Literature and World - Literature as World : Essays in Honour of Werner Wolf / edited by Maria Löschnigg and Martin Löschnigg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Löschnigg, Maria, editor.

Löschnigg, Martin, editor.

Series:

Anglistische Forschungen ; Volume 475.

Anglistische Forschungen ; Volume 475

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Heidelberg, Germany : Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH, [2023]

Summary:

The essays in this volume focus on new approaches to how literature reflects and creates world, and thus to the issues of literature and world and literature as world. They discuss questions of the implied worldview of literary texts on the one hand, and the way literature may create world through self-referentiality and the establishing of intermedial relations with other arts on the other. In the latter cases, works will foreground their own fictionality and/or mediality, and their status as artefacts and as the products of a poietic act of creation. Illustrating the potential of new approaches and developments for describing the nature of the worlds devised in fictional texts, the authors pay tribute to a scholar whose work has been foundational regarding the study of metareferentiality in literature and the arts, contemporary intermediality studies and the study of implied worldviews in literary texts: Werner Wolf.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Imprint

Contents

Maria and Martin Löschnigg: Introduction: Worldviews in Literature, and Forms of Literary Worldmaking

Andres Mahler: From the Representation of 'a World' to the Writing of 'Life': Virginia Woolf's 'Anti-Mimetic' Turn

Georg Schöller-Petz: Forms and Functions of 'Interiority' as a Principle of Story Logic and Modern ‚Poiesis'

Thomas Rauth: A Poetics of Justice? The Worldview Implications in the Metafictional Attempt at Poetic Justice in Ian McEwan's ‚Atonement'

Johannes Wally: Different Media, Different Politics? An Analysis of Aspects of the Implied Worldview of George Saunders' Short Story "Escape from Spiderhead" (2010) and that of Its Netflix Adaptation ‚Spiderhead' (2022)

Anna Klambauer: Moral Model Worlds: Aesthetic Illusion, Experientiality and Ethical Decision Making in Video Games

Stefan L. Brandt: ‚Bildungsliteratur' as World Literature: The Aesthetics of Traveling and the Transatlantic Imaginary in Nathaniel Hawthorne's ‚The Marble Faun' (1860)

Martin Löschnigg: Poets in War: Metareferentiality in First World War Poetry

Maria Löschnigg: "There Was Once": Facets of 'Protective Irony' in Margaret Atwood's Metafictional Short Prose Pieces

Christine Schwanecke: In between Literary Worlds: Forms and Functions of Dramatic Metalepses in ‚A Warning for Fair Women' (1599)

Ingrid Pfandl-Buchegger and Gudrun Rottensteiner: Dance and Literature - Dance in Literature: Intermedial Relations between Two Art Forms in Jane Austen's Novels

Walter Bernhart: Piano Pieces with 'Descriptive' Titles: A Form of Literarised Music?

Nassim W. Balestrini: Singing the American South? On the Functions of Music in Natasha Trethewey's Poetry and Prose

Doris Mader: From ‚Danger' to ‚Hearing Sense': British Radioliterature's Medial Conversions.

Jeff Thoss: "There might you see": Spatial Deixis in Ekphrastic Poetry

Notes on Contributors

Backcover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-8253-8638-4