
Engagement
Konzepte von Gegenwart und Gegenwartsliteratur
Brill Deutschland (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 10. October 2016
Book
Hardback
463 pages
978-3-8471-0256-4 (ISBN)
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Description
In his radio lecture "Commitment" Theodor W. Adorno showed that the question of commitment versus artistic autonomy is not a rigid antithesis. Literary texts that are intended to be purely partisan and (politically) committed fail to recognise the autonomous status of every artistic utterance. Conversely, a literature that claims to be autonomous is blind to its own relation to society and to the counterfactual objection that has always suggested itself by virtue of the mere existence of literary texts as literature.The volume examines, from a historic and systematic perspective, the antagonistic tension that emerges through the concept of commitment and the present-day relevance of literature. The topics range from concepts of "Zeitdichtung" in the 19thcentury to 20th-century literary models and aesthetic positioning of the present day.
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Language
German
Place of publication
Göttingen
Germany
Publishing group
V&R unipress
Dimensions
Height: 23.7 cm
Width: 16 cm
Thickness: 3.5 cm
Weight
810 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8471-0256-4 (9783847102564)
DOI
10.14220/9783847102564
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Jürgen Brokoff | Ursula Geitner | Kerstin Stüssel
Engagement
Konzepte von Gegenwart und Gegenwartsliteratur
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Persons
Editor
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Brokoff lehrt Neuere deutsche Literatur an der Freien Universität Berlin.
Dr. Ursula Geitner lehrt am Institut für Germanistik, Vergleichende Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft der Universität Bonn.
Prof. Dr. Kerstin Stüssel lehrt Neuere deutsche Literatur an der Universität Bonn.
Contributions
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Brokoff lehrt Neuere deutsche Literatur an der Freien Universität Berlin.
Dr. Ursula Geitner lehrt am Institut für Germanistik, Vergleichende Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft der Universität Bonn.
Eckhard Schumacher is professor of Modern German Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Greifswald. He is director of the Wolfgang Koeppen Archive and speaker of the Int. Research Training Group "Baltic Peripeties".
Dr. Ingo Stöckmann ist Professor am Institut für Germanistik, Vergleichende Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft an der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
Prof. Dr. Kerstin Stüssel lehrt Neuere deutsche Literatur an der Universität Bonn.