In the context of the German Democratic Republic’s longstanding aesthetic and political discourse on social utopianism, this article will discuss Alfred Wellm’s novel Morisco (1987) and Halle-Neustadt as a key to understanding the relationship between the socialist new town and the East German cultural imaginary. Through Wellm’s novel, the article will argue that the construction of modernist new towns provoked a cultural response engaging with the rift between built reality and the utopian imagination/ambition of the classless, socialist city in different literary and visual media. Evoking Tommaso Campanella’s utopian City of the Sun (1602), the novel critically positions Neustadt within a cyclical Marxist eschatology, simultaneously expressing frustration with and hope for the progress of the socialist project. It therefore also represents the post-Stalin aesthetic shift from grand socialist realist narratives to subjective everyday perspectives, and the revived interest of authors in utopian themes in the 1980s against the backdrop of the Socialist Unity Party’s (SED) claim that socialism had already been achieved.
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Privately organized collective housing is currently included in agendas for sustainable urban development in a range of European cities as a resource-efficient form of housing that prevents isolation and contributes to social cohesion within urban communities. However, research has shown that the recent surge of different forms of private-collective housing in Berlin could be a driver of gentrification and segregation. This article aims to uncover potential causes of the discrepancies between the ideological, and at times utopian, motivations underpinning self-build housing projects in the former East Berlin district Prenzlauer Berg, and their actual outcomes. I do so by analysing the literary (counter) discourse on self-build groups developed in Anke Stelling’s novels Bodentiefe Fenster [Floor-Length Windows] (2015) and Schäfchen im Trockenen (2018, published in English translation as Higher Ground in 2021). I show that the realization of socially progressive, or even utopian, plans for urban private-collective housing prove difficult, and sometimes impossible, for the characters in the novels, due to the influence of other societal structures such as gender and class inequalities, urban segregation and gentrification, discrimination and the neoliberal logic of individual competition and consumption.
私人组织的集体住房目前被列入一系列欧洲城市的可持续城市发展议程，作为一种节约资源的住房形式，可以防止孤立，促进城市社区内的社会凝聚力。然而，研究表明，最近柏林不同形式的私人集体住房的激增可能会推动士绅化和种族隔离。本文旨在揭示前东柏林普伦茨劳贝格区自建住房项目的意识形态(有时是乌托邦式的)动机与实际结果之间差异的潜在原因。我通过分析安克·斯特林的小说《落地窗》(2015)和《Schäfchen im Trockenen》(2018)中关于自建群体的文学(反)话语来实现这一目标。我表明，由于其他社会结构的影响，如性别和阶级不平等、城市隔离和士绅化、歧视以及个人竞争和消费的新自由主义逻辑，对小说中的人物来说，实现社会进步甚至乌托邦式的城市私人集体住房计划是困难的，有时是不可能的。
{"title":"‘Community is the one true capital’: Ideologies of urban self-build groups in Anke Stelling’s Berlin novels","authors":"Hanna Henryson","doi":"10.1093/fmls/cqad006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqad006","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Privately organized collective housing is currently included in agendas for sustainable urban development in a range of European cities as a resource-efficient form of housing that prevents isolation and contributes to social cohesion within urban communities. However, research has shown that the recent surge of different forms of private-collective housing in Berlin could be a driver of gentrification and segregation. This article aims to uncover potential causes of the discrepancies between the ideological, and at times utopian, motivations underpinning self-build housing projects in the former East Berlin district Prenzlauer Berg, and their actual outcomes. I do so by analysing the literary (counter) discourse on self-build groups developed in Anke Stelling’s novels Bodentiefe Fenster [Floor-Length Windows] (2015) and Schäfchen im Trockenen (2018, published in English translation as Higher Ground in 2021). I show that the realization of socially progressive, or even utopian, plans for urban private-collective housing prove difficult, and sometimes impossible, for the characters in the novels, due to the influence of other societal structures such as gender and class inequalities, urban segregation and gentrification, discrimination and the neoliberal logic of individual competition and consumption.","PeriodicalId":42991,"journal":{"name":"FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42314789","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}
Alba de Céspedes’s Prima e dopo (1955) has generally been interpreted within the framework of the Italian Resistance and the subsequent disillusionment of Resistance ideals. While taking this interpretation into account, I argue that the central narrative of desire in Prima e dopo is not Irene’s relationship with her lover, Pietro, but Irene’s subversive desire for her maid, Erminia. I analyse and challenge some of the mechanisms and methodologies of Italian literary historiography that create and reproduce the disregard and devaluation of queer desire, specifically lesbian desire, in Italian narratives, and I identify scholarly, cultural and textual mechanisms that have rendered queer desire in Prima e dopo invisible. In sum, this article contributes to an Italian lesbian archive and lesbian literary historiography and argues that a queer reading of Erminia’s role in Prima e dopo enhances our understanding of the post-Resistance framework of the novel and its radical politics.
阿尔巴·德·卡萨梅斯1955年的《首要任务》(Prima e dopo)通常被解释为意大利抵抗运动和随后抵抗运动理想的幻灭。考虑到这种解释，我认为《第一夫人》中欲望的中心叙事不是艾琳与情人彼得罗的关系，而是艾琳对女仆埃米尼亚的颠覆性欲望。我分析并挑战了意大利文学史学的一些机制和方法，这些机制和方法创造并再现了对酷儿欲望的漠视和贬低，特别是女同性恋欲望，在意大利叙事中，我发现了学术，文化和文本机制，这些机制使《第一作者》中的酷儿欲望变得不可见。总而言之，本文对意大利女同性恋档案和女同性恋文学史学做出了贡献，并认为对埃米尼亚在《第一夫人》中角色的酷儿解读增强了我们对小说后抵抗运动框架及其激进政治的理解。
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{"title":"Dostoevsky and Modernity","authors":"Llewellyn Brown","doi":"10.1093/fmls/cqad009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqad009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42991,"journal":{"name":"FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49223330","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}
Rebecca Solnit’s retelling of ‘Cinderella’ in Cinderella Liberator (2019) transforms the fairy tale by infusing a slew of modern ideas into its ‘once upon a time’. Cinderella becomes an independent, active, empowered heroine not only freed from servitude, but able to liberate others in her community from oppression. While the rewriting targets the morals and values of traditional ‘Cinderella’ texts, it is anchored in a specific version of the tale. Cinderella Liberator reuses illustrations Arthur Rackham produced for a 1919 Cinderella gift book by C. S. Evans. This article analyses the interplay of text and image in Cinderella Liberator to establish how the particularities of the Evans/Rackham version inflect the adaptation’s wider discourse on the Cinderella narrative. It focuses on images correlated with the fairy tale’s reassessment of the value and significance of work, the separation of social classes and of external appearance as an indication of moral values.
{"title":"Contemporary Values Encounter Classic Illustrations in Rebecca Solnit’s Cinderella Liberator (2019)","authors":"Ana Oancea","doi":"10.1093/fmls/cqac068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqac068","url":null,"abstract":"Rebecca Solnit’s retelling of ‘Cinderella’ in Cinderella Liberator (2019) transforms the fairy tale by infusing a slew of modern ideas into its ‘once upon a time’. Cinderella becomes an independent, active, empowered heroine not only freed from servitude, but able to liberate others in her community from oppression. While the rewriting targets the morals and values of traditional ‘Cinderella’ texts, it is anchored in a specific version of the tale. Cinderella Liberator reuses illustrations Arthur Rackham produced for a 1919 Cinderella gift book by C. S. Evans. This article analyses the interplay of text and image in Cinderella Liberator to establish how the particularities of the Evans/Rackham version inflect the adaptation’s wider discourse on the Cinderella narrative. It focuses on images correlated with the fairy tale’s reassessment of the value and significance of work, the separation of social classes and of external appearance as an indication of moral values.","PeriodicalId":42991,"journal":{"name":"FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138541862","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":"Newstok, Scott. How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education","authors":"Peter Sutton","doi":"10.1093/fmls/cqad003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqad003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42991,"journal":{"name":"FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45815363","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":"Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology. Ed. by Nancy Perloff","authors":"Garry MacKenzie","doi":"10.1093/fmls/cqad001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqad001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42991,"journal":{"name":"FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46237791","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":"Högberg, Elsa. Virginia Woolf and the Ethics of Intimacy","authors":"A. Dósa","doi":"10.1093/fmls/cqad002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqad002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42991,"journal":{"name":"FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43350773","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":"Ullyot, Michael. The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Early Modern England","authors":"Elena Spinelli","doi":"10.1093/fmls/cqad005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqad005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42991,"journal":{"name":"FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49441957","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":"Sainsbury, Daisy. Contemporary French Poetry: Towards a Minor Poetics","authors":"Matilda Nevin","doi":"10.1093/fmls/cqad004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqad004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42991,"journal":{"name":"FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42994037","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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