Passages : moving beyond liminality in the study of literature and culture / edited by Elizabeth Kovach, Jens Kugele, Ansgar Nünning.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kovach, Elizabeth, editor.

Kugele, Jens, editor.

Nünning, Ansgar, editor.

Series:

Comparative literature and culture.

Comparative literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration in literature.

Liminality in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 pages).

Place of Publication:

London : UCL Press, [2022]

Summary:

The study of literature and culture is marked by various distinct understandings of passages - both as phenomena and critical concepts. These include the anthropological notion of rites of passage, the shopping arcades (Passagen) theorized by Walter Benjamin, the Middle Passage of the Atlantic slave trade, present-day forms of migration and resettlement, and understandings of translation and adaptation. Whether structural, semiotic, spatial/geographic, temporal, existential, societal or institutional, passages refer to processes of (status) change. They enable entrances and exits, arrivals and departures, while they also foster moments of liminality and suspension. They connect and thereby engender difference. This volume is an exploration of passages as contexts and processes within which liminal experiences and encounters are situated. It aims to foster a concept-based, interdisciplinary dialogue on how to approach and theorize such a term. Based on the premise that concepts travel through times, contexts and discursive settings, a conceptual approach to passages provides the authors of this volume with the analytical tools to (re-)focus their research questions and create a meaningful exchange across disciplinary, national and linguistic boundaries. Contributions from senior scholars and early-career researchers whose work focuses on areas such as cultural memory, performativity, space, media, (cultural) translation, ecocriticism, gender and race utilize specific understandings of passages and liminality, reflecting on their value and limits for their research.

Contents:

Part I, Symbolic passages between media, genres, languages and cultures

1. The sound of Benjamin's arcades Rolf J. Goebel

2. Spectral passages: Christian Petzold's Transit (2018) as a misadaptation of Anna Seghers's novel (1944) and allusion to Europe's 'Summer of Migration' Max Bergmann

3. The passage from tragedy to novel in Álvaro Cunqueiro's Un hombre que se parecía a Orestes Marta Mariño Mexuto

4. Translating behind bars: cultural passages from Shakespeare to the Italian dialects Beatrice Montorfano

5. Cultural translation as a poetics of movement Marie-Christine Boucher

Part II, Theoretical passages as transitions in art and (non)human life. 6. The utterance as transgression: contextual liminality and the rhetoric of the verisimilar Tomi Moisio

7. Kafka's actors: Josef K.'s journey to theatricality Tanja Marcotte

8. From passage to maturity to liminal critique: Foucault's care of the self as liminal practice Ruben Pfizenmaier

9. Traversing Hell: Carl Gustav Jung and the practice of visionary travelling Tommaso Alessandro Priviero

10. Multiple selves: understanding the nature of dissociation in Black Swan Büke Sağlam

11. Passage and flow: oceanic dystopia in the self-conscious Anthropocene Florian Mussgnug

Part III, Political passages related to identity, othering, supremacy and power. 12. The gaze and the city: woman walking down the street Martina Hrbková

13. Passages: reading before/for responsibility in Elizabeth Bowen's The Death of the Heart (1938) Laura Lainväe

14. Thirdspace and hospitality: migratory passage and the labyrinth of national (in)difference in Rachid Boudjedra's Topographie idéale pour une agression caractérisée Eric Wistrom

15. Passage into new realities: Albania(ns) at the turn of nineteenth and twentieth centuries through the eyes of European travel writers Oriol Guni

16. Unmaking silence and future in the midst of "The passing dreams of choice" (Audre Lorde) Susan Arndt and Xin Li.

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ISBN:

1-80008-318-1