Resisting Texts
Exploring Positions in a Complex Relationship
1st Edition
Published on 5. April 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
XVIII, 248 pages
978-3-89975-195-6 (ISBN)
Description
Resisting Texts
offers twelve studies that analyse the complex dynamics of textual resistance, exploring fiction's fundamental potential to resist against realities - and the way reality may resist against fictions. Grouped into four sections, the articles (1) focus on how fictional texts resist the dynamics of history by consciously rewriting it; (2) explore how texts resist the readers' desire to witness an authentic act of origin and instead perform the past's resistance against recovery; (3) describe cultural institutions and their rhetoric of resistance against mainstream views that nevertheless has potential for productive resistance go unused; and (4) offer new approaches to literary texts that are usually read as resisting a specific ideology but can be shown to resist in a more complex way. The 'resisting texts' in these studies include works by Thomas Bernhard, António Botto, Daniil Charms, Allen Ginsberg, Toni Morrison, Octavio Paz, W.G. Sebald, and Virginia Woolf.
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Persons
Brigitte Rath organized the summer school
Resisting Texts
during her time as Academic Coordinator of the international PhD Programme in Literature at LMU Munich. She teaches now at the University of Innsbruck.
Stefan Schukowski is finishing his dissertation at the PhD Programme in Literature and will be teaching at the University of Erlangen starting in 2011.
Stefan Schukowski is finishing his dissertation at the PhD Programme in Literature and will be teaching at the University of Erlangen starting in 2011.
Content
Introduction
1 Stories Resisting History
KARIN PETERS
The 'Solitary-Solidary' Dialogue between Poetry and Politics: Story Resisting History in Itinerario by Octavio Paz
SARAH FEKADU
Nation, Narration, and Noise: Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts
ANITA VRZINA
Historical Narrative in the Process of Identity Creation: Friedrich Nietzsche's "Historical Malady" in Toni Morrison's Paradise
KIM PALMORE
Subversive Ruptures in Time: The Liberation of Gender in Virginia Woolf's Orlando
2 Origins Resisting Appropriation
MARIA KUWILSKY
Aspects of Resistance 'Against the Facts': Iteration in Thomas Bernhard's Walking
WAYNE STABLES
'We Who Are Still Alive Are Unreal in the Eyes of the Dead': Thoughts on Benjamin, Sebald and Living
SARAH ZWEIG
Babel at the Gates of Jerusalem. Ursprache in Translation - Benjamin and the Buber-Rosenzweig Bible
3 Institutions Resisting Resistance
SLÁVKA RUDE-PORUBSKÁ
Judging (Translated) Literature: Consecration and Literary Translation in Germany
HENRIETTE STEINER
Placing Socialist Realism: Art Museums Look East
4 Literature Resisting Ideology
LISANNE SAUERWALD
Resisting Common Sense: Towards a New Strategy of Reading Russian Absurd Literature of the OBERIU
ELIZABETH SPIES
"Intruding Upon the Intruders": Culture Jamming, Subvertising and the Cultural Cachet of Allen Ginsberg's Advertising
STEFAN SCHUKOWSKI
Disguised Homoerotics? Subversive Strategies in António Botto's Canções
1 Stories Resisting History
KARIN PETERS
The 'Solitary-Solidary' Dialogue between Poetry and Politics: Story Resisting History in Itinerario by Octavio Paz
SARAH FEKADU
Nation, Narration, and Noise: Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts
ANITA VRZINA
Historical Narrative in the Process of Identity Creation: Friedrich Nietzsche's "Historical Malady" in Toni Morrison's Paradise
KIM PALMORE
Subversive Ruptures in Time: The Liberation of Gender in Virginia Woolf's Orlando
2 Origins Resisting Appropriation
MARIA KUWILSKY
Aspects of Resistance 'Against the Facts': Iteration in Thomas Bernhard's Walking
WAYNE STABLES
'We Who Are Still Alive Are Unreal in the Eyes of the Dead': Thoughts on Benjamin, Sebald and Living
SARAH ZWEIG
Babel at the Gates of Jerusalem. Ursprache in Translation - Benjamin and the Buber-Rosenzweig Bible
3 Institutions Resisting Resistance
SLÁVKA RUDE-PORUBSKÁ
Judging (Translated) Literature: Consecration and Literary Translation in Germany
HENRIETTE STEINER
Placing Socialist Realism: Art Museums Look East
4 Literature Resisting Ideology
LISANNE SAUERWALD
Resisting Common Sense: Towards a New Strategy of Reading Russian Absurd Literature of the OBERIU
ELIZABETH SPIES
"Intruding Upon the Intruders": Culture Jamming, Subvertising and the Cultural Cachet of Allen Ginsberg's Advertising
STEFAN SCHUKOWSKI
Disguised Homoerotics? Subversive Strategies in António Botto's Canções