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The crime novel in Swiss literature of the 1930s: Friedrich Glauser’s Wachtmeister Studer
Get PDFIn this article, Wachtmeister Studer (1936), a detective crime novel by the Swiss author Friedrich Glauser, will be analysed in its literary and historical contexts and brought in connection with socio-historical preconditions for its genealogical categorization as an early example of the so-called social crime novel. In so doing, the article will portray the novel as an example of this genre in German-language literature. F. Glauser is known as the “Swiss Simeon”, so the analysis of his detective Jakob Studer, an atypical investigator of Swiss canton police from Bern, will both yield the rules of crime novel as a genre in general as well as specific patterns Glauser relies on in his innovative form of the detective novel. It will be shown that Glauser’s variety of the detective novel is much more focused on the portrayal of society with the goal of an implicit critique of social problems. It is a crime novel no longer based exclusively on building up the suspense and solving an intellectual riddle, which are features typical of classic crime fiction
Ranonovovjekovni putopisi i istraživanje stereotipa o hrvatskim krajevima (Mirna Zeman. 2013. Reise zu den „Illyriern“. Kroatienstereotype in der deutschsprachigen Reiseliteratur und Statistik (1740−1809), Südosteuropäische Arbeiten 147. München: Oldenbourg. 376 str.)
Get PDFRobert Neumann’s Hochstaplernovelle: the imaginary Balkans, Mediterranean and Central Europe
Get PDFHochstaplernovelle, Robert Neumann’s novella published in 1930, can be read as a distinct genre variety of the trickster theme (a topic popular in German literature), but is also analytically interesting due to its troubled representation of the Balkan complex. Consequently, this article focuses on the function of the Balkan discourse in Neumann’s fictional prose as well as its localization at the Mediterranean (nowadays Croatian) coastline of the former Dual Monarchy. Strategies of fictionalization employed in the novella point to a polyvalent potential of the Balkan discourse. The notion of Balkanism is understood and analysed as a discursive formation: references to older Balkan discourses from the cultural and historic space of the former monarchy quoted in the novella can therefore be described in terms of “nesting Orientalism” (Bakic-Hayden), a phenomenon in symbolic geography
Prvi roman Thomasa Bernharda Mraz u hrvatskom prijevodu (Thomas Bernhard, Mraz, Meandar Media, Zagreb, 2015, prev. Ana Pranjković Karas, 402 str.)
Get PDFPostimperiale Diskurse und literarische Mobilitätsforschung. Thomas Grob, Boris Previšić, Andrea Zink (Hgg.): Erzählte Mobilität im östlichen Europa. (Post-)Imperiale Räume zwischen Erfahrung und Imagination. Tübingen: Francke Verlag 2014 (= Kultur - Herrschaft - Diifferenz 18), 308 S.
Get PDFRezension zu: Thomas Grob, Boris Previšić, Andrea Zink (Hgg.): Erzählte Mobilität im östlichen Europa. (Post-)Imperiale Räume zwischen Erfahrung und Imagination. Tübingen: Francke Verlag 2014 (= Kultur - Herrschaft - Diifferenz 18), 308 S. (review
Stereotypenforschung zur Reiseliteratur der Frühen Neuzeit (Rezension) // Stereotype Research on Travel Literature of the Early Modern Period (review)
Get PDFRezension zu: Mirna Zeman: "Reise zu den "Illyriern". Kroatien-Stereotype in der deutschsprachigen Reiseliteratur und Statistik (1740–1809)". Oldenburg, München 2013 // Review of: Mirna Zeman: "Reise zu den "Illyriern". Kroatien-Stereotype in der deutschsprachigen Reiseliteratur und Statistik (1740–1809)". Oldenburg, München 201
Književnost i povijesni svijet Zdenka Škreba i teorija fikcionalnosti
Get PDFPovezivanje kognitivnih teorija o razvoju svijesti i jezika s književno-teorijskom praksom određenja fikcionalnosti u ovom se radu prikazuje na temelju teoretskih promišljanja o svojstvu fikcionalnosti književnih tekstova kod Zdenka Škreba. Kako se u suvremenoj teoriji fikcionalnosti razgraničavanje književnog polja poduzima u koordinatama jezika i zbilje, nastanka svijesti i ljudske spoznaje, Škrebov se osvrt na teoriju fikcionalnosti povezuje s teorijom njemačkih teoretičara, prije svega J. H. Petersena, koji polazi od sličnih polazišta. Naglašavanje potrebe da čitatelj u procesu recepcije osvijesti književne konvencije potvrđuje zajedničku tezu o potrebi za kontekstualizacijom, ne samo književnosti nego i teorije fikcionalnosti
The October Revolution and Miroslav Krleža in 1917
Get PDFThe essay considers Miroslav Krleža's short story collection Croatian God Mars taking as a starting point the author's anti-militant attitude and political views at the time. Special consideration is given to the discursive context of the creation of particular short stories during the World War One on the basis of Krleža's journal The Days of Long Ago, and the way the October revolution is reflected in Krleža's early poetics just before the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. For Krleža, one of the principal causes of the Frist World War is „[a] blind mechanics of bourgeois colonial and imperialist bloodsheds“ (Krleža 1962: 68). He contrasts it with his utopian-revolutionary notion of „a gigantic cultural construction of international solidarity“ (Krleža 2001: 401). Besides political statements about the revolution at the time, the article further aims to consider the degree at which the motifs in Krleža's anti-war short stories correspond to his utopian projections of Lenin and the October revolution from his journal and essays
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