Carsten Meiner
Biographic Data
| ID | 1638439 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carsten Meiner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carsten |
| FAMILY NAME | Meiner |
| SIGNATURE | MEINER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-4428-4473 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
From horse carriage to car. History, form, and nature of a literary topos (Woolf and Musil)
This article analyses a literary tradition of accidents tied to automobility. It first focuses on horse carriage accidents and how literature took a perennial interest in the way such accidents created new and unforeseen human relations. It then concentrates on the opening scenes of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway and Robert Musil's Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften where cars are central not because of movement but paradoxically due to malfunction, brea…
The Romantic Prostitute and her After-Life. Transfigurations of a Cliché
The Romantic Prostitute and her After-Life. Transfigurations of a Cliché
Un consensus semble prévaloir parmi les chercheurs en études romantiques françaises, selon lequel la figure de la prostituée romantique est un cliché : en tous cas, elle est clairement désignée comme un « poncif », un « archétype », et un « stéréotype ». Cet article s’intéresse d’abord aux implications conceptuelles et historiques de ce consensus de façade sur le statut littéraire de la prostituée romantique. L’article se concentre ensuite sur un…
Feasts Gone Wrong. French Gastronomical Discourse and Literary Counter-models from Rabelais to Perec
Since the seventeenth century, a powerful gastronomical discourse has continuously affirmed the superiority of French gastronomy. The overall argument of this article is that French literature can be considered a critical counter-discourse to the normativity of French gastronomy. French literature, it is argued, de-mythologizes and re-historicizes gastronomical norms and ideals in order to critically examine the political, moral, or gender-relate…
The Double Topology
This article sets out to rethink literary topology by way of a three-step argument. The article first critically analyzes how Curtius grounds topoi in Jung's archetypes and how Bakhtin grounds topoi in temporality. The article then proposes to think of literary topoi as originating in cultural and historical reality. At different points in time, new places, discourses, practices, and events arise, and, because of their cultural ubiquity, these cu…
Stranden
Fra normativ til historisk topos-forskning
On the basis of Ernst Robert Curtius’ topology, Mikhail Bachtine’s theory of the chronotope, and Erich Auerbach’s analysis of “la cour et la ville”, this article envisions literary topology as the study of symbolic places in literary history
The Ghost of Grandeur
Carsten Meiner analyses a series of classic French films, from Truffaut to Haneke, and their uses of the home with respect to the relation between grandeur and individuality. Homes thus become problematizing mediators between individuals and national grandeur, and together the films form a historical series of quite consistent albeit surprising articulations of the metabolism of life in national grandeur. This focus on the home leads to reflectio…
The Apartment Plot
The Cultural Life of Catastrophes and Crises
Catastrophes and crises fascinate as much as they terrorize. The common goal of the articles collected in this book is to investigate the ways in which catastrophes (real or fictitious) have provided film, art and literature with a historical, if not universal, matrix for exploring the frailty of human existence, the passions they trigger and the new behavioral modes they necessitate. The book thus argues that film, art, and literature are privil…
Le carrosse littéraire et l'invention du hasard
Quel rôle le carrosse a-t-il joué dans la naissance de la littérature européenne moderne ? La question peut paraître surprenante, mais dans la plupart des chefs-d'oeuvre littéraires de l'époque moderne circulent sans arrêt des berlines, turgolines, calèches, fiacres voire "mylords", "désobligeantes" et autres "diables". Tous ces carrosses offrent des refuges à des conversations publiques ou à des méditations solitaires, à des regards qui se crois…
Romanhistorie og topik
History of the novel and topica: Woman-carriage-manThe aim of the article is to analyse the function of the carriage in the European novel in the 17th and 18th centuries. The article is divided into three parts: the first one describes the historical, material, juridical and sociological conditions determining the carriage in the 17th century as a bourgeois object. The second part analyses the specific literary function of the carriage. Whereas »…
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Romanhistorie og topik
History of the novel and topica: Woman-carriage-manThe aim of the article is to analyse the function of the carriage in the European novel in the 17th and 18th centuries. The article is divided into three parts: the first one describes the historical, material, juridical and sociological conditions determining the carriage in the 17th century as a bourgeois object. The second part analyses the specific literary function of the carriage. Whereas »…
Le carrosse littéraire et l'invention du hasard
Quel rôle le carrosse a-t-il joué dans la naissance de la littérature européenne moderne ? La question peut paraître surprenante, mais dans la plupart des chefs-d'oeuvre littéraires de l'époque moderne circulent sans arrêt des berlines, turgolines, calèches, fiacres voire "mylords", "désobligeantes" et autres "diables". Tous ces carrosses offrent des refuges à des conversations publiques ou à des méditations solitaires, à des regards qui se crois…
The Cultural Life of Catastrophes and Crises
Catastrophes and crises fascinate as much as they terrorize. The common goal of the articles collected in this book is to investigate the ways in which catastrophes (real or fictitious) have provided film, art and literature with a historical, if not universal, matrix for exploring the frailty of human existence, the passions they trigger and the new behavioral modes they necessitate. The book thus argues that film, art, and literature are privil…
The Apartment Plot
Fra normativ til historisk topos-forskning
On the basis of Ernst Robert Curtius’ topology, Mikhail Bachtine’s theory of the chronotope, and Erich Auerbach’s analysis of “la cour et la ville”, this article envisions literary topology as the study of symbolic places in literary history
The Ghost of Grandeur
Carsten Meiner analyses a series of classic French films, from Truffaut to Haneke, and their uses of the home with respect to the relation between grandeur and individuality. Homes thus become problematizing mediators between individuals and national grandeur, and together the films form a historical series of quite consistent albeit surprising articulations of the metabolism of life in national grandeur. This focus on the home leads to reflectio…
Stranden
Feasts Gone Wrong. French Gastronomical Discourse and Literary Counter-models from Rabelais to Perec
Since the seventeenth century, a powerful gastronomical discourse has continuously affirmed the superiority of French gastronomy. The overall argument of this article is that French literature can be considered a critical counter-discourse to the normativity of French gastronomy. French literature, it is argued, de-mythologizes and re-historicizes gastronomical norms and ideals in order to critically examine the political, moral, or gender-relate…
The Double Topology
This article sets out to rethink literary topology by way of a three-step argument. The article first critically analyzes how Curtius grounds topoi in Jung's archetypes and how Bakhtin grounds topoi in temporality. The article then proposes to think of literary topoi as originating in cultural and historical reality. At different points in time, new places, discourses, practices, and events arise, and, because of their cultural ubiquity, these cu…
The Romantic Prostitute and her After-Life. Transfigurations of a Cliché
The Romantic Prostitute and her After-Life. Transfigurations of a Cliché
Un consensus semble prévaloir parmi les chercheurs en études romantiques françaises, selon lequel la figure de la prostituée romantique est un cliché : en tous cas, elle est clairement désignée comme un « poncif », un « archétype », et un « stéréotype ». Cet article s’intéresse d’abord aux implications conceptuelles et historiques de ce consensus de façade sur le statut littéraire de la prostituée romantique. L’article se concentre ensuite sur un…
From horse carriage to car. History, form, and nature of a literary topos (Woolf and Musil)
This article analyses a literary tradition of accidents tied to automobility. It first focuses on horse carriage accidents and how literature took a perennial interest in the way such accidents created new and unforeseen human relations. It then concentrates on the opening scenes of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway and Robert Musil's Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften where cars are central not because of movement but paradoxically due to malfunction, brea…
Art (10 works) · Literature (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Topos theory (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works)