Comparative Literature and the Historical Imaginary - Kaakinen, Kaisa

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Résumé :
1. Introduction: Comparative Readings in the Twenty-First Century.-?PART I: OUTLINING THE FUTURE: PETER WEISS'S DIE??STHETIK DES WIDERSTANDS AND THE PARATAXIS OF HISTORY.- 2.?Sensory Representations and Untimely Reference in Die ?sthetik des Widerstands.- 3. Coordinates of Comparison: Weiss's Poetics of Historical Relation.-?PART II: I WOULD NOT EVEN INVENT A TRANSITION. (RE-) CONTEXTUALIZING JOSEPH CONRAD.- 4. Imperial Comparison and Postcolonial Reading.- 5. Conrad as a Bridge.-?PART III: ANALOGY AND THE NARRATION OF TRAUMA IN W. G. SEBALD'S AUSTERLITZ AND DIE RINGE DES SATURN.-?6. Repetition and Digression: Sebald's Narratives of Trauma.- 7. Configurations of the Present in Sebald.- 8.?Conclusion: Present Futures.-?Bibliography.-
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Biographie:
Kaisa Kaakinen works as postdoctoral researcher in comparative literature at University of Turku, Finland. She completed her doctoral degree in comparative literature at Cornell University, USA, in 2013 and conducted dissertation research at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. Her publications deal with twentieth and twenty-first-century literature and the intersections of literature and history, and she has taught comparative literature at Cornell University, University of Helsinki and University of Turku....

Sommaire:
1. Introduction: Comparative Readings in the Twenty-First Century.-?PART I: OUTLINING THE FUTURE: PETER WEISS'S DIE??STHETIK DES WIDERSTANDS AND THE PARATAXIS OF HISTORY.- 2.?Sensory Representations and Untimely Reference in Die ?sthetik des Widerstands.- 3. Coordinates of Comparison: Weiss's Poetics of Historical Relation.-?PART II: I WOULD NOT EVEN INVENT A TRANSITION. (RE-) CONTEXTUALIZING JOSEPH CONRAD.- 4. Imperial Comparison and Postcolonial Reading.- 5. Conrad as a Bridge.-?PART III: ANALOGY AND THE NARRATION OF TRAUMA IN W. G. SEBALD'S AUSTERLITZ AND DIE RINGE DES SATURN.-?6. Repetition and Digression: Sebald's Narratives of Trauma.- 7. Configurations of the Present in Sebald.- 8.?Conclusion: Present Futures.-?Bibliography.-
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