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Die erzählerische Form des Ideologischen.: Facetten postkolonialer Narratologie
Get PDFDivya Dwivedi / Henrik Skov Nielsen / Richard Walsh (Hg.): Narratology and Ideology. Negotiating Context, Form, and Theory in Postcolonial Narratives. Columbus, OH 2018 (= Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
War and Peace in the Anthropocene.: The Scale of Realism in Richard Powers’s The Overstory
Get PDFWhile Amitav Ghosh and others have argued that the conventions of the realist novel inhibit its capacity to represent the climate crisis, this essay argues that a Lukácsian approach to realism attentive to its historicizing ambitions can help us to better theorize how realism might confront the scalar logic of the Anthropocene. It shows how Richard Powers’s The Overstory (2018) picks up the historical strain of realism developed by Scott, Tolstoy, and Eliot, but extends its scale to situate human life within arboreal and evolutionary timescales. As the novel historicizes environmental consciousness against the forces of globalization and capitalism, it figures the contradictions and discontinuities in understanding that emerge as one tries to think simultaneously across these different scales. Although the novel cannot overcome these discontinuities, its capacity to help us imagine inhabiting these multiple, incommensurable scales highlights the continued relevance of the realist mode within the context of the Anthropocene
Libraries of the Mind.: What Happens after Reading
Get PDFRoy Sommer’s essay “Libraries of the Mind. What Happens after Reading” engages with the nexus between narrative, reading and the future – the resonance of texts in our long-term memory. It explores various aspects of forgetting and remembering literature, including the potential and the limits of empirical and experimental approaches to our Kopfbibliotheken (‘libraries of the mind’). Blending concepts and metaphors from neuroscience, cognitive psychology and narrative theory, the featured article offers a phenomenological account of forgetting and remembering fiction. It introduces the metaphor of “architexture” to describe a hypothetical neuronal trace of our reading experiences, a vital element of worldview curation in a reader’s mind
Eine 1:1-Abschilderung des Lebens finde ich nicht sehr reizvoll
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Telling It Authentically.: Documents in Graphic Illness Memoirs
Get PDFThis article examines the narrative function of documents in graphic illness memoirs and asks how they can be used to secure an authenticity effect. Drawing examples from several graphic illness memoirs that openly challenge notions of documentary as firmly grounded in referential reality and the transparent objectivity of documentary evidence, it sheds light on the important function of an emotionally engaged subjective mind for achieving the type of emotional honesty that characterizes the form. Ultimately, it argues that readers reach an impression of authenticity through the dynamic interplay between documentary evidence and subjective strategies that pressure the truth value of that documentary evidence. In this way, authenticity and correlated notions of truth are situated between text and extradiegetic reality
When Public Figures Become Comics.: Reinhard Kleist’s Graphic Biographies
Get PDFThe genre of graphic biography is booming internationally. In the German context, Reinhard Kleist’s works confirm this trend. A successful artist based in Berlin, Kleist is the author of seven book-long biographies of public figures. His characters range from writers to famous politicians, musicians, and professional athletes with traumatic stories. This article examines how Kleist’s graphic biographies differently embrace the possibilities and challenges of narrating and depicting real-life persons and their experiences. It discusses how the graphic biographies strike a balance between factual and fictional details in reconstructing the original story, to which the artist will never have full access. Because graphic biographies are built around the characters they portray, this article uses Kai Mikkonen’s theory of characters in comics as a framework to show how Kleist renders real-life figures as characters at the intersection of factual and fictional narration. By focusing on Kleist’s Der Traum von Olympia< (2015) and Der Boxer (2012), two works that describe traumatic stories embedded in their respective socio-political contexts, it explores how graphic biographies incorporate historical reconstruction, journalistic account, and personal story in rendering their characters. The article shows how these graphic biographies not only portray individual lives, but ultimately encourage reflections on similar stories that may remain untold
Literary Studies Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.: An Interview with Jonathan Culler
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Von Sick of ... zu Sick with ... zu Walk with ...: Die narrative Anerkennung individuellen Leidens und Lebens in der Medizin(ausbildung)
Get PDFEvery individual has its unique reasons for seeing a doctor. It follows that, in order to find the appropriate remedy for each case, doctors need to pay particular attention in their endeavour to understand the individual problem. Easy to say, but hard if not impossible to achieve: Not often having the time for long personal conversations, doctors are nevertheless expected to understand the positions and perspectives, the desires and priorities, the troubles and sufferings of others in order to provide them the exact help they need and / or want. This is a professional challenge that should be addressed appropriately in the course of medical education. Confronted with the otherness of the individual other, and therefore with the impossibility of a 100% accurate understanding of each other, doctors need the mindset to acknowledge individual problems as individual problems as well as the attitude to side with their patients against these problems nevertheless. In other words: doctors need to think in narrative dimensions. This paper wants to discuss the potentials, limits and risks of respective elements in medical education around two case studies developed at TUM Medical School
Exklusive Erzählungen: Andrea Voß fragt, warum über Adelsreisen berichtet wurde
Get PDFAndrea Voß: Reisen erzählen. Erzählrhetorik, Intertextualität und Gebrauchsfunktionen des adligen Bildungsreiseberichts in der Frühen Neuzeit. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter 2016 (= Neue Bremer Beiträge 20). 349 S. EUR 45,00. ISBN 978-3-8253-6591-
„es war ihm, als“ Irreale Vergleichssätze als Darstellungsmodus des Wahnsinns in Georg Büchners Erzählung Lenz
Get PDFThe importance of complex illness themes, in particular those of mental illness, has already been emphasized in numerous scientific articles regarding the literary work of Georg Büchner. It is particularly evident that Büchner draws on his medical knowledge into the literary text. In Lenz (1835) he experiments like a scientist with themes, images and structures from his scientific sources. This article opens with a comparative discussion of the narrative structures used in psychological case descriptions of the early 1800s and the ones used in Büchner’s Lenz. As the comparison reveals, the use of metaphors referring to mental illness, as well as the use of the narrative expression “es war ihm, als” (it seemed to him as if) characterize the peculiarity of Büchner’s narrative. Furthermore, this article examines the grammatical and rhetorical functioning of the expression “es war ihm, als” and suggests that it should be understood as a medium which introduces a new perspective on critical aspects of Büchner’s contemporary society