![]() ![]() ![]() The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays, trans. Epic and Novel: Toward a Methodology for the Study of the Novel. Cosmic Miniatures and the Future Sense: Alexander Kluge’s 21st-Century Literary Experiments in German Culture and Narrative Form. These thematic and formal properties enable the text to construct a world-knowledge that presents readers with an alternative to extant globalization narratives insofar as it resists their drive toward a comprehension of the planet in terms of completeness, homogenization, abstraction, and totalization.Īdelson, Leslie. ![]() It shows how Atlas’s literary–visual form foregrounds selectiveness, inexhaustibility, and heterogeneity, and demonstrates the text’s relative independence from the need to organize places and events through a narrative progression in time and space. The chapter argues that Schalansky’s short prose texts develop an alterity-oriented world-knowledge. The chapter analyzes the text’s propositional world-knowledge as it appears on a discursive level as well as its non-propositional world-knowledge as produced through the text’s aesthetic form. Judith Schalansky’s Atlas of Remote Islands ( Atlas der abgelegenen Inseln, 2009) constructs an alternative knowledge of the world in a globalization age. ![]()
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