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Intimacy and resonance : visions of love in Hanns-Josef Ortheil’s Liebesnähe and Ronja von Rönne’s Wir kommen

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Schmitz, Helmut (2020) Intimacy and resonance : visions of love in Hanns-Josef Ortheil’s Liebesnähe and Ronja von Rönne’s Wir kommen. Humanities, 9 (2). e52. doi:10.3390/h9020052 ISSN 2076-0787.

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Abstract

Since the millennium, representations of intimate relationships have become one of the major trends in contemporary German fiction. This article examines two novels, Hanns-Josef Ortheil’s Liebesnähe (Love’s Closeness, 2011) and Ronja von Rönne’s Wir kommen (We Are Coming, 2016) as examples of two oppositional modes of representation of modern love relationships. Starting from an exposition of the configuration of love in social theory (Niklas Luhmann, Eva Illouz) as a compensatory mechanism for the fragmentation of social roles in modernity, the article reviews two concepts that describe love from a perspective of plenitude, Hartmut Rosa’s “resonance” and Francois Jullien’s “intimacy”. Reading Ortheil’s and von Rönne’s novels against Rosa’s and Jullien’s concepts, the article argues that while von Rönne’s representation of intimate relations falls squarely within the social theoretical parameters outlined by Luhmann and Illouz, Ortheil’s novel presents a fictional alternative to the “unhappy consciousness” of modern love, echoing Rosa’s and Jullien’s ideas.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GT Manners and customs
H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General)
P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0080 Criticism
P Language and Literature > PT Germanic literature
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > German Studies
Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures
SWORD Depositor: Library Publications Router
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Ortheil, Hanns-Josef -- Criticism and interpretation, German fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism, Courtly love -- Fiction, Short stories, German -- 20th century -- History and criticism, Rönne, Ronja von, 1992- -- Criticism and interpretation, German fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism, Short stories, German -- 21st century -- History and criticism, Love in literature , Resonance -- Fiction, Intimacy (Psychology) in literature, Social sciences -- Philosophy
Journal or Publication Title: Humanities
Publisher: MDPI
ISSN: 2076-0787
Official Date: 19 June 2020
Dates:
DateEvent
19 June 2020Published
27 May 2020Accepted
Volume: 9
Number: 2
Article Number: e52
DOI: 10.3390/h9020052
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access (Creative Commons)
Date of first compliant deposit: 31 July 2020
Date of first compliant Open Access: 4 August 2020

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