Steffen Schneider

Angela Fabris

Albert Göschl

Mediterranean studies flourish in literary and cultural studies, but concepts of the Mediterranean and the theories and methods they use are very disparate. This is because the Mediterranean is not a simple geographical or historical unity, but a multiplicity, a network of highly interconnected elements, each of which is different and individual. Talking about Mediterranean literature raises the question of whether the connectivity of Mediterranean literature can or should be limited in some way by constructing an inside and an outside of the Mediterranean. What kind of connectivity and fragmentation do literary texts produce, how do they build and interrupt references (to the real, to fictional forms of representation, to history, but also to other texts and discourses), how do they create and deny communication, and how do they engage with and reflect literary and non-literary concepts of the Mediterranean? These and other questions are considered and discussed in the over twenty contributions gathered in this volume.

Towards a Theory of Mediterranean Literature

Sea of Literatures

Jörg Helbig

Arno Rußegger

Der Band widmet sich unterschiedlichen Aspekten des Horrorfilms. Analysen von individuellen Filmen stehen neben Ausführungen zu einzelnen Genres (z.B. Gothic Horror, Giallo, Parodien) und zu spezifischen Aspekten wie Gewalt oder Musik im Horrorfilm. Neben bekannten Regisseuren wie Francis Ford Coppola und Mel Brooks stehen vor allem veritable Kultregisseure wie Dario Argento und Pete Walker im Blickpunkt. Besprochen werden u.a. Bram Stoker's Dracula, Profondo rosso, Hotel House of the Long Shadows,Frankenstein Junior Suspiria u.v.a. Beiträge von Susanne Bach, Angela Fabris, Michael Fuchs, Sabrina Gärtner, Jörg Helbig, Frank Hentschel, Benjamin Moldenhauer, Arno Rußegger und Marcus Stiglegger.

Horror Kultfilme

Willi Jung

English summary: While anthropology has given scholars new impulses for studying the portrait, there is in literary studies - compared to the fine arts, for example - still a great deal to catch up on. Taking examples from French and Italian literature, this volume deals with the topic of literary characterisation both in a historical and a systematic perspective. In addition to the study of specific works or the conceptions of particular authors on humankind, the contributions focus on various other aspects such as the literary techniques of portraits, portraits as representative images of humanity of certain eras, the functions of portraits in texts, different portrayal techniques in novels, short stories and other genres, as well as the composition of particularly striking portraits. In modernity and postmodernity, in particular, there are experimental and unorthodox procedures and methods that are appropriate for revealing new dimensions of the portrait. The volume offers new approaches to the literary art of portrayal and contributes in this way to a long yearned for European poetics of the literary portrait. German description: Auch wenn die wissenschaftliche Beschaftigung mit dem Portrat methodologisch durch die Anthropologie neue Impulse erhalten hat, gibt es in der Literaturwissenschaft - etwa im Vergleich zur Malerei - immer noch erheblichen Nachholbedarf. An Beispielen aus der franzosischen und italienischen Literatur wird hier das Thema der literarischen Menschendarstellung sowohl in historischer als auch in systematischer Perspektive beleuchtet. Neben einzelnen Werken oder dem Menschenbild eines Autors stehen unterschiedliche Aspekte im Fokus der Analysen, z.B. die literarische Technik des Portrats, das Portrat als reprasentatives Menschenbild einer Epoche, Funktionen des Portrats im Text, unterschiedliche Portrattechniken in Roman, Novelle und anderen Genres sowie die Gestaltung besonders markanter Portrats. Gerade in Moderne und Postmoderne finden sich experimentelle und unorthodoxe Vorgehensweisen, die geeignet sind, neue Dimensionen des Portrats freizulegen. Der Band eroffnet neuartige Zugange zur literarischen Portratkunst und leistet - bislang ein Desiderat - einen Beitrag zu einer europaischen Poetik des literarischen Portrats.

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Charakterbilder

Ilvano Caliaro

The studies gathered in this volume analyze, in authors from Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, and neighboring territories, the complex relation between identity and borders, namely those between languages and cultures, that can cut through one single territory. We are looking at identities made of different layers and elements, blurred and oppressed, and constantly forced to redefine themselves, in dialog with one another.

Angela Fabris

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