Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Anglistik 2020.8

Cor­po­ra and the chang­ing soci­ety. Stud­ies in the evo­lu­tion of Eng­lish
This book show­cas­es eleven stud­ies deal­ing with cor­po­ra and the chang­ing soci­ety. The theme of the vol­ume reflects the fact that changes in soci­ety lead to changes in lan­guage and vice ver­sa. Focus­ing on the Eng­lish lan­guage, be it from Old Eng­lish to the present, or a short­er time span in the imme­di­ate past, the con­trib­u­tors in this vol­ume use a vari­ety of cor­pus meth­ods to address the two pat­terns of change. The cross-fer­til­iza­tion of cul­tur­al stud­ies and cor­pus lin­guis­tics, we hope, is ben­e­fi­cial for both par­ties, as cor­pus lin­guis­tics offers a vast array of mate­ri­als and meth­ods to inves­ti­gate cul­tur­al and soci­etal change, while cul­tur­al stud­ies pro­vide the the­o­ret­i­cal back­ground on which to build our research. The stud­ies includ­ed in the present vol­ume illus­trate the poten­tial avenues and the mer­its of com­bin­ing chang­ing lan­guage and chang­ing soci­eties.
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Aut­ofic­tion in Eng­lish
This inno­v­a­tive vol­ume estab­lish­es aut­ofic­tion as a new and dynam­ic area of the­o­ret­i­cal research in Eng­lish. Since the term was coined by Serge Doubrovsky, aut­ofic­tion has become estab­lished as a rec­og­niz­able genre with­in the French lit­er­ary pan­theon. Yet unlike oth­er areas of French the­o­ry, Eng­lish-lan­guage dis­cus­sion of aut­ofic­tion has been rel­a­tive­ly lim­it­ed – until now.
Start­ing out by explor­ing the char­ac­ter­is­tic fea­tures and def­i­n­i­tions of aut­ofic­tion from a con­cep­tu­al stand­point, the col­lec­tion iden­ti­fies a num­ber of cul­tur­al, his­tor­i­cal and the­o­ret­i­cal con­texts in which the emer­gence of aut­ofic­tion in Eng­lish can be under­stood. In the process, it iden­ti­fies what is new and dis­tinc­tive about Anglo­phone forms of aut­ofic­tion when com­pared to its French equiv­a­lents. These include a pre­oc­cu­pa­tion with the con­di­tions of author­ship; writ­ing after trau­ma; and a height­ened degree of autho­r­i­al self-reflex­iv­i­ty beyond that typ­i­cal­ly asso­ci­at­ed with post­mod­ernism.
By con­clud­ing that there is such a field as aut­ofic­tion in Eng­lish, it pro­vides for the first time detailed analy­sis of the major works in that field and a con­cise his­tor­i­cal overview of its emer­gence. It thus opens up new avenues in life writ­ing and author­ship research.
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