Marvin Reimann
ehem. Doktorand
Projekt
Chronopoiesis: Temporality and Time Consciousness in Romantic Philosophy, Science and Poetry (working title)
Betreuer*innen
Prof. Dr. Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp
Prof. Dr. Christian Moser
The object of my doctoral thesis will be a comparative study of selected scientific and philosophical texts as well as poems of German and English Romanticism in order to develop a decidedly Romantic concept of individual time. My thesis is that this notion of time is characterised by an inherent ambivalence, for it can either be experienced passively as an external and dominating force of mechanical necessity, a homogeneous and linear advancement inevitably contributing to the self’s fragmentation and self-alienation (χρόνος/chrónos); or it can be brought forth organically and from within the individual through a free and creative self-enactment (αἰών/aiṓn). This unprethinkable act of temporalisation, which must be performed continually, coincides with the individual’s entrance into their decided present unfolding between and thereby generating the individual’s remembered past and anticipated future in the first place. It will thus be illustrated that the ontological structure of personal time is inextricably linked to Romantic theories of life, poetic creativity, freedom, history, consciousness and human existence.
The theoretical analysis of this notion of temporality will be complemented by an examination of the chronopoietic means (fragmentarity, experimentality, metaphoricity, dialogicity, performativity) these self-referential texts employ in order to bring forth their own temporality and display their presentness as a fluctuating, incomplete, and oscillating process. Based on these findings, the last part of my doctoral thesis will examine in how far these texts also thematise their own historicity. By self-reflexively performing the concept of time they present on the level of content, it will be argued, they consciously set themselves in relation to and distance themselves from a historico-cutural tradition as the past from which they emerge, thus not only reflecting but also shaping their own historical present.
Profil
- 10/2023–12/2023
Visiting Scholar at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland - 10/2020–06/2024
PhD Student and research assistant at the DFG-Research Training Group “Contemporary/Literature” at the University of Bonn - 10/2019
Queen's Prize of the University of Bonn for the best Master's Thesis in the field of English Studies - 04/2019–03/2021
Co-founder and organiser of the student lecture series (Re)Searching Voices at the English Department of the University of Bonn - 04/2015–10/2018
Master of Arts in English Literatures and Cultures at the University of Bonn - 04/2014–10/2020
Student assistant/graduate assistant at the English Department of the University of Bonn - 10/2011–04/2015
Bachelor of Arts in English Studies and Philosophy at the University of Bonn
- “Romantic Conceptions of Electricity as both Medium and Message.” Conference: Romanticism and Its Media, University of Leipzig, 7th October 2023
- “‘Thy function was to heal and to restore’: The River as Ecosystem in William Wordsworth’s The River Duddon Sonnets.” Conference: Romantic Ecologies, University of Augsburg, 30th September 2022
- “S. T. Coleridge’s Critique of the Slave Trade and the Ideologies of the Imagination.” Online Conference: Romantic Interventions. From Idealism to Activism, University of Dortmund, 3rd February 2022
- “Das Schweben der Gegenwart als Prozessualität organischen Lebens in der Philosophie des Novalis.” Online Conference: Transformation, Referenz, Präsenz. Zum Wandel des Gegenwartskonzepts zwischen 1750 und 1800, University of Bonn, 19th February 2021
- “Voice, Identity, and Myth in Alice Oswald’s Dart.” Online Guest Lecture in Dr. Andrea Rummel’s Seminar Ted Hughes and Alice Oswald, University of Gießen, 19th January 2021
- “‘actions are our epochs’: Byron’s Manfred and the Self’s Inability to Advance into the Future.” Online Conference: Romantic Futurities (British Association of Romantic Studies, Post-Graduate and Early Career Researchers Conference), 12th–13th June 2020
- “‘to call evil good, and good, evil’: Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and the Idea of the Satanic.” Conference: Anne Brontë at 200, University of Bonn, 17th–18th January 2020
- “Slavery in Great Britain and America.” Workshop with Professor Marion Gymnich at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn, December 2019
- “Byron’s The Giaour: Dismantling the Boundaries between Orient and Occident through Romantic Irony.” Conference: Transgressive Romanticism. Boundaries, Limits, Taboos (Cooperative Conference of the Gesellschaft für Englische Romantik and the International Association of Byron Societies), University of Vechta, 4th–8th September 2019
- “Romantic Interactions across the Atlantic: F.W.J. Schelling’s Concept of the ‘Indivisible Remainder’ and Herman Melville’s Idea of the ‘Ungraspable Phantom of Life’.” Conference: Romantic Interactions, Jagiellonian University Kraków, 4th–5th April 2019
- “‘We begin with the I KNOW MYSELF, in order to end with the absolute I AM’: S.T. Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria and the Dynamic Process of Self-Knowledge.” Conference: Writing Romantic Lives, Edge Hill University Ormskirk, 25th November 2017
- “The Reading of Novels as a New Leisure Activity in Eighteenth-Century England.” Conference: Urbane Alltagskultur und Feste im 18. Jahrhundert, University of Bonn, 5th October 2016
- “‘This is me, anonymous, river's soliloquy’:The River's Voice as a Coalescence of Humankind and Nature in Alice Oswald’s Dart.” Conference: Voices from the Margins. Societal Change and the Environment in Poetry, University of Duisburg-Essen, 23rd–24th September 2016
- Winter term 2021/2022: Literature and Science in the Romantic Period (MA seminar)
- Winter/summer terms 2014 to 2018: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies / Issues in Literary and Cultural Studies (tutorial)
- Literature and Philosophy of British, American and Early German Romanticism
- History of Science and Knowledge of the long 18th century
- Poetry and Poetics
- Theories of Temporality
- British and American Modernism
- Ecocriticism
Publikationen
Aufsätze
2023: Seeing through the Eyes of a Painter: Edwin Lord Weeks’s Ambivalent Portrayal of India in From the Black Sea and through Persia and India
in: Tilmann Kulke, Anna Kollatz (eds.): Narrative Strategies for India in Transition, Berlin: EB-Verlag, pp. 193-230.
2021: Byron’s The Giaour: Dismantling the Boundaries between Orient and Occident through Romantic Irony
in: Norbert Lennartz et al. (eds.): Boundaries, Limits, Taboos: Transgression in Romanticism, Trier: WVT 2021, pp. 41–57.
2020: Romantic Interactions across the Atlantic: F.W.J. Schelling’s Concept of the ‘Indivisible Remainder’ and Herman Melville’s Idea of the ‘Ungraspable Phantom of Life’
in: Monika Coghen, Anna Paluchowska-Messing (eds.): Romantic Dialogues and Afterlives, Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press 2020, pp. 181–197.
2018: ‘This is me, anonymous, river’s soliloquy’: The River's Voice as a Coalescence of Humankind and Nature in Alice Oswald’s Dart
in: Transnational Literature 10/2 (2018), pp. 76–90.