Christoph Ehland Libros

The Conference of the German Association of University Teachers of English (Anglistentag) took place at the University of Paderborn from 23 to 26 September 2015. It was organised by Christoph Ehland, Ilka Mindt and Merle Tönnies. Plenary Lectures: Courttia Newland, Thorsten Piske, Anja Steinlen Section I: Un/Making Homes in Anglophone Cultures Dorothee Birke, Stella Butter, Janine Hauthal, Sarah Heinz, Caroline Lusin, Christian Mair, Jochen Petzold, Ellen Redling Section II: Reading Multiraciality in Anglophone Narratives Jan Alber, Christoph Ehland, Nicole Falkenhayner, Julia Hoydis, Corinna Lenhardt, Miriam Nandi, Christine Vogt-William Section III: Multiple Modernities / Multiple Modernisms Jessica Bundschuh, Kylie Crane, Jens Elze, Anne Enderwitz, Nicola Glaubitz, Annika McPherson, Betsy van Schlun, Kai Wiegandt Section IV: English in Multilingual Individuals, Societies and Schools Tanja Angelovska, Anne Dahl, Angela Hahn, Nuria Hernández, Alexander Kautzsch, Anna Krulatz, Ursula Lanvers, Till Meister, Anne Schröder, Eivind N. Torgersen

Als kulturelles Paradigma reflektiert das Pikareske in unterschiedlichen medialen Kontexten das problematische Verhältnis zwischen Individuum und Gesellschaft. Die Beiträge dieses Buches untersuchen das Phänomen des Pikaresken nicht nur unter gattungstypologischen, sondern auch unter kulturhistorischen Gesichtspunkten; sie spannen einen Bogen, der vom 'Lazarillo de Tormes' bis zum postmodernen Roman, von der Literatur und Malerei der frühen Neuzeit bis zum Theater, Film und Fernsehen der Gegenwart reicht. The Picaresque can be read and understood as a cultural paradigm which reflects the problematic relationship between individual and society. The essays in this volume approach the Picaresque not only in the context of the history of a literary genre but also as a cultural phenomenon that finds expression in a wide variety of different media: the issues discussed by the contributors map the territory between the beginnings of the picaresque mode of writing in 'Lazarillo de Tormes' and the postmodern novel and range from the art and literature of the early modern period to the adaptation of the paradigm in contemporary theatre, film and television.

This study explores the sudden revival of the picaresque protagonist in the literature of the interwar years and discusses the nature of this narrative paradigm and its psychological and ideological implications. Taking Claudio Guillén's notion of the 'Picaresque Myth' as its basis, the discussion of this book refines the concept of the 'Picaresque' as a literary genre and develops a theory of the literary archetype. After investigating the picaresque logic of alienation and resistance in the anonymous narrative Lazarillo de Tormes this study sets out to clarify the structural links between the archetypal phenomenon and the formal demands of the novel as a literary genre. The validity of the findings of this theoretical study are then illustrated by applying them to a thorough examination of the structural impact of the picaresque element in the works of the Scottish writer James Leslie Mitchell (Lewis Grassic Gibbon). Mitchell's work is thus interpreted as the revival of the archetypal narrative logic of the Picaresque.