Uni-Tübingen

Ann-Kristin Fenske

researcher


contact

Universität Tübingen
SFB 1391 „Andere Ästhetik“
Keplerstr. 17
D-72074 Tübingen

Raum 13

 +49 (0)7071 29-75107
ann-kristin.fenskespam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de


short CV

2019

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im SFB 1391 "Andere Ästhetik" an der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

2018

Abschluss des Masterstudiums an der Sorbonne IV Paris (Deutsch-Französische Studien)

Abschlussarbeiten

  • B.A.-Arbeit : « La quête du bonheur dans les ‘Lettres Persanes’ de Montesquieu »
  • M.A.-Arbeit : « Le mystère de la liberté. La contrainte oulipienne de ‘Sphinx’ d’Anne Garréta à partir de deux auteurs prépotentiels, Alan Turing et Stéphane Mallarmé »

research

research project

Representations of Demonic Illusions and Dreams. Figures of Aesthetic Reflection in Pre-classical French Theatre (1570-1640)


The Romance studies’ section of project C6 examines the representation of demonic illusions, dreams and conjurations of demons on stage as well as their depiction in dramatic texts of the French theatre of modern age, which emerged around 1570. This section takes the period of time before the formation of the doctrine classique into account. In this period of time, one can perceive, on the one hand, a great variety of genres which has not yet been limited normatively, and, on the other hand, a high prevalence of ghosts’ apparitions and demonic illusions on stage. The corpus to be examined is composed of tragedies which feature dreams and ghosts’ apparitions (especially Robert Garnier, Alexandre Hardy, François Tristan L’Hermite) as well as of dramatic genres from the early 17th century. Having emerged under Italian and Spanish influence, the latter combine elements from the pastoral drama with elements from the tragicomedy. It is especially the frequent interconnections drawn between demonic illusions and dreams that are of central interest (e.g.: Racan: Les Bergeries, 1625; Mairet’s Sylvie, 1626; de Croisilles: Thirsis et Uranie, Chasteté invincible, 1633), which are in many cases linked to concepts that hold aesthetic relevance. In research, Corneille’s Illusion comique (1636) is often considered the point of transition from demonic to aesthetic illusion and can therefore be interpreted as a culmination point of this development.

research focuses

  • Literatur & Philosophie
  • Literatur & Ästhetik
  • Literaturtheorie & Interdisziplinarität
  • Französischer Roman
  • Queer- & Gender Studies

talks

Les démons et rituels magiques dans La Philistée de Troterel (1627), Hauptseminar „Poésie pastorale“, Universität Tübingen, 13.07.2021. (digital)

Le roman oulipien Sphinx d’Anne Garréta. Utopie ou dystopie du corps virtuel de l’être humain? Colloque: „La fiction posthumaniste – projections, représentations et critiques du Transhumanisme“, Université Paris-Nanterre, 16.06.2021.

Dämonische Illusion in den frühneuzeitlichen französischen tragi-comédies pastorales (1585–1630), Projektbereichstreffen des SFB 1391 Andere Ästhetik, Universität Tübingen, 22.02.2021. (digital)

conferences and workshops

Literatur und Dämonologie (C06 intern), Universität Tübingen, 18.12.2020. (digital)

classes

Goumegou, S. / Fenske, A.: Magie et illusion démoniaque dans la poésie pastorale (Hauptseminar, Di 10–12).