KulturPoetik 2016, Issue 1

Articles

• Rolf J. Goebel:
  Klang, Bild und Schrift. Hölderlins akustische Medientranspositionen (Details)
  Abstract
  Hölderlin poetically and self-reflexively explores the intersection of sound, visual images, and language/writing. In doing so, he spans the shift from the universal translatability of the arts around 1800 to the technological media transposition apparent since 1900, as described by Friedrich Kittler. As a result, Hölderlin’s work envisions a cultural-poetic soundscape that indicates the significance of classical-Romantic aesthetics for current sound studies.
• Eva Wiegmann:
  Externe Wirksamkeit literarischer Imagination. Überlegungen am Beispiel schweizerischer imagerie culturelle (Details)
  Abstract
  This article deals with the interactions of literary imagination, cultural identity formation processes and cultural policy strategies. Literature here is understood not just as a reflection of collective memory, and it is not reduced to a representation of the collective mentality of a society at a particular moment in time. Instead, using the Swiss cultural imagination during the era of ›intellectual national defence‹ against Nazi Germany as an example, the influence of literary imaginings on the formation and transformation of models of collective identity models is examined. The analysis will focus on the specific potential of literary imagination, which, under certain conditions, can achieve a high level of effectiveness in the socio-political area.
• Oliver Lubrich/Katja Liebal:
  King Kong in the Mist. Travel, Knowledge, and Emotion (Details)
  Abstract
  This article deals with the interactions of literary imagination, cultural identity formation processes and cultural policy strategies. Literature here is understood not just as a reflection of collective memory, and it is not reduced to a representation of the collective mentality of a society at a particular moment in time. Instead, using the Swiss cultural imagination during the era of ›intellectual national defence‹ against Nazi Germany as an example, the influence of literary imaginings on the formation and transformation of models of collective identity models is examined. The analysis will focus on the specific potential of literary imagination, which, under ceIn the twentieth century, two key texts about the »greatest of the great apes«, the gorilla, shaped our perception of other primates. At the first glance, they could not be more different. While one represents a fictive struggle with an aggressive monster (King Kong, 1932), the other is the memoir of a scientist who researches and protects gentle creatures (Gorillas in the Mist, 1983). When read as travel narratives, however, both reveal surprising similarities. Starting with a journey to a remote, unknown place, they describe the humans’ conflicting emotions during their encounter with animals. Both books deal with the recognition that we share cognitive and affective traits with the bestial ›other‹. The article compares the presentation of gorillas in these different and yet similar texts from the interdisciplinary perspective of literature and primatology. It explores the role of emotions in inter-species interaction and in the process of knowledge production in the field.rtain conditions, can achieve a high level of effectiveness in the socio-political area.
• Christoph Jürgensen:
  Von PopKunst zu KunstPop. Strategien der populären Selbstverkunstung am Beispiel von Tocotronics Konzeptalbum Kapitulation (Details)
  Abstract
  This article examines how the German ›Diskursrock‹ band Tocotronic deals with the notion that an attitude and style seen to be aesthetically ›alternative‹ are incompatible with any kind of commercial success. This notion can be described as central to (not only) pop music logic. Based on this premise, the article asks: What are the consequences if a band that has entered the socio-cultural field of pop music as a group of heretics ends up on the side of the prospering potentates? The paper aims to show that Tocotronic reacts to this logic by re-evaluating its poetics, transforming it from ›real‹ pop to an advanced version of popular art. By doing so, it adapts typical phases of band history, as these have been documented most prominently for The Beatles.
• Urte Stobbe:
  Nach der Natur. Biologismen in Figurengestaltung und Erzählverfahren bei Jenny Erpenbeck (Heimsuchung) und Judith Schalansky (Der Hals der Giraffe) (Details)
  Abstract
  In recent debates, the term ›biologism‹ is used to refer to a certain mode of explaining the world in accordance with quasi-similar processes in nature. Biologism thus serves as an antonym to culturalism. Biologistic argumentations can be interpreted as a counter-reaction to the fact that nature has increasingly been experienced as the subject of cultural transformation. As one of the newer approaches, Ecocriticism deals with the question of how nature is represented in literary texts. Within this framework, the article analyses how nature is used as a narrative model in Jenny Erpenbeck’s Heimsuchung and Judith Schalansky’s Der Hals der Giraffe. Both novels deny human beings their formerly privileged position in nature and counter the idea of mankind’s perfectibility.

Forum

• Matthias Schaffrick:
  Listen als populäre Paradigmen. Zur Unterscheidung von Pop und Populärkultur (Details)
  Abstract
  The following article defines lists as non-narrative paradigms and discusses their epistemic und poetic functions. First of all, I will distinguish between personal, qualitative, and nominal list-making (which can be classified as belonging to pop culture) and lists in popular culture (anonymous, quantitative, ordinal/metric). Following this distinction, the paper presents different concepts of ›the Popular‹ and ›Pop‹ and argues that lists are – in different ways – forms of defining what is pop or popular (and what is not). The objective is an overview of recent studies in pop and popular culture.

KulturKlassiker

• Oliver Ruf:
  Vilém Flusser (1920-1991), Medienkultur (1993/95) (Details)
  

Reviews

• Solvejg Nitzke:
  Berechtigtes Unbehagen
  Ingo Schneider/Martin Sexl (Hg.), Das Unbehagen an der Kultur. Hamburg: Argument Verlag 2015. 272 S. (Details)
  
• Christian Quintes:
  Schlafes andere Brüder. Neues zum Schlafdiskurs
  (1) Hannah Ahlheim (Hg.), Kontrollgewinn – Kontrollverlust. Zur Geschichte des Schlafes in der Moderne. Frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag 2014. 231 S.
  (2) Philipp Osten, Das Tor zur Seele. Schlaf, Somnambulismus und Hellsehen im frühen 19. Jahrhundert. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh 2015. 383 S (Details)
  
• Susanne Bayerlipp:
  Das Zeitalter des Pränatalismus – über die Abbildbarkeit des Ungeborenen
  Daniel Hornuff, Schwangerschaft. Eine Kulturgeschichte. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink 2014. 304 S. (Details)
  

KulturLiteratur

• New Publications (Details)