Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Romanistik 2023.12

Vio­lence, trau­ma, and mem­o­ry: respons­es to war in the late medieval and ear­ly mod­ern world
Vio­lence, Trau­ma, and Mem­o­ry: Respons­es to War in the Late Medieval and Ear­ly Mod­ern World brings togeth­er eight essays that exam­ine medieval and ear­ly mod­ern vio­lence and war­fare in France, the His­pan­ic World, and the Dutch Repub­lic through the lens of trau­ma stud­ies and mem­o­ry stud­ies. By focus­ing on war­fare, these essays by his­to­ri­ans, lit­er­ary spe­cial­ists, and his­to­ri­ans of visu­al cul­ture demon­strate how indi­vid­u­als and groups liv­ing with the “ungras­pable” out­comes of wartime vio­lence grap­pled with pro­cess­ing and remem­ber­ing (both cul­tur­al­ly and polit­i­cal­ly) the trau­ma of war.
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Catch­ing up with time: belat­ed­ness and anachronies in fran­coph­o­ne lit­er­a­ture and cul­ture
This vol­ume offers an impor­tant exam­i­na­tion of the ways in which artis­tic manip­u­la­tions of time can lead to a dif­fer­ent per­cep­tion of time as non­syn­chro­nous and anti-chrono­log­i­cal. The range of media (philo­soph­i­cal essays, film, plays, nov­els, auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal nar­ra­tives) and peri­ods (medieval, ear­ly mod­ern, con­tem­po­rary) explored here tes­ti­fy to the endur­ing sig­nif­i­cance of so-called «delays» and the need to rethink these as anachronies. The spec­tral pres­ence of the notion of «Kairos» through­out this vol­ume con­nects dif­fer­ent attempts to sub­vert lin­ear time, on occa­sion allow­ing events and tem­po­ral­i­ties to coex­ist and com­pete or, alter­nate­ly, ask­ing the mind to stretch itself and expe­ri­ence the uneasi­ness of time by attempt­ing and fail­ing to encom­pass diverse spaces and tem­po­ral­i­ties con­comi­tant­ly. The result­ing essays inter­ro­gate, test and con­test the lim­its of the pos­si­ble and enable a rethink­ing of what time could rep­re­sent across dis­ci­plines and gen­res.
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