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− | In the past 10 years, the planet has been theorized anew in American literary and cultural studies. Generally, this recent interest in the planet is part of reconsiderations of the meaning of world literature and of what global literary and cultural studies might be within American Studies or Comparative Literature and Culture after the Cold War. This paper traces the main – albeit conflicting – strains of "planet thought" (Spivak) in works of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Wai Chee Dimock, relates them to relevant views of the planet by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Friedrich Nietzsche, and proposes the use of the concept of the Copernican planet in the analysis of narrative perspective in the novels Anil's Ghost (2000) by Michael Ondaatje and Everyman (2006) by Philip Roth. Suggested Reading: chapter "Planetarity" in Gayatri C. Spivak's Death of a Discipline (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003). | + | :In the past 10 years, the planet has been theorized anew in American literary and cultural studies. Generally, this recent interest in the planet is part of reconsiderations of the meaning of world literature and of what global literary and cultural studies might be within American Studies or Comparative Literature and Culture after the Cold War. This paper traces the main – albeit conflicting – strains of "planet thought" (Spivak) in works of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Wai Chee Dimock, relates them to relevant views of the planet by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Friedrich Nietzsche, and proposes the use of the concept of the Copernican planet in the analysis of narrative perspective in the novels Anil's Ghost (2000) by Michael Ondaatje and Everyman (2006) by Philip Roth. Suggested Reading: chapter "Planetarity" in Gayatri C. Spivak's Death of a Discipline (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003). |
==Mo., 30.6.2008, 19:00: Jakob Dittmar, "Alternative worlds in computer games: utopias, dystopias, or what?"== | ==Mo., 30.6.2008, 19:00: Jakob Dittmar, "Alternative worlds in computer games: utopias, dystopias, or what?"== |
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Contents
- 1 Sommer 2008
- 1.1 Do., 10.4.2008: Cornelia Hamann/ Birger Kollmeier, Sprachverstehen im fluktuierenden Störschall
- 1.2 Di., 29.4.2008: Eva Ogiermann, "Universal Speech Acts? Theory vs. Practice"
- 1.3 Do., 22.5.2008: Stefanie Gropper / Ingrid Hotz-Davies: "Exzentrische Positionierungen"
- 1.4 Di., 10.6.2008: Manuela Schönenberger, "Article use by native speakers of Russian in L2 and L3 English"
- 1.5 Di., 24.6.2008: Nadja Gernalzick: "Planetarity in Literature and Literary Studies"
- 1.6 Mo., 30.6.2008, 19:00: Jakob Dittmar, "Alternative worlds in computer games: utopias, dystopias, or what?"
- 1.7 Di., 1.7.2008: Georgiana Banita , "Emerson's Planetary Ethics"
- 1.8 Di., 1.7.2008: Thomas Wägenbaur, "Re-thinking the World: from Buckminster Fuller to the 'Global Brain'"
- 2 Winter 2008/09
- 2.1 Di. 21. Okt. 2008: Christina Meyer, Trauma and Popular Culture. Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers
- 2.2 Di., 4. Nov. 2008: Kalí Tal, "Trauma"
- 2.3 Di., 2. Dez. 2008: Isabel Karremann (Thema noch offen)
- 2.4 Termin noch offen: Maike Engelhardt: "Qualitative Forschung"
- 2.5 Archiv und Planung
Sommer 2008Do., 10.4.2008: Cornelia Hamann/ Birger Kollmeier, Sprachverstehen im fluktuierenden StörschallProf. Dr. Cornelia Hamann, Institut für Fremdsprachenphilologien und Prof. Dr. Birger Kollmeier, Institut für Physik sprechen zu Sprachverstehen im fluktuierenden Störschall. Di., 29.4.2008: Eva Ogiermann, "Universal Speech Acts? Theory vs. Practice"Eva Ogiermann, Universität Oldenburg:
Do., 22.5.2008: Stefanie Gropper / Ingrid Hotz-Davies: "Exzentrische Positionierungen"Prof. Dr. Stefanie Gropper und Prof. Dr. Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Universität Tübingen:
Di., 10.6.2008: Manuela Schönenberger, "Article use by native speakers of Russian in L2 and L3 English"Dr. Manuela Schönenberger:
Di., 24.6.2008: Nadja Gernalzick: "Planetarity in Literature and Literary Studies"Prof. Dr. Nadja Gernalzick, Universität Oldenburg:
Mo., 30.6.2008, 19:00: Jakob Dittmar, "Alternative worlds in computer games: utopias, dystopias, or what?"
Di., 1.7.2008: Georgiana Banita , "Emerson's Planetary Ethics"Georgiana Banita M.A., Universität Konstanz:
Di., 1.7.2008: Thomas Wägenbaur, "Re-thinking the World: from Buckminster Fuller to the 'Global Brain'"Prof. Dr. Thomas Wägenbaur, IU Bruchsal: The basic paradox versions of the global have to face is “internal externality”, that is they view the world as if from outside, which clearly is impossible. On such epistemological grounds we can on the one hand discard all versions of the global, but on the other hand there is nothing else to do in order to understand our proper domain (earth, planet, world, globe etc.). The as if in the respective paradox has always been s.th. like the “poetic license” to imagine not only other worlds but our very own as it lies beyond our (immediate) grasp and from there – which could be called epistemological “outer space” or fantasy – humanity was able to think up models that later actually “worked” – or didn’t. We did so individually as well as collectively with mixed results depending on our degree of realism or idealism and our conceptual adaptability to the actual domain. (Let it be understood that “adaptability” includes both passive biological adaptation to our environment and active cultural adaptation of our environment to us. In this sense concepts were always already actions, especially when globalized.) Starting out from Buckminster Fuller’s Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth I will scrutinize various versions of the global that are currently popular. Winter 2008/09Di. 21. Okt. 2008: Christina Meyer, Trauma and Popular Culture. Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No TowersChristina Meyer on her topic:
Di., 4. Nov. 2008: Kalí Tal, "Trauma"Details folgen. Di., 2. Dez. 2008: Isabel Karremann (Thema noch offen)Details folgen. Termin noch offen: Maike Engelhardt: "Qualitative Forschung"Details folgen.
Archiv und Planung
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