Wissenschaftliche Texte

Schlüsselbegriff "Kultur"

Facetten eines viel sagenden Wortes **

Text (in German) on the definition of culture (for students).
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Habsburg goes postcolonial:

New approaches to a cultural analysis of the late Empire

New approaches to a cultural analysis of the k.&k. Monarchy.
Manifesto published in 'Cultural Studies' 16 | 2002 (London)
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Habsburg's Little Orient: A Post/Colonial Reading of Austrian & German Cultural Narratives on Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1878-1918 *

This initial publication of a research project investigates the cultural foundations and repercussions of Habsburg colonization of B-H by analyzing the collective imagery of the region in Austrian and German texts around 1900 - with a final side glance at the Bosnian author Ivo Andrić (text in English).
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Why Literature is a Monster:

Canon and Cultural Change as Economy

Departing from Russian Formalism & Bourdieu, this sketch tries to conceptualize the central device of Modernity (and Modernism): innovation and cultural change, and the role canons play.
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Sexualität Macht Tod/t:
Prolegomena zu einer Literaturgeschichte des Vampirismus 1 *

A rough sketch how the vampire turned from South/East European folklore into a popular myth and a political metaphor in 'Western' literature/s and culture/s, with a special focus on the German-speaking world which played an important role as a "trans-mitter" in the process (article in German).
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Süd/Osteuropäer als Vampire: Draculas Karriere vom blutrünstigen Tyrannen zum mythischen Blutsauger.

(Prolegomena zu einer Literaturgeschichte des Vampirismus 2) *

This contribution shows how the cruel Walachian prince Vlad Dracula (15th century) was turned into a Transylvanian vampire count by the Irish writer Bram Stoker in the 1890s, thus creating an artificial myth of great popular proliferance (text in German).
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Forschungsliteratur: Vampirismus

Kommentierte interdisziplinäre Auswahlbibliografie *

The undead basics... A cross-disciplinary bibliography of academic sources on vampirism (2003). Annotated in German.
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L'autre côté de la Modernité: Le fantastique en Autriche après 1900

Brief surview of the fantastic in Austrian literature in the early 20th c. (text in French)
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Traumreich: Die fantastische Allegorie der Habsburger Monarchie in Alfred Kubins Roman Die andere Seite (1908/09) *

Interpretations of a popular key novel of the fin de siècle period in Central Europe, written by the graphical artist and book illustrator Alfred Kubin (1877-1959). My essay gives a survey of existing critical approaches and proposes a ‘post/colonial’ reading (text in German). Download
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Argonaut & Tourist: Repräsentationen der Fremde(n) bei Grillparzer

A ‘postconial’ investigation into othering in the dramas and diaries of the Austrian playwright, e.g. the otherness of Medea and of Central European ethnicities (text in German)
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Fantastik und/als Liminalität

Literary theory of the fantastic in literature as expression of liminality. Contribution (in German) to the anthology: Der Schauer(roman): Formen - Diskurszusammenhänge - Funktionen, ed. Mario Grizelj (Würzburg: Könighausen & Neumann, 2010)
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The Back Side of Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: The Infamously Infantile Sexuality of 'Josefine Mutzenbacher'

Introduction to the notorious Austrian porn novel and the crypto-paedophile discourse in culture around 1900 (critical article in English, forthcoming/2010)
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* (c) KAKANIEN REVISITED, 2001-08 ** (c) MEDIAMANUAL, 2007