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dem Inhalt:
- Winfried Fluck: Stuart Hall From New Left Politics to
the New Cultural Politics of Difference (abstract)
- Burkhard Niederhoff: Crossing Parallels: Analysing a
Leitmotif in Derek Walcotts's Omeros
- Charles Landon: The Birth of Tragedy and Disgrace: J.
M. Coetzee's Nietzschean Inheritance (abstract)
- Piotr Zazula: 'Alien Order': Nature, Mysticism and the Question of
Transcendence in
Sylvia Plath's Poetry
- Bernd Klähn: Der Erzähler in der Dunkelkammer: Isaac
Newton und der moderne Roman
- Enno Ruge: "We begin to
be interested in Mrs S.": Male Representations of Anne Hathaway in
Fictional Biographies of Shakespeare
- Buchbesprechungen:
- Eva Keppel. Ironie in den mittelenglischen Moralitäten. (Christine Baatz)
- Mario Klarer. Ekphrasis: Bildbeschreibung als
Repräsentationstheorie bei Spenser, Sidney, Lyly und Shakespeare. (Gabriele
Rippl)
- Martin Kuester. 'Prudent Ambiguities': Zur
Problematik von Sprache und Bedeutung im Werk John Miltons. (Stefanie
Lethbridge)
- Alison A. Case. Plotting Women: Gender and
Narration in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Novel. (Ina
Habermann)
- Timothy Morton. The Poetics of Spice:
Romantic Consumerism and the Exotic. (Tobias Döring)
- Annette R. Federico. Idol of Suburbia: Marie Corelli and
Late-Victorian Literary Culture. (Virginia Richter)
- Klaus Peter Müller. Wertstrukturen und
Wertewandel im englischen Drama der Gegenwart. (Klaus Peter Steiger)
- Jörn Glasenapp. Prodigies, Anomalies, Monsters: Charles
Brockden Brown und die Grenzen der Erkenntnis. (Wolf Kindermann)
- Pamela J. Schirmeister. Less Legible Meanings: Between
Poetry and Philosophy in the Work Emerson. (Herwig Friedl)
- Mária Kurdi. Codes and Masks: Aspects of Identity in
Contemporary Irish Plays in an Intercultural Context. (Heinz Kosok)
- Mark S. Morrison. The Public Face of Modernism: Little
Magazines, Audiences, and Reception 1905-1920. (Rudolf Germer)
- Ingrid Hotz-Davies and Anton Kirchhofer, eds.
Psychoanalytic-isms: Uses of Psychoanalysis in Novels, Poems, Plays and Films.
(Anja Müller-Wood)
- Bucheingänge
Abstract: Winfried Fluck: Stuart Hall From New Left Politics to the New
Cultural Politics of Difference.
The development of the theoretical work of Stuart Hall, one of the most
influential representatives of the British Cultural Studies movement, provides a
fascinating case study of the history of New Left critical theory since the
1960s. For a period of more than twenty years Hall focused almost all of his
theoretical attention on ongoing modifications of the base-superstructure model
and, linked with it, the concept of ideology, until the criticism of the new
social movements finally resulted in the acknowledgment that, as a theory of
social injustice and disenfranchisement, even a revised Marxism was no longer
working. As a consequence, Hall moved from the concept of class to that of
"new ethnicities" and from the class politics of the New Left to a new
cultural politics of difference. This move is based on a shift in the theory of
identity-formation in which identity is no longer the result of a long, ongoing
process of "lived experience" consisting of social interaction,
socialization and psychological processes but redefined as temporary attachment
to a subject-position created by cultural representations. This
reconceptualization paves the way for the concept of "multiple identities"
on which the new politics of difference has come to place almost all of its
hopes for political resistance but which, at a closer look, turns out to be a
theoretically confused concept. The trajectory of Hall's work is admirable in
its ongoing investigation of the conditions under which an oppositional politics
is still possible, but it is also one of constant retreat, reflecting the
increasing difficulties of finding a common ground for political action and
finally seeking refuge in a diaspora aesthetic.
Abstract: Charles Landon: The Birth of Tragedy and Disgrace: J.M.
Coetzee’s Nietzschean Inheritance
J.M. Coetzee’s novel Disgrace is revealed in this article to contain several Nietzschean
philosophemes, including the opposition between cultural degeneration and
cultural regeneration, the theory that language has its origins in music, and
the resort to self-reference and self-parody by the author. The dyadic
opposition between what Nietzsche in The Birth of Tragedy calls the “Apollonian” and the “Dionysian” is a
strikingly apposite frame of analysis for interpreting Disgrace. David
Lurie’s scholarly and artistic shortcomings, and his disgraced standing, apply
by analogical extension to white South African males in general, and by
self-referential design, to Coetzee himself. True to the novel’s Nietzschean
inheritance, it is the “tragic” world-view which prevails over the “theoretical”
one.
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