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Counter | Culture

Literature, Language, Agency. Edited by Friederike Wolfrum and Désirée Kriesch.

What role does literature play in the struggle between changing manifestations of culture and counterculture? Are literary works simply an outlet for unfulfilled countercultural ideals, or can they perform a constructive and transformative part within society? Coming from a variety of disciplines, the ten essays in this volume (four of which are in German) trace modes of resistance in a wide array of cultural (con)texts, addressing topics such as the nature of language and narrative, the relation between fictionality and factuality, and the dynamics of cultural change. They all view counterculture as a kind of action in the world that, different from prototypical forms of political activism, is complex, playful, and based on an open-minded and open-ended process of exploration and innovation. - Contents: Thomas Tripold: Hegemoniale Selbstvergewisserung und die subversive Kraft des romantischen Antagonismus. - Martin Sexl: Faktualität des Fiktionalen, Fiktionalität des Faktualen. Narration jenseits von Bericht und Erfindung. - Gabriella Mazzon: The Barbarians' Revenge. Counter-Discourse on Language in the British Isles from the 17th to the 19th Century. - Pawel Sickinger: Medium, Tool, or Breeding Ground? A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective on the Role of Language and Literature in Countercultural Thought. - Barbara Siller: »Es muss doch Wörter geben, die diese Gegenwart treffen, ganz einfach zu findende Wörter.« Literary Modes of Counterculture in Thomas Stangl's "Regeln des Tanzes". - Gianna Zocco: »If I could name and face my crime.« Ethical Writing as Political Counter-Discourse in James Baldwin's "Giovanni's Room". - Judith Wagner: »Wenn hier jetzt einer lacht, der kriecht gescheuert!« Zum dialektischen Verhältnis von gegenkultureller Blödelei und affirmativem Humor. - Reinhard Hennig: Environmental Concern as (Counter)Cultural Criticism in the Novels of Jón Kalman Stefánsson. - Fabio Guidali: Narrating Political Apostasy. The 'Renegades' and the Literary Success of Anti-Communism between the 1930s and the Early 1950s. - Jonas Nesselhauf/Markus Schleich: 'The Dickensian Aspect'. "The Wire" als serielle Gegenkultur. - 223 Seiten, broschiert (Cultural Encounters and Transfers; Vol. 4/Königshausen & Neumann 2018) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear