Drawing on Agamben's notion of zoe the fact of something's being alive this study develops a theory of the zoegraphical to describe nonhuman life in autobiographical texts. The work focuses on the novels of the Russian poet, visual artist, and performer Dmitry Aleksandrovich Prigov (19402007), in whom zoegraphical narrative becomes a poetological strategy navigating between the avant-garde, totalitarianism, and posthumanism.
Autorentext
Philipp Kohl, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
Klappentext
Ausgehend von Agambens Lebensbegriff der "zoe" entwickelt die Studie eine Theorie des Zoegraphischen. Mit ihr lässt sich nichtmenschliches Leben in autobiographischen Texten beschreiben. Im Zentrum der Analyse steht das Romanwerk des russischen Dichters, Bildenden Künstlers und Performers Dmitrij Aleksandrovic Prigov (1940-2007). Zoegraphisches Erzählen wird hier zur poetologischen Strategie zwischen Avantgarde, Totalitarismus und Posthumanismus.
Zusammenfassung
The series of publications of Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies at Freie Universität Berlin stands for internationally oriented literary studies which go beyond an exclusive focus on the Western tradition and turn towards the European, American, Arabic and Asian literatures of modernity, medieval times and antiquity. The publication forum offers monographs and anthologies which present an exemplary effort within their subject and at the same time cross its boundaries into the philologies and literatures of the world. The purpose is the integration of single disciplinary and comparative research involving neighbouring discursive practices. Friedrich Schlegel's approach obliges to do research of literary cultures from a universal-poetic perspective.
International Board
- Ute Berns (Universität Hamburg)
- Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Stanford University)
- Stefan Keppler-Tasaki (University of Tokyo)
- Renate Lachmann (Universität Konstanz)
- Ken'ichi Mishima (Osaka University)
- Glenn W. Most (Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa)
- Jean-Marie Schaeffer (EHESS Paris)
- Janet A. Walker (Rutgers University)
- David Wellbery (University of Chicago)
- Christopher Young (University of Cambridge)