Resisting Texts: Exploring Positions in a Complex Relationship

ISBN-13: 9783899751956 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 246 str.

Rath, Brigitte

Opis

Resisting Texts offers twelve studies that analyse the complex dynamics of textual resistance, exploring fiction s fundamental potential to resist against realities and the way reality may resist against fictions. Grouped into four sections, the articles (1) focus on how fictional texts resist the dynamics of history by consciously rewriting it; (2) explore how texts resist the readers desire to witness an authentic act of origin and instead perform the past s resistance against recovery; (3) describe cultural institutions and their rhetoric of resistance against mainstream views that nevertheless has potential for productive resistance go unused; and (4) offer new approaches to literary texts that are usually read as resisting a specific ideology but can be shown to resist in a more complex way. The resisting texts in these studies include works by Thomas Bernhard, Antonio Botto, Daniil Charms, Allen Ginsberg, Toni Morrison, Octavio Paz, W.G. Sebald, and Virginia Woolf."

Resisting Texts versammelt zwölf Beiträge zur Widerständigkeit von Texten, die das grundlegende Potenzial von Fiktion ausloten, sich gegen die Wirklichkeit zu stellen und die komplementäre Widerständigkeit der Welt gegen fiktionale Texte in den Blick nehmen. Die Beiträge konzentrieren sich auf vier Schwerpunkte: (1) Sie beschreiben, wie sich fiktionale Texte der Dynamik von Geschichte durch deren bewusste Umschreibung entgegensetzen. (2) Sie zeigen, wie Texte den Wunsch der LeserInnen nach einem authentischen Ursprungsakt unterlaufen, indem sie Widerständigkeiten der Vergegenwärtigung von Vergangenheit stark machen. (3) Kulturellen Institutionen weisen sie nach, dass sie trotz ihrer Rhetorik der Widerständigkeit gegen die Massenkultur wesentliche Potenziale für Widerständigkeit ungenutzt lassen. (4) Sie bieten neue Ansätze zum Lesen solcher literarischer Texte, die üblicherweise als Positionen gegen eine bestimmte Ideologie verstanden werden, deren Reaktionspotenzial qua Literarizität aber ungleich größer und komplexer ist. Die untersuchten "widerständigen Texte" stammen u.a. von Thomas Bernhard, António Botto, Daniil Charms, Allen Ginsberg, Toni Morrison, Octavio Paz, W.G. Sebald und Virginia Woolf

Spis treści

Introduction
1 Stories Resisting History
KARIN PETERS
The Solitary-Solidary Dialogue between Poetry and Politics: Story Resisting History in Itinerario by Octavio Paz
SARAH FEKADU
Nation, Narration, and Noise: Virginia Woolf s Between the Acts
ANITA VRZINA
Historical Narrative in the Process of Identity Creation: Friedrich Nietzsche s Historical Malady in Toni Morrison s Paradise
KIM PALMORE
Subversive Ruptures in Time: The Liberation of Gender in Virginia Woolf s Orlando
2 Origins Resisting Appropriation
MARIA KUWILSKY
Aspects of Resistance Against the Facts : Iteration in Thomas Bernhard s Walking
WAYNE STABLES We Who Are Still Alive Are Unreal in the Eyes of the Dead : Thoughts on Benjamin, Sebald and Living
SARAH ZWEIG
Babel at the Gates of Jerusalem. Ursprache in Translation Benjamin and the Buber-Rosenzweig Bible
3 Institutions Resisting Resistance
SLÁVKA RUDE-PORUBSKÁ
Judging (Translated) Literature: Consecration and Literary Translation in Germany
HENRIETTE STEINER
Placing Socialist Realism: Art Museums Look East
4 Literature Resisting Ideology
LISANNE SAUERWALD
Resisting Common Sense: Towards a New Strategy of Reading Russian Absurd Literature of the OBERIU
ELIZABETH SPIES Intruding Upon the Intruders : Culture Jamming, Subvertising and the Cultural Cachet of Allen Ginsberg s Advertising
STEFAN SCHUKOWSKI
Disguised Homoerotics? Subversive Strategies in António Botto s Canções

O autorze

Brigitte Rath organized the summer school Resisting Texts during her time as Academic Coordinator of the international PhD Programme in Literature at LMU Munich. She teaches now at the University of Innsbruck.
Stefan Schukowski is finishing his dissertation at the PhD Programme in Literature and will be teaching at the University of Erlangen starting in 2011.