Self-Reflection in Literature

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-40693-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 202, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft

Self-reflection is fundamental for human thinking on many levels. Philosophy has described the mind's capacity to observe itself as a core element of human existence. Political and social sciences have shown how modern democracies depend on society's ability to critically reflect on their own values and practices. And literature of all ages has proven self-reflexivity to be a crucial trait of cultural production.

This volume provides the first diachronic panorama of genres, forms, and functions of literary self-reflection and their connections with social, political and philosophical discourses from the 17th century to the present. Far beyond the usual focus on postmodernist opacity, these contributions present a rich tradition of critical transparency: Literary texts that show us what is behind and beyond them.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lippert, Florian

Schmid, Marcel

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Read Thyself: Cultural Self-reflection and the Relevance of Literary “Self”-labels

Florian Lippert and Marcel Schmid

Reflections on Reflection

Autoreferentiality, Autoreflexivity, Selftransparency

Oliver Jahraus

– 1600 –

1 Cervantes’s and Unamuno’s Metalepsis

Hope Unraveled in Don Quixote: Self-Reflexivity and the Problem of Metalepsis in Cervantes, Unamuno, and Bloch

Konstantin Mierau

– 1700 –

2 Hamann’s Latent Parrhesia

Intertextual Exploration of the Self in Sokratische Denkwürdigkeiten

Andrea Krauss

3 Klopstock’s Historiography

Written out of Time: Inventing What Happened in Klopstock

Kristina Mendicino

– 1800 –

4 Kleist’s Performativity

Transmission Kleist

Marcel Schmid

5 Mallarmé’s Rhetoric

Allegorical Self-Reflexivity in Mallarmé’s Sonnet en-x

Evelyn Dueck

6 Nietzsche’s Masks

“Aber ich notire mich, für mich”: Nietzsche and Self-Reflection

Barbara Naumann

– 1900 –

7 Celan and the Timeless

A Secret Echo Outside of Time: Paul Celan and the Autumn Crocus

Jason Kavett

Letter from Paul Celan to Gisèle Celan-Lestrange

Translated by Jason Kavett

8 Pastior’s Poetics

The Medium of Poetry

Jörg Kreienbrock

– 2000 –

9 Fforde’s Intermediality

Books Without Borders: Self-Referentiality and Intermedial Games in Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next Series

Vera Alexander

10 Autobiographies: Kureishi, Miller, Wiebe, Coetzee, and Bechdel

Self-Reflexivity in Contemporary English Auto/Biographies

Anne Rüggemeier

11 Brandt’s and Ja, Panik’s Auto-fiction

“Only half of what I am saying is true:” Deconstructing Authorial Authority in Contemporary German Literature

Antonius Weixler

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Florian Lippert (1978) is Associate Professor in European Languages and Cultures at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. He is the author of Selbstreferenz in Literatur und Wissenschaft (Fink 2013) and has published numerous articles and chapters on self-reflexivity in literature, arts, media and politics.

Dr. Marcel Schmid (1979) is Assistant Professor in Germanics at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Autopoiesis und Literatur (transcript 2016) and has co-edited a volume on the life reform movement: Die Literatur der Lebensreform (transcript 2016).