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Dante's "Inferno" and Walter Benjamin's cities : considerations of place, experience, and media
(2011)
When Walter Benjamin wrote his main texts, the theme of the city as hell was extremely popular. Some of his German contemporaries, such as Brecht or Döblin, also used it. Benjamin was aware of these examples, as well as of examples outside Germany, including Joyce's "Ulysses" and Baudelaire's "poetry". And he was - at least in some way - familiar with Dante's "Inferno" and used it, and in particular Dante's conception of hell, for his own purposes. Benjamin's appropriation of the topos of the Inferno has been seen as a critique of capitalism and as a general critique of modernism by means of allegory. In the following analysis, Angela Merte-Rankin takes a slightly different approach and, despite Benjamin's status as an expert on allegory, considers hell in its literal sense as a place and examines the issues of implacement that might follow from this standpoint.
Die Beiträge dieses Bandes verfolgen keine derartigen theoretischen Ambitionen, sondern andere, objektbezogene Interessen. Dabei treten manche Aspekte hervor, die über den Umkreis der im Untertitel genannten amerikanischen Topographien hinausweisen und sowohl für die Analyse anderer Materialien wie für die umrissene Theoriearbeit anregend sein können, also gleichermaßen komparatistischen wie allgemeinen literatur-, kultur- oder kunstwissenschaftlichen Interessen entgegenkommen, zumindest als Stichworte. Ich präpariere ein paar von ihnen heraus, vernachlässige aber den im engeren Sinne amerikanistischen Gehalt. Amerikanische Topographien ließen sich noch ganz anders in den Blick rücken, als es hier geschieht; und sie ließen sich auch historisch weitaus dichter vernetzen.
U radu se, na temelju terenskoga i arhivskoga istraživanja, obrađuje oko 300 toponima sela Orahovi Do u južnome dijelu Popova. U prvome se dijelu rada iznosi osvrt na demografske prilike. Navedeno je područje bilo izloženo velikim migracijama stanovništva zbog kojih ondje danas živi dvadeset puta manji broj stanovnika nego koncem 15. st. U drugome se dijelu rada iznosi mjestopis Orahova Dola i podatci o mjesnim rodovima. U trećemu se dijelu obrađuje mjesna toponimija u kojoj prevladavaju antroponimni toponimi.