Papers by Soenke Parpart
Schriften zur Kultur- und Mediensemiotik | Online, 2023
Literaturtheorie nach 2001, 2020
Annual Bibliography for the Mike Lützeler Contemporary German Literature Collection, 2018
The 32nd bibliography of 724 volumes added to Washington University Libraries' Mike Lützeler Cont... more The 32nd bibliography of 724 volumes added to Washington University Libraries' Mike Lützeler Contemporary German Literature Collection. All published in 2018, these acquisitions include novels, poetry, short story collections, essays, autobiographical works, and literary and cultural periodicals from publishers in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Organized by author or editor, the bibliography includes local call numbers as well as subject and genre descriptors. This Collection serves as the research arm for the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature's Max Kade Center for Contemporary German Literature. A bibliography of items added the previous year is compiled each year by Washington University's Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures in cooperation with the University Libraries.
Studentische Forschungsbeiträge online
Der Beitrag untersucht den ideengeschichtlichen Zusammenhang der Konzepte Nationalliteratur und G... more Der Beitrag untersucht den ideengeschichtlichen Zusammenhang der Konzepte Nationalliteratur und Gegenwartsliteratur um 1800. An der Entwicklung literaturhistorischer Modelle im Werk Friedrich Schlegels ist zu erkennen, dass Gegenwartsliteratur hier schon früh als nationales Phänomen begriffen wurde. Ein Ausblick auf die Rezeption dieser Modelle in der Literaturgeschichtsschreibung des Vormärz kann zudem zeigen, wie dieser Zusammenhang von Nationalität und Gegenwart in der Folge verstärkt und politisiert wurde.
Conference Presentations by Soenke Parpart
9th ESPRit Conference: Periodical Formats in the Market, 2021
Vienna’s daily newspapers treated the turn of the year from 1899 to 1900 as an epochal event as i... more Vienna’s daily newspapers treated the turn of the year from 1899 to 1900 as an epochal event as it was happening. Although Vienna at the turn of the century is considered the crystallisation point of modernity, this genuinely contemporary perspective has largely been overlooked to date. This paper seeks show the productive tensions between poetic techniques in the daily newspapers of the age: in the media’s accompaniment and staging of the turn of the years as a turn of the century, the journalistic principle approaching simultaneous narration comes into conflict with the attempt to place one’s own present in historical context. Unlike other historical dates, 1.1.1900 does not take on significance only in retrospect; it is formally emphasised in the calendar system and is thus subject to connotations and expectations before it actually takes place. Despite the repeatedly articulated awareness that the year 1900 represents a purely arbitrary caesura, the newspapers accompany the turn of the year with a plethora of retrospectives on the outgoing century, thereby appropriating historiographical techniques. At the same time, they articulate the twentieth century with respect to hopes and fears and thus identify the century that lies ahead as a qualitatively different age. By taking what is initially considered a calendar event as an opportunity to take stock of what was while also formulating expectations for what is to come, they establish not only a temporal space of before and after, but also a threshold space of the present that lies between them. As a time between the centuries produced by the media, this third space enables the reader to experience the turn of the century as the dawn of a new epoch. This is, moreover, often connoted as a political and ethical operative space via which the malleability of the future is conveyed to the public.
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