Insularity - Representations and Constructions of Small Worlds

Összefoglaló

K. Dautel/K. Schödel: Introduction - I. Theory: Mapping Insularity - K. Schödel: Forms of Insularity: Private Circles and Utopian Isles - M. Aquilina: Shores, Cliffs and Other Shifting Frames: The Island as a Trope of Non-Insularity - U. Stamm: Theoretical Ideas About Insularity and Literary Perspectives on Islands - C. Hilmes: Essay and Aphorism - The Archipelago and the Island among Literary Genres - J. Zimmermann: Sullivan's Island: An Exemplary Postcolonial Site - D. Vanderbeke: Islands in Space - II. German Literature: Aesthetic Reflections of Insularity - J. Vomhof: The Topos of Seduction in Rilke's The Island of the Sirens - E. Petropoulou: In Limbo. Of feathers, socks, butterflies and spools or the "form which things assume in oblivion". Metonymies of heterotopic experience in Walter Benjamin's Berlin childhood around 1900 - A. Rösser: Troubled Hegemony. The Galiana in Lion Feuchtwanger's Die Jüdin von Toledo as Multicultural insula amoena and Heterotopian Model for Dealing with the Other - S. Zubarik: "Die sozialistische Umgestaltung einer Insel": The Novel Die Insel by Matthias Wegehaupt - K. Dautel: Cartography as "the Pleasure of the Symbolic" - Judith Schalansky's Atlas der abgelegenen Inseln - K. Bauer: Utopian Insularity and the Colonial Legacy of Heterotopian Empires. Christian Kracht's Novel Imperium - III. Maltese, English and French Literatures: Island Myths and Other Spaces - P. Mattern: Rabelais' Travelling Giant - J. Riquet: The Island as Territory: Darwin's Legacy in Island Myths from H.G. Wells to Amitav Ghosh - A. Grima: Double Insularity. Mamo's Quixotic Tale of Emigration - R. Spiteri: Laurent Ropa and Paul Achard: Second Thoughts on Colonial Encroachments - U. Hackenbruch: Mind Maps - Concepts of Insularity in American Post-War Writing - P. Arnds: Island as Forest, Forest as Island: Insularity and the Homo Sacer in William Golding and Michel Tournier - J. Corby: An Island No Man Is: Insularity without Subjectivity in Coetzee's Foe - D. Graziadei: "Une goutte de désert jettée à l'eau" - the Creation of Islands and Mythology in Contemporary Caribbean Literatures (Anglophone and Francophone Poetry) - IV. Interculturality and Intermediality: Insular Spaces between Cultures and Media - G. Schembri Bonaci: Insularity in the Arts. The Relationship between the Maltese Art Scene and the Development of Modern Art - H. Burggrabe: Sicily as Island of the "Between" in German language authors of the 20th Century - G. Lauri-Lucente: A Sleep and a Remembrance: Sicily and its Mythic Landscape in Film - A. Seidel-Arpaci: Islands for the Poor? German Allotment Gardens, Body Politic, and the Racialised Nation - R. Baumgartner: Utopia and the Illusion of Choice - Islands in Anno 2070