultural... more
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      Critical TheoryCultural StudiesGerman StudiesLiterature
Discusses specifics of literary dreams and distinguishes between the approaches to literary dreams in cultural literary studies and psychoanalytical literary studies.
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      Critical TheoryCultural StudiesComparative LiteratureLiterature
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      Cultural StudiesComparative LiteratureMelancholyHypochondria
As »realism« is notoriously hard to define the article uses the far more obvious »anti-realism« of Modernist paintings as a starting-point for an attempt at a systematic definition of »realist« art and literature. The function of... more
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      Comparative LiteratureModernism (Literature)Literary Criticism20th Century German Literature
Review of a book dealing with local colour literature of the European 19th century (e.g. by Maria Edgeworth, Walter Scott, Berthold Auerbach, Jeremias Gotthelf, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, George Sand et al.).
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      Comparative LiteratureLiterary Criticism19th century German literature19th Century French Literature
Review of a book on sleep in literature and the arts, with a special focus on the 20th and 21st centuries.
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      Literary CriticismModernist Literature (Literary Modernism)Modernism (Art History)Modernism
This collection of essays explores the dream-discourse and the literary dreams of the Enlightenment. The first part discusses the dream-cognition of 18th-century encyclopaedists, philosophers, theologians, doctors, anthropologists, and,... more
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      Cultural StudiesComparative LiteratureEnlightenmentDreams (History)
Talk on the Journée d`ètudes "Littérature comparée et Gender – Queer vers un dépassement des identités?", Sept 16th 2016, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3
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      Comparative LiteratureGender StudiesQueer StudiesQueer Theory
Zusammen mit der IG-Komparatistik lädt das Organisationsteam der Konferenz alle interessierten Studierenden und Nicht-Studierenden, Komparatist_innen und Nicht-Komparatist_innen zu einem gemeinsamen, anregenden und ausgelassenen Abend ein.
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      Comparative LiteratureLiteratureDissertationsDissertation
Frauenliteratur ist ein gattungs- und epochenübergreifend verwendeter Sammelbegriff für die Literatur von/für/über Frauen. Die Definition erfolgt im Gegensatz zur unmarkierten (‚Männer’-)Literatur über das Geschlecht der Autor_innen,... more
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      Comparative LiteratureGender StudiesQueer StudiesLiterature
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      Cultural HistoryCultural StudiesMedia and Cultural StudiesLiterary Criticism
Review of a study of the poetics of the modern European novel.
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      Comparative LiteratureLiteratureThe NovelLiterary Criticism
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      Cultural HistoryCultural StudiesComparative LiteratureMedia and Cultural Studies
The essay tries to reconstruct the dream theory of the Enlightenment by analyzing articles on the dream in five famous 18th-century encyclopaedias.
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      Cultural StudiesComparative LiteratureHistory of ScienceEnlightenment
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      Critical TheoryExileGerman-Jewish StudiesKritische Theorie
One of the consequences of the interest in cultural and cultural literary studies is a renaissance of the genre ›cultural history‹. Probably due to the poststructuralist polemics against ›history‹, there have, however, been only few... more
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      Cultural StudiesGerman StudiesGerman LiteratureHistory of Science
The essay starts with preliminary considerations of scientific 19th-century dream-theory and its reception and transformation by Realist authors, using Charles Dickens as an example (section 1). The main part discusses reasons for using... more
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      Comparative LiteratureFedor Dostoevsky19th Century French LiteratureDreams (History)