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Das Verhältnis von Technik und Gender ist in den vergangenen Jahren immer stärker in den Blick der Forschung gerückt. Prozesse der Technisierung und Digitalisierung haben nicht nur Einfluss auf Geschlechter- und Machtverhältnisse, sondern erzeugen eine historisch wirksame Reziprozität zwischen Technologie und Geschlecht: Technik ist dabei nicht nur als Ursache, sondern auch als Konsequenz der Transformation von Geschlechterbeziehungen beschreibbar. Im frühen 20. Jahrhundert entstehen so neue Berufsbilder wie die Stenotypistin, die Sekretärin und die Telefonistin, bei denen Technologie Arbeit geschlechterspezifisch strukturiert. Gegenwärtig ist eine Genderisierung technologischer Artefakte u.a. an sogenannten intelligenten persönlichen Assistenten wie Siri und Alexa wahrnehmbar, die mit weiblichen Stimmen ausgestattet sind und an das tradierte Rollenschema anzuknüpfen scheinen. Das aktuelle Themenheft "Gender through technology" des komparatistischen Journals Variations versammelt daher deutsch-, französisch- und englischsprachige Beiträge, welche die vielfältigen Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Genderdiskursen und Technologie in den Blick nehmen. Dabei kommen kulturwissenschaftliche Ansätze ebenso zum Zug wie literatur- und filmwissenschaftlich geprägte Analysen.

Participation is a core value of the U.S.-American concept of the nation. The promise of participation encompasses full and equal access to participate in political, social, cultural, religious, and economic activities. At the same time, exclusion from social participation has been salient in the history of the U.S., and recently even a decline in participation alongside growing polarization can be observed. The notion of participation, however, is more comprehensive than such a narrow political perspective may suggest. Forms of literary production and reception can likewise be understood as social practices of participation. This volume sheds light on how participation has been debated in contemporary Americanist scholarship. The papers included explore the idea of participation beyond its function as a political principle in a democratic nation-state, which will help to understand in more detail the diverse relationships between the literary, the cultural, and the political.

Der vorliegende Band präsentiert die Ergebnisse der Abschlusstagung ,Von Neuem', die die DFG-Forschungsgruppe 2305 ,Diskursivierungen von Neuem. Tradition und Novation in Texten und Bildern des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit' im Juni 2022 an der Freien Universität abgehalten hat. Die Gruppe hat seit 2016 Artefakte innerhalb der genannten Epochengrenzen auf das komplexe Verhältnis hin untersucht, das ,alte' und ,neue' Elemente und Dimensionen in ihnen einnehmen, und in einer dynamischen Relation solcher Elemente die Spezifik literarischer und künstlerischer Praxis und Produktion ausgemacht. Zur Abschlusstagung waren ausgewiesene Expert:innen aus der germanistischen Mediävistik und Frühneuzeitforschung, aus der Romanistik, der Neueren Geschichte und Kunstgeschichte eingeladen, einschlägige Forschungsfragen ,von Neuem' zu debattieren und eigene Perspektiven aus aktueller Arbeit einzubringen. Der Band bietet ein breites Panorama grundlegender Untersuchungen zu literarischen, philosophischen und bildkünstlerischen Novationsdynamiken zwischen dem 13. und dem 18. Jahrhundert.

'Not I - Kazuo Ishiguro and the Politics of Misrecognition' takes a closer look at how Ishiguro's narrators deal with their metaphorical 'parents', their literary ancestors from Hamlet to Alfred Prufrock. Ishiguro's narrators unwittingly express a metafictional concern about their existence in the shadows of English literary history and struggle with an imagined pressure to compete with iconic literary characters. This book traces their narrative anxiety against a variety of other canonical intertexts by William Shakespeare, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot and T. S. Eliot and takes a closer look at the narrators' narrative strategy of repression. Like Walter Benjamin's angel of history, they all would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed through the carefully falsified construction of their stories. These narrators are never fully in control of their own narratives and so they inadvertently betray their own struggle for recognition.

The essays in this volume focus on new approaches to how literature reflects and creates 'world', and thus to the issues of "literature 'and' world" and "literature 'as' world". They discuss questions of the implied worldview of literary texts on the one hand, and the way literature may create 'world' through self-referentiality and the establishing of intermedial relations with other arts on the other. In the latter cases, works will foreground their own fictionality and/or mediality, and their status as artefacts and as the products of a poietic act of creation. Illustrating the potential of new approaches and developments for describing the nature of the worlds devised in fictional texts, the authors pay tribute to a scholar whose work has been foundational regarding the study of metareferentiality in literature and the arts, contemporary intermediality studies and the study of implied worldviews in literary texts: Werner Wolf.

There are 1.8 million Indigenous people in Canada, accounting for five percent of the total population. They speak more than seventy languages and represent many different cultures. With recent land claims and the discovery of unmarked graves at former residential schools, the situation of the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis has gained critical attention. Teaching Indigenous Studies, however, is a difficult endeavor, as educators must be knowledgeable and sensitive about Indigenous histories, cultures, traditions, and political issues.Incorporating the latest research in anthropology, ethnography, history, literary and film studies, the chapters in this book focus on current matters such as traditional ways of life, land claims, and self-government, trace cultural changes that resulted from contacts with the Europeans, and discuss the process of reconciliation. Referring to Indigenous perspective in the analysis of cultures and the teaching of these issues, the authors have included many Indigenous voices and sources, and explore the institutions that provide Indigenous communities in Canada with national and international visibility.

'Corporeal Battlegrounds' explores the depiction and critical potential of the entanglement of work and embodiment in contemporary realist U.S.-American novels. It argues that manifesting the elusive effects of contemporary capitalism in the figure of the laboring body allows for a critique of capitalism. The laboring body thus provides a gateway to understanding how power relations are perpetuated by the work we engage in and to revealing the inherent logic of capitalism.To provide a comprehensive view, each larger section examines one aspect of contemporary capitalism in conversation with a novel: social acceleration, digitalization, financialization, and 24/7 capitalism. These sections question how the novels approach the representability of economic relations and how the depiction of the laboring body functions to open up an area of tension to criticize the link between the laboring body, economic participation, and the perception of failure and success.

Die hier versammelten Beiträge zum Schwerpunktthema Provenienzforschung resultieren aus dem an der Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg veranstalteten Workshop "Aktuelle Projekte und Forschungen zu NS-Raubgut".Hierbei stehen Objekte wie Bücher oder Ritualgegenstände jüdischer Herkunft im Fokus, denn sie zeugen von Verbrechen wie persönlichen Schicksalen. Die Aufsätze beschäftigen sich mit der NS-Zwangsarbeit im Zusammenhang mit enteigneten jüdischen Bibliotheken, mit der Forderung, Judaica im Lichte der Provenienzforschung zu betrachten, sowie mit der Untersuchung konkreter Sammlungsbestände und -objekte - von ihrer Einbettung in den historischen Kontext bis hin zu Praktiken ihrer Dokumentation und Restitution. Auf diese Weise zeugt die aktuelle Provenienzforschung von der gesellschaftlichen Relevanz dieser jungen Disziplin.

The study privileges the puppet as a new and revealing point of access to contemporary critical debates regarding performance, genre, affect, aesthetics, cultural production, political activism and the nonhuman studies. The contributors address a striking range of performance histories, aesthetic movements and theoretical positions, from the Arabic influence on Iberian shadow puppetry to the position of the puppet in post-Revolutionary Iran and the American anti-war movement; from the puppet's central role in the development of European theatre to avant-garde and modernist anti-theatre; from the puppet's place in the histories of visual art and experimental film to critiques of mass media. By paying careful attention to the specific roles and varieties of puppets in these diverse historical, political and cultural contexts, the collection provides new insights into the practices, aesthetics and ethics of puppet theatre, which serve, in turn, to interrogate anew the relationships between the human and the nonhuman, the material and the immaterial, the uncanny and the sublime.

Die Studie fasst Kreativität als Kunstprinzip, kulturelles Phänomen und genuines Prinzip der Existenz. Als Begriff für beobachtete Phänomene in Kultur und Natur - für das Sprunghafte, Dynamische, Unvorhersehbare - scheint sich Kreativität der Prognose und der Logik zu entziehen. Angesichts dieser radikalen Offenheit zielen die Erklärungsansätze auf prekäre Gegenwartsthemen zwischen Welterschaffung und Welterhaltung, Individuum und Gemeinschaft: das Verhältnis von biologischer Evolution und menschlicher Kreativität im Kampf gegen Viren, die Bedeutung von Alertheit und Ästhetik bei Evidenzmangel am Beispiel von Long-COVID, Überraschungen in der Erforschung des Universums, das Verhältnis von Schöpfungsmythen und Kunst, die Bedeutung immaterialrechtlicher Schutzsysteme und das Risiko des Scheiterns am Beispiel der übersteigerten Ambition eines vergessenen Kantkritikers. In diesem Spannungsfeld zwischen radikalem Konstruktivismus und radikalem Prädeterminismus fordern künstlerische Selbstreflexion und die Synergien von Wissenschaft und Kunst erhöhte Aufmerksamkeit.

Im Fokus dieses interdisziplinären Bandes stehen Phänomene der kulturellen Aneignung in der Vormoderne. Dabei geht es weniger um das konkrete ,Was', sondern das ,Wie' der Aneignung. Im ,Framing', vor allem aber im Prozess von ,Deframing' zu ,Reframing' ist das ,Aneignen' bereits praxeologisch enthalten. Strukturen, Mechanismen und Strategien der ,Framing'-Prozesse und damit verbundene kulturelle Produktivität werden ebenso beleuchtet wie über sie (re-)produzierte Machtverhältnisse. Gefragt wird nach der Motivation und dem Engagement der Akteur:innen, die angeeignete Gegenstände in neuen Deutungsmustern positionieren, den Bedingungen, unter denen sich solche Gegenstände für eine Übernahme anbieten, sowie den Mechanismen der ,Framing'-Prozesse selbst und den daraus resultierenden Verschiebungen und neuen Formationen. Vereint werden historische, germanistische, kunst- und literaturhistorische, ethnologische und theologische Zugänge.

Während die künstlerische Praxis paradigmatisch auf Andersheit zielt, stellt sich für die Wissenschaft die Frage nach dem Neuen in der Welt und wie die Gesellschaft damit umgeht. Aktuellen Anlass liefern Bio/Nano-Hybride und Mensch-Kunststoff-Interaktionen, multikulturelle Gesellschaften, städtebauliche Fragmentierung und touristische Inszenierungen, die Vermarktung religiöser Produkte, die Implementierung globaler Bildungsstandards sowie politische Überschreibungen von Territorien. In allen Bereichen geht es um das Überschreiten von Grenzen - zwischen Natur und Technik, dem Eigenen und dem Fremden, aber auch zwischen Medien und Begrifflichkeiten.Hybridisierung und De-/Re-Lokalisierung bilden den konzeptuellen Rahmen, um den kritischen und kreativen Impakt von Grenzen im Hinblick auf die großen aktuellen Themen Identität, Solidarität, Gerechtigkeit und Teilhabe transdisziplinär zu beforschen. Konzept-Kunst, Literatur, Regie, Filmschnitt und BioArt veranschaulichen die Brisanz solcher Grenzgänge.

Tying in with political and cultural changes in Europe, this volume focuses on current discourses on the significance of democratic systems in opposition to authoritarian regimes, to fathom the transformations but also the continuities in children's and young adult literature from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. One aim of the book is to calibrate the political, poetic, and receptive examination of children's and young adult literature and to depict it from a historical and systematic perspective. Characterized by an internationally comparative scope this volume revolves around the following questions with a view to childhood constructions: What continuities but also changes are discernible? What political and ideological concepts are inherent in children's and young adult literature? How are World War II and the postwar period represented in children's books? What role do trauma and (post)memory play? And how is the discourse on flight and migration shaped?

The key to the phonetic development of a given word across time lies in its accentuation. As the Old Celtic remains do not indicate their accent, it has to be deduced from their sound-changes. This book investigates for the first time in depth 14 Celtic phenomena resulting from the weakening of unstressed syllables (vocalic assimilations and reductions up to syncope, degeminations, ,w'-loss, nasal effacement, metathesis of liquids) and the strengthening of stressed ones (vocalic epenthesis and diphthongizations, geminations of consonants). The stress-patterns emerging from them are corroborated by the originally Celtic toponymy in today's non-Celtic-speaking countries and allow us to reconstruct the Celtic subfamily of languages by drawing a much simpler accentual model which also finds typological support. With its diachronic discussion of more than 3,600 words the book represents, moreover, a big help in the understanding of Celtic lexicon and onomastics.

This volume offers a fresh perspective on teaching, re-reading, and expanding the Romantic canon by shedding light on the period from a distinctively Cultural Studies point of view. The discourses reflected in this range of contributions open a window into the social inequalities of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, be they in generational, class, gender, sexual or ethnic terms, as well as intersections thereof.We see a significant parallel between the ethics and literary activism of Romantic writers and the 'wokeness' of activists in Western contemporary cultures, especially given the criticism surrounding their works which either celebrates their progressive impetus or unveils the underlying shortcomings of their performative activism and intrinsic close-mindedness. The essays reveal that Romantic ideas echo into contemporary controversies surrounding questions of white privilege, gender and sexual inequalities, human rights, and the increasing marginalisation of vulnerable groups in the face of global crises.

'Writing during the Disasters' is devoted to conceptualizing the relation between suffering and poetic writing. This monograph investigates contemporary experimental American poetry which addresses forms of suffering that are largely entwined with structural dynamics. The book elaborates how particular poetic practices "materialize" and "write through" ongoing conditions of suffering which shape the present. In its interaction with works by seven poets and one artist collective, this study mobilizes and interlaces a variety of critical theoretical approaches - from affect theory, queer theory, Afropessimism, Black feminism, and new materialisms to psychoanalysis, dialectical materialism, and deconstruction. Moreover, this study develops novel terminological renditions of the nexus between suffering and literary representation. Ultimately, 'Writing during the Disasters' argues for "suffering" to be considered a valid and more prominent category of analysis in cultural and literary studies.

Die Geschichte Italiens zwischen dem Jahr 1000 und der Zeit der Gegenreformation ist ein wichtiges Themenreservoir der französischen Romantik. Neben bekannten Werken wie ,Corinne' von Germaine de Staël und Stendhals ,Chroniques italiennes' berücksichtigt die Studie auch seltener gelesene Beispiele (u. a. von Balzac und Quinet) und widmet sich sowohl den literarischen und historiographischen Voraussetzungen des romantischen Italienbilds im 18. Jahrhundert als auch dessen Weiterentwicklung bei Taine. Ausgehend von dem Gegensatz zwischen barbarischen Sitten und künstlerischer Vollendung geht es u. a. um die Frage der epochalen Modellierung des betreffenden Zeitraums. Anstatt die Entstehung der Epochenvorstellung der Renaissance isoliert zu betrachten, bezieht die Untersuchung konkurrierende Diskurse und alternative Geschichtsmodelle ein und analysiert das Wechselverhältnis zwischen den Begriffen und Konzepten von ,moyen âge' und ,renaissance'.

'Data Imaginary' is about the co-evolution of the literary and of data around the middle of the long nineteenth century. It argues that, during romanticism, US culture negotiated the outlines of the literary-what literature is, what literary value consists of, and what literature can do-in relation to the outlines of another representational project that was gaining sharper contours and a stronger foothold in public perception at the time: data. As the young nation was searching for a national literature of its own, data and data-driven practices formed an important foil, a conceptual resource to articulate the desire for a new, democratic literature.Revisiting formative decades of US literary self-perception through the conceptual lens of data, this book rethinks the representative project of transcendentalism, the catalog poetry of Walt Whitman, the formal experimentation of abolitionist literature, and the evolution of American (literary) studies.

Astrid Lindgrens edierte ,Kriegstagebücher 1939-1945', die sowohl in Schweden als auch in Deutschland erstmals 2015 publiziert wurden, sind Ausgangs- und Kristallisationspunkt dieses interdisziplinären Sammelbandes. Die Tagebuchaufzeichnungen, die Lindgren mit Einsetzen der Kriegshandlungen am 1. September 1939 zu schreiben beginnt, bieten facettenreiche Zugänge für Geschichts-, Buch- und Literaturwissenschaft: So lassen sich etwa Verbindungen zum Kriegsgeschehen in Europa ebenso herstellen wie Überlegungen zum Verlagswesen und der Rolle der Materialität der Tagebücher anstellen; Lindgrens Werden als Schriftstellerin, ihr literarisches Schaffen und Wirken werden vor diesem Hintergrund beleuchtet und reflektiert. Gerahmt wird die so vorgenommene Positionsbestimmung Lindgrens, ihrer autobiographischen und kinderliterarischen Texte durch den Blick auf die politische und kulturelle Situation in Schweden und Europa während und nach Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges.

This study explores the influence of English and Italian itinerant companies on early modern German theatre. A central aspect that mediated this intercultural adaptation is 'popular culture', i.e. a network of shared knowledge, which was successfully employed by the English Comedians to meet and shape the taste of their audiences. The analysis of the first and most important collection of playtexts attributed to them, "Engelische Comedien und Tragedien" (1620), according to four parameters ('Memorialisation', 'Hybridisation', 'Adaptation',' Visualisation') shows clear influences both from Elizabethan drama and Commedia dell'Arte and offers an innovative transversal perspective on the development of early modern popular theatre in Germany and Austria as a product of intercultural theatricality.

This volume of original essays presents an overview of Popular Culture Studies as an ever-growing branch of American Studies while also reflecting the critical debates driving the field toward a more nuanced approach to contemporary culture more generally. Thus, many of the essays included take fresh perspectives on Black American culture, feminism, multiculturalism, and queer studies, among others, but they also provide critical updates on the global impact of U.S. American popular culture. If an understanding of U.S. Culture as Popular Culture in its national and international dimensions is one of the aims behind this publication, another is to conceive of cultural formations against the backdrop of shifting media environments. Placed alongside more traditional media such as literature and film, more recent phenomena including reality television, internet memes, and video games add considerable relevance to the critical appreciation of culture in the twenty-first century.

The palaeography of the first Slavic script - the Glagolitic script - is being published in English language for the first time. Unlike former historiography-based palaeographic textbooks, this study is linguistically substantiated. After presenting the elemental historical and philological knowledge on the creation of the script and its relation to the parallel Slavic script - the Cyrillic - the author goes on to distinguish the development of those linguistically-based segments (e.g. graphemes) from the means that optimize the transfer of linguistic message through the visual writing system. The evolution of letter forms is being observed in the long process of minusculization. The coordination of letters in lines and the readjusting of their forms to the four line system turned out to be the 'spiritus movens' of the changes not only in the letter forms but in the script's entire visual appearance as well. At the focus of interest, there are the oldest Macedonian, Bulgarian, Czech and Croatian Glagolitic texts of the 10th and the 11th century.

The present volume is an alphabetically arranged lexicon of mythological terms of Baltic mythology. The terms are analyzed in their historical and ethnological context and in perspective of their etymology. They were preserved in numerous chronicles, usually written in non-Baltic languages, namely Latin, German, Old Russian, and Old Polish. Their second important source is hidden in Lithuanian and especially Latvian folk songs called 'dainas'.Portions of both primary texts and folklore are included within the individual entries. The recently formulated interpretations of Lithuanian and Latvian mythologists are also taken in account, to confront them with older opinions and with the results of etymological analysis. The proposed etymological explanations of the analyzed terms should serve to differentiate a common Indo-European heritage from the purely Baltic forms, and finally from external mutual interferences with Slavic, Iranian, Germanic and Fenno-Volgaic traditions.

The "Drillbook of English Phonetics" is designed to accompany lecture courses on English phonetics and language laboratory classes in British English pronunciation at university level. It is equally suitable as a self-instructional programme for anyone wishing to improve their English pronunciation. Part I (Pronunciation Practice) provides pronunciation exercises to be used in conjunction with additional audio material (available on request) or following the model of a native speaker. Part II (Transcription Practice) presents model texts for phonetic transcription. In both parts, orthographic text and phonetic script appear on facing pages. Several phonetic puzzles are also included.

Siri Hustvedt is one of the few contemporary US-American authors who consistently engages with the questions of seeing and perceiving in her work. However, despite the growing academic interest in her narratives, many aspects related to the depiction of these fundamental practices have been left unaddressed in the criticism. This study aims to fill this gap by examining the concepts of seeing and perceiving as represented in both her fictional and nonfictional writings published to date and argues that Hustvedt's texts reveal the deep entanglement of the senses that inform a meaningful human experience. Drawing on phenomenology and feminist epistemology, this study highlights Hustvedt's interest in embodied cultural habits and implicit forms of knowledge that play a crucial role in the ways people perceive the world and each other. Through the motif of gender masquerade, her narratives explore how the ideas about femininity and masculinity shape people's perceptions and interactions.

Pronunciation teaching has sometimes been referred to as the 'Cinderella of language teaching', implying that, like Cinderella in the folk tale, it has come to be neglected, compared to her 'jealous sisters' lexis, grammar and culture. One reason for this neglect is that many teachers do not feel adequately equipped to teach pronunciation beyond giving a few simple instructions like 'Put your tongue between your teeth to form the th-sound'. This book is an accessible introduction to many of the aspects that are involved in teaching English pronunciation. It starts out with the question of why pronunciation matters in the first place, looks at the models to be aimed at, reviews the factors that influence pronunciation, introduces methods and tools for pronunciation teaching and discusses the most important specific problems that learners of English with a German-language background (be it L1 or L2) have. It comes with a CD that contains a number of samples of German-influenced English for discussion and research.

'American English Pronunciation: A Drillbook' is designed to accompany lecture courses on American English phonetics and language laboratory classes in American English pronunciation at university level. It is equally suitable as a self-instructional program for anyone wishing to improve their American English pronunciation. Part I (Pronunciation Practice) provides pronunciation exercises to be used in conjunction with additional audio material (available on request) or following the model of a native speaker. Part II (Transcription Practice) presents model texts for phonetic transcription. In both parts, orthographic text and phonetic script appear on facing pages. Several phonetic puzzles are also included.