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From Stony Facts to Paper Flowers

Published/Copyright: February 27, 2008
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From the journal Volume 38 Issue 2

Abstract

Crossing a boundary has been decisive for John Neubauer's life when he escaped from communist Hungary in 1956. Crossing boundaries has been a characteristic of his scholarly research when he switched from science to literature and back, when he explored the territory between literature and music, and between literature and history. In his most recent project, ‘The Literary Cultures of East Central Europe’, he has engaged a band of scholars to join him in a historical travelogue across the boundaries (geographical, historical etc.) of the fifteen-odd countries involved. Therefore, when I started thinking about a contribution for this collection of papers in his honour, I looked around for a theme in Greek literature which might – at least metaphorically – be viewed as an instance of boundary-crossing. I found one, which I shall describe with a few select examples. Fortunately a recent discovery has brought new evidence to light which provides definitive proof for what I want to argue here.

Published Online: 2008-02-27
Published in Print: 2003-10-14

© Walter de Gruyter

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  1. Portrait of an Interdisciplinary Life. John Neubauer zum 70. Geburtstag
  2. Introduction
  3. Thought-Images: A Brief History of Time
  4. The Return of the Dinosaurs: About Scientific Imagination and its Affects
  5. Borders and Monuments: Goethe's Reconstruction of the World as Knowledge
  6. History, Theory and Abraham Gottlob Werner
  7. Mynheer Peeperkorn's Fever
  8. Introduction
  9. History, Empire, Opera
  10. Music Albums: A Tiny Gesamtkunstwerk?
  11. Listening to Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate. A Dadaistic-Romantic transposition d'arts?
  12. Introduction
  13. Reading Melling's Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople. Topography and Control
  14. Penumbra
  15. Bruno Freddi's Vissuto
  16. From Stony Facts to Paper Flowers
  17. Picturing It. The Issue of Visuality in the Classical Theory of Metaphor
  18. Introduction
  19. The Practical Use of Historiography: from Haffner to Herodotus
  20. The Gap between Hannah Arendt and Franz Kafka
  21. Literature and Art in History
  22. Cultural Memory, Cultural History and Cultural Canons in the Third Millennium
  23. Cross-border Histories
  24. Introduction
  25. The Intolerable
  26. History, Theory and the Middle Voice
  27. Sacred Memory or Relics: Should Holocaust Documents Be Altered?
  28. Blasting the Historical Continuum: Stories of my Grandmother
  29. Der Erlkönig in Sarajevo: Did the monument forecast the catastrophe?
  30. Introduction
  31. Hans Mayer – Ansichten eines komparatistischen Außenseiters
  32. Mastering Adolescence in the Age of Cultural Studies
  33. Bamboozled by Literature
  34. Arguments for a Cross-Cultural Literary History. Theoretical and Practical Implications
  35. Comparative Literary History, Theory and Practice: John Neubauer's Contribution
  36. “Rich Seeds We Must Sow … But If Only a Few Will Take”
  37. John Neubauer's Cultural Geographies
  38. The Marathon Man
  39. Embracing the Horizon
  40. Rezensionen
https://doi.org/10.1515/arca.38.2.304

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Portrait of an Interdisciplinary Life. John Neubauer zum 70. Geburtstag
  2. Introduction
  3. Thought-Images: A Brief History of Time
  4. The Return of the Dinosaurs: About Scientific Imagination and its Affects
  5. Borders and Monuments: Goethe's Reconstruction of the World as Knowledge
  6. History, Theory and Abraham Gottlob Werner
  7. Mynheer Peeperkorn's Fever
  8. Introduction
  9. History, Empire, Opera
  10. Music Albums: A Tiny Gesamtkunstwerk?
  11. Listening to Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate. A Dadaistic-Romantic transposition d'arts?
  12. Introduction
  13. Reading Melling's Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople. Topography and Control
  14. Penumbra
  15. Bruno Freddi's Vissuto
  16. From Stony Facts to Paper Flowers
  17. Picturing It. The Issue of Visuality in the Classical Theory of Metaphor
  18. Introduction
  19. The Practical Use of Historiography: from Haffner to Herodotus
  20. The Gap between Hannah Arendt and Franz Kafka
  21. Literature and Art in History
  22. Cultural Memory, Cultural History and Cultural Canons in the Third Millennium
  23. Cross-border Histories
  24. Introduction
  25. The Intolerable
  26. History, Theory and the Middle Voice
  27. Sacred Memory or Relics: Should Holocaust Documents Be Altered?
  28. Blasting the Historical Continuum: Stories of my Grandmother
  29. Der Erlkönig in Sarajevo: Did the monument forecast the catastrophe?
  30. Introduction
  31. Hans Mayer – Ansichten eines komparatistischen Außenseiters
  32. Mastering Adolescence in the Age of Cultural Studies
  33. Bamboozled by Literature
  34. Arguments for a Cross-Cultural Literary History. Theoretical and Practical Implications
  35. Comparative Literary History, Theory and Practice: John Neubauer's Contribution
  36. “Rich Seeds We Must Sow … But If Only a Few Will Take”
  37. John Neubauer's Cultural Geographies
  38. The Marathon Man
  39. Embracing the Horizon
  40. Rezensionen
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