Shaping the Future

Literary Imagination in the Anthropocene. German-Italian Perspectives
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-515-13929-8
Verlag: Steiner Franz Verlag

Buch, Englisch, Deutsch, Italienisch, Band Band 9, 270 Seiten, Gebunden, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 604 g

Reihe: Aurora

In view of the global crisis triggered by climate change and other ecological problems of the Anthropocene, there is growing concern that the age of humans on Earth could be coming to an end. The question of the future of the human species on the planet and its scope for action has been a source of debate in literature for a long time. This volume shows that literature helps us to understand the future not simply as a time to come, but as a realm of potential and change. It reflects on how literature casts new perspectives on traditional concepts and relationships such as human/environment, nature/culture or past/future. The contributions collected in this volume bring together German and Italian perspectives and draw from different disciplines (e.g., literary criticism, philosophy, psychoanalysis). They examine different cultural contexts (in Europe, America, and Africa) and focus on periods of literary history, ranging from Romanticism to the 21st century. They all outline an idea of how we can imagine the future beyond the extremes of a blind belief in progress on the one hand and the fear of catastrophe on the other.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Savettieri, Cristina

Schaefer, Christina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Italienische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Savettieri, Cristina
Cristina Savettieri is Associate Professor of Contemporary Italian Literature at the University of Pisa

Schaefer, Christina
Christina Schaefer absolvierte Frankreichstudien (Dipl.) in Berlin und Paris. Promotion in Romanischer Philologie. Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin für Französische und Italienische Literaturwissenschaft am Institut für Romanische Philologie der Freien Universität Berlin.
Forschungsschwerpunkte: Gegenwartsliteratur, Autofiktion/Autobiographisches Schreiben, Literatur und Wissensgeschichte, Tre- und Cinquecento.