Literature on the move / Ottmar Ette ; translated by Katharina Vester.
| Author/creator | Ette, Ottmar author. |
| Other author | Vester, Katharina, translator. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2003. |
| Description | 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Literatur in Bewegung. English |
| Series | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 0929-6999 ; 68 Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 68. ^A474522 |
| Contents | Signposts 9 -- 1 Parcours Mapping a world on the move 17 -- Approaching movement -- Dimensions of the travelogue -- Literature and traveling -- Travel literature as frictional literature -- The places of the travelogue -- Parting -- Climax -- Arrival -- Return -- Travel literary place and hermeneutic movement -- Circle -- Pendulum -- Line -- Star -- Jump -- A travelogue without journey? -- 2 Traverse From the surfacing of America to the disappearing of Europe 51 -- America in a bird's flight -- Discovery and conquest, circle and line -- Experience of the border and border experience -- America as divided space -- Mobile border texts -- American dreams and spaces and the landscapes of theory -- The acceleration and disappearing of Europe -- 3 Passage Eye, ear and the place of writing 69 -- Eye and Ear -- Place of writing and burning glass -- Authorization and textpansion -- The eye and the doubled place of writing -- Bestseller and longseller, image and text -- The gaze upon the reader -- Iconotextuality and the staging of the desk -- A desk in the jungle -- A desk in Berlin -- 4 Passage Writing in modernity 111 -- "Only happy when I do something new" -- "For the first time I saw the ocean" -- "To understand the various elements of a wide landscape" -- "The uniform, hopeless picture of divided mankind" -- "It narrows the steppe as well as the spirit of the wanderer" -- "Humboldtian Writing" -- 5 Traverse From the modern narrative space to the Orbis Tertius 129 -- Story against love -- The sculptor and his model -- Balzac and his model -- The modern narrative model -- Balzac's readers -- A reader of Balzac -- The framing of the reading -- Between fiction and diction -- Fictions of reading -- Encyclopedia, chance and reading -- In Tlons world -- The dissemination of the fantastic within the real -- The reality effect -- The complete fiction of a modern literature -- 6 Passage Proteus in Uruguay 153 -- Cinematograph and mirror of eternity -- Sermon and example -- A book in permanent becoming -- Fragments of a discourse of the soul -- Continuous and discontinuous readings -- Textmobile and spiritual autobiography -- 7 Passage Iphigenia in Mexico 177 -- Question of identity and cultural space -- New cultural horizons -- Model of antiquity and deviation -- Iphigenia, cruel -- European expansion and American space -- Latin American avant-garde and European hearing impairment -- 8 Traverse Avant-garde, Post-avant-garde, Postmodernism 199 -- Everything is invented -- Cubist writing after cubism -- Break with the break of tradition -- A global painting -- The vaccination (of the) avant-garde -- A little avant-garde -- The rearguard of the avant-garde -- Places of reading -- Post-avant-garde past-avant-gardian -- Post-avant-garde or postmodernism? -- Post-avant-garde postmodern -- Pictures of avant-garde, post-avant-garde and postmodernism -- After postmodernism -- before the avant-garde? -- 9 Passage The world inside the head 225 -- Of images and after-images -- Approaching the city -- The city as inner space -- the inner space of the city -- The struggle of the images -- Pictures and counter-images of the city -- The city in the underground -- After-images of the Shoa -- 10 Passage On the swing 243 -- Pfeiffer with three f's, and the limits of youth -- The baron in the trees and the limits of the game -- The girl, the leaves and the limits of showing -- The limits of love in the book of youth -- 11 Passage as Traverse Crossing the mangroves 255 -- The laboratory of humankind -- The logic of the neither -- nor and the time of the "dads" -- The laboratory of Maryse Conde -- Novel structure and space structure -- Structuring and movement -- Hermeneutic movement and transitory identity -- Transcultural identity and transitory figuration -- The mangroves as tree -- The mangrove as root -- The mangrove as rhizome -- The tree as mangrove -- Two logics and the landscapes of theory -- 12 Return How the New World appeared in the Old and became in the New the Old World 295 -- At the end of movement? -- Movement and death, movement as death -- Letters from the end of the world -- Personal description as travelogue -- Europe as movement. |
| General note | Translation of: Literatur in Bewegung : Raum und Dynamik grenzüberschreitenden Schreibens in Europa und Amerika. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-310) and index. |
| Language | Translation of: Literatur in Bewegung : Raum und Dynamik grenz erschreitenden Schreibens in Europa und Amerika. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| ISBN | 9042011556 (English edition ; pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9789042011557 (English edition ; pbk.) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | PN774 .E7813 2003 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |