Resisting Texts
Exploring Positions in a Complex Relationship
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Beschreibung
The series Fiction and Reality focuses on the juxtaposition of fiction and reality. Firmly rooted in comparative Literature, its monographs and anthologies explore topics like the interaction of fiction and reality or fiction's potential to resist reality. Not limited to «classical» literary studies, publications frequently explore their topics in relation to other disciplines like film, fan fiction or computer games.
Resisting Texts offers twelve studies that analyse the complex dynamics of textual resistance, exploring fiction’s fundamental potential to resist against realities – and the way reality may resist against fictions. Grouped into four sections, the articles (1) focus on how fictional texts resist the dynamics of history by consciously rewriting it; (2) explore how texts resist the readers’ desire to witness an authentic act of origin and instead perform the past’s resistance against recovery; (3) describe cultural institutions and their rhetoric of resistance against mainstream views that nevertheless has potential for productive resistance go unused; and (4) offer new approaches to literary texts that are usually read as resisting a specific ideology but can be shown to resist in a more complex way. The ‘resisting texts’ in these studies include works by Thomas Bernhard, António Botto, Daniil Charms, Allen Ginsberg, Toni Morrison, Octavio Paz, W.G. Sebald, and Virginia Woolf.
Autor*in
Brigitte Rath
Themen in »Resisting Texts«
Allen Ginsberg António Botto Brigitte Complex Daniil Charms dynamics of history Exploring interpretarorischer Perspektivenwechsel Literarische Performanz literary change of view Octavio Paz Positions Rath Relationship Resisting