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Hofmannsthal, Rückert und Rūmī – zum Ghasel «Für Mich ...»
Get PDFThe following paper analyses Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s ghazal «Für mich ...». It identifies for the first time Friedrich Rückert’s ghazal «Ich bin das Sonnenstäubchen ...» – an original poem only vaguely reminiscent of Djalāl-od-Dīn Rūmī’s Diwan – as the source of Hofmannsthal’s text. The comparison shows how Hofmannsthal introduces a pronounced metapoetic dimension while adapting distinguishing features of Rückert’s poem, such as the oxymoronic style and the recurrent use of the first person. In Hofmannsthal’s poem Rückert’s monistic merging of the self with nature gives way to an artistic re-shaping of everyday reality by the aesthete
Il muro del linguaggio. Echi di Wittgenstein e Lacan in «Spiegelland» di Kurt Drawert
Get PDFIn his essayistic novel Spiegelland. Ein deutsches Monolog (1992), Kurt Drawert engages in an intense criticism of the dictatorship in the former DDR, at fault for having reduced language to a tool for the control of conscience. This article seeks to demonstrate how Drawert’s criticism concerns not only the sphere of language, but also the sphere of the visual. Thus photography, for example, is affected in the same way as language by that “illusion of representation” in which the subject is caged. This article also seeks to show how Drawert’s language and image criticism is inspired by aspects of Lacan’s and Wittgenstein’s lines of thought
«Vivere da soldato senza essere tale». Gli scritti di guerra di Thomas Mann
Get PDFThis essay examines the semantic area linked to military activity and in particular the conditions of the soldier in the essays written by Thomas Mann during the First World War. These reconstructions of a historical theme intermix with contributions about current public affairs, and have as their object the events linked to Germany’s entering the war and the general favour with which this was received. Moreover, warlike metaphors tend to slip comfortably into the profound core of Mann’s writing, since they lend themselves rather effectively to descriptions of the artist’s actual aptitudes and duties
Das Thema “Altern” in Arno Geigers Roman «Alles über Sally»
Get PDFAlles über Sally (All about Sally) is the fifth novel of the successful Austrian author Arno Geiger. While it was both praised and criticized for being a contemporary adaption of the adultery novel, little importance was attached to the theme of ageing, which pervades the whole novel. Moreover, adulterous female characters over fifty are rare in contemporary German literature. Given these premises, this essay examines the composition of the ageing characters in the novel and provides a discussion of the social construction of images of ageing
Theodor Storms Erstlingsnovelle «Marthe und ihre Uhr» (1847)
Get PDFThis article intends to fill the previous void of a thorough critical assessment and interpretive analysis of Theodor Storm’s first novellistic, albeit concise narrative of 1847. As an aesthetic and highly symbolic story, Marthe’s seemingly timeless table clock bears some striking affinities with Eduard Mörike’s objet d’art of 1838, his «Lampe». As an ardent admirer of his contemporary Mörike, Storm here lays his theoretical and artistic foundations for his major novellas of later years
Impotent Masculinities in Frank Wedekind’s «Erdgeist»
Get PDFFor most of recorded history, the study of impotence fell under the purview of healers. This changed in the late nineteenth century, however, as the works of avant garde artists like the German dramatist and social critic Frank Wedekind ushered analyses of this malady into public discourse. In looking first at conditions in Europe during Wedekind’s time and then tracing the history of impotence from the Ancient Chinese up to Wedekind’s day, this article investigates how Wedekind’s representations of impotence emblematized not only his own personal afflictions but a greater cultural malaise
Die Kritik am romantischen Ideal in E. T. A. Hoffmanns «Der goldene Topf»
Get PDFE. T. A. Hoffmann’s Der Goldene Topf portrays fantasy and the ideal of romantic aestheticism as utopian on a metafictional level. However, another possibility should be considered: the temporary contemplation within poetry compensates for the loss of belief in the poeticization of the world as conceived by Novalis. The artistic entity cannot immerse itself in the romantic ideal. Since the narrator becomes part of the story and a victim of his imagination, the narration presents a critical viewpoint of the concept of genius