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No full textStudia theodisca, Vol 28 (2021) - Cover and Introductory Page
Ein Schlachtfeld der Zuschreibung von Autorschaft. Musils propagandistische Beiträge in der Frontzeitung «Heimat» (1918): [A battlefield for authorship attribution. Musil’s propaganda contributions in the soldier’s newspaper «Heimat» (1918)]
Full text linkThis study focuses on Musil’s contributions to Heimat, a propaganda newspaper published by the k.u.k. Kriegspressequartier during the last months of World War I. As the authorship of the Heimat articles is controversial, we performed a series of stylometric analyses, which allowed us to attribute ten texts to the Austrian writer. Our approach introduces new elements and data into the debate on authorship, thus opening a productive dialogue between computational, archival and stylistic research
Intertext als Gedenken. Herta Müllers Roman «Der Fuchs war damals schon der Jäger» in Konstellation mit Texten von Günter Grass: [Intertext as Remembrance. Herta Müller’s Novel «Even back then, the Fox was the Hunter» in Constellation with Texts by Günter Grass]
Full text linkThis article traces intertextual references in Herta Müller’s 1992 novel Even back then, the Fox was the Hunter with Günter Grass’s texts as a dialogical form of remembrance. In conjunction with an excerpt from Günter Grass’s Peeling the Onion, selected passages are examined to show how these texts articulate in exemplary manner a remembrance of experiences of dictatorship, war, and National Socialism. Herta Müller’s and Günter Grass’s texts discuss contemporary historical “collective events” in a special literary conjunction of fiction and memory distinguished from the historical discourse which invokes reality
Antigone come problema. Brecht e la critica di un mito troppo moderno: [Antigone as problem. Brecht and the criticism of a too modern myth]
Full text linkAntigone’s myth seems to be one of the few ancient ones to have become in every way a myth in the modern sense: a reference image functioning as a means of rapid identification and as a flag of shared values. Antigone ended up becoming for us the myth of the Human against the political dimension, which is now being instinctively reduced to the constitutive violence of all power. By first concentrating on some critical moments of Sophocles’ version, and then on some often neglected aspects of the version Brecht wrote in 1947, the following notes attempt to deconstruct this both on stage and in its reception within the dominant social imaginary. Although Brecht’s Antigone is usually staged in line with this imaginary, it seems to offer, rather more than a correction or an update of Sophocles’ text, an already critical counterpart to our contemporary reception of its underlying myth
«Nun also die Krähen». Krähen-Narrationen und -Narrative bei Monika Maron: [«Now then the crows». Monika Maron’s Crow-narrations and Crow-narrative]
Full text linkThis article focuses on Monika Maron’s Krähengekrächz (2016) and Munin oder Chaos im Kopf (2018). Adopting the approach of Literary Animal Studies, it primarily analyses the diegetic creature “crow”: the species “crow” as well as its individual exponent Munin, which is anthropomorphized, disposes of speech and agency and represents not just a narrated “object” but a narrating “subject”. Subsequently, Maron’s crow-narrations, concretizations of a metanarration / a (cultural) narrative “crow”, are shaped in their relationship to fictional (literature) and factual (popular science) narratives of the crow and evaluated on their importance for current animal-discourses
«Machen Sie mich nicht reich. Geben Sie mir nur so viel, als man braucht, wenn man nicht gehorchen, und nicht befehlen will». Strategie del possesso nella «Betschwester» di Christian Fürchtegott Gellert: [«Do not make me rich. Give me only so much as one needs when one does not want either to obey or to command». Strategies of possession in Christian Fürchtegott Gellert’s «The Prayer Sister»]
Full text linkAs in all Gellert’s comedies, the characters of the The Prayer Sister (1745) aspire to both material well-being and an ideal spiritual happiness. The impulse to possession, which encompasses the sphere of reality as well as that of the symbolic, is an ambivalent, contradictory force. The aim of self-affirmation through wealth is coherent with bourgeois dynamism. The consequent exposure to the loss of a moral compass, however, corresponds to a drainage of the vital force which impels the logic of wish. This study deals with these themes both in Gellert’s theatre and in his essays
Olfactory Experiences and an Unknown Force in Patrick Süskind’s «Das Parfum: Die Geschichte eines Mörders»
Full text linkPatrick Süskind’s Das Parfum: Die Geschichte eines Mörders presents a sort of Janus-figure, gazing backwards toward the primitive form of life (Grenouille’s Romantic deliverance) and forward toward an Enlightenment anthropocentric mechanism (an allusion to negative aesthetics) which reveals the formation and dissolution of political power through the olfactory experiences of the protagonist. In other words, it concerns the two worlds between which there is an unknown force transforming all olfactory manipulation/experimentation into nothingness: as men scheme their evil business through objects or scents, a greater force then deconstructs those schemes
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No full textStudia theodisca, Vol 27 (2020) - Cover and Introductory Page
Between Fate and Skill. Translating Hölderlin’s Term “Geschik”
Full text linkIn this essay I revisit a vexed question, namely how to translate the term “Geschik” in Hölderlin’s theoretical writings. There are two places where its interpretation is contentious: in a passage from the Anmerkungen zur Antigonä, and in the first letter to Böhlendorff. In his writings he frequently uses the term to mean “fate”, but this is not an invariable rule. Depending upon the context, other interpretations (for instance “skill”) cannot always be excluded. It is also clear that Hölderlin enjoys playing on the etymological and phonetic relations between this and cognate expressions