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{"title":"Aerial withdrawal: An atmospheric reading of Monika Maron's Flugasche","authors":"Monika Szczepaniak","doi":"10.1111/oli.12433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/oli.12433","url":null,"abstract":"In Monika Maron's <i>Flugasche</i> (1981)—the first novel from the GDR to deal with environmental issues—the poisoned atmosphere in the city of B. functions as an affective centre, around which emotions, actions and reactions of the main protagonist as well as of the other characters revolve. The journalist Josefa Nadler falls into the sphere of the environmental catastrophe and is overwhelmed by the atmospheric power of this meaningful situation. The corporeal experience of being exposed to subtle environmental violence, which has devastating consequences for the city of B. and debilitating effects on its inhabitants, evokes feelings such as fear, anger, shame and compassion. Moreover, it develops into a driving force for thoughts, decisions, commitment and resistance against the unfair air distribution, accompanied by a sense of powerlessness. The aim of the article is a re-reading of the novel with a central focus on the largely non-representational, affective and meteorological elemental spacetimes, which can not only be felt or bodily experienced but also designed or engineered in order to produce a certain time-bound structure of feeling, for example, an oppressive climate of fear.","PeriodicalId":42582,"journal":{"name":"ORBIS LITTERARUM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138823570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Attentional modulation in literary reading: A theoretical‐empirical framework","authors":"Inge van de Ven","doi":"10.1111/oli.12431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/oli.12431","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract When we think of a person engaged in the act of reading literary fiction, the mental image that readily comes to mind is one of focused concentration. In our current information age, such a form of reading seems especially necessary, and often lacking. This causes a change in how we read, often described in terms of close reading versus hyperreading. Literary reading is typically associated with the former; screen‐based reading of information texts with the latter. Accounts of attention and distraction in reading research are often informed by a binary way of thinking. Literary reading, while often aligned with close reading, also involves selection, strategic allocation of attention informed by textual cues, condensation, and mind‐wandering. It never occurs in a state of continuous attention: we combine different modes, triggered by both textual and readerly characteristics. A challenge for literary studies in the present media landscape is to determine more precisely when readers read with close attention and when they skim, or what they skip. This article presents a theoretical contribution to studies of literary reading in the form of a literature review and a framework for attentional modulation. Education might benefit from a more sophisticated concept of such attentional modulations.","PeriodicalId":42582,"journal":{"name":"ORBIS LITTERARUM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135291057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"„Feurige Blitze in ihrem Kopf“: Hypersensitivität als Empathie in Marlen Haushofers <i>Himmel, der nirgendwo endet</i>","authors":"Liselotte Van der Gucht","doi":"10.1111/oli.12428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/oli.12428","url":null,"abstract":"Zusammenfassung Der Beitrag schlägt einen neuen Blick auf den Roman Himmel, der nirgendwo endet (1966) der österreichischen Autorin Marlen Haushofer vor, indem eine Neurodiversitätsperspektive eingenommen wird. Die im Vergleich zur Norm alternative sowie höchst intensive Erfahrung der Hauptfigur Meta wird von einer Hypersensitivität charakterisiert, die eine Hyperempathie für Lebewesen und sogar unlebendige Objekte auslöst. Der literarische Text trägt zu einem neuen Verständnis der gelebten Erfahrung von Neurodiversität im Gegensatz zu pathologischen Interpretationen bei, die von medizinischen oder sozialen Behinderungsmodellen aufgeführt werden, und macht kognitive Differenzen wie Hypersensitivität und Hyperempathie den Leser*innen zugänglich. Die literarische Darstellung dieser Differenz gelingt über die Naturerfahrung der Hauptfigur, wobei die Natur deren körperliche und mentale Zustände metaphorisch veranschaulicht.","PeriodicalId":42582,"journal":{"name":"ORBIS LITTERARUM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135291828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Borges, Buddhism and world literature: A morphology of Renunciation talesBy DominiqueJullien, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 2019. pp. 149. £44.99 (hardback). ISBN: 978‐3‐030‐04717‐7","authors":"Arthur Rose","doi":"10.1111/oli.12429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/oli.12429","url":null,"abstract":"Orbis LitterarumEarly View BOOK REVIEW Borges, Buddhism and world literature: A morphology of Renunciation talesBy Dominique Jullien, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 2019. pp. 149. £44.99 (hardback). ISBN: 978-3-030-04717-7 Arthur Rose, Corresponding Author Arthur Rose [email protected] University of Exeter, Exeter, UKSearch for more papers by this author Arthur Rose, Corresponding Author Arthur Rose [email protected] University of Exeter, Exeter, UKSearch for more papers by this author First published: 24 October 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/oli.12429Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Early ViewOnline Version of Record before inclusion in an issue RelatedInformation","PeriodicalId":42582,"journal":{"name":"ORBIS LITTERARUM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135316356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Universal localities: The languages of world literature. GalinTihanov (Ed.), Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler. 2022. 252 pp.","authors":"Svend Erik Larsen","doi":"10.1111/oli.12427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/oli.12427","url":null,"abstract":"When world literature mounted to the top of the agenda in literary studies a few decades ago as a revived and revised take on the synthesis of literary history, literary analysis and literary theory, all important publications in this expanding field had to conceptualise and reconceptualise world literature in order to promote it as an ongoing innovative rethinking of the function of literature, of the aim of literary studies and of the criteria for the selection of material to be included as world literature. One of the many strengths of this endeavour was its acceptance without regret of being non-exhaustive. Instead, through striking examples it forced readers to rethink what literature and literary studies is about in the twenty-first century, not least a reconsideration of the past. Since the pioneering days a more complacent conceptualisation and practice of world literature studies have also come about. One such trend is the descriptive mapping of literatures across the world with no or only limited conceptual ambitions, but with the otherwise laudable aim of relativising cultural hegemonies beyond traditional centre/periphery models, Eurocentrism in particular; another is the attempt to use world literature as a catch-word to secure a visible or, even better, prominent place for the regional/national/local literature of one's own on the world map of literatures. With the ecumenical aim of opening a space of borderless global literary circulation unfettered by cultural frictions and hegemonies, the first trend risks ignoring the fact that cultural power relations continue to transmutate into new forms and move to new locations, even if some of the existing ones are relativised; the second approach tends, implicitly or explicitly, to implement literature as a tool for perpetuating cultural hegemonies, just replacing others like Eurocentrism and moving them closer to home. Weigui Fang's chapter presents the Chinese approach to world literature as a case in point. Insisting on returning to the foundational ambition of a synthesis of theory, history and analysis, the present volume is a much welcomed debate and exemplification of the continued relevance of this synthesis, each article taking one dimension as its prevalent point of departure for embracing more or less all three dimensions. The transversal focus across the three sections and eleven chapters is the complex role of languages in a world literature perspective. The term ‘language’ is taken in a very broad meaning, maybe too broad and in some need of explication. Without discussion it seems to cover the discourse of literary texts, the notions and terms used in the discourse about literary texts, and the transverbal interaction between cultures and between humans and the non-human environment. I would have preferred the term ‘interaction’ in the way it is used in the astute analysis in the editor's Coda, which unfolds the use of ‘circulation’ in discourses about world literature. Thi","PeriodicalId":42582,"journal":{"name":"ORBIS LITTERARUM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135481715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A look‐back from the future: Anthropogenic crisis and memory in N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy","authors":"Sylwia Borowska‐Szerszun","doi":"10.1111/oli.12424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/oli.12424","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Referring to recent discussions on the challenges the concept of the Anthropocene poses for humanities and literary representation, this article investigates N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy as a narrative that addresses the crisis of imagination, in particular with respect to memory. Examining the tensions between individual, collective, and planetary memory, I read Jemisin's novels as an attempt to direct attention to the systemic exploitation of both marginalized minorities and the environment as a key ethical problem of the Anthropocene, which necessitates rethinking the relationship between humanity, climate change, and the planet in the face of the forthcoming crisis.","PeriodicalId":42582,"journal":{"name":"ORBIS LITTERARUM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136060273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Order and adventure”: The political in Paul Auster's <i>4321</i>","authors":"Meiping Zhang","doi":"10.1111/oli.12426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/oli.12426","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Paul Auster's 4321 is on the surface organized around a multiplication of one's life story. This essay argues that the kind of textual multiplication developed in the novel can also be linked with an essential need to express the depth and breadth of the political. Looking at three forms of expression—journalism, film, and poetry—it analyzes their functions in creating openings into a public realm departing from normative conceptions of collectivity and identification, which then leads to a rethinking of the common through the multiplicities of experience.","PeriodicalId":42582,"journal":{"name":"ORBIS LITTERARUM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135152308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"New motherhood and eugenics in German women's political and popular fiction around 1900","authors":"Caroline Bland","doi":"10.1111/oli.12420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/oli.12420","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Fictional texts have long functioned as a testing ground for new impulses in society. At the turn of the twentieth century many German feminists were demanding greater influence for women in public life not despite but because of their role as mothers. At the same time writers, scientists and activists from across the political spectrum were fascinated by eugenics, seeing this new ‘science’ as the answer to many social ills. Hopes and remedies for the ‘new generation’, formed within the paradigm of evolutionary biology and a growing faith in science, were thus the focus of much public discourse and the impetus for a range of well‐documented social movements. These ideas were also shaping a new direction for prominent women writers of the day, such as Ilse Frapan and Clara Viebig. Here I examine two novels which exemplify the trend and consider the extent of these writers' involvement with the circles of influence which were helping to spread eugenic ideas in the German‐speaking world around 1900.","PeriodicalId":42582,"journal":{"name":"ORBIS LITTERARUM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135831128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Poet as poem: The intermedial staging of A. E. Housman in Tom Stoppard's <i>The Invention of Love</i>","authors":"Huayu Yang, Bowen Wang","doi":"10.1111/oli.12425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/oli.12425","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love (1997) offers the audience a dream‐like voyage through the post‐mortem reminiscences of the central character, A. E. Housman. The attempt to resurrect Housman, as the historical figure in real life, is suspended by the intertextual incorporation of Housman's poems, the both fictive and enigmatically private voice of which opens up the illusory closure of biographically accurate dramatic characterisation. By fluidising and activating the subversive emotions contained in the formal patterns of the poetic text, the intermedial stage with the corporeality of its theatrical embodiment becomes a spatialised metaphor for the poetry as an open space that is inviting meaning to be projected onto it. The poetic and the theatrical, thus deterritorialised by their intermedial exchanges, interlace a dreamscape in which the nomadic search for the uncorrupted, unappropriated poet/poem continuum provides a transcendental empiricist reading of the ‘truth’ about Housman.","PeriodicalId":42582,"journal":{"name":"ORBIS LITTERARUM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135885581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The madness of unrestrained reason: Reason and madness in Molière's Le misanthrope","authors":"Benjamin Boysen","doi":"10.1111/oli.12410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/oli.12410","url":null,"abstract":"In Molière's celebrated Le misanthrope, the spectator is witness to an immensely funny, albeit profound staging of the limits of rationality. The comedy exhibits how an idealist idea of the pure sovereignty of reason is ridiculous, self‐contradictory, and mad, since the distinction between ideality and reality, the universal and the particular, the social and the individual, is ignored or even dissolved. The comic art of literature steps forth as a joyous purging and corrective of the highly seductive, but essentially delusional appeals from philosophy and idealism to absolutize reason and thus render oneself sovereign. A totalized reason that nonetheless cancels itself and becomes madness.","PeriodicalId":42582,"journal":{"name":"ORBIS LITTERARUM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47341947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}