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Science, Culture, and Postcolonial Narratives
Anton Kirchhofer &, Karsten Levihn-Kutzler (Hrsg.)
https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1126
Vom Klimawandel bis zu globalen Pandemien – die widersprüchliche Rolle der Naturwissenschaft in postkolonialen Kontexten betrifft einige der drängendsten Fragen, mit denen sich postkoloniale Gesellschaften konfrontiert sehen. Naturwissenschaften sind Teil der Geschichte kolonialer Unterdrückung, aber auch mit der Hoffnung auf Fortschritt und Emanzipation verbunden; sie können zur Zerstörung, aber auch zur Erhaltung der Umwelt beitragen.
Dieser Band befasst sich mit der kulturellen Imagination der Wissenschaft und problematisiert die Rolle von Narrativen an den Schnittstellen von Naturwissenschaften und Kultur. In einem Brückenschlag zwischen postkolonialen Studien, Literature and Science Studies und verwandten kritischen Traditionen untersuchen die Beiträge kulturelle Narrative und literarische Texte von Utopien des 19. Jahrhunderts über postkoloniale Wissenschaftsromane bis hin zu zeitgenössischer Science Fiction.
Strategies of the Silent in Medieval English Literature
Edwin D. Craun
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/106012
Silence, like speech, is a mode of communication that can be used strategically. In Strategies of the Silent in Medieval English Literature, Edwin D. Craun investigates the silences in public life that punctuate talk in late Middle English literature. Centering his study on readings of canonical texts, including the works of Thomas Hoccleve, the anonymous Mum and the Sothsegger, William Langland’s Piers Plowman, John Lydgate’s translation of Guillaume de Deguileville’s Pelerinage de vie humaine,The Testimony of William Thorpe, a selection of the York cycle of passion plays, and The Book of Margery Kempes, Craun recovers the widespread moral discourse on silence developed by late medieval secular and clerical writers, who compiled materials from Roman popular morality and Stoic texts as well as Jewish wisdom books and Christian texts. These texts model how silence could play a role in effective government, respond to violent and angry antagonists, or in some cases to entirely obviate a good outcome. Through this nuanced exploration of the ethics of communication in medieval moral, narrative, and dramatic literature, Craun shows us that public silences, then as now, have strategies and consequences, dimensions that medieval imaginative writers explore subtly yet analytically in order to provoke ethical reflection and pragmatic action. Strategies of the Silent in Medieval English Literature offers original thematical and rhetorical insights into the written history of silence. It will appeal to scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates interested in Middle English literature, history, and political thought.
Where Love Happens: Changing Social Practices of Love in the Long Nineteenth Century
Helene Grøn, Lene Østermark-Johansen & Viktoria de Rijke (Hrsg.)
https://doi.org/10.3726/b21993
Some decades ago, Jean-Luc Nancy asked, ‘Has not everything been said on the subject of love? … Could we perhaps be exhausted?’ The question is a pertinent one; why devote yet another book to the subject? Grounding love in the realm of the concrete by querying, where does love happen?, the essays address hitherto under-researched aspects and aesthetics of love, like the love of the child, same-sex love, love of country, love for machines, controversial relationships, love of the dead, love of the past, and networks of relationships revolving around love and intimacy. Here, leading scholars suggest that changing social practices, developed in the course of the long nineteenth century, determined new spaces and places for love to happen, to unfold, develop – and break up. Thereby, the much-debated claim that romantic love is an invention of European Romanticism is challenged, asking if romantic love might not be less and other kinds of love far more romantic than at first imagined.
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