Bøker av Johannes Ungelenk

Studies the capacity of Shakespeare's plays to touch and think about touch Theatre has a remarkable capacity: it touches from a distance. The spectators are moved, even though the fictional world presented to them will never come into direct contact with their real lives. This study explores the notion of touch as a productive proximity that is characterised by unbridgeable distance in Shakespeare's plays. By playing with touch and its metatheatrical implications, Shakespeare raises questions that make his theatrical art point towards modernity and the writings of philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, Luce Irigaray and Jean-Luc Nancy. Through close readings, Touching at a Distance explores questions including: how are communities to form when traditional institutions begin to crumble? And what is the role and the capacity of language in a world that has lost its seemingly unshakeable belief and trust in meaning? Johannes Ungelenk is Junior Professor for Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the University of Potsdam, Germany.

"Literature and Weather. Shakespeare ¿ Goethe ¿ Zola" is dedicated to the relation between literature and weather, i.e. a cultural practice and an everyday phenomenon that has played very different epistemic roles in the history of the world. The study undertakes an archaeology of literature¿s affinity to the weather which tells the story of literature¿s weathery self-reflection and its creative reinventions as a medium in different epistemic and social circumstances.The book undertakes extensive close readings of three exemplary literary texts: Shakespeare¿s The Tempest, Goethe¿s The Sufferings of Young Werther and Zoläs The Rougon-Macquarts. These readings provide the basis for reconstructing three distinct formations, negotiating the relationship between literature and weather in the 17th, the 18th and the 19th centuries.The study is a pioneering contribution to the recent debates of literature¿s indebtedness to the environment. It initiates a rewriting of literary history that is weather-sensitive; the question of literature¿s agency, its power to affect, cannot be raised without understanding the way the weather works in a certain cultural formation.

"e;Literature and Weather. Shakespeare - Goethe - Zola"e; is dedicated to the relation between literature and weather, i.e. a cultural practice and an everyday phenomenon that has played very different epistemic roles in the history of the world. The study undertakes an archaeology of literature's affinity to the weather which tells the story of literature's weathery self-reflection and its creative reinventions as a medium in different epistemic and social circumstances.The book undertakes extensive close readings of three exemplary literary texts: Shakespeare's The Tempest, Goethe's The Sufferings of Young Werther and Zola's The Rougon-Macquarts. These readings provide the basis for reconstructing three distinct formations, negotiating the relationship between literature and weather in the 17th, the 18th and the 19th centuries.The study is a pioneering contribution to the recent debates of literature's indebtedness to the environment. It initiates a rewriting of literary history that is weather-sensitive; the question of literature's agency, its power to affect, cannot be raised without understanding the way the weather works in a certain cultural formation.