KulturPoetik 2010, Issue 2

Articles

• Manfred Engel:
  Kulturgeschichte/n? Ein Modellentwurf am Beispiel der Kultur- und Literaturgeschichte des Traumes (Details)
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  One of the consequences of the interest in cultural and cultural literary studies is a renaissance of the genre ›cultural history‹. Probably due to the poststructuralist polemics against ›history‹, there have, however, been only few reflections on the genre recently. To fill this gap, the essay sketches a model for a cultural and literary history of the dream. It starts off with general reflections on the reasons for cultural dream-work (1) and on the special contributions which literary texts have to offer to it (2). After a brief survey on the ›prophetic dream‹ (3) – which dominated dream-narration until the 18th century – chapters 4-7 present four periods of the cultural and literary history of the dream (Enlightenment, Romanticism, Realism, and Modernism) and illustrate each of them with the interpretation of a literary dream (by F. Schiller, E.T.A. Hoffmann, C.F. Meyer, and F. Kafka).
• Monika Ritzer:
  Lektionen in Demokratie: Adalbert Stifters politische Essays
  Textstrategie und kulturhistorische Heuristik (Details)
  Abstract
  Adalbert Stifter’s forgotten political essays, published between 1848 and 1850 in various Austrian journals, can be read as examples for the realistic attitude of the post-revolutionary period. Dealing with topics like state, justice, or freedom, Stifter adopts an objective and artistically fundamental approach, which applies to his way of thinking as well as to his style. Thus, he intends to legitimate the secularized institutions and educate the people, who from now on have to represent the political society. The historic focus is marked by references to Comte, Feuerbach, Mill, Hebbel, and Keller.
  
   
• Bernard Dieterle:
  Die Kultur der Revolte im Frankreich der 40er und 50er Jahre (Details)
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  In the period marked by the Second World War and Cold War, a genuine culture of revolt developed in France. This development can be traced back to the inter-war period, and its influences can be felt up to May 1968. Major authors to bring this changes forward were André Breton, Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. Conceptually, the notion of revolt rivaled the notion of revolution. This was, on various pragmatic and theoretical levels, mirrored by the difficult relationships between these authors and the French Communist Party, which was very powerful at the end of the Second World War. In different cases, however, it is the revolt which turns out to be inseparably linked to culture and literary production.
• Juliane Blank:
  Alles ist zeigbar? Der Comic als Medium der Wissensvermittlung nach dem iconic turn (Details)
  Abstract
  Research on the iconic claims that images are following their own logic and have their own epistemological value. This attribution seems to have had its effect on visual media. Graphic literature, for instance, has developed new topics and new principles of narration. A most interesting new form is the socalled »educational comic«, which is not primarily designed to entertain but to convey central educational issues. The following essay presents some recent manifestations of a new ›faith in images‹ within the medium of educational comic.

Forum

• Gerhard Sauder:
  »Sozialgeschichte der Literatur«: ein gescheitertes Experiment? (Details)
  Abstract
  The essay deals with an influential, but until now almost unnoticed period in the history of German Studies. In consequence of the political student movement in 1968, there was a turn towards social history. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, publishers and scholars all over Germany were putting a lot of energy in preparing and publishing Social Histories of Litera-ture. Although some of these projects were not completed, the socio-historical approach has fostered some questions and established fundamental practices of literary studies, which, la-ter on, were to be ›absorbed‹ by Cultural Studies.
• Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek:
  Vom Grübeln. Ein Beitrag zur »Poetologie des Wissens« (Details)
  Abstract
  Ever since Susan Nolen-Hoeksemas eminent studies, the mechanism of »rumination« is at the centre of (neuro-)psychological interests. Rumination is generally considered as being unhealthy and is associated with depression: a thesis that is hard to agree with from the perspective of cultural studies. The Romantics developed a kind of »fashion of rumination«, and Walter Benjamin was even enthusiastic about the »whole wealth of ancient ruminations«. My paper explains this fascination of rumination by focussing on the dimension of depth, which became one of the central themes of German Romanticism since Novalis. By comparing these two different ideas of »rumination« – the scientific one introduced by Susan Nolen-Hoeksema and the more poetological one represented by German Romanticism and, later on, by Walter Benjamin – this paper also contributes to the current discussion concerning the »poetology of knowledge«

KulturKlassiker

• Björn Bühner:
  José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955), Der Aufstand der Massen (1930) (Details)
  

Reviews

• Benjamin Specht:
  Was weiß Literatur? Vier neue Antworten auf eine alte Frage
  (1) Tilmann Köppe, Literatur und Erkenntnis. Studien zur kognitiven Signifikanz fiktionaler literarischer Werke . Paderborn: mentis 2008. 291 S.
  (2) Andreas Dittrich, Glauben, Wissen und Sagen. Studien zu Wissen und Wissenskritik im ›Zauberberg‹, in den ›Schlafwandlern‹ und im ›Mann ohne Eigenschaften‹. Tübingen: Niemeyer 2009. 365 S.
  (3) Ralf Klausnitzer, Literatur und Wissen. Zugänge – Modelle – Analysen. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter 2008. 446 S.
  (4) Caroline Welsh/Stefan Willer (Hg.), »Interesse für bedingtes Wissen«. Wechselbeziehungen zwischen den Wissenskulturen. München: Wilhelm Fink 2008. 429 S. (Details)
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• Alexander Schwieren:
  Das Alter(n) der Kulturwissenschaften. Drei neue Sammelbände stellen Ansätze zur Konzeptualisierung des Alters vor
  (1) Heike Hartung/Dorothea Reinmuth/Christiane Streubel/Angelika Uhlmann (Hg.), Graue Theorie. Die Kategorien Alter und Geschlecht in der Forschung. Köln, Weimar, Wien: Böhlau 2007. 296 S.
  (2) Heiner Fangerau/Monika Gomille/Henriette Herwig/Christoph auf der Horst/Andrea von Hülsen-Esch/Hans-Georg Pott/Johannes Siegrist/Jörg Vögele (Hg.), Al-terskulturen und Potentiale des Alter(n)s. Berlin: Akademie 2007. 253 S.
  (3) Dorothea Elm/Thorsten Fitzon/Kathrin Liess/Sandra Linden (Hg.), Alterstopoi. Das Wissen von den Lebensaltern in Literatur, Kunst und Theologie. Berlin: Akademie 2007. 253 S. (Details)
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KulturLiteratur

• New Publications (Details)