Die moderne Subjektivität als ein Fragmentenmosaik. Festschrift für Bernhard-Arnold Kruse

Gianluca Esposito; Daniela Liguori

doi:10.6093/978-88-6887-380-6

Die moderne Subjektivität als ein Fragmentenmosaik. Festschrift für Bernhard-Arnold Kruse

Authors

Gianluca Esposito

Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8526-618X

Daniela Liguori

Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9008-6968

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-380-6

Keywords:

Subjectivity, German literature, Philology, Philosophy, German linguistics

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: School of Human and Social Sciences. Working Papers

Pages: 522

Language: Italian; German

Abstract: This volume brings together essays celebrating the career and scholarly achievements of Bernhard-Arnold Kruse. As a Full Professor of German Literature at the University of Naples Federico II, he has been able to act as a cultural and scientific bridge between the German and Italian spheres through his research and personal experience, a feat that only a few others have achieved. The core of Kruse's scientific interests lies in the relationship between subjectivity and literature in their historical and social dimensions. His early studies of the Jahrhundertwende period, particularly those concerning Friedrich Nietzsche and Rainer Maria Rilke, fall within this main area of interest, where modern subjectivity is expressed as an apparently disorganised Fragmentenmosaik, a mosaic of fragments.

Throughout his scientific career, Kruse has broadened this research perspective to encompass other periods and literary contexts, ranging from 20th-century literature (particularly the works of Erich Maria Remarque and Thomas Bernhard) to the postmodern novel. He has also delved into the history of German literature of the 18th century, studying the aesthetics and plays of Friedrich Schiller in particular. Over the last two decades, his research into the dimensions of subjectivity has intersected with the relationship between literature and nationalism, particularly in the novels of Joseph Zoderer; he has in this way emphasised the contribution of literature to the construction and perception of concepts such as Nation and Heimat.

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Author Biographies

Gianluca Esposito, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Gianluca Esposito is a postdoctoral fellow and adjunct lecturer in German Literature at the University of Naples Federico II. After studying German and English Studies in Naples, Osnabrück, and Berlin, he obtained his PhD in Philology from the University of Naples Federico II in May 2022, in joint supervision with the University of Osnabrück. His research interests range from biofiction in contemporary German-language literature (Sten Nadolny, Daniel Kehlmann, Christian Kracht, and Christoph Ransmayr) to, more recently, Dokumentarliteratur (Natascha Wodin and Katja Petrowskaja) and Digital Humanities (Sentiment Analysis).

Daniela Liguori, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Daniela Liguori is an adjunct lecturer in German literature on the Bachelor's degree course in 'Modern European Languages, Cultures and Literatures' at the University of Naples Federico II, as well as on the Bachelor's degree course in 'Foreign Languages and Cultures' at the University of Salerno. She holds a PhD in Aesthetics and Art Theory from the University of Palermo (XXI cycle), and her research focuses primarily on 20th-century German poetry and essayistic writing. She has published studies on authors such as Rainer Maria Rilke, Rudolf Kassner, Durs Grünbein, Walter Benjamin and Vilém Flusser in this area. She has recently expanded her research interests to include 19th-century German authors and themes, particularly the work of Georg Büchner.