Cultural Contexts and Literary Forms: Essays on Genre

290 Pages·2015·2.342 MB·English, German

by  Madhu Sahni (editor), Goethe Society of India (editor), Chitra Harshvardhan (editor), Rekha Rajan (editor)

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Genres mutate, disappear, travel through translation and sometimes EC
sU CULTURAL CONTEXTS AND
re-emerge. Traditionally viewed as a classificatory device, the saL
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idea of genre has been challenged by anti-genre theoreticians yU
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who question the possibility of reading texts merely through a oRA LITERARY FORMS
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typological framework. The essays in this volume contribute to a L
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transcultural poetics through an engagement with genre, viewing C
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it as neither normative nor inflexible. They investigate historically nrN ESSAYS ON GENRE
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established genres; genres that transgress conventions as they T
E
move between different art forms and cultures; and genres that, X
T
whilst seeming to respond to reader expectations, expand and S

create new communicative spaces. The volume includes not A
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only theoretical considerations of the boundaries and scope of
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genre but also case studies of science fiction, poetry, aphorism,
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immigrant writing, filmic adaptation and the role of translation IT
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in genre. R
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CULTURAL CONTEXTS AND LITERARY FORMS

CULTURAL CONTEXTS AND
LITERARY FORMS
ESSAYS ON GENRE
GOETHE SOCIETY OF INDIA
YEARBOOK 2015
PETER LANG
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Goethe Society of India
Governing Body
President Pawan Surana (Jaipur)
Vice-Presidents Shaswati Mazumdar (Delhi)
B. Subramanian (Mandi)
Secretary Madhu Sahni (Delhi)
Treasurer M.S. Joshi (Delhi)
Executive Milind Brahme (Chennai)
Vibha Surana (Mumbai)
Swati Acharya (Pune)
K. Mathew John (Hyderabad)
Honorary President Anil Bhatti (Delhi)
Patrons Jochen Golz (Goethe-Gesellschaft, Weimar)
Pramod Talgeri (Pune)
Editors Madhu Sahni
Rekha V. Rajan
Chitra Harshvardhan
Contributions to the Yearbook may be sent directly to
Madhu Sahni
Centre of German Studies
SLL&CS, JNU, New Delhi 110067 India
Email: [email protected]
<http://www.goetheindia.wordpress>

Contents
Preface xi
MADHU SAHNI and REKHA V. RAJAN
Introduction: Cultural contexts and literary forms 1
Part I Critical engagements with genre 7
MARGIT KÖVES
Spaces, bodies and arts in the work of László Krasznahorkai 9
JUDHAJIT SARKAR
To read or not to read generically: Notes towards some
comparative possibilities 23
SACHITA KAUSHAL
Blurring the boundaries: On the emerging trends in
the genre of science fiction 43
KAMAKSHI P. MURTI
Germany and its Muslim immigrant: The dissembling function
of taxonomy 61
CHANDRANI CHATTERJEE
Translation as enabling: A case study of genre
and translation 75
viii
Part II Twentieth- and twenty-first-century case studies
in genre 91
ANUPAM SIDDHARTH
Linguistic estrangement and science fiction in Arno Schmidt’s
Die Gelehrtenrepublik 93
SEBASTIAN GRIESE
Zwischen Erzählmodell und Gattungskompetenz.
Ulla Hahns Roman Unscharfe Bilder und die Rhetorik des
kulturellen Gedächtnisses 107
MICHAELA HOLDENRIED
Spuren lesen. Forschungsreisen als Sujet der
Gegenwartsliteratur 127
ANDREAS WIEBEL
Entwicklungen der Gegenwartslyrik.
Zum Beispiel Filzstiftpoesie 151
DAVID MIDGLEY
Der fremde Blick. Zur Verwendung hinduistischer Motive
in Alfred Döblins Manas 161
Part III Genre in the Goethezeit 195
STEFAN HAJDUK
Herders Ideen einer ‚Logik des Affekts‘ und einer
,aesthetischen Poetik‘. Zur relativen Identität
literarischer Gattungen unter komparatistischen
und transkulturellen Aspekten 197