Adventure at Arms
On the Narrative Formation of Violence
Edited by Martin von Koppenfels Edited by Manuel Mühlbacher
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(November 2024)
ISBN: 9783770568703
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Adventure fiction suggests that social conflicts can be displaced from the centre to the periphery of culture in order to be settled there by violent means. Its protagonists are endowed with extraordinary physical agency and a strange resilience to bodily and psychic wounds. This volume proposes a critical analysis of adventurous violence that foregrounds narratological issues as well as their socio-historical, political, and anthropological implications. Predicated on a broad diachronic perspective that challenges simple generalizations, the articles presented here cover a wide array of genres from ancient romance to the swashbuckling novel and a variety of contexts ranging from early modern state-building to colonialism, imperialism, and modern warfare.
Martin von Koppenfels is full professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Munich. His research interests include narratology, emotion studies, and psychoanalysis. He is head of the Research Unit “Philology of Adventure”.
Manuel Mühlbacher is lecturer at the Department of Romance Studies at the University of Vienna. His current research centers on early modern storytelling, reader-response theory, and the narrative function of wounds.
- Edited by Martin von Koppenfels
- Edited by Manuel Mühlbacher
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