Birgit Spengler

Literary Spinoffs (eBook, PDF)

Rewriting the Classics - Re-Imagining the Community

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Produktbeschreibung

Birgit Spengler untersucht in ihrer Arbeit das zeitgenössische Genre der »Spinoffs« – Romane, die klassische kanonische Werke der amerikanischen Literatur kreativ um- und fortschreiben. Am Beispiel der schreibenden Auseinandersetzung mit Klassikern wie »Moby- Dick« oder den »Adventures of Huckleberry Finn« entschlüsselt sie die literarischen Strategien, die »Spinoffs« nutzen, um auf gesamtkulturelle Sinnstiftungsprozesse Einfluss zu nehmen und sich in die kulturelle Imagination einzuschreiben. Dabei stellen diese Romane auch die Frage nach der Abgeschlossenheit von Kunstwerken, nach kulturellem Kapital und geistigem Eigentum neu.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Campus Verlag
• Seitenzahl: 500
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783593430645
• Artikelnr.: 41861305

Autorenporträt

Birgit Spengler, PD Dr., ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Bereich Amerikanistik der Universität Frankfurt am Main.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Acknowledgements 9 Introduction 11 1. Literary Spinoffs: An Intertextual Genre 30 1.1. Spinoff Aesthetics: Explicitness and Intensity of the Intertextual Relation 32 1.2 Oscillation and Good Continuation 36 1.3 0-2: Text and Context/Text and Matrixes 41 1.4 The "Dialogic" Involvement with the Pre-Text: Dark Areas and In-/Compatibility of Fictional Worlds 44 1.5 Spinoffs as Communicative Genre: Dialogue and Dialogics 48 1.6 Intertextual Contexts 50 2. Re-Visioning Intertextuality: Models and Debates 61 2.1 Predecessors: Poststructuralist vs. Descriptive Intertextuality 62 2.2 Alternative Positions 73 2.3 A Working Model of Intertextuality in Cultural and Literary Analysis 78 3. Cultural Work and the Functions of Genre 97 3.1 Cultural Work 99 3.2 Exclusion and Inclusion: Spinoffs and/as Participatory Culture 102 3.3 The Literary Marketplace and Cultural Capital 107 3.4 Copyrights and Copywrongs: Who "Owns" Culture? 111 3.5 Revisiting the Nineteenth Century 116 4. Ahab's Wife: A Cannibal of a Book? 125 Ow(n)ing Melville 125 4.1 Appropriating Melville 131 Swimming through Libraries, Weaving the Web: Levels and Methods of Intertextual Engagement in Ahab's Wife 134 Whose Melville? 142 4.2 The World as Ship: Mad Hunts, Male Myths 150 Melville's Male Microcosm 150 Moby-Dick as Quest Narrative: Ahab's Quest 156 Male Quests Reconsidered 164 Re-Considering the World of Male Bonding 175 4.3 Re-Writing the Quest: From Soaring Spirit to Social Vision 180 Invading the World of the Ship, Questioning Separate Spheres 182 Diving and Soaring 187 Una's (In-)Sights: Freedom and Community 196 Reading Melville through Discourses of Slavery 203 (Mis-)Guided Missions-Commenting on National Quests 208 4.4 The Quill and the Quilt: Art as Social Vision 211 The Quilt and the Quill: Sewing and Writing as Means of Coping 212 The Life of Art: Creating a Community of Texts 222 5. From Playing Pilgrim to Waging War: March 229 The Return of the Father 229 5.1 Little Women: Alcott's Classic? 233 "Moral Pap for the Young" vs. Female Myth 233 Little Women's Intertexts 237 5.2 Little Women and Colossal Fathers: March's Pre-Texts 245 Re-Writing Little Women 245 Literary Intertexts 248 History and Biography as Intertexts 253 5.3 March's Civil Wars: Gender, Soul-Wrestling, Slavery, and Innocence 259 The Missing Father as Husband: Sex Wars 261 The Father as Pilgrim: A Transcendentalist's Civil "Wars" 270 Re-Viewing the National Founding Story, Re-Imagining the Civil War 278 The End of Innocence: March's National Bequests 288 A Trunk Full of Books 300 6. American Pastorals? Re-Reading Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 304 6.1 Twain's Fame: The Hypercanonization of Mark Twain and Huckleberry Finn 304 6.2 Reading Huckleberry Finn: Hermeneutic Agendas 311 Hannibal Nostalgia: Imagined Childhoods and Pasts 314 The Mississippi as Alternative Space: Freedom and Civilization 322 Race in Huckleberry Finn: Voice, Plot, and Characterization 328 6.3 My Jim: Huckleberry Finn as Neo-Slave Narrative 338 In the Margins of Twain's World: Turning Huckleberry Finn into a Narrative of Slavery 340 Re-Dressing Jim: From Minstrel Mask to White Man's Hat 359 Mississippi Myths 367 Connections 372 6.4 The Bequests of the Fathers: Fatherhood, Inheritances, and the Role of the Past in Finn 385 Rewriting Pap Finn: Intertextual Strategies in Finn 389 Fatherly Bequests and River Nightmares: Finn and the Nature/Civilization Divide 394 Huck's Blackness 405 Whence, America? National Origins and Narrative Voice 410 The Writings on the Whitewashed Wall 415 In Search of Narrative Alternatives 421 Conclusion: Story-Telling, Libraries, Trunks of Books, and the Writing on the Whitewashed Wall 429 Bibliography 452 List of Illustrations 492 Index 494