im Rahmen der
Salzburg Annual Conferences in English Literature and Culture
an der
Universität Salzburg
29. September bis 1. Oktober 2011
organisiert von
Sabine Coelsch-Foisner, Sarah Herbe und Markus Oppolzer
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October 1st of 2010 marks the beginning of a new era for the European fantastic as the German-based Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung e.V. (GFF) (Association for Research on the Fantastic) inaugurated itself at its first annual conference at the University of Hamburg. The four-day event from Sep 30th to Oct 3rd offered its participants more than one hundred and thirty talks in four different strands, both in English and in German, discussing key issues of the fantastic in Europe and especially in European academia.
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| Veranstalter | Lars Schmeink |
| Thema | Einführung in Literaturwissenschaft (Schwerpunkt amerikanische Literatur) |
| Art der Veranstaltung | Seminar Ia |
| Veranstaltungsnummer | 53-536 |
| Zeit des Seminars | 2st., Di 12–14 + 2 Std. Übung |
| Raum | Phil 1269 |
| Beginn | Ab 19.10.10 |
Seminar am Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik der Universität Hamburg, Wintersemester 2010/11Read More
Everything, today, is to some extent the reflection of something else.
William Gibson, Pattern Recognition
Read MoreWelcome to convergence culture, where old and new media collide, where grassroots and corporate media intersect, where the power of the media producer and the power of the media consumer interact in unpredictable ways.
Henry Jenkins
It is hard to say what ranks lower on the artistic food chain than video games. Comic books? TV sit-coms? X-rated films? These ratlike vermin at the bottom scurry to avoid the thunderous footfalls of the towering behemoths of the art world. […] Is that even art? (Robinett viii)Read More
“Biomass?” Da5id says.
“A body of living stuff. It’s an ecology term. If you take an acre of rain forest or a cubic mile of ocean or a square block of Compton and strain out all the nonliving stuff – dirt and water – you get the biomass.” […]
“Industry expression,” Hiro says. “The Industry feeds off the human biomass of America. Like a whale straining krill from the sea.” Neal Stephenson [1]
Read MoreDie Nacht aber gebar das verhaßte Geschick und das schwarze Verderben
Hesiod (750 v. Christus) 1
und den Tod. Sie gebar auch den Schlaf. Sie gebar auch das Geschlecht der Träume.
Die dunkle Nacht gebar (diese alle) ohne mit irgendeinem (Mann) zusammengekommen zu sein.
Als nächsten aber gebar sie den Tadel und den schmerzlichen Jammer
und die Hesperiden, denen jenseits des berühmten Okeanos goldene
schöne Äpfel anvertraut sind und die Bäume, die diese Frucht tragen.