Matthias Stephan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3919569 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthias Stephan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthias |
| FAMILY NAME | Stephan |
| SIGNATURE | STEPHAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2146-6366 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Memory, Identity and Nostalgia
We are arguably at the end of times – or at least the way that we imagine our contemporary civilization. The climate is changing erratically, the seas are rising, and we are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction. The latest reports from the IPCC, while leaving a sliver of hope if we act now, more realistically suggest that it is already too late to act meaningfully to preserve the current world order. Novelists, like many artists, have begun …
Judicial killings – that’s a Rarity in Australia”
Through the lens of Australian author Nicole Watson’s The Boundary this paper will consider the representation of the crime novel, both traditional detection (Christie, Doyle) and the modernist tradition, and how that illuminates social realities. Drawing from critical race theory, and examining the embedded logic of settler colonialism, the paper connects the form of the novel to Watson’s social and legal critique, questioning of the liminality …
Nostalgic Narrative and Affective Climate SF in George Turner's The Sea and Summer
This paper explores how George Turner’s The Sea and Summer utilizes nostalgic narrative to develop an affective attachment to the climate disaster and instigates, in its narrative, meaningful change. Through a consideration of Svetlana Boym’s reflective nostalgia, the affective response the novel activates, and the affect created by Gothic tropes, I suggest that this combination produces an exemplary response. The narrative presents a frame story…
Constructing Danish Identity
T his paper discusses the Danish novel Forestilling om det tyvende rhundrede, published in 1988, or perhaps more accurately, the 1995 American translation of the novel, The History of Danish Dreams.That is important mainly because this paper concerns several acts of transculturation both within the novel and in discourses surrounding it.I, like many Americans, came to Peter Heg's work rather late in the game, specifically after the publication of…
Nostalgic Narrative and Affective Climate SF in George Turner's The Sea and Summer
This paper explores how George Turner’s The Sea and Summer utilizes nostalgic narrative to develop an affective attachment to the climate disaster and instigates, in its narrative, meaningful change. Through a consideration of Svetlana Boym’s reflective nostalgia, the affective response the novel activates, and the affect created by Gothic tropes, I suggest that this combination produces an exemplary response. The narrative presents a frame story…
Constructing Danish Identity
T his paper discusses the Danish novel Forestilling om det tyvende rhundrede, published in 1988, or perhaps more accurately, the 1995 American translation of the novel, The History of Danish Dreams.That is important mainly because this paper concerns several acts of transculturation both within the novel and in discourses surrounding it.I, like many Americans, came to Peter Heg's work rather late in the game, specifically after the publication of…
Nostalgic Narrative and Affective Climate SF in George Turner's The Sea and Summer
This paper explores how George Turner’s The Sea and Summer utilizes nostalgic narrative to develop an affective attachment to the climate disaster and instigates, in its narrative, meaningful change. Through a consideration of Svetlana Boym’s reflective nostalgia, the affective response the novel activates, and the affect created by Gothic tropes, I suggest that this combination produces an exemplary response. The narrative presents a frame story…
Judicial killings – that’s a Rarity in Australia”
Through the lens of Australian author Nicole Watson’s The Boundary this paper will consider the representation of the crime novel, both traditional detection (Christie, Doyle) and the modernist tradition, and how that illuminates social realities. Drawing from critical race theory, and examining the embedded logic of settler colonialism, the paper connects the form of the novel to Watson’s social and legal critique, questioning of the liminality …
Memory, Identity and Nostalgia
We are arguably at the end of times – or at least the way that we imagine our contemporary civilization. The climate is changing erratically, the seas are rising, and we are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction. The latest reports from the IPCC, while leaving a sliver of hope if we act now, more realistically suggest that it is already too late to act meaningfully to preserve the current world order. Novelists, like many artists, have begun …
Art (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works) · Identity (music (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)