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Handlungsorientierter Fremdsprachenunterricht: Zur Einführung in den Band und zum Stand der Forschung
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Positionierungen von Schüler*innen zu Rollenübernahme und Fremdsprachenerwerb: Eine poststrukturalistisch-praxeologische Diskursanalyse in Englisch-Theater-Ags
No full textCross-Media Self-Reflexivity and Audience Engagement in Serial Cinema, 1936-2008
No full textThis article contrasts the opening sequences of cinematic serial narratives from the 1930s to the 21st century, taking a particular interest in their specific ‘politics of engagement,’ that is, in the ways these opening sequences articulate a film’s preferred mode of reception. These opening sequences establish the following films as parts of both chronologically told serial narratives and of more widely sprawling, ‘non-linear’ transmedial clusters, referencing comics or other media and making use of their particular aesthetics to self-identify as fragments of a larger series and to delineate trajectories for further serial engagement
Sonnet Poetics and Radical Politics in Claude McKay’s Harlem Shadows
No full textIn this paper, I read Claude McKay’s partaking in the English sonnet tradition in Harlem Shadows as being a fundamental part of—and not, as many commentators have suggested, counter to—the poet’s and book’s radical politics. Upon contextualizing my readings alongside critics including Houston A. Baker, Jr., Kamau Brathwaite, and Winston James, I perform close readings of McKay’s poems “Subway Wind” and “Outcast.” I specifically analyze how these poems imagine climatic ‘currents’ through images and metaphors of racially marked colonial spaces, which the poems, I suggest, also poetically perform through the actualization of the sonnet form as discursive currents redirected toward liberatory politics
Founders Chic and Narrative Awareness in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton
No full textWith its recent addition to the streaming service Disney+, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 2015 Broadway production Hamilton: An American Musical has once again entered cultural discourse. While lauded for its appraisal of Alexander Hamilton’s life as an immigrant’s story and as a revisualization and presumed reclamation of America’s past through the lens of an almost exclusively nonwhite cast and group of creators, the musical has also been subject to criticism. Early critics aptly categorized it as another component of Founders Chic and questioned its presumed progressive stance on history-writing in the face of its veneration of the Founding Fathers. The following paper aims to discern the musical’s awareness of its position within history through the analysis of relevant lyrics and rhetorical devices. Hamilton is thus presented as a piece of history-writing aware of the process of historical reenvisioning, carefully and individually established through its respective generational, political, and sociological ideals and identity
Ishmael’s Night of Rest and Relaxation
No full textMy article on Moby-Dick explores the juxtaposition of self and other, alienation and community, friendship and leisure. By way of the book’s famous fourth chapter, “The Counterpane,” I argue that repose, conceived as a way of spending time, exposes some of the contradictions of the capitalist dictum of industriousness. The quilt that features so prominently in the chapter is to be underestood as a figure of resting and relaxing, which accumulates a patchwork of additional meanings through Ishmael’s contradictory experiences during the night at the Spouter-Inn with Queequeg