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Editorial
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Klaus Stierstorfer: Geschichte und Literaturgeschichte:
Vergleichende Problemstellungen (abstract)
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Bartlomiej
Blaszkiewicz: The "Lord Randal" Tradition in Bob Dylan's "A
Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall"
(abstract)
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Regine
Rosenthal:
Trivializing
Horror, or Ethics in Holocaust Narrative: D. M. Thomas's Pictures at
an Exhibition (abstract)
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Manuela
Matas Llorente: Crossing
the Color Line: Blackness and Black Oppression in Mattie Griffith's Autobiography
of a Female Slave (abstract)
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Russell
West: "Why,
White Man, Why?": White Australia as the Addressee of Apostrophe in
Contemporary Aboriginal Writing (abstract)
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Ralph
Pordzik: 'Postcolonial' or 'Transcolonial'? – Canadian Speculative Fiction
in French and English and the Comparative Dimension of the New English
Literatures (abstract)
Buchbesprechungen:
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Robert Allen, ed. The New Penguin English Dictionary. (Albrecht Neubert)
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John C. Wells. Longman
Pronunciation Dictionary. (David
Heath)
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Dieter
Mindt. An Empirical Grammar of the English Verb System. (Manfred Krug)
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Betty S. Travitsky and Anne Lake Prescott, eds. Female and Male Voices
in Early Modern England: An Anthology of Renaissance Writing. (Ingrid
Hotz-Davies)
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Brode, Douglas. Shakespeare in the Movies: From the Silent Era to
Shakespeare in Love. Mark Thornton Burnett and Ramona Wray, eds. Shakespeare,
Film, Fin de Siècle.
Deborah Cartmell. Interpreting Shakespeare on Screen.
Russell Jackson, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film.
Robert Shaughnessy. Shakespeare on Film. (Jörg Helbig)
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Graham Law. Serializing
Fiction in the Victorian Press. (Ralf Schneider)
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Wolfgang Wicht. Utopianism in James Joyce's Ulysses.
(Raimund Schäffner)
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Andrea
Gutenberg. Mögliche Welten: Plot und Sinnstiftung im englischen
Frauenroman. (Hilary P. Dannenberg)
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Renate Brosch. Krisen des Sehens: Henry James und die
Veränderung der Wahrnehmung im 19. Jahrhundert. (Hans Ulrich Seeber)
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Marianne Davidson. Willa Cather and F. J. Turner: A Contextualization.
Sharon O'Brien, ed. New Essays on My Ántonia. (Till Kinzel)
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Marion Spies. Religiöse Lyrik in Australien: Rezeption
und Funktionalisierung theologischer und philosophischer Prätexte. (Klaus
Stierstorfer)
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Dagmar Novak. Dubious Glory: The Two World Wars and the Canadian Novel. (Paul
Goetsch)
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Bucheingänge
Klaus Stierstorfer: Geschichte und
Literaturgeschichte: Vergleichende Problemstellungen
Abstract: General
historiography and histories of literature were closely linked in approach and
overall conceptualization in the nineteenth century. When theories of an
independent literary paradigm were formed in the course of the twentieth century,
the theory of literary historiography was found problematic and sometimes
moribund as a literary approach. As historiography increasingly came to be
theorized in literary or rhetorical terms and literature came to be newly
historicized, however, the two disciplines are again seen to converge. This
article provides, in the light of recent developments on both sides, a survey of
the most important and contentious fields of overlap and difference. Structuring
the argument on the basis of the subdivision in classical rhetorics, the
impossibility of finding a definitive theorization for either history or
literary history is admitted, while the heterogeneity of existing forms is
interpreted as testimony to the unbroken rhetorical power of historiography as,
ultimately, a rhetorical instrument to construct a unified (literary) vision of
great persuasive power, although it will no longer be the 'Great Story' or Urtext, but only one version of many possible histories.
Bartlomiej Blaszkiewicz: The "Lord
Randal" Tradition in Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall"
Abstract: This
article deals with the diachronic perspective of the Anglo-Saxon folk ballad
tradition. Its focus is on the evolution of one of the most popular traditional
ballads: "Lord Randal". The text is analysed on the basis of data
constituted by 45 versions of the ballad dating from between 1629-1941 coming
from Italy, England, Scotland, Ireland and North America. My survey analysis
concentrates on the semantic aspect of the material and seeks to define the core
theme around which the many versions revolved. The methodology is fairly
standard for the study of the genre and is mostly based on Cecil Sharp's seminal
work in the field. The second part of the article is concerned with the analysis
of Bob Dylan's 1963 poetic text, which, although a fully individual artistic
creation, develops out of the traditional "Lord Randal" ballad. The
study is designed to present the continuity of tradition between the traditional
ballad and Dylan's version and define the thematic field which they both share.
The thrust of the argument is that Dylan's poetic vision is strongly traditional
and regressive in character, and it does not depart from the core theme of the
ballad, but reinforces it instead on a more abstract, sophisticated level.
Regine Rosenthal:
Trivializing Horror,
or Ethics in Holocaust Narrative: D. M. Thomas's Pictures at an
Exhibition
Abstract: Some
twelve years after The White Hotel, his best-selling Holocaust-related
novel, D. M. Thomas has returned, in Pictures at an Exhibition
(1993), to the subject of Auschwitz and Nazi genocide. While resisting easy
black-and-white categorization of perpetrators and victims, the novel raises
serious ethical concerns of Holocaust representation. In a suspense-laden plot
that seeks its authentication in a chapter of factual historical material, Pictures
at an Exhibition trivializes the Holocaust by instrumentalizing and
exploiting it for Thomas's own poetic agenda, i.e., critiquing the power
dynamics in Freudian psychoanalysis, exploring the dark underside of
civilization, and, most problematic of all, dwelling obsessively on the perverse
relations of violence, sex, and death.
Manuela
Matas Llorente: Crossing
the Color Line: Blackness and Black Oppression in Mattie Griffith's Autobiography
of a Female Slave
Abstract: At the
time of publication, Mattie Griffith's Autobiography of a Female Slave
(1856) was conceived to be delivered as a real ex -slave's testimony
while it was written by a white Kentucky slaveowner. In this paper I explore how
Griffith incites her readers to enter into the game and adopt the appropriate
mode of reading that would lead to consider her narrative a real slave
autobiography. In doing so, I will point to the primary unresolved tension that
Griffith's racial transvestism involves between intention and realization. In
other words, at the heart of her text, I see a struggle of contending voices. On
the one hand, Griffith's witnessed vision of blackness and black oppression
inevitably implies a reading of a black other who virtually disappears by
metamorphosis. On the other hand, a conscious condemnation of the slave system
and related racial prejudice takes form in the abolitionist arguments and direct
addresses to the reader that often interrupt the main line of narration. These
interacting voices within the narrative give the Autobiography
its meaningful dimension as a text in which conceptions of blackness are in
continual exchange, creating a dialogism that invites readers to reflect on
their expectation and assumptions regarding racial essence and representation.
Russell
West: "Why,
White Man, Why?": White Australia as the Addressee of Apostrophe in
Contemporary Aboriginal Writing
Abstract:
Contemporary Australian indigenous literature is characterised by a remarkably
prevalent use of apostrophic address directed at the white reader. This mode of
direct address in black literary texts draws attention to the political dynamics
moulding reader-writer relations in contemporary Australia. The article examines
numerous examples of this direct mode of address in prose, poetry and drama, and
argues that this direct mode of address is a central element in the message of
black writers. The use of apostrophe implies the active ‘positioning' of the
white reader on the part of the indigenous speaker; only by virtue of this
positioning is the reading process made possible. The direct mode of address in
these texts thus demands that the reader take up a stance characterised by a
readiness to listen attentively to black literary voices.
Ralph
Pordzik: 'Postcolonial' or 'Transcolonial'? – Canadian Speculative Fiction
in French and English and the Comparative Dimension of the New English
Literatures
Abstract:
This essay addresses the problems of assimilating postcolonial literatures into
the field of English and Cultural Studies.
It argues that it is possible to improve our understanding of the 'new' English
literatures by giving particular emphasis to inter- and transcultural
perspectives and posits a comparative model of analysis aimed at reducing the
risk of incorporating western critical prejudices into postcolonial studies. The
particular nature and the imaginative potential of mutual exchanges between
texts and cultural ensembles will be clarified by adducing examples from
Anglophone and Francophone Canadian speculative writing. The term transcolonial
will be introduced as a critical category indicating a space of discursive
conflict in literary texts with no definable material or sociological referent
and as a valuable criterion to assess the relevance of comparative methodologies
to the ongoing process of globalization.
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