Literature on the move / Ottmar Ette ; translated by Katharina Vester.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ette, Ottmar.

Series:

Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 0929-6999 ; 68.

Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 0929-6999 ; 68

Standardized Title:

Literatur in Bewegung. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Postmodernism (Literature).

Multiculturalism in literature.

Physical Description:

316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2003.

Language Note:

Translated from the German.

Contents:

Signposts 9

1 Parcours Mapping a world on the move 17

Approaching movement

Dimensions of the travelogue

Literature and traveling

Travel literature as frictional literature

The places of the travelogue

Parting

Climax

Arrival

Return

Travel literary place and hermeneutic movement

Circle

Pendulum

Line

Star

Jump

A travelogue without journey?

2 Traverse From the surfacing of America to the disappearing of Europe 51

America in a bird's flight

Discovery and conquest, circle and line

Experience of the border and border experience

America as divided space

Mobile border texts

American dreams and spaces and the landscapes of theory

The acceleration and disappearing of Europe

3 Passage Eye, ear and the place of writing 69

Eye and Ear

Place of writing and burning glass

Authorization and textpansion

The eye and the doubled place of writing

Bestseller and longseller, image and text

The gaze upon the reader

Iconotextuality and the staging of the desk

A desk in the jungle

A desk in Berlin

4 Passage Writing in modernity 111

"Only happy when I do something new"

"For the first time I saw the ocean"

"To understand the various elements of a wide landscape"

"The uniform, hopeless picture of divided mankind"

"It narrows the steppe as well as the spirit of the wanderer"

"Humboldtian Writing"

5 Traverse From the modern narrative space to the Orbis Tertius 129

Story against love

The sculptor and his model

Balzac and his model

The modern narrative model

Balzac's readers

A reader of Balzac

The framing of the reading

Between fiction and diction

Fictions of reading

Encyclopedia, chance and reading

In Tlons world

The dissemination of the fantastic within the real

The reality effect

The complete fiction of a modern literature

6 Passage Proteus in Uruguay 153

Cinematograph and mirror of eternity

Sermon and example

A book in permanent becoming

Fragments of a discourse of the soul

Continuous and discontinuous readings

Textmobile and spiritual autobiography

7 Passage Iphigenia in Mexico 177

Question of identity and cultural space

New cultural horizons

Model of antiquity and deviation

Iphigenia, cruel

European expansion and American space

Latin American avant-garde and European hearing impairment

8 Traverse Avant-garde, Post-avant-garde, Postmodernism 199

Everything is invented

Cubist writing after cubism

Break with the break of tradition

A global painting

The vaccination (of the) avant-garde

A little avant-garde

The rearguard of the avant-garde

Places of reading

Post-avant-garde past-avant-gardian

Post-avant-garde or postmodernism?

Post-avant-garde postmodern

Pictures of avant-garde, post-avant-garde and postmodernism

After postmodernism - before the avant-garde?

9 Passage The world inside the head 225

Of images and after-images

Approaching the city

The city as inner space

the inner space of the city

The struggle of the images

Pictures and counter-images of the city

The city in the underground

After-images of the Shoa

10 Passage On the swing 243

Pfeiffer with three f's, and the limits of youth

The baron in the trees and the limits of the game

The girl, the leaves and the limits of showing

The limits of love in the book of youth

11 Passage as Traverse Crossing the mangroves 255

The laboratory of humankind

The logic of the neither - nor and the time of the "dads"

The laboratory of Maryse Conde

Novel structure and space structure

Structuring and movement

Hermeneutic movement and transitory identity

Transcultural identity and transitory figuration

The mangroves as tree

The mangrove as root

The mangrove as rhizome

The tree as mangrove

Two logics and the landscapes of theory

12 Return How the New World appeared in the Old and became in the New the Old World 295

At the end of movement?

Movement and death, movement as death

Letters from the end of the world

Personal description as travelogue

Europe as movement.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [309]-310) and index.

ISBN:

9042011556

OCLC:

52308629