Literature of 20th century
20th Century and beyond- Döring , 1. Sitzung am 08.04.14
Siehe Handout
Texts chosen by chance, subjection
Erich Auerbach- Mimesis
Monarchical categories: literature under monarch
e.g. 1830-1901 “The Victorian Age”
Julian Barnes: A History of the World in 10 ½ chapters, 1989
No solution
Article: World´s last WW1 veteran dies
Difference: talking about event in past (represented through documents impersonal) Talking about personal experience represented through eye-witnesses
“floating gap” /-> because always shifts
Communicative memory cultural memory
-eye-witness Jan Assmann: Das kulturelle Gedächtnis, 1992
-reliability not criteria
100/ 1000 years doesn´t matter -> must rely on documents anyway
Barnes: categories chosen arbitrarily
What does literature mean concerning world dates?
Meaningful inclusion in list?
Eric Hobsbawn (1994):
The Age of Extremes (1914-1991)
How can literature survive in term where life is marked by war?
“poets are unauthorized legislature of the world”
2.Sitzung am 15.04.2014
Handouts im LSF
Apocalypse Now- Francis Ford Coppola 1979
Signature film about 20th century
Vietnam war, 60ies- 70ies
Transformation of Conrads heart of darkness into 1960s to south-east-Asia
Sense of an ending
Century: calendary convenience
All history -> essential story-telling
´facts of history´= man-made artefacts
Fin de siècle – 1890s
Sense of ending, finality
BLACKWOODS MAGAZINE – No 1000
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Never published more fiction, only poetry (“The Darkling Thrush”-bird)
Position of poetic voice: I:
First stanza: beginning
2nd stanza: end
4th stanza: ending
Thrush: once more give unlimited joy, that poets can´t give anymore Asthetic beauty, hope, joy
Ultimate catastrophe
Sinking of Titanic: 1912
Heart of Darkness:
Beginning not spectacular
Wait for the tide: nothing to
Siehe Handout
Texts chosen by chance, subjection
Erich Auerbach- Mimesis
Monarchical categories: literature under monarch
e.g. 1830-1901 “The Victorian Age”
Julian Barnes: A History of the World in 10 ½ chapters, 1989
No solution
Article: World´s last WW1 veteran dies
Difference: talking about event in past (represented through documents impersonal) Talking about personal experience represented through eye-witnesses
“floating gap” /-> because always shifts
Communicative memory cultural memory
-eye-witness Jan Assmann: Das kulturelle Gedächtnis, 1992
-reliability not criteria
100/ 1000 years doesn´t matter -> must rely on documents anyway
Barnes: categories chosen arbitrarily
What does literature mean concerning world dates?
Meaningful inclusion in list?
Eric Hobsbawn (1994):
The Age of Extremes (1914-1991)
How can literature survive in term where life is marked by war?
“poets are unauthorized legislature of the world”
2.Sitzung am 15.04.2014
Handouts im LSF
Apocalypse Now- Francis Ford Coppola 1979
Signature film about 20th century
Vietnam war, 60ies- 70ies
Transformation of Conrads heart of darkness into 1960s to south-east-Asia
Sense of an ending
Century: calendary convenience
All history -> essential story-telling
´facts of history´= man-made artefacts
Fin de siècle – 1890s
Sense of ending, finality
BLACKWOODS MAGAZINE – No 1000
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Never published more fiction, only poetry (“The Darkling Thrush”-bird)
Position of poetic voice: I:
First stanza: beginning
2nd stanza: end
4th stanza: ending
Thrush: once more give unlimited joy, that poets can´t give anymore Asthetic beauty, hope, joy
Ultimate catastrophe
Sinking of Titanic: 1912
Heart of Darkness:
Beginning not spectacular
Wait for the tide: nothing to