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This volume is a major contribution to the study of the life, work and standing of Joseph Brodsky, 1987 Nobel Prize Laureate and the best-known Russian poet of the second half of the twentieth century. This is the most significant book devoted to him in the last 25 years, and features work by many of the leading experts on him, both in Russia and the West. Every one of the chapters makes a real contribution to different aspects of Brodsky – the growth of interest in his work, his world view and political position, and the unique aspects of his poetics. Taken together, the sixteen chapters offer a rounded interpretation of his significance for Russian culture today.
This volume is a major contribution to the study of the life, work and standing of Joseph Brodsky, 1987 Nobel Prize Laureate and the best-known Russian poet of the second half of the twentieth century. This is the most significant book devoted to him in the last 25 years, and features work by many of the leading experts on him, both in Russia and the West. Every one of the chapters makes a real contribution to different aspects of Brodsky – the growth of interest in his work, his world view and political position, and the unique aspects of his poetics. Taken together, the sixteen chapters offer a rounded interpretation of his significance for Russian culture today.
Zur Verbindung von Tod, Weiblichkeit und (Heiligen-)Bild bei Fedor Dostoevskij, Vasilij Perov, Ivan Turgenev und Evgenij Bauėr
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Die zum Reflexionsbild erstarrte Frauenleiche ist ein zentrales Motiv der europäischen Kunst, das sein russisches Kulturspezifikum durch die Verbindung mit der orthodoxen Ikone erhält. Die Studie untersucht die Transformationen lebendiger Frauenfiguren zu toten Bildkörpern und geht deren Funktions- und Bedeutungsvielfalt nach. Die hier betrachteten (Bewegt-)Bilder und Texte stellen den weiblichen Leichnam als (Heiligen-)Bild in vielschichtige ästhetisch produktive Spannungsfelder: zwischen Kult und Kunst, Dies- und Jenseits, Form und Zerfall, Ethik und Ästhetik. Insofern sie dabei auch das Verhältnis von Russland und (West-)Europa sowie zwischen Tradition und sich anbahnender Moderne verhandeln, problematisieren die Werke virulente Fragen der Zeit, Umbrüche und Krisen sowohl ästhetisch-poetologischer als auch religiöser, philosophischer, medialer, ethischer und sozialer Natur.
Zur Verbindung von Tod, Weiblichkeit und (Heiligen-)Bild bei Fedor Dostoevskij, Vasilij Perov, Ivan Turgenev und Evgenij Bauėr
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Die zum Reflexionsbild erstarrte Frauenleiche ist ein zentrales Motiv der europäischen Kunst, das sein russisches Kulturspezifikum durch die Verbindung mit der orthodoxen Ikone erhält. Die Studie untersucht die Transformationen lebendiger Frauenfiguren zu toten Bildkörpern und geht deren Funktions- und Bedeutungsvielfalt nach. Die hier betrachteten (Bewegt-)Bilder und Texte stellen den weiblichen Leichnam als (Heiligen-)Bild in vielschichtige ästhetisch produktive Spannungsfelder: zwischen Kult und Kunst, Dies- und Jenseits, Form und Zerfall, Ethik und Ästhetik. Insofern sie dabei auch das Verhältnis von Russland und (West-)Europa sowie zwischen Tradition und sich anbahnender Moderne verhandeln, problematisieren die Werke virulente Fragen der Zeit, Umbrüche und Krisen sowohl ästhetisch-poetologischer als auch religiöser, philosophischer, medialer, ethischer und sozialer Natur.
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Exploring the metamorphoses of the body in the eighteenth-century Robinsonade as a crucial aspect of the genre’s ideologies, Castaway Bodies offers focused readings of intriguing, yet often forgotten, novels: Peter Longueville’s The English Hermit (1727), Robert Paltock’s Peter Wilkins (1751) and The Female American (1767) by an anonymous author. The book shows that by rewriting the myths of the New Adam, the Androgyne and the Amazon, respectively, these novels went beyond, though not completely counter to, the politics of conquest and mastery that are typically associated with the Robinsonade. It argues that even if these narratives could still be read as colonial fantasies, they opened a space for more consistent rejections of the imperial agenda in contemporary castaway fiction.
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Exploring the metamorphoses of the body in the eighteenth-century Robinsonade as a crucial aspect of the genre’s ideologies, Castaway Bodies offers focused readings of intriguing, yet often forgotten, novels: Peter Longueville’s The English Hermit (1727), Robert Paltock’s Peter Wilkins (1751) and The Female American (1767) by an anonymous author. The book shows that by rewriting the myths of the New Adam, the Androgyne and the Amazon, respectively, these novels went beyond, though not completely counter to, the politics of conquest and mastery that are typically associated with the Robinsonade. It argues that even if these narratives could still be read as colonial fantasies, they opened a space for more consistent rejections of the imperial agenda in contemporary castaway fiction.
Dada Techniques in East-Central Europe
This rich, in-depth exploration of Dada’s roots in East-Central Europe is a vital addition to existing research on Dada and the avant-garde. Through deeply researched case studies and employing novel theoretical approaches, the volume rewrites the history of Dada as a story of cultural and political hybridity, border-crossings, transitions, and transgressions, across political, class and gender lines. Dismantling prevailing notions of Dada as a “Western” movement, the contributors to this volume present East-Central Europe as the locus of Dada activity and techniques. The articles explore how artists from the region pre-figured Dada as well as actively “cannibalized”, that is, reabsorbed and further hybridized, a range of avant-garde techniques, thus challenging “Western” cultural hegemony.
Dada Techniques in East-Central Europe
This rich, in-depth exploration of Dada’s roots in East-Central Europe is a vital addition to existing research on Dada and the avant-garde. Through deeply researched case studies and employing novel theoretical approaches, the volume rewrites the history of Dada as a story of cultural and political hybridity, border-crossings, transitions, and transgressions, across political, class and gender lines. Dismantling prevailing notions of Dada as a “Western” movement, the contributors to this volume present East-Central Europe as the locus of Dada activity and techniques. The articles explore how artists from the region pre-figured Dada as well as actively “cannibalized”, that is, reabsorbed and further hybridized, a range of avant-garde techniques, thus challenging “Western” cultural hegemony.
This book is the first to deal with documentary aesthetic practices of the post-war period in Eastern Europe in a comparative perspective. The contributions examine the specific forms and modes of documentary representations and the role they played in the formation of new aesthetic trends during the cultural-political transition of the long 1960s. This documentary first-hand approach to the world aimed to break up unquestioned ideological structures and expose tabooed truths in order to engender much-needed social changes. New ways of depicting daily life, writing testimony or subjective reportage emerged that still shape cultural debates today.
This book is the first to deal with documentary aesthetic practices of the post-war period in Eastern Europe in a comparative perspective. The contributions examine the specific forms and modes of documentary representations and the role they played in the formation of new aesthetic trends during the cultural-political transition of the long 1960s. This documentary first-hand approach to the world aimed to break up unquestioned ideological structures and expose tabooed truths in order to engender much-needed social changes. New ways of depicting daily life, writing testimony or subjective reportage emerged that still shape cultural debates today.
Larisa Reisner (1895--1926), fighter, commissar, diplomat, was one of the most brilliant and popular writers of the Russian Revolution, whose journalism from her travels in Russia and Ukraine, Germany, Persia and Afghanistan was read by millions in the new mass circulation Soviet press. Together here for the first time in translation are the six books of her journalism, The Front, Afghanistan, Berlin October 1923, Hamburg at the Barricades and In Hindenburg’s Country, all written in the last nine years of her life, before her death at the age of thirty, published as the companion volume to Cathy Porter’s Larisa Reisner. A Biography.
Larisa Reisner (1895--1926), fighter, commissar, diplomat, was one of the most brilliant and popular writers of the Russian Revolution, whose journalism from her travels in Russia and Ukraine, Germany, Persia and Afghanistan was read by millions in the new mass circulation Soviet press. Together here for the first time in translation are the six books of her journalism, The Front, Afghanistan, Berlin October 1923, Hamburg at the Barricades and In Hindenburg’s Country, all written in the last nine years of her life, before her death at the age of thirty, published as the companion volume to Cathy Porter’s Larisa Reisner. A Biography.
This book is available in open access thanks to the generous support of the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
Defining the Identity of the Younger Europe gathers studies that shed new light on the rich tapestry of early modern “Younger Europe” — Byzantine-Slavic and Scandinavian territories. It unearths the multi-dimensional aspects of the period, revealing the formation and transformation of nations that shared common threads, the establishment of political systems, and the enduring legacies of religious movements. Immersive, enlightening, and thought-provoking, the book promises to be an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the complexities of early modern Europe. This collection does not just retell history; it provokes readers to rethink it.
Contributors: Giovanna Brogi, Piotr Chmiel,Karin Friedrich, Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz, Mirosława Hanusiewicz-Lavallee, Robert Aleksander Maryks, Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin, Maciej Ptaszyński, Paul Shore, and Frank E. Sysyn.
Defining the Identity of the Younger Europe gathers studies that shed new light on the rich tapestry of early modern “Younger Europe” — Byzantine-Slavic and Scandinavian territories. It unearths the multi-dimensional aspects of the period, revealing the formation and transformation of nations that shared common threads, the establishment of political systems, and the enduring legacies of religious movements. Immersive, enlightening, and thought-provoking, the book promises to be an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the complexities of early modern Europe. This collection does not just retell history; it provokes readers to rethink it.
Contributors: Giovanna Brogi, Piotr Chmiel,Karin Friedrich, Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz, Mirosława Hanusiewicz-Lavallee, Robert Aleksander Maryks, Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin, Maciej Ptaszyński, Paul Shore, and Frank E. Sysyn.
This book is available in open access thanks to the generous support of the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
Defining the Identity of the Younger Europe gathers studies that shed new light on the rich tapestry of early modern “Younger Europe” — Byzantine-Slavic and Scandinavian territories. It unearths the multi-dimensional aspects of the period, revealing the formation and transformation of nations that shared common threads, the establishment of political systems, and the enduring legacies of religious movements. Immersive, enlightening, and thought-provoking, the book promises to be an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the complexities of early modern Europe. This collection does not just retell history; it provokes readers to rethink it.
Contributors: Giovanna Brogi, Piotr Chmiel,Karin Friedrich, Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz, Mirosława Hanusiewicz-Lavallee, Robert Aleksander Maryks, Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin, Maciej Ptaszyński, Paul Shore, and Frank E. Sysyn.
Defining the Identity of the Younger Europe gathers studies that shed new light on the rich tapestry of early modern “Younger Europe” — Byzantine-Slavic and Scandinavian territories. It unearths the multi-dimensional aspects of the period, revealing the formation and transformation of nations that shared common threads, the establishment of political systems, and the enduring legacies of religious movements. Immersive, enlightening, and thought-provoking, the book promises to be an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the complexities of early modern Europe. This collection does not just retell history; it provokes readers to rethink it.
Contributors: Giovanna Brogi, Piotr Chmiel,Karin Friedrich, Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz, Mirosława Hanusiewicz-Lavallee, Robert Aleksander Maryks, Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin, Maciej Ptaszyński, Paul Shore, and Frank E. Sysyn.
Freiburger Vorlesungen 1923/1924
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Ivan Šišmanov (1862–1928), einer der bedeutendsten bulgarischen Wissenschaftler und Kulturpolitiker, wirkte u.a. als Professor für Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft an der Universität in Sofia, als Minister für Volksbildung und als Botschafter Bulgariens in der Ukraine. Nach 1918 ging er für einige Jahre ins freiwillige Exil und lebte drei Jahre in Freiburg i.Br. Seine an der Universität Freiburg in deutscher Sprache gehaltenen Vorlesungen (1923/24) wurden von den Herausgeberinnen anhand der erhaltenen Notizen und Aufzeichnungen Šišmanovs rekonstruiert. Šišmanov setzte sich dort mit großer Energie für die Idee eines geeinten Europas ein (Paneuropa-Bewegung). Im Zentrum des Bandes stehen kulturelle Klischees sowie die Fragilität friedlicher Koexistenz zwischen den europäischen Völkern und nicht zuletzt unter den Slaven selbst. Die Texte, ausführlich kommentiert und von wissenschaftlichen Aufsätzen begleitet, sind ein wichtiges Zeitdokument und zugleich von fast erschreckender Aktualität.
Freiburger Vorlesungen 1923/1924