REAL - Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature, Volume 39

If there is one enduring tradition in the humanities, it is the repeated declaration that this or that field, method, or concept has reached its end. Ironically, these scholarly obituaries often mark not an ending but the start of yet another wave of debates, rediscoveries, and revisions. It seems that nothing stays dead for too long and against the backdrop of the lasting legitimation crisis of the humanities, by now its default mode, the present volume shows that the arts and humanities are alive and kicking. The articles in this volume explore new conjunctures and directions in literary and cultural studies, they hone in on various inter- and transdisciplinary research fields in emergence such as home-comfort or dependency studies but they also grapple with the uniqueness of literary and cultural studies research especially in the wake of postcritique.

Inhalt:

Magdalena Pfalzgraf, Anna Tabouratzidis & Ansgar Nünning
The Undead Arts and Humanities. Against the Swansong of Mourning and Decline

Hope, Value, and Narrative Form

Heidi Liedke
Hope As Form: Writing Hope in Twenty-First Century Fiction

Magdalena Pfalzgraf
Critique, Suspicion, and Reading for Allyship in Postcolonial Studies

Ansgar Nünning
Literature as a Laboratory for Forms of the Good Life. The Potential of a Scientific Metaphor and the Value of Literature

Diachronic Perspectives: Historicization across Fields and Genres

Christine Schwanecke
Historicizing Generic Norms and Exploring the Performative Power of Narrative in Drama: Epic Structures in Shakespeare’s Pericles (1607/08)

Alexandra Effe
Eighteenth-Century Autofiction: Historicizing the Contemporary Boom

Marion Gymnich
Re-Reading Nineteenth-Century British Literature through the Lens of Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies

Cognition, Affect, and the Eudaimonic Turn

Stella Butter
Home-Comfort Studies. The Dis/Comforts of Home in Contem-porary British and American Pandemic Literature

Vera Nünning
Where Literary Studies and Psychology Could and Should Meet. The Persuasiveness of Fictional Stories

Deborah de Muijnck
Salutogenesis and Young Adult Fiction. Establishing Cognitive and Affective Balance in Contemporary Sick-Lit


More-than-Human Matters of Concern

Liza Bauer
Asking Animal Questions. Literary Animal Studies and the Polycrisis

Hannah Klaubert
Narrating Ness: Econarratology for a Contemporary Nuclear Criticism

Anna Tabouratzidis
Energy, Aesthetics, and the Role of Interpretation in Petroculture Studies

World, Globe, Planet? World Literary Dynamics

Jan Rupp
Figurations of Environmental Memory and World Writing in Literatures of the Global South

Natalya Bekhta
Literatures of the Former “Second World”: A Conceptual Chal-lenge for the Current Theories of World Literature


Transnationalisation and Forms of Mobility, Work, and the Digital

Carolin Gebauer
Narrative Mobility Studies: A New Analytical Framework for Cultural Narratology

Anna-Lena Eick
Dimensions of the Digital in Contemporary Literature from a Postmigrant Perspective

Elizabeth Kovach
“Brave New Work”: Negotiating the Meaning and Value of Work with Literary Fiction

List of Contributors
Index


Autor:inneninformation:
Magdalena Pfalzgraf ist Juniorprofessorin (W1) für Englische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft an der Universität Bonn. Ihre Forschungsinteressen umfassen Mobilität und Literatur, klassische Musik und Literatur, afrikanische Literatur in englischer Sprache.
Anna Tabouratzidis ist Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftlerin mit Schwerpunkt auf neueren Narratologien und Zukunftserzählungen.
Prof. Dr. Ansgar Nünning lehrt Englische und Amerikanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften an der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen. Er ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für English and American Literary and Cultural Studies an der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen und Gründungsdirektor des International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), des International PhD Programme (IPP) und des European PhDnet Programme.