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Jenseits von Textbeziehungen. Paul Celan bei Yoko Tawada: [Beyond textual relationships. Paul Celan in Yoko Tawada]
Full text linkThis article aims at highlighting the metatextual relationships between the works of Yoko Tawada and Paul Celan. The analysis concentrates on Das Tor des Übersetzers oder Celan liest Japanisch and Paul Celan und der chinesische Engel and is carried out in the light of transtextual practices, starting from theoretical premises related to the act of reading (symptomatic reading – surface reading) and including the dimension of transculturality. The encounter between Tawada and Celan generates a multi-faceted textual space, in which texts from different cultures, having the German language as a common denominator, enter into dialogue with each other
National Philology, Politics and Science. Notes on the birth of Germanistics out of the spirit of the nineteenth century
Full text linkThis article focuses on the nationalistic turn that swept across the political and cultural life of nineteenth century Germany by looking into two events that are seldom brought together: the Germanists’ Assembly in Frankfurt, in 1846, and Marx and Engels’ Manifesto of the Communist Party, published just two years later. It explores the tension between nationalism and internationalism that runs through both events and that is still vividly present in our contemporary, after all, not so «Postnational Constellation»
«Wir haben jetzt die Demokratie, das ist kompliziert genug». Zur Krise demokratischer Systeme und Auflösung des Politischen in «Munin oder Chaos im Kopf» von Monika Maron: [«Now we have democracy, that is complicated enough». On the crisis of democratic systems and the decline of politics in «Munin or Chaos in the Head» by Monika Maron]
Full text linkIn the light of the profound changes that have affected both the political scenario and the political role and forms of engagement of literature over the past thirty years, Monika Maron’s novel Munin oder Chaos im Kopf (2018) seems particularly topical. If analysed through Hannah Arendt’s remarks on the nature of politics and Zygmunt Bauman’s thoughts on our “besieged” society, the narrator’s shocking experience can be seen as both the consequence and the reflection of a failure of our democratic systems, as well as of our traditional idea of politics itself
Il demiurgo è ibrido, ovvero ermafrodita. Letture postasburgica e postcoloniale di «Die andere Seite» di Alfred Kubin: [The demiurge is a hybrid, that is a hermaphrodite. Post-Habsburg and post-colonial interpretations of «Die andere Seite» by Alfred Kubin]
Full text linkThe Other Side narrates the story of an anachronistic regime built up in Asia with remains of Decadent Europe. Before its collapse, due to the impossibility of existing against history and nature, the narrator concludes: «The demiurge is a hybrid». This paper studies the identity of the demiurge in order to clarify the meaning of this alienating statement. In doing so, it recognizes that the extraordinary regime reflects many features of the Habsburg myth; and also, that as an “experiment of Austria” it needs to take place elsewhere, where the western repressed dreams of power can be fulfilled: in a colony
Abenteuer Männlichkeit. Adoleszenz in Wolfgang Herrndorfs Roman «Tschick»: [Adventure Manhood. Adolescence in Wolfgang Herrndorf’s Novel «Tschick»]
Full text linkThis article deals with literary constructions of masculinity in Wolfgang Herrndorf’s novel Tschick. The focus is on male adolescence as represented by the characters in the text. The study is guided by the question of how the male socialisation of adolescents is narrated in the novel. Themes such as the search for identity, friendship, sexuality and being an outsider are addressed. The analysis is based on theoretical perspectives offered by masculinity studies, intersectional approaches of identity research as well as genre-related reflections on young adult fiction
«Freilich ist Freundschaft wahre Heimat». Il carteggio di Stefan Zweig e Joseph Roth come patria spirituale: [«Friendship is indeed true homeland». The correspondence between Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth as spiritual homeland]
Full text linkThis article attempts to explore the intimate yet complicated friendship between Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth through their exchange of letters. Their personal correspondence has always been regarded as a valuable resource for interpreting their works and for documenting the life of intellectuals during the National Socialist period. However, the relevance of their correspondence does not lie only in its literary and historical testimony, since it is also strictly related to its auto/biographical aspects. Adopting this perspective, the article offers a reading of the letters both as an autobiographical portrait of Zweig and Roth and as a distant narrative of their friendship, conceived as the only possible homeland for the two writers in exile