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Fernsehseriengenres: Taxonomien des Seriellen
In vorliegendem Text werden Konzepte, die Fernsehserien unter einem generischen Gesichtspunkt perspektivieren, vorgestellt und klassifiziert....
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Encoding-Decoding
Der Fokus des folgenden Beitrags liegt auf der Ebene der Konstruktion von Bedeutungen und Prozessen des ‚Verstehens‘ im Bereich von Fernsehserien....
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Gender Studies Meets Seriality Studies: Fernsehserien und intersektionale Geschlechtlichkeit
Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über den Forschungsstand zu intersektionaler Geschlechtlichkeit in Fernsehserien. Geschlecht in Fernsehserien...
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Introduction: Cicatrix Poetics: Chicana Literary Trauma Studies
Chicana literature often represents gender violence while simultaneously presenting strategies of survival in response. In this book, I aim to...
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Coyolxauhqui and Coming of Age in Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street
In an exploration of The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (1984) as a survival narrative, I propose a theory of transformative narrativity, a...
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Literature’s Theories
The assumption sustained in this article is as basic as it is simple: theory is an integrated dimension of any work of fiction, not a conceptual...
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Justice and Guilt: Death and the Dervish by Meša Selimović
A strong affinity between literature and law was a paramount theme in the 1990s. After that its prevalence flattened. But still there are some...
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Analytical vs. Synthetic Theories in 1920s Russia
It was almost a century ago that a double polarity emerged in the Russian episteme, and in particular in the theory of art and literature. The...
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“This Counter History”: Teju Cole’s Pandemic Visual Diary on the Kitchen as a Domestic Postcolonial Medi[t]ation
During the first pandemic year, 2020, contemporary Nigerian-American writer and photographer Teju Cole spent a week prior to the American...
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The Economies of Theory and Resistance
Although contemporary theory reflects upon and registers the achievement of thinking literature and its related disciplines, that theory also ponders...
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Writing the Theoria: Genre occidental, Jean-Luc Nancy and Pascal Quignard, a Footnote to Plato’s Seventh Letter, 344c
The paper describes and contextualizes the scene of thinking in Jean-Luc Nancy's Le poids d’une pensée, l’approche (2008) and Pascal Quignard’s...
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Studying Literary Multilingualism, Revisiting National Philology: Post-Imperial East-Central European Literature as a Testing Ground
This chapter discusses recent theoretical attempts to redefine national philology through a focus on literary multilingualism, by looking at them...
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Pulsatile Choreography: Rhythm, (Dis)Enchantment, and Disimagination in Premodern Dance
This chapter explores sophisticated imaginative processes from a kinetic perspective. Specifically, I show how the pulsatile imaginary and...
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Motor of Darkness: On the Cartographic Visual Drive of Anthropocene Culture
This chapter explores the establishing, and subsequent reproduction, of modern western cartographic visuality. Such visuality has been a contributing...
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Introduction
This introduction provides the reader with an orientation throughout the unfolding dynamics of the book, conceived as an assemblage of essays,...
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The Hybrid Life Writing of Sally Mann: Capturing Human Nature in Words and Images
This chapter analyzes the memoir Hold Still, written by the American fine art photographer Sally Mann. The hybrid interplay of text and image in Hold...
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Kneading Dreams: Material Imagination and Agency in Performative Clay Works
In the writings of Gaston Bachelard, clay or paste (la pâte) is seen as a basic component of materiality, which enables the material imagination—a...
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Archival Repositories, Embodied Repertoires, Marxism
This chapter traces the phenomenological imprints of Said’s approach to orientalist authors of the nineteenth century. It does so by tracing his...
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Arenas of Hybridity
The chapter addresses the ways in which photographic images participate in hybrid life narratives and the ways in which they engage varied...
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Introduction
In 1475, Conrad von Megenberg authored one of the first illustrated natural history books, Das Buch der Natur. It is supposedly one of the first...