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On the Narrative Formation of Violence
Adventure fiction suggests that social conflicts can be displaced from the centre to the periphery of culture in order to be settled there by violent means. Its protagonists are endowed with extraordinary physical agency and a strange resilience to bodily and psychic wounds. This volume proposes a critical analysis of adventurous violence that foregrounds narratological issues as well as their socio-historical, political, and anthropological implications. Predicated on a broad diachronic perspective that challenges simple generalizations, the articles presented here cover a wide array of genres from ancient romance to the swashbuckling novel and a variety of contexts ranging from early modern state-building to colonialism, imperialism, and modern warfare.
Katastrophenereignisse bringen menschliche Handlungs- und Deutungsgewissheiten zum Einsturz. Sie stellen bestehende Ordnungen in Frage und konfrontieren die Gegenwart mit einer ungewissen Zukunft. Das institutionalisierte Wissen wird in seinen Deutungsansprüchen herausgefordert; Möglichkeiten der Darstellung und Imaginierbarkeit werden ebenso in Frage gestellt wie ästhetische Konzepte und künstlerische Verfahren. Vor diesem Hintergrund interessiert sich der Sammelband für die affektiven Dimensionen von Katastrophen: Momente des Schocks, der Erschütterung oder des Schreckens, die der Plötzlichkeit des Ereignisses entsprechen, Verunsicherung, Staunen, Neugier und Zweifel, die sich mit der Dauer der wissenschaftlichen oder künstlerischen Bewältigung der Katastrophe verbinden.
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Supported by the legal ideas of Hugo Grotius, the Swedish armies exploited opportunities to seize books as spoils of war from conquered enemies to an unparalleled degree in the seventeenth century. They took books from countries such as today’s Latvia, Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic and Denmark, distributing the goods to recently founded institutions and private manors in their native country. In Looted Libraries, Looted Books – The Swedish Case, Peter Sjökvist gives a summarizing overview of these plunders: from which regions and owners full libraries or selected books were taken during the conflicts, where they subsequently tended to end up when arriving in Sweden, and how they have been received and curated over the years. It is argued that it can be questioned whether large portions of the spoils have served any proper user needs in their new contexts.