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«Tu, solo, con la storia alle spalle». Durs Grünbein e la DDR: un bilancio critico
Get PDFThis paper analyses some of the most significant (post-)GDR poems by Grünbein and traces the development of aesthetic and poetological issues that are central to the poet’s oeuvre. It provides an articulated overview of Grünbein’s poetics by examining fundamental themes like the love/hate attitude towards his hometown Dresden, the complementary concepts of history and memory, and the materialism of the body as an antidote to utopias
Topographie und Topologie in Edith Kneifls Kriminalromanen
Get PDFEdith Kneifl’s thrillers follow a double geographical dimension, since Italy and Austria form the narrative setting of her criminal minds. Women who recall Lucrezia Borgia and men under the impulse of uncontrolled violent emotions move from town to town showing that the criminal setting is not just a plain narrative landscape but rather more of a topographic and topologic stage on which the human identity can let its unconsciousness be free to self-determination