Ralf Grüttemeier - Böcker

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched.From the 19th century onwards, famous literary trials have caught the attention of readers, academics and the public at large. Indeed it is striking that more often than not, it was the texts of renowned writers that were dealt with by the courts, as for example Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary and Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal in France, James Joyce’s Ulysses and Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer in the US, D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover in Great-Britain, up to the more recent trials on Klaus Mann’s Mephisto and Maxim Biller’s novel Esra in Germany.By bringing together international leading experts, Literary Trials represents the first step towards a systematic discussion of literary trials on a global scale. Beginning by first reassessing some of the most famous of these trials, it also analyses less well-known but significant literary trials. Special attention is paid to recent developments in the relationship between literature and judicature, pointing towards an increasing role for libel and defamation in the societal demarcation of what literature is, and is not, allowed to do.

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched.From the 19th century onwards, famous literary trials have caught the attention of readers, academics and the public at large. Indeed it is striking that more often than not, it was the texts of renowned writers that were dealt with by the courts, as for example Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary and Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal in France, James Joyce’s Ulysses and Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer in the US, D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover in Great-Britain, up to the more recent trials on Klaus Mann’s Mephisto and Maxim Biller’s novel Esra in Germany.By bringing together international leading experts, Literary Trials represents the first step towards a systematic discussion of literary trials on a global scale. Beginning by first reassessing some of the most famous of these trials, it also analyses less well-known but significant literary trials. Special attention is paid to recent developments in the relationship between literature and judicature, pointing towards an increasing role for libel and defamation in the societal demarcation of what literature is, and is not, allowed to do.

Neue Sachlichkeit verbreitete sich ab 1925 in kürzester Zeit von der Malerei und der Literatur über die verschiedensten Kunstdisziplinen in Deutschland und als Nieuwe Zakelijkheid ebenso in niederländischen Kunstdebatten. Um Gemeinsamkeiten und Spezifika der jeweiligen nationalen Rezeptionen zu eruieren und zu erklären, bringt der Sammelband erstmals germanistische und niederlandistische Forschungsperspektiven in einen direkten Dialog und eröffnet so neue Impulse für beide Fachgebiete.

Intention plays a complex role in human utterances. The interpretation of literary texts is a strong case in point: for about two hundred years there have been conflicting views about whether, and how much, authorial intention should matter when professional readers interpret literature. These debates grew increasingly fierce during the post-World War II period, the landmarks of which were the notions of intentional fallacy and the death of the author. Seventy-odd years later, there is still no consensus in sight. What has always been neglected in the debates around authorial intention, however, is a reflection on the historical dimension of the debate and how historically bound each of the theoretical positions in the debate were. This book focusses precisely on the historical dimension of authorial intention, providing a systematic historical reconstruction of the importance ascribed to it in literary texts from Classical Greece to the present day, and including a chapter on authorial intention in jurisdiction and legal interpretation from a historical perspective. The book reconstructs a typology of the most important concepts of intention in interpretation for diachronic and synchronic use. At the same time it offers insights from a field-theoretical perspective into how literary studies as a discipline works over time and how notions of intention and interpretation help create forms of literary knowledge.

Reise durch die Literatur der Niederlande und Flanderns. Hermans, Mulisch, Nooteboom, Claus, Boon, de Moor u. a. - im deutschsprachigen Raum bekannt und geschätzt. Doch wer war Heinrich van Veldeke? Was schrieb die Mystikerin Hadewijch? Die Verfasser lassen Autoren und Werke von der mittelniederländischen Literatur bis zur Gegenwart Revue passieren. Das "goldene" 17. Jahrhundert wird dabei ebenso gewürdigt wie die innovativen Bewegungen an der Schwelle zum 20. Jahrhundert. Voller Fakten und spannend geschrieben.