Alan Corkhill
University of Queensland
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Jahrbuch der Raabe-Gesellschaft | 2011
Alan Corkhill
Happiness is a significant thematic concern in Raabe’s entire oeuvre. Nevertheless, happiness discourse has been neglected in Raabe scholarship hitherto. A cursory glance at the use of the noun Gluck (happiness) reveals that the narrator and his characters, as well as the author in letters and reflective pronouncements, employ the word more frequently in its connotation of good fortune/bonne chance and of chance (fortuna). [Translated extract from Introduction]
Modern Language Review | 2007
Alan Corkhill
The problematic of artistry is a central preoccupation in several of Gerhart Hauptmanns Naturalist plays. This article focuses on two Malerdramen which provide snapshots of artists at critical junctures in their lives: Kollege Crampton (1892) and Michael Kramer (1900). The study interrogates the spectrum of binary oppositions within which Hauptmann locates his painters/art educators and from which the plays derive their dramatic tension. Such dichotomies include bohemianism/philistinism, art/life, art/humanity, aestheticism/utilitarianism, and genius/mediocrity. The two plays are read here both within the broader context of fin de siecle intellectual discourse and in the light of Hauptmanns own philosophy.
Archive | 2003
Alan Corkhill
One might be excused for dismissing a comparison of Immanuel Kant and the Marquis de Sade as far-fetched, were it not for Jacques Lacan’s provocative essay Kant avec Sade(1966), in which the author hypothesized that Sade’s Philosophy in the Boudoir(1795) ‘completed’ and exposed the ‘truth’ of the Critique of Practical Reason(1788) (1966, p. 765). Lacan’s main concern here was to interconnect Sade’s and Kant’s thinking on the concept of (radical) evil. Arguably, one of the metaphysical propositions the Koigsberg professor had not purs ued to its logical conclusion is the notion of evil performed for no pathological reasons, but out of principle, that is, merely for the sake of it. While Kant proffered the disclaimer that no human was wanton enough to be capable of such wholesale perversity, Sade, in Lacan’s reasoning, elevated wickedness to a noumenon of universal law, effectively turning it by default into a Kantian categorical imperative. This justification of cruelty for cruelty’s sake, of pleasurable violence born of ethical and aesthetic disinterestedness, was to furnish the rationale for the ultimate killing machine of Auschwitz, so Horkheimer and Adorno had already postulated in their critique of technical reason, The Dialectics of Enlightenment (1944).
Archive | 2002
Alan Corkhill
Friedrich Gerstacker (1816–72), Sohn eines Hamburger Operntenors, war als Bestseller-Autor von Reisebuchern und Abenteuergeschichten, die sich in jedem Winkel der Welt abspielen und in zahlreiche Sprachen ubersetzt sind, bekannt. Gleich nach seinem Tod fangt der Verleger Costenoble mit der Veroffentlichung seiner Gesammelten Schriften in 44 Banden (1872–79) an. Schon mit jungen Jahren bezieht er ein Leitbild burgerlicher Tuchtigkeit und praktischer Daseinsbewaltigung aus der Lekture von Defoes Robinson Crusoe (1719), die in ihm die Sehsucht erweckt, exotische Gefilde auszukundschaften. Um diesen Traum zu verwirklichen, bricht er gleich nach Abschlus eines landwirtschaftlichen Studiums allein nach dem transatlantischen Land der unbegrenzten Moglichkeiten auf, wo er seinen Lebensunterhalt als Jager, Matrose, Heizer, Silberschmied, Hotelmanager und sogar als Fabrikant von Pillenschachteln bestreitet. Nach seiner Heimkehr verarbeitet Gerstacker Selbsterlebtes zu der Tagebucherzahlung Streif- und Jagdzuge durch die Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika (1844), doch erst sein Debutroman Die Regulatoren in Arkansas (1845) verschafft ihm literarische Beruhmtheit. Ein weiterer Abenteuer- und Kriminalroman Die Fluspiraten des Mississippi erscheint im Revolutionsjahr 1848. Wahrend dieser Zeit last sich Gerstacker regelmasige Englischstunden geben und verdient sein Brot als literarischer Ubersetzer.
Forum for Modern Language Studies | 2001
Alan Corkhill
Archive | 2013
Tim Mehigan; Alan Corkhill
Modern Language Review | 2001
Alan Corkhill
Forum for Modern Language Studies | 2009
Alan Corkhill
Archive | 2007
Alan Corkhill
Neophilologus | 2007
Alan Corkhill