„Ich wäre gern noch viel skandalöser“ Peter Handkes Texte zum Jugoslawien-Krieg im Spannungsfeld von Medien, Politik und Poesie

Brokoff, Jürgen

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“…Media with more time to delve into the intertextual background of the affair and to include a larger range of literary experts presented a more complex picture [see for example Marshall and Schuetze (2019) for the NY Times book section]. Among those more familiar with Handke (Brokoff 2014;Herwig 2010), the denialof-atrocities theory has no purchase. Here, the debate instead turns on the question of whether Handke was ethically or politically irresponsible, insensitive, naive, or at least pig-headed ["runner-up for 'International moron of the year'," according to Salman Rushdie (Cain 2019)].…”

Section: Spatial Reading In the Civil Sphere: From The Byron Controvementioning

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Spatial reading: evaluative frameworks and the making of literary authority

Leypoldt

2020

Am J Cult Sociol

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This essay uses Charles Taylor's theory of evaluative frameworks to solve a problem that has challenged literary theory and historiography for some time: how do we square the tension between the private uses and the public authority of reading? Taylor's notion of strong value brings out literature's often-overlooked similarities with religious-moral or civil-sacred domains, while his concept of weak value helps us to understand more mundane moods of purpose-rational reading. Combining the concept of evaluative frameworks with a socio-institutional account of literary authority, this essay sketches an alternative history of reading, with a focus on the shifting authority of "spatial reading" (defined as attention to formal and intertextual depth). Looking at developments from the 1780s to the present, I will show how the distinction between spatial and flat reading emerges in the eighteenth century, is transformed by the modernist institutionalization of high-and middlebrow notions of spatial form, and continues to provoke tensions between the civil sphere and the literary-artistic field (as the recent scandal around Peter Handke's Nobel Prize attests).

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Section: Spatial Reading In the Civil Sphere: From The Byron Controvementioning

confidence: 99%

Spatial reading: evaluative frameworks and the making of literary authority

Leypoldt

2020

Am J Cult Sociol

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„Ich wäre gern noch viel skandalöser“ Peter Handkes Texte zum Jugoslawien-Krieg im Spannungsfeld von Medien, Politik und Poesie

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Spatial reading: evaluative frameworks and the making of literary authority

Spatial reading: evaluative frameworks and the making of literary authority

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