LEADER 04077nam 22005295 450 001 9910255071303321 005 20200930211156.0 010 $a3-319-51820-8 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-51820-6 035 $a(CKB)3710000001404666 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-51820-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4876549 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001404666 100 $a20170612d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aComparative Literature and the Historical Imaginary $eReading Conrad, Weiss, Sebald /$fby Kaisa Kaakinen 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (XV, 261 p.) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Modern European Literature,$x2634-6478 311 $a3-319-51819-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $a1. Introduction: Comparative Readings in the Twenty-First Century.- PART I: OUTLINING THE FUTURE: PETER WEISS'S DIE ÄSTHETIK DES WIDERSTANDS AND THE PARATAXIS OF HISTORY -- 2. Sensory Representations and Untimely Reference in Die Ästhetik des Widerstands -- 3. Coordinates of Comparison: Weiss?s Poetics of Historical Relation.- PART II: "I WOULD NOT EVEN INVENT A TRANSITION." (RE-) CONTEXTUALIZING JOSEPH CONRAD -- 4. Imperial Comparison and Postcolonial Reading -- 5. Conrad as a Bridge.- PART III: ANALOGY AND THE NARRATION OF TRAUMA IN W. G. SEBALD'S AUSTERLITZ AND DIE RINGE DES SATURN.- 6. Repetition and Digression: Sebald's Narratives of Trauma -- 7. Configurations of the Present in Sebald -- 8. Conclusion: Present Futures.- Bibliography.-. 330 $aThis book argues that increasingly transnational reading contexts of the twenty-first century place new pressures on fundamental questions about how we read literary fiction. Prompted by the stylistic strategies of three European émigré writers of the twentieth century ? Conrad, Weiss and Sebald ? it demonstrates the need to pose more differentiated questions about specific effects that occur when literary narratives meet a readership with a heterogeneous historical imaginary. In conversation with reception theory, trauma theory and transnational and postcolonial studies, the study shows how historical pressures in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries require comparative literature to address not only implied but also various unimplied reading positions that engage history in displaced yet material ways. This book opens new analytical paths for thinking about literary texts as media of historical imagination and conceiving relations between incommensurable historical events and contexts. Challenging overly global and overly local readings alike, the book presents a sophisticated contribution to discussions on how to reform the discipline of comparative literature in the twenty-first century. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Modern European Literature,$x2634-6478 606 $aEuropean literature 606 $aComparative literature 606 $aLiterature, Modern?20th century 606 $aEuropean Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/832000 606 $aComparative Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/811000 606 $aTwentieth-Century Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/822000 615 0$aEuropean literature. 615 0$aComparative literature. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern?20th century. 615 14$aEuropean Literature. 615 24$aComparative Literature. 615 24$aTwentieth-Century Literature. 676 $a809.4 700 $aKaakinen$b Kaisa$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0982599 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255071303321 996 $aComparative Literature and the Historical Imaginary$92242481 997 $aUNINA