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Entschlüsselt.: Johannes Franzen beschreibt, warum der Schlüsselroman provoziert – auch und gerade die Literaturwissenschaft
Get PDFJohannes Franzen: Indiskrete Fiktionen. Theorie und Praxis des Schlüsselromans 1960–2016. Göttingen 2018. 456 S. EUR 39,90. ISBN: 978-3-8353-3217-
“All one can do is tell a better story”.: The Ethical Potential and the Risks of Storytelling
Get PDFHanna Meretoja / Colin Davis (Eds.): Storytelling and Ethics: Literature, Visual Arts and the Power of Narrative. New York: Routledge 2018. 314 p. EUR 115.99. ISBN 978-1-138-24406-
Golgatha erzählen.: Das Sterben Jesu von Nazareth zwischen neutestamentlicher Überlieferung und literarischer Moderne
Get PDFRepresentations of a life’s end generally play a decisive role in biographical storytelling. As the very last chapter they give a final status to all previous events. It is against this background this paper aims at a synopsis of the New Testament’s accounts of the dying of Jesus juxtaposed with their modern literary appropriations. What happens with the structure of biographical narratives if death is not the last chapter? Grounded on a specific understanding of the notion of “narrative of dying”, the paper first identifies this very genre within the gospel’s passion narratives. The observations on the biblical basic script – among others the key role of the last words – are then related to two novels: Amos Oz’s Judas (2014) represents Jesus’s dying in a complex anachronic narrative which takes the betrayer’s viewpoint as its focus. Franz Heinrich Achermann’s The Antichrist (1939) includes the re-enactment of the Passion within a Sci-Fi novel, merging it with the Second Coming of Christ. The observations made give rise to final remarks regarding both the genre “narrative of dying” as the so-called ‘Jesus Novel’
Metalepsis and/as Hermeneutics: Julian Hanebeck’s Understanding Metalepsis
Get PDFJulian Hanebeck: Understanding Metalepsis: The Hermeneutics of Narrative Transgres¬sion. Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter 2017 (= Narratologia 56). 288 pp. GBP 81.99. ISBN 978-3-11-050122-
Krankheit aus der Distanz: Alfred Döblins frühe Erzählungen als narrative Notate krankhafter Existenzen
Get PDFAlfred Döblin’s early short story volume Die Ermordung einer Butterblume und andere Erzählungen has often been considered an example of the interlocking of his medical and his literary work. With the writer’s “Berliner Programm” and his cinematic writing style in mind these two fields intertwine in the search for an adequate language and a suitable narrative style to describe perception disorders. Rather than focusing on the detection of a specific disease pattern, a narratological approach to selected short stories reveals Döblin’s strategies to turn the reader into a close observer of the abnormal conditions described in the texts, while at the same time denying him the possibility to come to a precise conclusion. Based on Genette’s theory the paper detects two categories – modus and pace – as the writer’s means to create notations of mad and deranged conditions
Strategisches Erzählen und Strategiewechsel im Umfeld neutestamentlicher Erzähltexte: Das lukanische Gleichnis vom barmherzigen Samariter als Anschauungsbeispiel
Get PDFModern biblical scholarship (of the post war era) has shown that the narrative traditions that underlie the canonical gospels are very adaptive as they have been tailored to suit different communicative situations. In this context Luke’s Merciful Samaritan represents an interesting object of study. Luke has clearly revised and strategically reworked the parable by inserting it into a narrative frame that features a dialogue between Jesus and a Jewish teacher of the law. While the parable (inserted narrative) questions Jewish resentments and prejudices against the Samaritans via confronting the Jewish scholar with the exemplary behaviour of the foreigner, the frame narrative serves to warn Christian recipients against too hastily looking down on Jewish authorities. This corresponds to Luke’s oeu¬vre as a whole (gospel and book of acts) which is characterized by a remarkably nuanced and realistic representation of the Jewish authorities of his time
Empirical Correlates of Narrative Closure
Get PDFThis paper presents an experimental investigation of the narratological concept of narrative closure. While narrative closure is a well-studied phenomenon in contemporary narratology, it still lacks a serious empirical foundation. In order to fill that lacuna, we performed a controlled rating experiment aimed at validating some of the properties of narrative closure proposed in the narratological literature. Our results suggest that narrative closure is closely related to two connected properties: to the completeness of the text and to questions left open by the text
Transformationen von Geschichte
Get PDFInterdisziplinärer Sammelband untersucht produktive Variationen von Geschichte in unterschiedlichen Medien, Epochen und kulturellen Kontexten Sonja Georgi / Julia Ilgner / Isabell Lammel / Cathleen Sarti / Christine Waldschmidt (Hg.): Geschichtstransformationen. Medien, Verfahren und Funktionalisierungen historischer Rezeption. Bielefeld: Transcript 2015 (= Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften, Bd. 24). 542 S. EUR 49,99. ISBN 978-3-8376-2815-
