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Literatures – Cultures of Knowledge – Processes of Transfer

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Literatures – Cultures of Knowledge – Processes of Transfer

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Prof. Dr. Dirk Niefanger

Department of German Language and Literature
Chair of Modern German Literature (Prof. Dr. Niefanger)

  • Phone number: +49 9131 85-29355
  • Email: dirk.niefanger@fau.de

Literatures - Cultures of Knowledge - Processes of Transfer

Based on philological and cultural historical expertise, research in this context funnels the faculty’s literary studies scholarship in order to examine questions concerning the history of knowledge and ideas, as well as to engage in comparative perspectives. Two key aspects will form the main focus: on the one hand, scholars will investigate the relations between literature and knowledge (for instance regarding the natural sciences, knowledge of the future, medical discourses, or religion); on the other hand, research in this field will also deal with cultures of mediation (i.e. explicit and tacit knowledge, school education, editions, electronical media, etc.). Several questions guide both key aspects: questions regarding the transfer between literatures and cultures of differing languages, different cultural milieus and discourses; and, also, questions concerning contexts within the history of ideas, educational institutions and university disciplines, as well as competing or mutually inspiring forms of art. A particular emphasis is placed on the materiality of literature and its media.

Projects:

(In)Sanitary Science. The Discourse of Mental Hygiene as Tacit Knowledge in Antebellum Literature

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Dokufiktionales Erzählen. Neue Formen des Realistischen in der Literatur der Gegenwart

Dem Projekt geht es um eine grundlegende Konturierung und Produktiv-Machung des aktuell hochvirulenten Begriffs ‚Dokufiktion‘ für den literaturwissenschaftlichen Diskurs. Dieses Ziel soll allerdings nicht dadurch erreicht werden, dass Dokufiktion als eigenes Genre in der literarischen Landschaft etabliert wird, wie es in anderen Ansätzen bereits der Fall ist. Vielmehr wird die dokufiktionale Narration als eine gegenwärtige Schreibweise und Erzählhaltung begriffen, die in reflektierter Weise a…

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Literarischer Zweifel. Skeptizismus und das Dilemma der Wahrheitsfindung in der mittelhochdeutschen Epik (12. bis 14. Jahrhundert) (2019-2022)

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Probenprozesse in der Oper. Szenarien der Hervorbringung von Wissen über zukünftige Aufführungen

In den Forschungen zum Verhältnis von (Theater)Wissenschaft und Theater(kunst) ist die ästhetische Praxis der Oper bislang noch wenig präsent. Dies gilt insbesondere für einen erst in den letzten Jahren in den Fokus der Theaterwissenschaft gerückten Phänomenbereich: den der Probe. Das geplante Forschungsprojekt, das von Bettina Brandl-Risi und Clemens Risi initiiert wurde und an dem ein Team aus Post-Doc und Promovierenden teilnehmen wird, will die Theaterprobe als Bindeglied zwischen den Dim…

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US-American Ruins: Aesthetics, Memory, and Urban Decay in (Post-)Industrial Photography

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(Closet) Drama of the Early Modern Age (1500-1775)

The project deals with a constellation of media history in a historical and cultural upheaval: It examines the origins and early development of the closet drama in his relationship with the theater of the early modern period, which, at the same time, is professionalizing itself. Based on a sophisticated concept of 'closet drama' the project critically deals with the current research opinion, whereby in the realm of the drama reigns a primacy of the performance and the dramatic text or playscript…

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Literature as a Life Science: Human Enhancement in 21st Century North American Science Fiction

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Death becomes us - stories of the end of life in contemporary literature and culture

In frequently uncanny ways, ageing, illness, death, dying, and mourning have been and continue to be both constant companions and threatening future `others´ we have little knowledge of (Eagleton 2003). A growing awareness of death scares people anytime and anywhere, and it intercepts culturally specific convictions supporting individual and collective everyday lives, in particular notions of able-bodied `normal´ life and progress. In modern Western societies, the void of meaning created by i…

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Concepts of Knowledge and Research between the Arts and the Humanities

Im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekts "Konzepte von Wissen und Forschung zwischen Kunst und Wissenschaft" geht es darum, in enger Verzahnung mit der universitären Lehre im Dialog von Kunst und Wis­senschaft die Trennung von Theorie und Praxis grundsätzlich zu problematisieren und gleichermaßen nach den theoretischen Implikationen künstlerischer Praktiken wie auch den impliziten Praktiken von wissenschaftlicher Theoriebildung zu fragen sowie konkrete Formen des Transfers und Austausches zu erproben.

Hierzu werde…

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New Depression Literature? Literary Perspectives on the Economic Crisis in U.S. American Novels

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Studies of Contemporary American Verse

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Poetiken des Parasitären

The project “Parasite Poetics in Scandinavian Literature” explores the epistemic, poetological, and ecocritical functions of parasitic relations in Scandinavian texts and films. The relevance of parasitism manifests in four scenarios: 1) in the borderline figure of the sponger and the (uninvited) guest, often involving questions of social and political dynamics and also the literary-social phenomenon of patronage in the arts, co-authorship, and ghostwriting; 2) as an intertextual phenomenon inc…

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Kulturgeschichte des Viktorianismus

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“What if?” – Literary Articulations of Political Perspectives (and Alternatives) in the Americas since the 1970s”

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Lebenswissenschaftliche Optimierungsdiskurse und soziale Selbstverständnisse in der US-amerikanischen Literatur von der frühen Republik bis in die Gegenwart

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Bending Boundaries: Modern Dance and the Politics of Expression in the Age of Modernity

Habilitation

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Camp/Pop - Interventions Into Pop-cultural Discourses of Gender and Sexuality

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Alttestamentliche Anthropologien: Human in the Old Testament - implicit Anthropologies in the Scriptures of Israel und the Early Judaism

Buchprojekt

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Populärkulturen im 19. Jahrhundert

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History of First Person Narration in the Pre-Modern Era

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Womens Writing in French and Italian Literature of the 18th and 19th century

The main objective of the Action is to create a strong collaborative international Research Network and to produce a Road Map outlining future systematic collaborative research in European women's literary history. The historiography of literature needs renewal. In particular women's contribution to European literary practice can and must be accounted for in a much more adequate way than current literary histories do. The COST Action lays the foundation for an innovative European-scale approach to this problem. The neglect of women as cultural agents is indeed an international phenomenon, directly relating to gender inequality in modern society. International cooperation is needed in order to change things and demonstrate that women's growing presence, since the Middle Ages, prepared the way for their massive entrance into the literary field during the 20th century.

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The Economy and Epistemology of Gossip in late 19th and early 20th-Century US American Literature and Culture

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Literatur und Performance

Projektpartnerin Dr. Lucia Ruprecht (Emanuel College, Cambridge)

Gefördert von der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung und dem de Gruyter-Verlag

Ausgehend vom Befund, dass performative Kultur in einer historisch je spezifischen Wechselwirkung mit dem textuellen Paradigma steht, dokumentiert das Forschungsprojekt, das durch ein im Verlag de Gruyter in der Reihe "Handbücher der kulturwissenschaftlichen Philologie" erscheinendes Handbuch dokumentiert wird, das interdisziplinäre und kulturwissenschaftliche For…

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Perspectives on Diversity in Autobiographical Writing

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The Anti-Lynching Narrative: The Ethical and Political Agency of African American Fiction, 1900-1973

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The Edge of Reason: Fiction, Risk and Probability in American Antebellum Narratives

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Differenzkategorien und Allgemeines Gleichstellungsgesetz - internally funded

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Die Konstitution kultureller Räume durch theatrale Praktiken

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Arktisprimitivismus

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Übersetzung und kulturelle Differenz - internally funded

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Publications:

  • Horn K.:
    »Sometimes I Live in the Country/ Sometimes I Live in Town«: Von Folklore zum Urban Folk Revival
    In: Pfleiderer M, Hähnel T, Horn K, Bielefeldt C (ed.): Stimme, Kultur, Identität: Vokaler Ausdruck in der populären Musik der USA, 1900-1960, Bielefeld: transcript, 2015, p. 271–302 (Texte zur populären Musik, Vol.8)
    ISBN: 3837630862

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  • Kragl F.:
    Gottfrieds Ironie. Sieben Kapitel über figurenpsychologischen Realismus im 'Tristan'. Mit einem Nachspruch zum 'Rosenkavalier'
    Berlin: Schwabe, 2019
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  • Kley A.:
    Ethics, Media, Representation: Aesthetic Experience and Identity Formation in Richard Powers' Novel 'Plowing the Dark'
    In: Lubkoll, Christine und Wischmeyer, Oda (ed.): "Ethical Turn"? Geisteswissenschaften in neuer Verantwortung, München: Fink, 2009, p. 181-201
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  • Keilhauer A.:
    C'était un déménagement complèt." Umzüge im naturalistischen Roman
    In: Neuhofer Monika, Ackermann Kathrin (ed.): Von Häusern und Menschen. Literarische und filmische Diskurse über das Haus im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2011, p. 37-51
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  • Niefanger D.:
    "Die Pietisterey im Fischbein-Rocke" von L.A.V. Gottscheid als Lesedrama verstanden
    In: Alexander Weber (ed.): Zur Druckgeschichte und Intermedialität frühneuzeitlicher Dramen, Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2018, p. 97-111 (Literaturwissenschaft, Vol.Band 13)
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