Værket og det sociale rums stemmer

En analyse af forholdet mellem musikken, fornuften og det sociale rum i Diderots Le neveu de Rameau

Handelsorientalisme i engelsk drama 1580-1630

The early modern Turco-Barbary plays of Christopher Marlowe, Robert Daborne and Philippe Massinger bear witness to how deeply England’s expanding trade with the Muslim Ottoman Empire affected English literature. Within few decades, a new catalogue of dramatis personae such as Turcs, Barbary pirates, English sailors who had converted into Islam, Jewish merchants and go-betweens, began to appear on the scenes of London’s commercial theatres. The purpose of this article is to discuss the particular mercantile character of this renaissance orientalism. Through the demonstration of how the theatrical representation of the encounter with the Muslim world was based on a moral suspiciousness or scepticism toward the merchant whose commerce depended upon foreign markets in goods and money, this article attempts to understand why conversion to Islam and cross-cultural movement becomes such a prominent feature in the English Turco-Barbary plays

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Anmeldelse af "Empire of chance. The Napoleonic Wars and the Disorder of Things". Harvard University Press

Kulturel liminalitet i Don Quixote

Cervantes og den »algierske erfaring« Cultural Liminality in Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes’ two-volume satire from 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote de la Mancha, has often been been proclaimed the first European novel, especially by the continental theory of the novel. Most renowned in that regard is Milan Kundera’s description in The Art of the Novel of Don Quixote as the first narration in the literary history of Europe testifying to the absence of God. Thus for Kundera, Cervantes’ master piece demonstrates the close relationship between the genre of the novel, on the hand, and the rise of a scepticist, secular and worldlyminded mentality characteristic of the European Enlightenment, on the other hand. Being influenced by the general »re-historizing« of the literary studies that we are facing in these years, more recent Cervantine research has taken up topics that played a central role in the the cultural history of Golden Age Spain. Consequently, we have been witnessing a lot of studies focused on the representation of gender, ethnicity, identity politics etc. Within the frame of the cultural history approach to Don Quixote we also see examples of new biographical readings basing the literary analysis on a thorough historical reconstruction of Cervantes’ life and times, in particular with regard to his involvement in the war against the Turks. In my article »Cultural Liminality in Don Quixote. Cervantes and the Algerian experience«, I approach the question of Don Quixote as the first novel by combining the Bakhtinian theory of the novel with recent attempts at historical reconstruction