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Experiencing and Responding to Crisis: Layered Discourses and Hybrid Epistemologies in Early Modern English Culture
No full textThis chapter explores, with reference to several primary texts, a deep epistemic crisis in English culture of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century and proposes to observe it from the angle of its complex discursive stratifications. In several texts of this period we register a mixture of two or more disciplinary codes, a fact that can be seen both as symptom of crisis and as a strategy of coping with intense cultural conflicts. Textual references to works by Shakespeare, John Donne, Sir Thomas Browne, John Dee, Sir Francis Bacon, Joseph Glanvill, John Wallis, and Robert Boyle are discussed to illustrate the fact that, in this age of profound transitions, mathematicians speak like mystics or divines, scientists like religious authorities and vice versa, rhetoricians like political advisers, and so forth. This intense hybridization of disciplinary codes and perspectives allows us to perceive crisis as a salutary malady of culture, a moment in which new cultural challenges in philosophy, religion, science, and politics were successfully met
Clio – Mnemosyne – Europa. Vom Nutzen und Nachteil einer ambivalenten Begegnung für eine nationale und europäische Identität und Resilienzkultur nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg
No full textIm folgenden Beitrag wird der Frage nachgegangen, in welcher Form die zeithistorische Geschichtswissenschaft zur Deutung der Problematik der Resilienz in Europa im 20. Jahrhundert beitragen kann. In dieser Hinsicht werden einige Aspekte des nicht selten umstrittenen Verhältnisses zwischen Clio, d. h. der historischen Forschung, Mnemosyne, vor allem den nationalen Erinnerungskulturen, und Europa in seiner Suche nach einer gemeinsamen Identität und einem kollektiven historischen Gedächtnis untersucht. Diese „Dreiecksbeziehung“ wird vor allem in Bezug auf wichtige Krisenperioden des letzten Jahrhunderts, wie das Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs und den Zusammenbruch des kommunistischen Systems in Osteuropa nach 1989, durchleuchte
The Reality of TV News: Towards a Narratological News Theory
No full text„Nachrichten erzählen Geschichten“ – dies ist die zentrale These der Monografie von Christoph Bietz. Indem der Autor eine Brücke zwischen den Grundannahmen der Nachrichtenforschung und der Erzähltheorie schlägt, zeigt er, dass Nachrichten gar nicht anders können als zu erzählen. Das Narrative sei dabei unabhängig von Fiktionalität und Faktizität zu betrachten und könne dazu beitragen, den Authentizitätsanspruch der Nachrichten zu erklären. In detaillierten Einzelanalysen entwickelt Bietz eine Narratologie telemedialer Nachrichten und stellt damit die herkömmlichen Herangehensweisen der Nachrichtenforschung mit ihrem Objektivitätsanspruch grundlegend in Frage.“News narrates stories” – this is the central thesis of Christoph Bietz’ monograph. By bridging the basic concepts of News Theory and Narratology, he shows that the news has no choice other than to narrate. Those narratives are independent from categories such as facticity and fiction, and they might even contribute to the claim of authenticity within the News itself. In detailed analyses Bietz develops a narratology of telemedial news and fundamentally challenges the conventional approaches of News Theory with its claim of objectivity
Experiencing and Responding to Crisis: Layered Discourses and Hybrid Epistemologies in Early Modern English Culture
No full textThis chapter explores, with reference to several primary texts, a deep epistemic crisis in English culture of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century and proposes to observe it from the angle of its complex discursive stratifications. In several texts of this period we register a mixture of two or more disciplinary codes, a fact that can be seen both as symptom of crisis and as a strategy of coping with intense cultural conflicts. Textual references to works by Shakespeare, John Donne, Sir Thomas Browne, John Dee, Sir Francis Bacon, Joseph Glanvill, John Wallis, and Robert Boyle are discussed to illustrate the fact that, in this age of profound transitions, mathematicians speak like mystics or divines, scientists like religious authorities and vice versa, rhetoricians like political advisers, and so forth. This intense hybridization of disciplinary codes and perspectives allows us to perceive crisis as a salutary malady of culture, a moment in which new cultural challenges in philosophy, religion, science, and politics were successfully met
A Resilient 'European Peace Project'. Robert Menasse’s "The European Courier" and "The Capital”
No full textRobert Menasse’s Die Hauptstadt (The Capital), published in 2017, was immediately
awarded with the prestigious Deutscher Buchpreis and considered as an unequivocal
success for the author in the German-speaking and above all European literary field.
The seven members of the jury highlighted that in his novel Menasse digs “with a light
hand into the deeper strata of this world that we call our own” and they praised the
book as “a multilayered text that interweaves existential questions on the private and
political spheres in a masterly fashion, and releases the reader into open-endedness”
(Peschel 2017
Resilience and Reconnection in European Immigrant Communities: Literary Representations of the Windrush Generation in the Work of George Lamming
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Medial Chances and Challenges for the British Monarchy: On the Reciprocal Relation between a Post-Political Institution and its Media Representations
Get PDFDer von Mandy Merck herausgegebene Sammelband The British monarchy on screen umfasst insgesamt siebzehn Beiträge, die sich mit den vielschichtigen medialen Repräsentationen der britischen Monarchie auseinandersetzen. Die einzelnen Abschnitte des Bandes widmen sich Themen, die vom Beginn der Interaktionen zwischen Monarchie und Medien im viktorianischen Zeitalter, über die Rolle des Empires und Commonwealths, bis hin zu Formen der populärkulturellen Teilnahme an royalen Events und Annährungen des gegenwärtigen englischsprachigen Kinos an die britische Monarchie reichen. Der Sammelband bietet neue Perspektiven auf eine Institution, deren fortwährende Bedeutung für die britische Kultur und Gesellschaft nicht zuletzt durch ihre stetige Popularität aufgezeigt wird. Die thematische und materielle Vielfalt verbunden mit der methodischen Klarheit der Beiträge macht die Publikation zu einer interessanten Lektüre, die diverse Anknüpfungspunkte für zukünftige Forschungsvorhaben sowohl im Bereich der Medienwissenschaften als auch der Monarchieforschung bietet.Mandy Merck‘s edited volume The British monarchy on screen comprises seventeen articles dealing with the multifaceted layers of media representation of the British monarchy. Its sections are devoted to studying topics covering the interactions between monarchy and media in Victorian times as well as the role of the empire and commonwealth relations within filmic depictions of the monarchy, leading to forms of popular participation in royal events and contemporary Anglophone cinematic takes on the British monarchy. The collection thus offers new perspectives on an ancient institution whose popularity indicates its enduring importance for British culture and society. The thematic and material diversity in conjunction with the methodological clarity of the featured contributions offers an interesting read, providing several points of departure for fruitful future research both in the realm of media studies and royal studies
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