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  1. The Ethics of (Fictional) Form: Persuasiveness and Perspective Taking from the Point of View of Cognitive Literary Studies
    Autor*in: Nünning, Vera
    Erschienen: 2015

  2. Unreliable Narration and the Historical Variability of Values and Norms: The Vicar of Wakefield as a Test Case of a Cultural-Historical Narratology
    Autor*in: Nünning, Vera
    Erschienen: 2004

    Used with permission from Penn State University Press. mehr

     

    Used with permission from Penn State University Press.

     
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    DDC Klassifikation: Literatur und Rhetorik (800); Englische, altenglische Literaturen (820); Geschichte der Britischen Inseln (941); Geschichte Neuseelands (993)
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  3. Intelligenz in und mit Literatur
    Autor*in: Nünning, Vera
    Erschienen: 2021

  4. Beeinflusst der Stil die Wirkung wissenschaftlicher Texte?
    Autor*in: Nünning, Vera
    Erschienen: 2021

    Prof. Dr. Vera Nünning (Anglistik) berichtet über Verlauf und Ergebnisse ihrer Fellowship innerhalb der Zeitspanne 1. April 2019 bis 31. März 2020. An dem interdisziplinären Fellow Projekt „Does the Quality of Writing Influence Scientific Impact?“... mehr

     

    Prof. Dr. Vera Nünning (Anglistik) berichtet über Verlauf und Ergebnisse ihrer Fellowship innerhalb der Zeitspanne 1. April 2019 bis 31. März 2020. An dem interdisziplinären Fellow Projekt „Does the Quality of Writing Influence Scientific Impact?“ waren außerdem Prof. Dr. Frauke Gräter und Prof. Dr. Michael Strube beteiligt (Berichte in diesem Band).

     
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  5. Some Notes on the Narrative Communication Model and Modest Proposals for a Rhetorical Poetics of Narrative
    Autor*in: Nünning, Ansgar; Nünning, Vera
    Erschienen: 2018

  6. “Human Character Changed”: Virginia Woolf’s Conceptualisation of Literary Change in the 21st Century
    Autor*in: Nünning, Vera
    Erschienen: 2016

  7. Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Series and the ‘Post(-)ing’ of Feminism
    Autor*in: Spieler, Sophie
    Erschienen: 2012

    Immensely popular with a largely female readership, Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series and its male hero Edward Cullen have become literary and cultural phenomena to be reckoned with. However, critical readers—especially in the blogosphere—have... mehr

     

    Immensely popular with a largely female readership, Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series and its male hero Edward Cullen have become literary and cultural phenomena to be reckoned with. However, critical readers—especially in the blogosphere—have observed that in terms of gender and sexuality, all is not well in Forks, Washington. This essay seeks to find out if the series indeed “[s]inks [i]ts [t]eeth into [f]eminism,” as one commentator put it (Sax). In recent years, the death of feminism has been proclaimed repeatedly in academia as well as in popular culture. The reasons for the demise of the ‘f-word’ vary according to the standpoint of the obituary’s author: The feminist experiment was either successful enough to render itself obsolete or, by choosing ‘unnatural’ and subversive goals, stripped itself of its right to exist. Regardless of the particulars of feminism’s passing—was it murder, suicide, or death of old age?—critics and commentators seem to agree that we now live in a ‘postfeminist’ age. Against the backdrop of Meyer’s novels, I discuss the contested process of ‘post(-)ing’ feminism and its various theoretical and cultural implications. Focusing on the construction of masculinities and femininities, I relate the novels to issues in contemporary feminism such as alterity, agency, and domesticity.

     
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  8. “This Disintegrating Force”: Reading Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie as a Narrative of Black Upward Mobility
    Autor*in: Potgieter, Koen
    Erschienen: 2012

    In this essay, I argue that Theodore Dreiser’s 1900 novel Sister Carrie can be read as a narrative of African American migration to the Northern cities. Sister Carrie engages with social change at the turn of the century, of which the migration of... mehr

     

    In this essay, I argue that Theodore Dreiser’s 1900 novel Sister Carrie can be read as a narrative of African American migration to the Northern cities. Sister Carrie engages with social change at the turn of the century, of which the migration of African Americans and others to large urban centers was a significant part. The novel describes the social fall and ruin of the middle-class figure Hurstwood while it depicts Carrie as an ethnic Other becoming rich and famous. In numerous accounts of Carrie’s attitudes and behavior, there are striking similarities to stereotypes of African Americans, which were widely circulated through the era’s popular culture. Moreover, the way in which Carrie achieves fame as a Broadway actress echoes the success that a number of black performers were experiencing there for the first time. Through these resemblances, the turn-of-the-century reader could come to recognize an important subtext in Sister Carrie—the possibility of upward mobility for African Americans moving to places such as New York City or Chicago.

     
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  9. “Anything Else?”: Food, Fatness, and Frustration in the Short Stories of Raymond Carver
    Autor*in: Warnes, Andrew
    Erschienen: 2012

  10. Introduction
    Autor*in: Bast, Florian; Hähnert, Alexandra; Horváth, Máté Vince; Labisch, Diana; Pan, Sevara
    Erschienen: 2012

  11. Where Literature, Culture and the History of Mentalities Meet: Changes in British National Identity as a Paradigm for a New Kind of Literary/Cultural History
    Autor*in: Nünning, Vera
    Erschienen: 2001

  12. Changes in the Representation of Men and Women in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
    Autor*in: Nünning, Vera
    Erschienen: 2004

  13. Remembering the Beginning: “All Electrons Are (Not) Alike” by Rosmarie Waldrop
    Autor*in: Bongers, Anna
    Erschienen: 2013

    Through a close reading of “All Electrons Are (Not) Alike,” the opening poem of Rosmarie Waldrop’s latest collection of prose poetry, Driven to Abstraction (2010), this paper shows how the poem deconstructs history and memory through criticism of... mehr

     

    Through a close reading of “All Electrons Are (Not) Alike,” the opening poem of Rosmarie Waldrop’s latest collection of prose poetry, Driven to Abstraction (2010), this paper shows how the poem deconstructs history and memory through criticism of language. Retelling the narration of the conquest of the Americas, “All Electrons Are (Not) Alike” calls into question the beginning of what was to become US American national identity. Putting Waldrop’s poem in the broader context of transnational criticism, I argue that its deconstructive poetic and philosophical use of language contributes to the transnational turn, helping to create the room that transnational criticism needs in order to come up with new, more appropriate ways of structuring literary studies.

     
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  14. Mosaic of Ashes: Poetic Responses to 9/11
    Autor*in: Mika, Katarzyna M.
    Erschienen: 2013

    By challenging and problematizing the definition of 9/11 as ‘the event,’ the article examines the extent to which the official discourse on the attacks, exemplified in speeches given by government representatives and based on preestablished binary... mehr

     

    By challenging and problematizing the definition of 9/11 as ‘the event,’ the article examines the extent to which the official discourse on the attacks, exemplified in speeches given by government representatives and based on preestablished binary symbolism, shaped poetic representations of 9/11. This article, by focusing on three anthologies of poetry, analyzes the diversity of poetic responses to 9/11 and the ways in which they engage with and respond to the government’s interpretation of the event and its impact on the redefinition of the sense of belonging to the national collective. The poetic heterogeneity testifies to the multiplicity of nonconsensual interpretations of the event, demonstrates its impact, and unveils the impossibility of providing any stable and shared definition of ‘the national collective.’ The attacks do not contribute to the creation of one uniting national narrative but signify multiple subjective experiences and, thus, elicit numerous distinct and discordant responses and memories of them.

     
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  15. Problémy a perspektivy kulturně senzitivního přístupu k literární historii
    Autor*in: Nünning, Vera
    Erschienen: 2006

  16. Narrativität als interdiziplinäre Schlüsselkategorie
    Autor*in: Nünning, Vera
    Erschienen: 2013

    Erzählungen bilden einen großen Teil des Gegenstandsbereichs einer Fülle von Wissenschaften; neben den Sozialwissenschaften befassen sich etwa Philosophie, Geschichtswissenschaft, Anthropologie, Psychologie und Rechtswissenschaft mit Narrationen.... mehr

     

    Erzählungen bilden einen großen Teil des Gegenstandsbereichs einer Fülle von Wissenschaften; neben den Sozialwissenschaften befassen sich etwa Philosophie, Geschichtswissenschaft, Anthropologie, Psychologie und Rechtswissenschaft mit Narrationen. Zudem hat sich in vielen Disziplinen die Einsicht durchgesetzt, dass die Form von Erzählungen maßgeblichen Einfluss auf die Bedeutung hat, die den erzählten Ereignissen zugewiesen wird. Der Artikel begründet die Relevanz einer interdisziplinären Auseinandersetzung mit dem Schlüsselkonzept der Narrativität anhand von drei Schritten: Zunächst erfolgt eine Begriffsdefinition, danach werden kurze Überlegungen zum interdisziplinären Potenzial der Erzähltheorie angestellt, und zum Schluss werden einige kognitive Funktionen von Erzählungen skizziert, wobei exemplarisch auf Empathie, ‚Theory of Mind‘ und die persuasive Kraft von Erzählungen eingegangen wird.

     
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  17. Neurobiologische, psychologische und kulturwissenschaftliche Aspekte des kreativen Prozesses und ihre praktischen Konsequenzen
    Autor*in: Holm-Hadulla, Rainer M.; Barnow, Sven; Draguhn, Andreas; Nünning, Vera
    Erschienen: 2013

    Zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts steht der Begriff Kreativität hoch im Kurs, und das Schöpferische wird sowohl für Individuen als auch Gesellschaften als lebensnotwendig angesehen. Es existieren viele Theorien und praktische Anwendungsvorschläge, die... mehr

     

    Zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts steht der Begriff Kreativität hoch im Kurs, und das Schöpferische wird sowohl für Individuen als auch Gesellschaften als lebensnotwendig angesehen. Es existieren viele Theorien und praktische Anwendungsvorschläge, die einzelwissenschaftlich unterschiedliche Aspekte herausgreifen, dann jedoch zu weitgreifenden Folgerungen kommen, die durch das verwendete wissenschaftliche Paradigma nicht zu begründen sind. Deswegen ist es notwendig, die Grenzen der Gültigkeit einzelner Beiträge zu bestimmen und festzustellen, an welchen Stellen Erkenntnisse anderer Wissenschaftsbereiche relevant werden.Der vorliegende Beitrag versucht, die Potenziale und Begrenzungen neurobiologischer, psychologischer und kulturwissenschaftlicher Thesen auszuloten und Verbindungsmöglichkeiten aufzuzeigen. Dafür werden interdisziplinäre Leitbegriffe etabliert, die die einzelwissenschaftlichen Perspektiven erweitern und komplementieren könnten.

     
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  18. Poems as Specters: Revenant Longing for Roots in Jean Toomer’s Cane
    Autor*in: Gáti, Daniella
    Erschienen: 2014

    This article investigates the subliminal anxiety concerning African American identity and origin developed by the poems in Jean Toomer’s Cane. Drawing on Jacques Derrida’s concept of the specter, I argue that these poems act as specters in that they... mehr

     

    This article investigates the subliminal anxiety concerning African American identity and origin developed by the poems in Jean Toomer’s Cane. Drawing on Jacques Derrida’s concept of the specter, I argue that these poems act as specters in that they enact and embody the South as a harmonious African American land of origin while simultaneously negating the possibility of its present or past existence. In doing so, the poems reframe African American longing for a point of origin into a haunting, anxious but impossible desire. Predicated on absence, the longed-for South (re)emerges as a sensual experience in the Cane poems, which manifests and negates the wished-for but unattainable original condition. Thus, the longing for a point of origin as well as its object—the American South—become Derridean specters, which inescapably challenge the foundations of African American identity while simultaneously constituting its core. In this light, the absence of previous critical investigation of the Cane poems becomes telling. The analysis of the function of the Cane poems reveals what other considerations will inevitably conceal: The United States’ past has not been and cannot be able to provide a solid and anxiety-free foundation for the identity of the nation’s African American citizens.

     
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  19. Crisis-Ridden Heteronormativity and Homonormativity in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood
    Autor*in: Whybrew, Simon Daniel
    Erschienen: 2014

    Nightwood transgresses and undermines binary conceptions of gender and with them the distinction between hetero- and homosexual relationships. I seek to determine whether the failure of the relationships in the novel can be viewed as a criticism of... mehr

     

    Nightwood transgresses and undermines binary conceptions of gender and with them the distinction between hetero- and homosexual relationships. I seek to determine whether the failure of the relationships in the novel can be viewed as a criticism of the heteronormative constraints that are shown to permeate both the heterosexual and the homosexual partnerships in the novel. Consequently, it is argued that the failure of these relationships signifies the failure of the underlying heteronormative structures. The novel reveals not only the constructed nature of this system but also the limiting and ultimately destructive effects that it has on the relationships of those who try to live up to its stipulations. To illustrate this, I utilize the concepts of heteronormativity and homonormativity in conjunction with Judith Butler’s conception of gender performance. Using these concepts, I demonstrate not only that all of the relationships in the novel reproduce the same heteronormative structures but also that this has disastrous effects on those relationships, which in turn is shown to reveal the failure of the heteronormative order.

     
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  20. Novel Realities and Simulated Structures: The Posthuman Fusion of Forms and Simulacra in Richard Powers’s Plowing the Dark
    Autor*in: Szadziewicz, Katherine
    Erschienen: 2014

    This article examines the articulations of representation and being in Richard Powers’s novel Plowing the Dark (2000) from a posthuman perspective. In its double-narrative structure, the novel introduces a dialectic relationship between Plato’s... mehr

     

    This article examines the articulations of representation and being in Richard Powers’s novel Plowing the Dark (2000) from a posthuman perspective. In its double-narrative structure, the novel introduces a dialectic relationship between Plato’s theory of the forms and Baudrillard’s notions of the simulacra as its rudiments for exploring the boundaries of reality. N. Katherine Hayles’s theory of the posthuman provides an apt mediating lens to examine the competing visions of Platonic and Baudrillardian reality as presented in the novel. Examined in this way, Plowing the Dark not only asks questions about the representation of reality but ultimately performs narratively the patterns of reflexivity and virtuality unique to the posthuman world. The article concludes by arguing that Richard Powers employs the form of the novel to manipulate the semi-stable parameters of various systems of reality while engaging with the paradigms of the posthuman to explore the relationship between the construction and mediation of the real.

     
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  21. Introduction
    Autor*in: Herrmann, Sebastian M.; Kittler, Katharina-Luise; Rieß, Amelie; Wilke, Miriam; Wöll, Steffen Adrian
    Erschienen: 2015

  22. Subtraction from Supply and Demand: Challenges to Economic Theory, Representational Power, and Systems of Reference in Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener”
    Autor*in: Benack, Carolin
    Erschienen: 2015

    Herman Melville’s “Story of Wall Street” (1853), in which a lawyer gives an account of the life of the scrivener Bartleby, has been extensively commented on by scholars from a variety of disciplines. Many have found his enigmatic formula “I would... mehr

     

    Herman Melville’s “Story of Wall Street” (1853), in which a lawyer gives an account of the life of the scrivener Bartleby, has been extensively commented on by scholars from a variety of disciplines. Many have found his enigmatic formula “I would prefer not to” to be the embodiment of a long sought-after remedy for seemingly fruitless revolts against oppressive capitalist mechanisms. In order to examine the potential of Bartleby’s challenge to power, I will read it against the representational authority of economic theory, and, more specifically, the supply and demand model. The close reading of Melville’s short story reveals that Bartleby’s resistance to productivity and consumption indeed “opens up a new space outside the hegemonic position and its negation” (Žižek 393). In addition, I will provide a reading regarding representational power in relation to the narrator and the (de)stabilization of systems of meaning production, in which I will draw mostly on works by Agamben and Deleuze. Bringing together these three readings, however, renders doubtful the potential of such challenges to power. In fact, Bartleby’s “I would prefer not to” might end up reaffirming already existing power structures.

     
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  23. “Within the Circle”: Space and Surveillance in Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
    Autor*in: Haase, Felix
    Erschienen: 2015

    The detailed and chilling descriptions of physical violence in many slave narratives often overshadow the fact that slaveholders in the American South also relied on an intricate system of surveillance to control and exploit their slaves. In this... mehr

     

    The detailed and chilling descriptions of physical violence in many slave narratives often overshadow the fact that slaveholders in the American South also relied on an intricate system of surveillance to control and exploit their slaves. In this essay, I argue that Frederick Douglass’s first autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave pictures surveillance, especially its production of space, as a central tool of slavery. The resulting spatial boundaries are invested with metaphorical meaning and serve as an expression of Douglass’s emancipation. The first part of the paper considers the plantation architecture and outlines how overseers, slave patrols and panopticism create seemingly impermeable boundaries for Douglass, which are both of physical and psychological nature. I further demonstrate how the architecture of Baltimore’s city space leads to a loosening of surveillance and allows Douglass to become literate. Finally, I draw on Jurij Lotmann’s theory of aesthetic space in order to analyze how spatial boundaries are crossed and metaphorical boundaries between whiteness and blackness are rendered contingent in the Narrative.

     
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  24. The Negotiation of Vegetarianism as a Remedy for an American Sociocultural Schizophrenia in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals
    Autor*in: Beck, Michaela
    Erschienen: 2015

    Reading Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals with a particular emphasis on the narrative dimension and rhetoric of the text, this article analyzes how Foer’s book employs the issue of vegetarianism to reveal and remedy a perceived condition of... mehr

     

    Reading Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals with a particular emphasis on the narrative dimension and rhetoric of the text, this article analyzes how Foer’s book employs the issue of vegetarianism to reveal and remedy a perceived condition of ‘American sociocultural schizophrenia’ in the context of modern-day factory farming. In particular, it pays attention to the psychological mechanisms involved in the process of meat consumption. The paper makes visible how Eating Animals employs the narrator’s story of achieving a sense of mental wholeness and unity through vegetarianism as a template for the larger state of disconnectedness and alienation with respect to American society and culture. Additionally, it is demonstrated how Foer’s text taps into the rhetoric of the American jeremiad in its discussion of vegetarianism in the face of modern-day factory farming to offer this diet as a potential and practical remedy for a perceived state of ‘American sociocultural schizophrenia.’ In doing so, the article aims to point to the implications of the entailed invocation of American values and identity in the global context of shifting and changing relations of power and identity.

     
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  25. Coda: Editorial Remarks
    Autor*in: Bozkurt, Deniz; Conte, Ronaldo; Herrmann, Sebastian M.; Mittag, Lisa; Raviraj-Steinhagen, Rinilda; Rozhkova, Margarita; van den Berg, Elena
    Erschienen: 2015