ARCADIAPub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2022-9041
Jason Groves
{"title":"Timothy Attanucci: The Restorative Poetics of a Geological Age: Stifter, Viollet-le-Duc, and the Aesthetic Practices of Geohistoricism. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. 228 pp.","authors":"Jason Groves","doi":"10.1515/arcadia-2022-9041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2022-9041","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43010,"journal":{"name":"ARCADIA","volume":"27 1","pages":"182 - 185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76565074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ARCADIAPub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2022-9043
Yashar Mohagheghi
{"title":"Maren Jäger, Ethel Matala de Mazza und Joseph Vogl, Hgg.: Verkleinerung: Epistemologie und Literaturgeschichte kleiner Formen. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020. 291 S.","authors":"Yashar Mohagheghi","doi":"10.1515/arcadia-2022-9043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2022-9043","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43010,"journal":{"name":"ARCADIA","volume":"47 1","pages":"157 - 163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76245902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ARCADIAPub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2022-9045
Adrian Renner
{"title":"Brian Gingrich: The Pace of Fiction. Narrative Movement and the Novel. Oxford and New York, NJ: Oxford UP, 2021. 224 pp.","authors":"Adrian Renner","doi":"10.1515/arcadia-2022-9045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2022-9045","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43010,"journal":{"name":"ARCADIA","volume":"47 1","pages":"191 - 196"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84726195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ARCADIAPub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2022-9034
Omri Ben Yehuda
{"title":"A Man Who Is Not a Dog: Thomas Mann and the Question of the Jew, the Human and the Animal","authors":"Omri Ben Yehuda","doi":"10.1515/arcadia-2022-9034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2022-9034","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this study I confront the work of Thomas Mann with the Jewish question in order to examine the relationship between literary (human) agency and the inferior margins that enable it: those creatures who do not share the language of (the European and civilized) man. Through a reading of several of Mann’s narratives that concern the relationship between human beings and animals as well as texts by Jewish authors, Kafka in German and Agnon in Hebrew, I seek to shed light on the concept of ‘animality,’ a term that implies continuity between the human and the animal, thereby laying bare man’s political precariousness and fragility and aligning the human with the creature by exposing the body. Based on my reading of Mann’s figuration of the dog in the early story “Tobias Mindernickel” (1898), the novella Herr und Hund (1917), and his Jewish mythical depiction of the biblical Joseph as a dog in Joseph und seine Brüder (1933–1943), I argue that Mann’s humanism is limited in that it guards against the mimetic alignment of man with other creatures by portraying the (often muted) creaturely object of the literary depiction as an inferior – albeit frequently admirable – being. By contrasting Mann’s treatment of this question with Jewish literature’s complete immersion in the animal, I suggest how descriptive speech identifies orientalism as a form of descriptive knowledge, thus clarifying as well the process whereby the modern European nation-state was consolidated by its invisible margins. The article thus suggests that literary description is a means to differentiate and gain agency by adhering to language’s elevated and hierarchical terms.","PeriodicalId":43010,"journal":{"name":"ARCADIA","volume":"60 1","pages":"121 - 147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86789532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ARCADIAPub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2022-9035
Martina Bengert
{"title":"Berührung auf Todeshöhe: Maurice Blanchots Uneingestehbare Gemeinschaft (Bataille, Nancy, Duras)","authors":"Martina Bengert","doi":"10.1515/arcadia-2022-9035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2022-9035","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Focusing on Maurice Blanchot’s La Communauté inavouable (1983), this text investigates possibilities of thinking and performing communities that interact with and constitute one another “à hauteur de mort” (Bataille).Following the twofold structure of Blanchot’s text, the first part of the essay in its first part unfolds the notion of communitas in order to show how Maurice Blanchot, Georges Bataille, and Jean-Luc Nancy formulated a new concept of community by distinguishing it from liberal, socialist, Christian or fascist forms of community that all had become extremely problematic by the beginning of the Second World War at the latest. By doing so they themselves performed an ‘unavowable community.’The second part of the essay engages with Marguerite Duras’ La Maladie de la mort, a novella that is the main subject of the second part of La Communauté inavouable. Here, the performative power of language is delineated by means of the idea of a ‘community of lovers’ that manifests itself, in contrast to romantic forms of togetherness and unity, precisely in the breakdown of communicatio and communitas.","PeriodicalId":43010,"journal":{"name":"ARCADIA","volume":"14 1","pages":"68 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82166186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ARCADIAPub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2021-9032
S. Rickenbacher
{"title":"Martina Wernli und Alexander Kling, Hgg.: Das Verhältnis von „res“ und „verba“: Zu den Narrativen der Dinge. Freiburg i. Br., Berlin und Wien: Rombach, 2018. 260 Seiten.","authors":"S. Rickenbacher","doi":"10.1515/arcadia-2021-9032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2021-9032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43010,"journal":{"name":"ARCADIA","volume":"62 11","pages":"268 - 275"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72559552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ARCADIAPub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2021-9030
Alexander Waszynski
{"title":"Satirische Metabolistik: Jean Pauls Skizze „Über die Schriftstellerei“","authors":"Alexander Waszynski","doi":"10.1515/arcadia-2021-9030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2021-9030","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Jean Paul’s collection Grönländische Prozesse, oder Satirische Skizzen (1783–4/1821) has been scrutinized regarding its exuberant similes and its satirical wit, but ranked low compared to his novels. From the beginning, however, it exposes a groundbreaking strategy resonating in his more famous literary and theoretical works alike. The first sketch “On literary writing. An opusculum posthumum” converts a rhetoric of the known material world – with its diversity of life forms – into a materialistic-physiological writing (and vice versa). The text interchanges processes of transformation (e. g. ‘metabolic,’ ‘biotic,’ ‘chemical’) with techniques that are capable of changing things rhetorically. Pertaining to Jean Paul’s later analysis of antithetical wit, I suggest grasping the structure of this interchanging as a rhetorical process in itself, which can be pinpointed by the figure of antimetabole (or commutatio). Consequently, this complex dynamics is connected to transitions between ‘alive’ and ‘dead’. The status of “On literary writing” as a posthumously published draft and pseudo-poetological treatise, introduced by a fictive editor, thus exactly fits the rhetorico-physiological processes it stages and complements a genuinely anticipatory writing.","PeriodicalId":43010,"journal":{"name":"ARCADIA","volume":"14 1","pages":"222 - 242"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84096807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ARCADIAPub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2021-9033
J. Harst, D. Stöferle
{"title":"Ehe- und Ehebruchsnarrative in der Literatur","authors":"J. Harst, D. Stöferle","doi":"10.1515/arcadia-2021-9033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2021-9033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43010,"journal":{"name":"ARCADIA","volume":"27 1","pages":"252 - 267"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83341944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}