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Performativity

This curated collection approaches literature as a performative practice that actively builds and sustains temporal communities across time. It understands literature as something that happens in action (through transmission, performance and use) within dynamic networks of human and non-human actors. Focusing on performativity as both a methodological lens and a field of inquiry, the contributions…

How Are Communities Temporalised? Answers from Performance Theory

When viewed through the lens of performance theory, communities have always appeared temporal. Such a processual view is reflected in concepts such as the ‘theatrical community’ or the ‘aesthetic community’, which have been negotiated in the arts and humanities since the 1990s. However, according to the argument of this Insight, such communities have a strong…

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The Value of German Medieval Literature in the 1930s: Martin Bodmer, Erwin Rosenthal, and the ‘Nibelungenlied’

This publication was undertaken during my fellowship at EXC 2020, within Research Area 4 ‘Literary Currencies’, between January and March 2024. My project investigated the role of German antiquarian booksellers in valuing medieval works in the first half of the twentieth century. This period is significant because it shows how members of the trade shaped…

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