Literature and weather : Shakespeare - Goethe - Zola / Johannes Ungelenk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ungelenk, Johannes, author.

Series:

Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft ; 61.

Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum literature, 1860-210X ; Band 61

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Tempest.

Shakespeare, William.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. Leiden des jungen Werthers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.

Zola, Émile, 1840-1902. Rougon-Macquart.

Zola, Émile.

Rougon-Macquart (Zola, Émile).

Tempest (Shakespeare, William).

Leiden des jungen Werthers (Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von).

Weather in literature.

Environment (Aesthetics).

Weather--Psychological aspects.

Weather.

Physical Description:

viii, 590 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2018]

Summary:

""Literature and Weather. Shakespeare -- Goethe -- Zola" is dedicated to the relation between literature and weather, i.e. a cultural practice and an everyday phenomenon that has played very different epistemic roles in the history of the world. The study undertakes an archaeology of literature's affinity to the weather which tells the story of literature's weathery self-reflection and its creative reinventions as a medium in different epistemic and social circumstances. The book undertakes extensive close readings of three exemplary literary texts: Shakespeare's The Tempest, Goethe's The Sufferings of Young Werther and Zola's The Rougon-Macquarts. These readings provide the basis for reconstructing three distinct formations, negotiating the relationship between literature and weather in the 17th, the 18th and the 19th centuries. The study is a pioneering contribution to the recent debates of literature's indebtedness to the environment. It initiates a rewriting of literary history that is weather-sensitive; the question of literature's agency, its power to affect, cannot be raised without understanding the way the weather works in a certain cultural formation"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

I The Tempest Staging the Weather p. 17

1 Title p. 18

2 Weather and theatre p. 21

3 The tempest scene p. 25

4 Miranda and Prospero - exposition p. 43

5 God of power - temporal royalties p. 58

6 The climate of th'isle p. 74

7 Gonzalo's plantation and Prospero's masque p. 94

8 Bringing the play to an end p. 127

II Werther. Reading the Weather p. 147

1 Werther and his environment p. 148

2 The birth of a weathery medium - the ball-scene p. 159

2.1 Breaking/Transgressing the circles p. 160

2.2 Werther's "pretentious meteorology [anmaßliche Wetterkunde]" p. 171

2.3 Love and weather - a parallel threat to order p. 181

2.4 The waltz - flying like the weather p. 188

2.5 Clever closures - restoration of order p. 210

2.6 The epiphany of the weathery medium p. 216

3 Well and hut - idyll and prison p. 233

4 At the limits of human nature - the novel's storm and urge p. 266

5 Werther's passio - and his Ossianic resurrection p. 290

III Les Rougon-Macquart. Describing the Weather - and a Changing Climate p. 317

1 From weather to climate p. 317

2 Milieu p. 330

3 Global warming - the old and the new Paris p. 361

4 Meteorotopoi - the proliferation of the hothouse p. 389

4.1 The bar - Paris inebriated p. 396

4.2 The coal-pit - battie of weathers p. 404

4.3 The department store - a weather machine p. 411

4.4 The hothouse (effect) p. 425

5 The weather of the masses p. 446

6 Climate catastrophes, climate crises - the seasons and life p. 473

7 Mastery - the end of modern aesthetics p. 531.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Ungelenk, Johannes. Literature and weather.

ISBN:

9783110559057

3110559056

OCLC:

1025401900