Auszeit

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Computer Games ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
German Studies ◽  
Time Out ◽  
History Of ◽  
German Association

This volume uses literary texts, films and computer games to examine how the specifically modern narrative of time-out is represented. The contributions examine time-out narratives from early Romanticism to contemporary pop and game culture: a polyphonic contribution to the cultural history of time-out, that has yet to be written. The volume is based on a panel organised by Stephanie Catani (University of Würzburg) and Friedhelm Marx (University of Bamberg) as part of the 26th Conference of the German Association of German Studies 2019 at Saarland University. With contributions by Prof. Dr. Sabina Becker, PD Dr. Juliane Blank, Prof. Dr. Stephanie Catani, apl. Prof. Dr. Michael Eggers, Prof. Dr. Jörn Glasenapp, Roya Hauck, PD Dr. Nikolas Immer, Prof. Dr. Friedhelm Marx, Beatrice May, Dr. Jasmin Pfeiffer, PD Dr. Jörg Schuster and Julian Weinert.

scholarly journals Central European History since 1989: Historiographical Trends and Post-Wende “Turns”

2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew I. Port
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
European History ◽  
German History ◽  
German Studies ◽  
Central European ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender

In a luncheon address at the annual meeting of the German Studies Association in 2013, David Blackbourn delivered an impassioned plaidoyer to “grow” German history, i.e., to rescue it from the temporal “provincialism” that has, he believes, increasingly characterized the study of Germany over the past two decades. Blackbourn was critical of the growing emphasis on the twentieth century and especially the post-1945 period—not because of the quality of the work per se, but rather because of the resultant neglect of earlier periods and the potential loss of valuable historical insights that this development has brought in its wake. There have been other seemingly seismic shifts in the profession as a whole that have not left the history of Germany and German-speaking Central Europe untouched: greater emphasis on discourse analysis and gender, memory and identity, experience and cultural practices (i.e., the “linguistic turn” and the “new” cultural history). Accompanied by a decline in interest about Germany exclusively as a “nation-state,” the last decade in particular has seen a spike in “global” or “transnational” approaches. And, like other fields, the study of Germany has also witnessed greater interest in the study of race, minorities, immigration, and colonization—what Catherine Epstein referred to as the “imperial turn” in a piece that appeared in the journal Central European History (CEH) in 2013.

scholarly journals What is the History of Anger a History of?

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-34
Author(s):  
Thomas Dixon
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
English Word ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
History Of Emotions ◽  
Hieronymus Bosch ◽  
History Of

Abstract This essay uses the history of emotions to make two arguments – one destructive and one constructive. It uses examples from intellectual and cultural history to undermine the idea that the modern English term ‘anger’ refers either to a clearly defined mental state or to a coherent emotional concept. At the same time, it also questions the diagnosis of the present as an ‘age of anger’. Constructively, the essay uses the intellectual and cultural ancestries of modern ‘anger’ as a case-study in a distinctive approach to the history of emotions. With reference to works by linguists and anthropologists, to ancient philosophical and literary texts, and to some of the most influential visual representations of the irate body and the furious face, from Hieronymus Bosch to Charles Darwin, the essay explains and defends a pluralist and interdisciplinary approach, arguing that ‘anger’ is a modern English word without a stable transhistorical referent, and proposes the method of genealogical anatomy as a way to avoid the twin dangers of anachronism and essentialism in the history of emotions.

A REPLY TO TIMUR KURAN

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 433-435
Author(s):  
Ali Yaycioğlu
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Ottoman History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Science Disciplines

Scholars are justified in complaining that Ottoman studies, from its maturation in the 1950s until today, has been far too integrated into social science disciplines. Traditionally, political and economic history has dominated the field at the expense of cultural history, literary studies, and the history of art, architecture, and material culture. The recent juncture of social science concerns and the sensitivities of the humanities is a welcome but long overdue development. Social science disciplines have long held sway over the field, but scholars of Ottoman history have always exercised rigor and meticulous care in editing and publishing historical documents and literary texts. Editors often discuss the literary, philological, and codicological problems of historical documents in great detail, the conceptual universe in which the documents exist, and their limits and possibilities. Of course, “editing” often includes textual criticism, the conscientious work of transliteration, and, sometimes, translation. Despite numerous invaluable editions of archival and nonarchival material drawn from the Ottoman centuries, we still lack substantial statistical information and data to answer major questions that historians and social scientists have long asked. In this respect, what Timur Kuran (and his team) initiated marks an important step. They published a massive compilation of ten volumes of documents selected from the two qadi courts of Istanbul during the 17th century.

Wine and Wealth in Ancient Italy

1985 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Purcell
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Cultural Preferences ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
Punic Wars

This account of viticulture in Italy during the period from the Punic Wars to the crisis of the third century A.D. is written in the conviction that the ‘economic’ history of the ancient world will remain unacceptably impoverished if it is written in isolation from the social and cultural history of the same period. The orthodoxy which sees a revolution in Italian agriculture in the age of Cato the Censor and a crisis in the time of the emperor Trajan seems to me to be an example of this. It is based on a traditional and limited selection of evidence, and is unable to answer many of the questions which are increasingly being asked about production and exchange in the ancient world, questions about the social background and cultural preferences which underlie production strategies and the evolution of demand. I hope that this study may show some other possibilities, which have still been only partly explored by researchers, of illuminating the changing patterns of Roman agriculture and trade, through the use of comparative evidence and the re-examination of the relevant literary texts for data that are more than simply ‘economic’ in the most restricted sense.

Administrative Elites and the ‘First Phase of Byzantine Humanism’

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filippo Ronconi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Eighth Century ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Cultural Revival ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Administrative Elites

This study investigates the interconnection between the adoption of the minuscule script for the transcription of Greek literary texts (one of the most significant innovations in the history of Byzantine book culture) and the huge cultural revival of ninth-century Byzantium. The focus lies on the social changes that occurred among the Constantinopolitan elites at the end of the eighth century as a result of the political events following the death of Emperor Leo IV. The adoption of the minuscule in the copying of books will be described as a three-step process, whose phases will be discussed with particular attention to the social milieus in which they emerged and developed (especially the bureaucratic circles of the capital connected to the finance administration and some monastic networks). In conclusion, the study emphasizes the importance of some very specific technical skills in one of the most decisive changes in middle-byzantine cultural history.

Satanic Feminism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Per Faxneld
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
General Interest ◽  
Gender History ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
The Bible ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Realm

According to the Bible, Eve was the first to heed Satan’s advice to eat of the forbidden fruit. The notion of woman as the Devil’s accomplice is prominent throughout the history of Christianity and has been used to legitimate the subordination of wives and daughters. During the nineteenth century, rebellious females performed counter-readings of this misogynist tradition. Hereby, Lucifer was reconceptualized as a feminist liberator of womankind, and Eve became a heroine. In these reimaginings, Satan is an ally in the struggle against a patriarchy supported by God the Father and his male priests. The book delineates how such Satanic feminism is expressed in a number of nineteenth-century esoteric works, literary texts, autobiographies, pamphlets and journals, newspaper articles, paintings, sculptures, and even artefacts of consumer culture such as jewellery. The analysis focuses on interfaces between esotericism, literature, art, and the political realm. New light is thus shed on neglected aspects of the intellectual history of feminism, Satanism, and revisionary mythmaking. The scope of the study makes it valuable not only for historians of religion but also for those with a general interest in cultural history (or specific aspects of it like gender history, romanticism, or decadent-symbolist art and literature).

Europe in the Global History of Culture, or: Journeying to a Japanese Cape with Friedrich Kittler1

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-134
Author(s):  
Yūji Nawata
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Media History ◽  
Computer Hardware ◽  
Global History ◽  
German Studies ◽  
Friedrich Kittler ◽  
Humboldt University ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Culture

Abstract Allow me to begin with two explanatory notes. The first concerns the title of this lecture: Europe in the Global History of Culture, or: Journeying to a Japanese Cape with Friedrich Kittler. The subsidiary title Journeying to a Japanese Cape with Friedrich Kittler sounds as if I travelled from abroad across a vast sea to a cape in Japan, enjoying a voyage with the thinker and cultural historian, Friedrich Kittler. Unfortunately, this is not true. It was a much less romantic journey in a taxi we took from Tokyo. At all events, we both undertook an excursion to the coast. I will be talking about this journey. Please also allow me, therefore, to share private experiences with you. I do this in order to place this thinker in an intercultural context and explore his relevance to comparative studies. So, who was Friedrich Kittler? He was born in 1943 in Saxony, emigrated from East to West when Germany was divided, and studied in Freiburg – mainly German Studies. In his books from the 1980s, such as Aufschreibesysteme 1800/1900 (Discourse Networks 1800/1900) and Grammophon Film Typewriter (Gramophone, Film, Typewriter), he developed the method of analysing literary history as part of media studies, defining “media” as things like books, phonograph or computer hardware. In 1993, after the reunification of Germany, he took up a professorship in “Aesthetics and the History of Media” at the Humboldt University, where he remained until his death in 2011 in Berlin. He always identified as a historian. His research focus was cultural history from antiquity onwards. For him, the core of cultural history was media history, and the history of literature was part of media history. For approximately the last ten years of his life his focus was on a large project, a cultural history of Europe from antiquity to the present. In 2007 Friedrich Kittler, the expert on Europe, came to Japan, and this is what I will be talking about here. My focus is therefore on Europe, Japan, and the sea that connects Europe and Japan and the European Friedrich Kittler in an intercultural context. So, that was my first explanatory note.

"On the Natural History of Destruction" and Cultural Memory: W. G. Sebald

2005 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 42-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Remmler
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
German Studies ◽  
Disaster Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Point Of Departure

Benjamin's well-known emblematic description of the rememberer as an archaeologist in "Excavation and Memory" is a fitting point of departure to explore the meaning, transmission, and form of cultural memory as a methodology and a subject in German studies. In this article, I explore the shift toward a renewed materiality of memory in fields such as archaeology and disaster studies that have been tangential to the discourses of cultural memory based on trauma and on identity politics prevalent in German cultural studies. After describing current practice in these fields and their relevance to the formation of cultural memory within the context of German studies, I then read the writing of W.G. Sebald within the framework of archaeological tropes in which the spaces dedicated to the dead play a major role. The close reading of Sebald's text serves as a model for re-reading other contemporary German literary texts within the broader context of other disciplinary approaches to the space of memory in the aftermath of atrocity.

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