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Das Wunderbare und die narrative Refiguration im Roman (Wieland, Tieck, Goethe)
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Die Gattung Roman etabliert sich als kulturelles Leitmedium der anbrechenden Moderne durch eine poetologische Diskriminierung des Wunderbaren. Gleichzeitig lässt sich aber auch beobachten, dass in Romanen immer wieder thaumaturgische Erzählungen eingeflochten werden. Wie ist diese spannungsvolle Konstellation einander gegenüberstehender erzählerischer Gattungen zu verstehen? In „Thauma(u)topoiesis“ wird die Einbettung thaumaturgischer Erzählungen in den Roman des 18. Jahrhunderts literaturgeschichtlich eingeordnet und hermeneutisch ausgelegt. Die vorliegende Arbeit rekonstruiert eine literatur- und geistesgeschichtliche Verschiebung im Problemfeld des Wunderbaren von der ontologischen Skepsis der Aufklärung gegenüber dem Wunder hin zu ästhetischen, poetologischen und ethischen Dimensionen einer poietischen Verwunderung. Durch die eingeflochtenen thaumaturgischen Erzählungen wird im aufgeklärten Roman die Diegese hin zu einer Hermeneutik der Selbst-Auslegung geöffnet.
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Poetische Gerechtigkeit ist ein seit der Antike bekanntes und in der Aufklärung zum normativen Prinzip erhobenes Konzept, das in der Gegenwart weitgehend als obsolet abgetan wird. Im vorliegenden Buch wird das Konzept im kognitionstheoretischen Rahmen neu interpretiert und nicht mehr als Strukturelement der Handlung, sondern als Interpretation des Lesenden verstanden: als Lesererwartung, moralische Projektion oder wunscherfüllender emotionaler Prozess. Diese Neuinterpretation des Konzepts wird anhand von Arthur Schnitzlers Verräter-Narrativen erprobt, in denen eine für die Jahrhundertwende um 1900 typische psychologisierende Version von poetischer Gerechtigkeit realisiert wird.
Ichthyology in Context (1500–1880) provides a broad spectre of early modern manifestations of human fascination with fish – “fish” understood in the early modern sense of the term, as aquatilia: all aquatic animals, including sea mammals and crustaceans. It addresses the period’s quickly growing knowledge about fish in its multiple, varied and rapidly changing interaction with culture. This topic is approached from various disciplines: history of science, cultural history, history of collections, historical ecology, art history, literary studies, and lexicology. Attention is given to the problematic questions of visual and textual representation of fish, and pre- and post-Linnean classification and taxonomy. This book also explores the transnational exchange of ichthyological knowledge and items in and outside Europe.

Contributors: Cristina Brito, Tobias Bulang, João Paulo S. Cabral, Florike Egmond, Dorothee Fischer, Holger Funk, Dirk Geirnaert, Philippe Glardon, Justin R. Hanisch, Bernardo Jerosch Herold, Rob Lenders, Alan Moss, Doreen Mueller, Johannes Müller, Martien J.P. van Oijen, Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Anne M. Overduin-de Vries, Theodore W. Pietsch, Cynthia Pyle, Marlise Rijks, Paul J. Smith, Ronny Spaans, Robbert Striekwold, Melinda Susanto, Didi van Trijp, Sabina Tsapaeva, and Ching-Ling Wang.
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This article examines the representation of love in two contemporary Nigerian novels, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s Season of Crimson Blossoms (2015) and Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji (2020). Inspired by bell hooks’s understanding of love and Dani d’Emilia and Daniel B. Chávez’s manifesto Radical Tenderness Is … I suggest the concept of defiant love as a tool for analysing love as a form of civic dissent in these novels. ‘Defiant love,’ as I understand it, embraces the complementary duality of love as emotion and action. Consequently, to allow the emotion of love to evolve in violent and patriarchal circumstances already constitutes dissent with the status quo. I argue that the two novels explore relationships and alliances that defy patriarchal structures, in particular gender norms and heteronormativity. Season of Crimson Blossoms and The Death of Vivek Oji depict the potentiality of defiant love, be it between a middle-aged widow and a young man, or queer young people, in socio-political contexts of continuous political and ethnic tensions, oppression and violence. The novels negotiate what constitutes dissent and what role affects play in moments of civic dissent.

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In: Matatu
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The ancient correspondence allegedly between the Toparch Abgar V of Edessa and Jesus of Nazareth is usually treated in modern scholarship as legendary, though possession of it was important for the legitimation of Armenia as the first Christian kingdom in ca. 314 A.D. (prior to Constantine’s ‘Christian’ rule of a united Roman Empire from 324, and well before Theodosius I’s Edict of Thessalonica in 380). This paper attempts to create a demythologized space in which to reconsider the historical probability that Jesus, widely reputed as a healer in the chief (Near Eastern) Jewish centre of influence, was asked for help by an ailing eminent and replied to his request. Along the way, questions will be raised for further research (italicized) and so in this sense the article takes the form of an Agenda.

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In: Iran and the Caucasus
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The present article examines the peculiar shape that the Middle Iranian word for ‘praise’, āfrīn, has achieved as a loanword in the language of the Caucasian “Albanians” where it appears as afre- in the complex verb afre-pesown ‘praise, bless’. Based on a thorough investigation of the morphology of formations with the light verb -pesown in Caucasian Albanian, it is proven that a recent proposal, which assumes the influence of an agreement marker, is untenable; instead, it is shown how afre- can have emerged from a metanalysis of afrin as a case form.

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In: Iran and the Caucasus