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An interdisciplinary exploration of the concept of passages.
The study of literature and culture is marked by various distinct understandings of passages—as both phenomena and critical concepts. These include the anthropological notion of rites of passage, the shopping arcades (Passagen) theorized by Walter Benjamin, the Middle Passage of the Atlantic slave trade, present-day forms of migration and resettlement, and understandings of translation and adaptation. This book explores passages as contexts and processes within which liminal experiences and encounters are situated. Based on the premise that concepts travel through times, contexts, and discursive settings, the volume enables a meaningful exchange regarding passages across disciplinary, national, and linguistic boundaries. Contributions from senior scholars and early-career researchers whose work focuses on areas such as cultural memory, performativity, space, media, (cultural) translation, ecocriticism, gender, and race utilize specific understandings of passages and liminality, reflecting on their value and limits for their research.
The study of literature and culture is marked by various distinct understandings of passages—as both phenomena and critical concepts. These include the anthropological notion of rites of passage, the shopping arcades (Passagen) theorized by Walter Benjamin, the Middle Passage of the Atlantic slave trade, present-day forms of migration and resettlement, and understandings of translation and adaptation. This book explores passages as contexts and processes within which liminal experiences and encounters are situated. Based on the premise that concepts travel through times, contexts, and discursive settings, the volume enables a meaningful exchange regarding passages across disciplinary, national, and linguistic boundaries. Contributions from senior scholars and early-career researchers whose work focuses on areas such as cultural memory, performativity, space, media, (cultural) translation, ecocriticism, gender, and race utilize specific understandings of passages and liminality, reflecting on their value and limits for their research.
312 pages | 5 halftones | 6.14 x 9.21 | © 2022
Literature and Literary Criticism: General Criticism and Critical Theory
Table of Contents
List
of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: approaching ‘passages’ from
the perspective of travelling concepts, metaphors and narratives in the study
of literature and culture
Elizabeth Kovach, Jens Kugele
and Ansgar Nünning
Part I Symbolic passages between media, genres,
languages and cultures
1 The
sound of Benjamin’s arcades
Rolf Goebel
2 Spectral
passages: Christian Petzold’s Transit (2018) as a misadaption of
Anna Seghers’s novel (1944) and allusion to Europe’s ‘Summer
of Migration’
Max Bergmann
3 The passage from tragedy
to novel in Álvaro Cunqueiro’s ’Un hombre que se parecía a Orestes’
Marta
Mariño Mexuto
4 Translating behind bars: cultural
passages from Shakespeare to the Italian dialects
Beatrice
Montorfano
5 Cultural translation as a poetics
of movement
Marie-Christine
Boucher
Part II: Theoretical passages as
transitions in art and (non)human life
6 The utterance as transgression:
contextual liminality and the rhetoric of the verisimilar
Tomi
Moisio
2 Kafka’s actors: Josef K.’s journey
to theatricality
Tanja
Marcotte
3 From
passage to maturity to liminal critique: Foucault’s care of the self as
liminal practice
Ruben
Pfizenmaier
4 Traversing hell: Carl Gustav Jung
and the practice of visionary travelling
Tommaso
Alessandro Priviero
5 Multiple
selves: understanding the nature of dissociation in Black Swan
Büke Saglam
6 Passage
and flow: oceanic dystopia in the self-conscious Anthropocene
Florian
Mussgnug
Part III: Political passages related to
identity, othering, supremacy and power
7 The
gaze and the city: woman walking down the street
Martina Hrbková
8 Passages:
reading before/for responsibility in Elizabeth Bowen’s ’The Death of the
Heart’
Laura Lainvä
9 Thirdspace
and hospitality: migratory passage and the labyrinth of national (in)difference
in Rachid Boudjedra’s ’Topographie idéale pour
une agression caractérisée’
Eric
Wistrom
10 Passage into new
realities: Albania(ns) at the turn of nineteenth and twentieth centuries through
the eyes of European travel writers
Oriol Guni
11 Unmaking
silence and futureS in the midst of ‘The passing dreams of choice’ (Audre
Lorde)
Susan Arndt and Xin Li
Index
of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: approaching ‘passages’ from
the perspective of travelling concepts, metaphors and narratives in the study
of literature and culture
Elizabeth Kovach, Jens Kugele
and Ansgar Nünning
Part I Symbolic passages between media, genres,
languages and cultures
1 The
sound of Benjamin’s arcades
Rolf Goebel
2 Spectral
passages: Christian Petzold’s Transit (2018) as a misadaption of
Anna Seghers’s novel (1944) and allusion to Europe’s ‘Summer
of Migration’
Max Bergmann
3 The passage from tragedy
to novel in Álvaro Cunqueiro’s ’Un hombre que se parecía a Orestes’
Marta
Mariño Mexuto
4 Translating behind bars: cultural
passages from Shakespeare to the Italian dialects
Beatrice
Montorfano
5 Cultural translation as a poetics
of movement
Marie-Christine
Boucher
Part II: Theoretical passages as
transitions in art and (non)human life
6 The utterance as transgression:
contextual liminality and the rhetoric of the verisimilar
Tomi
Moisio
2 Kafka’s actors: Josef K.’s journey
to theatricality
Tanja
Marcotte
3 From
passage to maturity to liminal critique: Foucault’s care of the self as
liminal practice
Ruben
Pfizenmaier
4 Traversing hell: Carl Gustav Jung
and the practice of visionary travelling
Tommaso
Alessandro Priviero
5 Multiple
selves: understanding the nature of dissociation in Black Swan
Büke Saglam
6 Passage
and flow: oceanic dystopia in the self-conscious Anthropocene
Florian
Mussgnug
Part III: Political passages related to
identity, othering, supremacy and power
7 The
gaze and the city: woman walking down the street
Martina Hrbková
8 Passages:
reading before/for responsibility in Elizabeth Bowen’s ’The Death of the
Heart’
Laura Lainvä
9 Thirdspace
and hospitality: migratory passage and the labyrinth of national (in)difference
in Rachid Boudjedra’s ’Topographie idéale pour
une agression caractérisée’
Eric
Wistrom
10 Passage into new
realities: Albania(ns) at the turn of nineteenth and twentieth centuries through
the eyes of European travel writers
Oriol Guni
11 Unmaking
silence and futureS in the midst of ‘The passing dreams of choice’ (Audre
Lorde)
Susan Arndt and Xin Li
Index