{"id":387,"date":"2016-11-16T23:22:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T22:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/das-dokumentarische.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de\/?page_id=387"},"modified":"2020-07-06T12:15:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T10:15:11","slug":"matthias-preuss","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/das-dokumentarische.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de\/en\/kollegiat_innen\/matthias-preuss\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthias Preuss, M.A."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nUniversit\u00e4tsstr. 105
\n44789 Bochum
\nRoom: UNI 105, 3\/26<\/p>\n

Phone: +49 (0) 234\/32-27291
\nE-Mail: matthias.preuss@rub.de<\/p>\n



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Title of the Dissertation<\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Anomalies: Literature and Ecology 1866-1900<\/p>\n

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Project Description
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This thesis is devoted to the scrutiny and problematization of the documentation of ecological anomalies and the representation of ecological knowledge in literary and biological texts of the second half of the 19th<\/sup> century. On the one hand, it examines the poetic operations at play in the production and popularization of knowledge and the medial formatting of knowledge in ecological discourse. On the other, it analyzes the forms in which ecological knowledge emerges as a benchmark for documentary practices in literature. The project is situated in the fields of Ecocriticism, Media Ecology, and the Environmental Humanities.<\/p>\n

As regards media theory, the dissertation explores the nexus of realistic poetologies, scientific evidence and the documentary form with respect to both the construction of nature and the artistic and technical grasping of it. As regards recent German literary history, it aims to provide, firstly, a re-reading of realistic and naturalistic texts from an ecocritical point of view and, secondly, an examination of literature (in contrast to scientific and philosophical texts) dating from a period that has not been extensively investigated in the field of Ecocriticism. As regards the history of science, the dissertation takes a closer look at a knowledge of life that is dispersed in scientific and artistic discourses after the emergence of the notion of \u201cecology\u201d (1866), while considering the intricate relationship between it and the ongoing formation of ecology within and against the framework of evolutionary biology. It seeks to bring into relief the continuities of natural history and the specificity of \u201cearly\u201d ecological thinking, before the progressive scientification of ecology, in relation to systems theory and cybernetics in the 20th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n

By working on three core problem areas \u2013 (a) realism and documentary practice, (b) politics and ecology, and (c) anthropocentrism and the Anthropocene \u2013 <\/em>the thesis seeks to contribute to the theoretical and methodological framework of the Environmental Humanities, in which questions of mediation, representation, and representability, as well as questions of narration and figuration, are becoming increasingly important with respect to global climate change.<\/p>\n

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Scholarly Career<\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n