Jacques Derrida's scattered remarks on the ambiguous role examples play in the passage between the universal and the singular revolve around an often‐neglected point: any attempt to theorise exemplarity will itself be subject to the law it seeks to account for. This oversight limits scholarship on the subject, but may be amended by returning to the loci classici on exemplarity in Derrida's Glas, La vérité en peinture, Passions, and elsewhere. Moreover, in three texts published in the 1980s: La loi du genre, Préjugés and Psyché, Derrida emphasises how literature is particularly given to ‘remark’ its own status as literature and as such provides a privileged example of the problem of exemplarity. Another example in which exemplarity is in general singularly implicated is deconstruction itself.
雅克·德里达（Jacques Derrida）对例子在普遍性和单数之间的转换中所起的模糊作用发表了零散的评论，围绕着一个经常被忽视的点：任何对例证性进行理论化的尝试本身都将受制于它所寻求解释的法律。这种疏忽限制了这一主题的学术研究，但可以通过回归德里达的《格拉斯》、《激情》和其他作品中的经典典范来进行修正。此外，在20世纪80年代出版的三本书中：《流派》（La loi du types）、《普雷朱热斯》（Préjugés）和《精神病》（Psyché），德里达强调了文学是如何被特别赋予“评论”其文学地位的，因此为典范性问题提供了一个特殊的例子。另一个典型性通常被单独牵连的例子是解构本身。
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This article shows that, in Miguel de Unamuno, both philosophy and literature contribute to an intellectual project that has to do with life. I will argue that Unamuno, in Cómo se hace una novela, presents a philosophy of life that understands human life as an intersubjective creation. We create life in the same way we do a novel, that is to say, through intersubjective dialectics. Cómo se hace una novela reveals an idea about life in which our ontological potential manifests itself in the novelistic creation and where the text becomes an intersubjective common ground.
这篇文章表明，在米格尔·德·乌纳穆诺的作品中，哲学和文学都为一个与生活有关的智力项目做出了贡献。我认为Unamuno，在Cómo se hace una novela中，提出了一种生活哲学，将人类生活理解为一种主体间的创造。我们创造生活的方式和创作小说的方式是一样的，也就是说，通过主体间辩证法。Cómo《我没有小说》揭示了一种关于生活的观念在这种观念中，我们的本体论潜能在小说创作中表现出来，文本成为主体间的共同基础。
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This article argues that the dissemination of literatures across historical and cultural divides follow partly random analogical pathways, not least pushed by translations. By contrast, within traditional comparative literature hierarchical centre/periphery models for literary transmissions were to a large extent based on the idea of a unilateral influence moving from dominant source cultures and their canonical writers and texts to other cultures. With the aim of revising this model I will as necessary suggest analogical reasoning, understood as a bi‐directional and non‐hierarchical approach to literary dissemination as it is embedded in translatory, aesthetic and performative practices across languages and cultures. My examples are two: an early nineteenth‐century direct Danish translation from 1805 of William Shakespeare's Hamlet; and an early twentieth‐century case of cross‐media use of an indirect German translation of Chinese poetry in Gustav Mahler's symphonic work Das Lied von der Erde (1908–1909).
{"title":"Translation and analogical reasoning","authors":"S. Larsen","doi":"10.1111/oli.12422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/oli.12422","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues that the dissemination of literatures across historical and cultural divides follow partly random analogical pathways, not least pushed by translations. By contrast, within traditional comparative literature hierarchical centre/periphery models for literary transmissions were to a large extent based on the idea of a unilateral influence moving from dominant source cultures and their canonical writers and texts to other cultures. With the aim of revising this model I will as necessary suggest analogical reasoning, understood as a bi‐directional and non‐hierarchical approach to literary dissemination as it is embedded in translatory, aesthetic and performative practices across languages and cultures. My examples are two: an early nineteenth‐century direct Danish translation from 1805 of William Shakespeare's Hamlet; and an early twentieth‐century case of cross‐media use of an indirect German translation of Chinese poetry in Gustav Mahler's symphonic work Das Lied von der Erde (1908–1909).","PeriodicalId":42582,"journal":{"name":"ORBIS LITTERARUM","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45389486","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}
Da sich die Pantomime als sogenannte „wortlose Kunst“ ihrer Verschriftlichung eigentlich entzieht, sind einige Texte der Pantomime um 1900 bezüglich ihrer Darstellungsverfahren besonders erfinderisch. Sie enthalten Notationen, Bilder, Zeichnungen und generieren rhetorische Figuren, um die Bewegung des Körpers auf der Bühne in den Texten selbst zu übersetzen. Die Ergebnisse dieser Übertragungen sind oftmals intermediale Textgestaltungen, welche die Diskurse um 1900 aufnehmen, reflektieren, kommentieren und in Frage stellen. Der Beitrag analysiert anhand ausgewählter Pantomimen von Robert Walser, Hugo von Hofmannsthal sowie von Grete Wiesenthal und Clemens von Franckenstein exemplarisch die rhetorischen und schriftbildlichen Strukturen und situiert diese in den jeweiligen Diskursen.
{"title":"Rhetorik und Schriftbildlichkeit von literarischen Pantomimen","authors":"Nina Tolksdorf","doi":"10.1111/oli.12407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/oli.12407","url":null,"abstract":"Da sich die Pantomime als sogenannte „wortlose Kunst“ ihrer Verschriftlichung eigentlich entzieht, sind einige Texte der Pantomime um 1900 bezüglich ihrer Darstellungsverfahren besonders erfinderisch. Sie enthalten Notationen, Bilder, Zeichnungen und generieren rhetorische Figuren, um die Bewegung des Körpers auf der Bühne in den Texten selbst zu übersetzen. Die Ergebnisse dieser Übertragungen sind oftmals intermediale Textgestaltungen, welche die Diskurse um 1900 aufnehmen, reflektieren, kommentieren und in Frage stellen. Der Beitrag analysiert anhand ausgewählter Pantomimen von Robert Walser, Hugo von Hofmannsthal sowie von Grete Wiesenthal und Clemens von Franckenstein exemplarisch die rhetorischen und schriftbildlichen Strukturen und situiert diese in den jeweiligen Diskursen.","PeriodicalId":42582,"journal":{"name":"ORBIS LITTERARUM","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49093301","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}
Der Beitrag untersucht Formen und Wege des Kulturtransfers zwischen Frankreich und Österreich, bzw. Deutschland, im Bereich der Pantomime, insbesondere unter dem Blickwinkel der „Texttheatralität“ (Poschmann). Bei vielen deutschsprachigen Pantomimenautoren ist die Begegnung mit der Pariser Pantomime, die 1888 mit der Gründung des „Cercle Funambulesque“ ihre Wiedergeburt feiert, für Theorie und Praxis ausschlaggebend. Diese künstlerische Befruchtung wird sowohl in den theoretischen Ansätzen als auch in den praktischen Umsetzungen präzisiert, wobei anhand eines Beispiels, nämlich Levetzows Die beiden Pierrots, die „Theatralität“ der pantomimischen Texte im Hinblick auf ihre Nähe zum Epischen, ihr performatives Potenzial, ihre Materialität und Metatextualität analysiert wird.
{"title":"Theorie und Praxis der Pantomime zwischen Frankreich und Österreich/Deutschland: Aspekte eines Kulturtransfers","authors":"Catherine Mazellier‐Lajarrige","doi":"10.1111/oli.12423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/oli.12423","url":null,"abstract":"Der Beitrag untersucht Formen und Wege des Kulturtransfers zwischen Frankreich und Österreich, bzw. Deutschland, im Bereich der Pantomime, insbesondere unter dem Blickwinkel der „Texttheatralität“ (Poschmann). Bei vielen deutschsprachigen Pantomimenautoren ist die Begegnung mit der Pariser Pantomime, die 1888 mit der Gründung des „Cercle Funambulesque“ ihre Wiedergeburt feiert, für Theorie und Praxis ausschlaggebend. Diese künstlerische Befruchtung wird sowohl in den theoretischen Ansätzen als auch in den praktischen Umsetzungen präzisiert, wobei anhand eines Beispiels, nämlich Levetzows Die beiden Pierrots, die „Theatralität“ der pantomimischen Texte im Hinblick auf ihre Nähe zum Epischen, ihr performatives Potenzial, ihre Materialität und Metatextualität analysiert wird.","PeriodicalId":42582,"journal":{"name":"ORBIS LITTERARUM","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44448922","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}
Within the last couple of years, the recently established field of research called “New Materialism” has made its entry into studies of Romanticism, and especially that of the Romantic body. Hitherto a subject explored through the guises of medicine, anatomy, and physiology on the one hand and deconstruction and poststructuralism on the other, the body is now being re‐interpreted within a field that itself has vowed a return to the material and its agentive interconnectedness with other matter. On that, Romantic studies of the body deliver, however, looking at the body through a new materialist framework is not entirely unproblematic. In this essay, I will look at some of the upsides and downsides of the merger of Romanticism, body studies, and New Materialism.
{"title":"The problem of the body in Romantic Studies: On the strengths and limits of New Materialism","authors":"Martin Fog Arndal","doi":"10.1111/oli.12408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/oli.12408","url":null,"abstract":"Within the last couple of years, the recently established field of research called “New Materialism” has made its entry into studies of Romanticism, and especially that of the Romantic body. Hitherto a subject explored through the guises of medicine, anatomy, and physiology on the one hand and deconstruction and poststructuralism on the other, the body is now being re‐interpreted within a field that itself has vowed a return to the material and its agentive interconnectedness with other matter. On that, Romantic studies of the body deliver, however, looking at the body through a new materialist framework is not entirely unproblematic. In this essay, I will look at some of the upsides and downsides of the merger of Romanticism, body studies, and New Materialism.","PeriodicalId":42582,"journal":{"name":"ORBIS LITTERARUM","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44483487","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}
As colonial regimes became more entrenched, the African indigenous ‘housekeeper’ became a popular and highly controversial topic in Belgian and German colonial literature. Indigenous women were euphemistically called ménagères or ‘housekeepers’ to veil their sexual function at a colonial's residence. In a period of history where racial and eugenic anxieties ran rampant across Europe, the colonies seemingly eluded the increasingly frustrated European homeland's social and eugenic control. Given the ambiguous and controversial status of the indigenous housekeeper, this theme triggered a wide range of literary responses across different countries and in various languages, particularly by ex‐colonials. Ernest Tilemans's Bendsjé of de Liefde der N[*] (1931), Mathelin de Papigny's Le coup de chicotte (1930) and Hans Grimm's Wie Grete aufhörte ein Kind zu sein (1913) illustrate this variety by, respectively, attempting to absolve individual male colonials, presenting the phenomenon as proof of the colonies' ‘corrupting’ influence or to conduct fictional social and eugenic colonial experiments. Regardless of their approach, all three works instrumentalise eugenic vocabulary and imagery to draw an otherwise private male sexuality into the public sphere. Moreover, these works demonstrate colonial writing's function as a vital tool for social and eugenic observation and control.
{"title":"The indigenous housekeeper: Colonies, sexuality and eugenics in Bendsjé (1931), Le coup de chicotte (1930) and Wie Grete aufhörte ein Kind zu sein (1913)","authors":"Robrecht De Boodt","doi":"10.1111/oli.12418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/oli.12418","url":null,"abstract":"As colonial regimes became more entrenched, the African indigenous ‘housekeeper’ became a popular and highly controversial topic in Belgian and German colonial literature. Indigenous women were euphemistically called ménagères or ‘housekeepers’ to veil their sexual function at a colonial's residence. In a period of history where racial and eugenic anxieties ran rampant across Europe, the colonies seemingly eluded the increasingly frustrated European homeland's social and eugenic control. Given the ambiguous and controversial status of the indigenous housekeeper, this theme triggered a wide range of literary responses across different countries and in various languages, particularly by ex‐colonials. Ernest Tilemans's Bendsjé of de Liefde der N[*] (1931), Mathelin de Papigny's Le coup de chicotte (1930) and Hans Grimm's Wie Grete aufhörte ein Kind zu sein (1913) illustrate this variety by, respectively, attempting to absolve individual male colonials, presenting the phenomenon as proof of the colonies' ‘corrupting’ influence or to conduct fictional social and eugenic colonial experiments. Regardless of their approach, all three works instrumentalise eugenic vocabulary and imagery to draw an otherwise private male sexuality into the public sphere. Moreover, these works demonstrate colonial writing's function as a vital tool for social and eugenic observation and control.","PeriodicalId":42582,"journal":{"name":"ORBIS LITTERARUM","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46789596","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}
La crise climatique devient de plus en plus souvent le sujet des œuvres de fiction, non seulement dans l'aire culturelle anglo‐saxonne. Le présent article soumet à l'analyse un exemple de fiction climatique postcoloniale francophone, à savoir La fantastique Odyssée de l'Algérien Chérif Arbouz, dans le but de reconstruire la vision du futur y proposée. L'étude des procédés littéraires engagés par l'auteur tels que le héros collectif, l'étendue spatiale et temporelle de l'intrigue, l'insertion des passages essayistiques et scientifiques, démontre que l'écrivain arrive à représenter habilement la crise climatique et ses conséquences, à avertir les lecteurs des dangers y liés, de même qu'à faire partie du débat mondial concernant le futur de notre planète.
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From the perspective of memory studies, this paper analyzes the unique Austrian mechanisms and mentalities regarding its Nazi memory across generations, as reflected in Eva Menasse's Dunkelblum (2021). This novel is another of Menasse's critical observations of Austria's collective silence and distinctive processes of discarding, deforming, and depositing its Nazi history and memory. Exceeding the scope of family history and memory, Dunkelblum portrays how a fictive Austrian city on the country's border with Hungary functions as a witness and participant of the Nazi Holocaust and a potential recorder of the memory. The novel also discloses and analyzes Austria's complex and controversial phases of denial, evasion, and subsequent acknowledgment of its deeds in the Nazi Holocaust. Different from the war generation, a new generation retrieves, preserves, and transmits the local memory through diverse mnemonic techniques and thus explores the collaboration, silence, and agony of its hometown and its nation during the Nazi regime.
{"title":"Austrian memory to be discarded, deformed and deposited: An analysis of Eva Menasse's Dunkelblum","authors":"Xiaohua Jiang","doi":"10.1111/oli.12416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/oli.12416","url":null,"abstract":"From the perspective of memory studies, this paper analyzes the unique Austrian mechanisms and mentalities regarding its Nazi memory across generations, as reflected in Eva Menasse's Dunkelblum (2021). This novel is another of Menasse's critical observations of Austria's collective silence and distinctive processes of discarding, deforming, and depositing its Nazi history and memory. Exceeding the scope of family history and memory, Dunkelblum portrays how a fictive Austrian city on the country's border with Hungary functions as a witness and participant of the Nazi Holocaust and a potential recorder of the memory. The novel also discloses and analyzes Austria's complex and controversial phases of denial, evasion, and subsequent acknowledgment of its deeds in the Nazi Holocaust. Different from the war generation, a new generation retrieves, preserves, and transmits the local memory through diverse mnemonic techniques and thus explores the collaboration, silence, and agony of its hometown and its nation during the Nazi regime.","PeriodicalId":42582,"journal":{"name":"ORBIS LITTERARUM","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44858081","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}
The goddess Isis continues to be an influential figure for the notion of the Divine Feminine in contemporary esoteric and popular thought. However, looking back into the history of modern esotericism, the image of the goddess Isis has been used by Theosophists such as Florence Farr and Frances Swiney to argue for their feminist and more importantly eugenic interpretations of the power of that goddess. This article examines the writings of these two Theosophists together to highlight the eugenics aspects of their vision of Isis as the perfect mother and the superwoman. Through this, Isis became a symbol for a specific gendered aspect of religious eugenics by changing the meaning of the Divine Feminine. This is one of the roots of contemporary Isis interpretations leading to a prevalent idea of fertility and the gendered divine.
{"title":"Eugenic appropriations of the goddess Isis: Reproduction and racial superiority in theosophical feminist writings","authors":"Jessica A. Albrecht","doi":"10.1111/oli.12419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/oli.12419","url":null,"abstract":"The goddess Isis continues to be an influential figure for the notion of the Divine Feminine in contemporary esoteric and popular thought. However, looking back into the history of modern esotericism, the image of the goddess Isis has been used by Theosophists such as Florence Farr and Frances Swiney to argue for their feminist and more importantly eugenic interpretations of the power of that goddess. This article examines the writings of these two Theosophists together to highlight the eugenics aspects of their vision of Isis as the perfect mother and the superwoman. Through this, Isis became a symbol for a specific gendered aspect of religious eugenics by changing the meaning of the Divine Feminine. This is one of the roots of contemporary Isis interpretations leading to a prevalent idea of fertility and the gendered divine.","PeriodicalId":42582,"journal":{"name":"ORBIS LITTERARUM","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46100150","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}
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