Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Sprachen und Literaturen allgemein 2024.10

Explo­rations in Inter­net Prag­mat­ics: Inten­tion­al­i­ty, Iden­ti­ty, and Inter­per­son­al Inter­ac­tion
This vol­ume takes the read­er on an explo­ration in the dynam­ics under­ly­ing dig­i­tal inter­ac­tion. The chap­ters inves­ti­gate the ways in which indi­vid­u­als shape and inter­pret inten­tions, con­struct iden­ti­ties, and engage in inter­per­son­al exchanges. Online plat­forms from forums and Wikipedia to Periscope, YouTube and What­sApp are approached with mul­ti­fac­eted qual­i­ta­tive meth­ods. Aside from Eng­lish, lan­guages stud­ied include Bangla, Finnish, French, Hin­di, Hun­gar­i­an, Lithuan­ian, and Nor­we­gian. The range of phe­nom­e­na, plat­forms and lan­guages shed light on the com­plex and nuanced ways of com­mu­ni­ca­tion in dig­i­tal spaces.
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Mis­an­thropy in the age of rea­son: hat­ing human­i­ty from Shake­speare to Schiller
Ever since Tim­on of Athens shunned his fel­low-coun­try­men and embraced a life of soli­tude in the wilder­ness, the mis­an­thrope has proved to be a fas­ci­nat­ing but trou­bling fig­ure. This com­par­a­tive study brings togeth­er a range of mate­r­i­al from var­i­ous gen­res, peri­ods, and coun­tries to explore the devel­op­ing sta­tus of mis­an­thropy in the Euro­pean lit­er­ary and intel­lec­tu­al imag­i­na­tion from the late Renais­sance, through the sev­en­teenth and eigh­teenth cen­turies, to the dawn of Roman­ti­cism. Dur­ing this peri­od, the term ‘mis­an­thropy’ shifts from being an obscure Greek calque to being almost banal in its ubiq­ui­ty. In order to trace the con­tours of the period’s evolv­ing atti­tudes towards mis­an­thropy, this study takes a com­bined the­mat­ic and his­tor­i­cal approach. After two chap­ters devot­ed to the period’s key icons of misanthropy—Shakespeare’s Tim­on of Athens and Molière’s Alceste—the remain­ing six chap­ters each explore dif­fer­ent the­mat­ic issues of mis­an­thropy as they sur­face across the peri­od. Draw­ing on works by Shake­speare, Molière, Hobbes, Pas­cal, Rochester, Swift, Rousseau, Kotze­bue, Schiller, Woll­stonecraft, and Leop­ar­di, as well as count­less less canon­i­cal writ­ers, this study demon­strates that the mis­an­thrope is not a fixed, sta­ble fig­ure in ear­ly mod­ern lit­er­a­ture. Rather, he—or very occa­sion­al­ly she—emerges in many guis­es, from philoso­pher to com­ic grouch, from trag­ic hero to moral cen­sor, from cyn­i­cal vil­lain to dis­ap­point­ed ide­al­ist, from qua­si-bes­tial out­sider to world­ly satirist. As both crit­ic of human­i­ty and object of crit­i­cal scruti­ny, the mis­an­thrope chal­lenges straight­for­ward oppo­si­tions between indi­vid­ual and soci­ety, virtue and vice, rea­son and fol­ly, human and ani­mal.
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