Innovationen und Reproduktionen in Kulturen und Gesellschaften (IRICS) Wien, 9. bis 11. Dezember 2005

   
 
S E C T I O N S

 

Recycling Culture. Ancient and Sacral Texts in (Post) Modern Literature and Art

Chair of the section/Suggestions, Abstracts, Contributions to:

Gabriella Hima (Budapest)

 
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ABSTRACT:

All systems of knowledge have their own history, i.e. their own historically specific configuration. While the Natural Sciences generally interpret their own history as the history of an unbroken progress, the Humanities highlight in their history rather the break, the alterative. The logic of progressively developing knowledge was called into question by Thomas S. Kuhn who considered the history of Science as accumulation of anomalies, as shift of paradigm. This radically new approach made relative the concept of the scientific innovation as well as that of the scientific truth. Under this aspect, innovations are not really discoveries of new theories, practices or methods but rather new-castings or re-castings of old ones. The undermining of Science was continued by Paul Feyerabend, who showed that any given principle or practice had been broken by some great scientists, ergo there was no such thing as a "scientific" method. Finally the famous hoax by Alan Sokal totally demystified Science. The Science Wars have not finished yet, but the in the meantime recovered Human Sciences define themselves no more as a system of discovered knowledge but as a system of socially and culturally constructed knowledge.

If the validity of former scientific results is not absolute but relative, if truth is not found but made, related concepts such as new and old, innovation and reproduction must also be re-estimated. This is an invitation for such papers which intend to carry out intertextual analyses on such (post)modern texts or any other kind of art (music, applied art etc.) in which old, as far as possible ancient and sacral, texts are in some way recycled, e.g. old myths or sacral texts such as the Bible, Talmud, Torah, Koran etc.

ReferentInnen / Speakers

  • Gabriella Hima (Károli Universität der Reformierten Kirche): Das Böse in der Geschichte und in der Literatur [ABSTRACT]
  • Gabriella Baráth (Károli University of the Reformed Church, Budapest): "Closer" to the receiver? Drama on the screen [ABSTRACT]
  • Ákos Dubics (Károli University of the Reformed Church, Budapest): How wants to live Endre Ady's Margita? (Endre Ady: Margita wants to live) [ABSTRACT]
  • Zsigmond Csoma (Károli Universität der Ref. Kirche, Budapest): Bäuerliche Innovationen und Topos in den Volkskalendern Ungarns [ABSTRACT]
  • Zoltán Jánosi (Pädagogische Hochschule, Nyíregyháza): Gyula Krúdy und Sindbad, der Schiffer (aus den Märchen aus Tausendundeine Nacht) [ABSTRACT]
  • Eva Fülöp (Karoli University of the Reformed Church): Drei ungarische Schriftsteller auf den Spuren von Marquez - Nandor Gion, István Szilágyi, József Holdosi [ABSTRACT]
  • Ágnes Hansági (Károli Gáspár Universität der Ungarischen Reformierten Kirche, Lehrstuhl für Komparatistik und Literaturtheorie): Innovation und Identität in den Strukturen der Prozesse der Kanonbildung [ABSTRACT]
  • Veronika Julia Korner (Károli Gáspár Univerity of the Reformed Church, Budapest): Modern Literature and the Film-Making Industry [ABSTRACT]
  • Miklos Köszeghy (Karoli Universität der Reformierten Kirche, Budapest): Josia, der tragische König von Juda - lecture und relecture [ABSTRACT]
  • Tibor Kovács (Károli Gáspár University of Reformed Church, Budapest): The alternative space organization of utopias and the "cloned space" concept [ABSTRACT]
  • Galina Nikolayevna Kurokhtina (Pushkin Institute, Moscow): The lexical Innovations and Historisms in Modern Russian [ABSTRACT]
  • Györgyi Kusztos (Károli University): A model of unifying innovation and reproduction - Miklós Bánffy and the "Transylvanism" [ABSTRACT]
  • Zsuzsanna Lukács (Károli Univ. Of the Reformed Church): Molly Houses and Cross Dressing in the 18th Century [ABSTRACT]
  • Marton Mesyaros (Károli Universität der Reformierten Kirche): Medial changes, confrontation of literary forms [ABSTRACT]
  • Katalin Pető (Karoli University of the Reformed Church): Der Vater-Tochter-Konflikt als Thema in den Dramen von Friedrich Hebbel, Gerhart Hauptmann, Ludwig Thoma und Franz Xaver Kroetz [ABSTRACT]
  • Valentin F. Starodubcev (Institut Puschkin, Moskau): Russland zwischen Vergangenheit und Zukunft [ABSTRACT]
  • Peter Suhajda (Károli University of the Reformed Church, Budapest): Death: recycled metaphor and lyrical identity [ABSTRACT]
  • Tünde Szabó (Budapest): Márai's Novels and the Platonic Dialogues [ABSTRACT]
  • Gábor Szlávik (Károli Gáspár Universität der Reformierten Kirche, Budapest): Eine wiederholte politische Fiktion als »Recycling« früheren literarischen Quellen: Der Brief Kaiser Nervas an Traian [ABSTRACT]
  • Andrea Szommer (Károli Gáspár University of Reformed Church, Budapest): The realization of the judgement day resurrection in a 20 th century Hungarian short story - Áron Tamási: Orderly Resurrection [ABSTRACT]
  • Ferenc Varadi (Károli University): "Path of the elders vs Path of the gods" in Gyula Krúdy’s Sindbad novels [ABSTRACT]

Innovations and Reproductions in Cultures and Societies
(IRICS) Vienna, 9. - 11. december 2005

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WEBDESIGN: Peter R. Horn 2005-10-11