Schaumann / Sullivan German Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-137-54222-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 346 Seiten

Reihe: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

This book offers essays on both canonical and non-canonical German-language texts and films, advancing ecocritical models for German Studies, and introducing environmental issues in German literature and film to a broader audience. This volume contextualizes the broad-ranging topics and authors in terms of the Anthropocene, beginning with Goethe and the Romantics and extending into twenty-first-century literature and film. Addressing the growing need for environmental awareness in an international humanities curriculum, this book complements ecocritical analyses emerging from North American and British studies with a specifically German Studies perspective, opening the door to a transnational understanding of how the environment plays an integral role in cultural, political, and economic issues.

Caroline Schaumann is Associate Professor of German Studies at Emory University, USA. She is the author of Memory Matters: Generational Responses to Germany's Nazi Past in Recent Women's Literature and co-editor of Heights of Reflection: Mountains in the German Imagination from the Middle Ages to Twenty-First Century.   Heather I. Sullivan is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Trinity University, Texas, USA. She co-edited The Early History of Embodied Cognition, has been a contributing editor to publications such as New German Critique, Colloquia Germanica, and ISLE, and is author of The Intercontextuality of Self and Nature in Ludwig Tieck's Early Works.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schaumann, Caroline

Sullivan, Heather I.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Acknowledgments;6
2;Contents;7
3;List of Figures;10
4;Preface: The Anthropocene and the Challenge of Cultural Difference;11
4.1;Note;16
4.2;Works Cited;16
5;Introduction;17
5.1;Notes;29
5.2;Works Cited;30
6;Part I: Ecological Systems and Place in the Anthropocene;32
6.1;The Dark Pastoral: A Trope for the Anthropocene;33
6.1.1;Notes;49
6.1.2;Works Cited;49
6.2;Goethe’s Faust and the Ecolinguistics of ;53
6.2.1;The Ecolinguistics of Here;55
6.2.2;Here Is a Good Place to Be;58
6.2.3;The Accursed Here;62
6.2.4;Homunculus and the “All-Here”;68
6.2.5;Notes;71
6.2.6;Works Cited;71
6.3;Adalbert Stifter’s Alternative Anthropocene: Reimagining Social Nature in Brigitta and Abdias;73
6.3.1;The Conquest of Nature as Utopia in Brigitta;77
6.3.2;In a World of Sight and Blindness: Abdias;84
6.3.3;Conclusion;88
6.3.4;Notes;89
6.3.5;Works Cited;91
6.4;The Senses of Slovenia: Peter Handke, Stanley Cavell, and the Environmental Ethics of Repetition;94
6.4.1;Coming to the Senses1;94
6.4.2;Acceptance;98
6.4.3;Rescue of Language;104
6.4.4;Neighboring;107
6.4.5;The Creation of the World;109
6.4.6;Notes;111
6.4.7;Works Cited;113
7;Part II: Vibrant Matter: Rocks, Mines, Air, and Food;116
7.1;“Mines aren’t really like that”: German Romantic Undergrounds Revisited;117
7.1.1;Notes;132
7.1.2;Works Cited;132
7.2;(Bad) Air and (Faulty) Inspiration: Elemental and Environmental Influences on Fontane;135
7.2.1;Notes;147
7.2.2;Works Cited;149
7.3;Performing Hunger: Fasting in Franz Kafka’s Hunger Artist as Poetic Practice;152
7.3.1;Food as a Cultural System;155
7.3.2;Performing the Fast;161
7.3.3;Death by Non-consumption;165
7.3.4;Works Cited;167
7.4;Speaking Stones: Material Agency and Interaction in Christian Enzensberger’s Geschichte der Natur;170
7.4.1;Notes;184
7.4.2;Works Cited;186
8;Part III: Catastrophe, Crisis, and Cultural Exploitation;188
8.1;When Nature Strikes Back: The Inconvenient Apocalypse in Franz Hohler’s Der Neue Berg;189
8.1.1;Notes;205
8.1.2;Works Cited;207
8.2;National Invective and Environmental Exploitation in Thomas Bernhard’s Frost;209
8.2.1;Notes;227
8.2.2;Works Cited;228
8.3;German Film Ventures into the Amazon: Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo as Prelude to Micha? Marczak’s Eco-documentary;232
8.3.1;Notes;246
8.3.2;Works Cited;247
8.4;Assessing How We Assess Environmental Risk: Kathrin Röggla’s Documentary Film The Mobile Future;249
8.4.1;Notes;264
8.4.2;Works Cited;264
9;Part IV: Genres in the Anthropocene;266
9.1;Writing After Nature: A Sebaldian Ecopoetics;267
9.1.1;Complicity: Writing the Anthropocene;272
9.1.2;Silent Mutations;276
9.1.3;Reduced Ecologies;283
9.1.4;Future Landscapes;286
9.1.5;Notes;288
9.1.6;Works Cited;289
9.2;Telling the Story of Climate Change: The German Novel in the Anthropocene;293
9.2.1;Literature and Literary Criticism in the Anthropocene;293
9.2.2;Climate Fiction as a Twenty-First-Century Genre;299
9.2.3;Challenges of Form in Narrating Climate Change: Ilija Trojanow’s EisTau and Cornelia Franz’s Ins Nordlicht blicken in Comparison;303
9.2.4;Works Cited;310
9.2.4.1;Literary Texts;310
9.2.4.2;Secondary Literature;311
9.3;The Anthropocene in Contemporary German Ecothrillers;315
9.3.1;The Anthropocene Discourse and Its Impact on the Environmental Humanities;316
9.3.2;The Ecothriller Genre;318
9.3.3;Frank Schätzing’s Der Schwarm (The Swarm) as Apocalyptic Precautionary Novel;321
9.3.4;Dirk C. Fleck’s Ecothrillers: GO! Die Ökodiktatur (1993) and The Tahiti-Project (2007);324
9.3.5;Conclusion;328
9.3.6;Works Cited;329
10;Notes on Contributors;332
11;Index;337