329 research outputs found
Interculturality - narrative forms in Sten Nadolny's novels
No full textDie Dissertation zum Thema -»Interkulturalität - Erzählformen im Werk von Sten Nadolny-« behandelt ausgewählte Romanwerke von Sten Nadolny, nämlich "Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit" (1983) und "Selim oder Die Gabe der Rede" (1990). In ihr werden die Ambivalenz des Verhältnisses von Eigenem und Fremdem und die dazu in den Texten praktizierten Modelle des Austauschs zwischen diesen beiden Instanzen untersucht. Die in den Romanen angesprochenen Problemfelder der 'Langsamkeit' und der 'Rede' erscheinen als zwei Merkmale randständiger Identität, die in Opposition und wechselseitigem Dialog mit den herrschenden Wahrnehmungen und Verständnissen der Umgebung stehen. Die Thematik der Interkulturalität als Wechselwirkung von Fremdem und Eigenem und ihre erzähltechnische Verwirklichung in den Romanen umfassen Aspekte des Inhalts und der Form. Ihre Betrachtung in der vorliegenden Arbeit ist durch die eigene fremdkulturelle Sicht der untersuchenden Instanz geprägt. Damit aber wird eine Infragestellung herkömmlicher Methoden der Analyse möglich. Das Ziel ist, eine neue (fremdkulturelle) Perspektive bei der Behandlung von interkulturell bezogenen Werken einzubeziehen. Dazu dient insbesondere die Betrachtung der Wechselwirkung zwischen alternativen erzähltechnischen Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten und alternierenden Erzählinhalten in Nadolnys erzählerischem Konzept. Die Auseinandersetzung der Literaturkritik mit dem Thema des Fremden und Eigenen wird durch das Verständnis der Verfasserin aus fremder Sicht kritisch kommentiert. Die vorliegende Arbeit umfasst fünf Kapitel. Auf das Konzept des Erzählers Sten Nadolny, sein Verständnis des Erzählens und seine Erzähltechnik wird auch im Rahmen der Diskussion um die ›Postmoderne‹ eingegangen. Hierbei soll besonders auf sein Arbeitsverfahren aufmerksam gemacht werden, das sich den ästhetischen Möglichkeiten des "fremden Blicks" widmet. Kapitel II und III gehen auf die Konstruktion der Lebensgeschichten und anschließend auf den Wechsel der Erzählformen ein. In Kapitel IV legen Schlussfolgerungen aus dieser Auseinandersetzung mit Werk und Erzähler Position und Rolle Sten Nadolnys in der deutschen Gegenwartsliteratur fest. Die Arbeit endet mit einem Kapitel zur Literatur über Sten Nadolny und sein Werk, Erzählen, Interkulturalität und Postmoderne.This dissertation "Interculturality - narrative forms in Sten Nadolny- novels" treats selected novel works of Sten Nadolny, i.e. "The Discovery of Slowness" (1983) and "Selim or The Gift of Speech" (1990). The ambivalence of the relationship between the Self and the Other as well as the types of exchange between these two instances is practiced in the texts and examined. The problematic forms of 'slowness' and 'speech' addressed in both novels appear to reinforce a sense of "exiled" identity, which stands as two characteristics in opposition and mutual dialogue with the dominant perceptions and understandings of the environment. Their narrative implementation in the novels, in the contents and in their formal structure address the issue of Interculturality as a reciprocal relationship between the self and the other. The characters" points of view in the available works are changed by the presence of foreigners" cultural viewpoints. Thus the questioning of conventional methods of the analysis becomes possible. The goal of this dissertation is to include within this perspective a treatment of intercultural references. In addition the dissertation discusses in particular the view of reciprocity between alternative structural possibilities and alternative narrative possibilities in Nadolny- work. A discussion of the literary critical history on the history of the Other and the Self is augmented by the author- own perspective on foreignness. The argument is divided into five chapters. The first chapter explores the concept of the storyteller Sten Nadolny within the context of Postmodernism criticism. Here particular attention is paid to his narrative structure and the aesthetic possibilities of the "foreign" view. Chapters II and III deal with the construction of life stories and the subsequent transformation of the narrative forms. In the concluding chapters the storyteller- positionality and role of Sten Nadolnys in contemporary German literature. The work ends with a chapter dedicated to the literature about Sten Nadolny, his work, narration, interculturality and postmodernism
STEN NADOLNY i sztuka opowiadania życia
No full textIm Autobiographiediskurs spielen Romane bisher keine nennenswerte Rolle als theoretische Impulsgeber. Der vorliegende Beitrag zeigt, dass STEN NADOLNYS Selim oder Die Gabe der Rede eine autofiktionale Situation im inneren der diegetischen Welt erzeugt und sich damit für die Reflexion autobiographietheoretischer Problemkontexte eignet. Mit Rekurs auf Kristevas Überlegungen zur Selbst-Fremdheit werden die ‚autofiktionalen‘ Schreibakte vorgeführt, die das Individuum auch vom Fremden her erschreiben. Als dezentrierte Selbstlebensbeschreibung überschreitet NADOLNYS Roman damit gängige Formen der Autofiktion.Discourse concerning autobiography does not usually include novels as material for theoretical study. This article demonstrates how STEN NADOLNY’S novel Selim oder Die Gabe der Rede creates an autofictional situation within a diegetic world; therefore it may be a subject of reflection on theoretical problems associated with autobiography. In the context of Julia Kristeva’s deliberations on self-alienation, the Author discusses ‘autofictional’ acts of writing that describe the self through the ‘other’. As decentered life-writing, NADOLNY’S novel transcends common forms of autofiction.W rozważaniach nad autobiografią gatunek powieściowy odgrywał do niedawna mało istotną rolę jako przedmiot badań. Artykuł pokazuje, że powieść STENA NADOLNEGO Selim oder Die Gabe der Rede tworzy w świecie przedstawionym sytuację autofikcjonalną. Tym samym można ten utwór poddać teoretycznej refleksji w odniesieniu do autobiografii. W kontekście rozważań Julii Kristevy na temat obcości podmiotu wobec samego siebie, przedstawione zostają autofikcjonalne strategie pisarskie, które wywodzą autobiografię od ‚obcego’. Powieść NADOLNEGO – można ją nazwać ‚zdezorientowanym’ opisem samego siebie – przekracza wobec tego tradycyjne formy autofikcji
Vem är »Maja Lundgren« i Maja Lundgrens Myggor och tigrar? Fakta och fiktion som ontologi, framställningssätt eller retorisk kommunikationsakt
No full textSten Wistrand is associate professor in comparative
literature at Örebro University.Maja Lundgren’s outspoken description in Myggor och tigrar
(2007) of the male dominated cultural life of Sweden raised an
animated debate in media. Well known authors and journalists
felt themselves scandalized and accused Lundgren of being
paranoid. Others claimed that the narrator and character
»Maja Lundgren« was not to be confused with Maja Lundgren
the author, because the book was fictional and not factual. In
this article I discuss Myggor och tigrar out from different
fiction theories and conclude that it seems most rewarding to
approach the problem of fictionality as a question of rhetorical
communication rather than ontology or stylistic devices. I also
maintain that Lundgren’s book would implode if read as fiction,
since the rhetorical strategy implies the identity of the
author and the character
The Phantom Walking the Text: The Death of the Author Reconsidered.
No full textThe author was killed by Roland Barthes in 1968 in the essay "The Death of the Author". This was an act of euthanasia, forming part of a larger poststructuralist project of putting down obdurate rhetorical practices in literature, where the endorsement of myths like authenticity, the representational value of language, the idea of the final analysis, according to Barthes, had unreasonably governed the ways in which literature was written, read and understood. The author figured as a mark of power, as the authority of a closed sign-system, dictating, or centralising, the ways in which a text must be read. With the author over and done with and the general rhetorical ploys of narration demasked, stripping language to represent nothing but itself, the stage was set for a new understanding (and practice) of literature as a particularly decentred and liberating zone that would seize on any form of power discourse - history, anthropology, politics, religion, etc - still abusing the powers of deception in language in the interest of the speaker.
Parts and Wholes in Brito’s Questions on Boethius’ De divisione
No full textRadulphus Brito, who taught the arts in Paris in the 1290s and early 1300s, is the author of two very different sets of questions on Boethius’ De divisione. Obviously, the relationship between parts and their whole is the central issue in those questions, but discussions of mereology are also found in his question commentaries on a number of other works belonging to the philosophical corpus that was lectured on at the time. Thus, there are relevant questions in his commentaries on Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Physics, Categories and De anima, on Porphyry’s Isagoge, Ptolemy’s Almagest and Boethius’ De topicis differentiis, and even a sophisma of his must be taken into account. In this essay, the two sets of questions on De divisione are first introduced, and then an analysis of all types of totality discussed by Brito in his various works is presented
A Comparative History of Bank Failures . From Medici to Barings
No full textA Comparative History of Bank Failures: From Medici to Barings - Book Description and Author Biography Starting with Medici and Fugger and ending with Barings and Royal Bank of Scotland under neo-liberal de-regulation, the author gives an account of how a number of banks failed over a 500 year-period. The author offers an explanation of the leading ideas about the world and good society at the time, and summarises this narrative using Streeck & Schmitter’s three bases for regulation of society: Community (spontaneous solidarity), State (hierarchical control), and Market (dispersed competition). The bank failures are presented in the context of social philosophies of the day (Scholasticism, mercantilism, neo-liberalism, and libertarianism), and the changing business practices (Bills of Exchange, Rents and financial instruments of various kinds). The dominating explanation to financial crises has been market-related. Here, the author argues that managerial failures are an important contributor. He demonstrates the failure of management to act on early signals such as existential risk; strategic stress syndrome and lack of proper oversight by top management. The author encourages a return to ethical principles for banks, suggesting that his ethical aspect should be at the core of the credit process of banks in the future. With its interdisciplinary approach, this book will be an important contribution to the discussion surrounding bank failures. It will interest any scholar looking at the origins of financial crises and will be particularly useful for post-graduate students of economic and financial history, banking, finance and accounting. Sten Jönsson is professor emeritus in Business Administration (esp. Scandinavian Management) at Gothenburg University (appointed 1976). is research has been focused on field studies of managers in action in various industries. Over the last few years he has led a research program on bank management
On the maximal operator of a general Ornstein--Uhlenbeck semigroup
No full textIf Q is a real, symmetric and positive definite nxn matrix, and
B a real nxn matrix whose eigenvalues have negative real parts,
we consider the Ornstein--Uhlenbeck semigroup on R^n with covariance Q
and drift matrix B. Our main result is that the associated maximal operator
is of weak type (1,1) with respect to the invariant measure.
The proof has a geometric gist and hinges on the
``forbidden zones method'' previously introduced by the third author.
For large values of the time parameter,
we also prove a refinement of this result, in the spirit of a conjecture due to Talagrand
Blyde incompste van syne Majesteyt Carolvs den II. als Hertoch van Brabant.
No full textBrussel, twelff-sten Februai [1666]Author from f. E2 rectoVingerafdruk: 000002 - # b1 A $ : # b2 E eF. E2 heavily damagedEuropeana-GoogleBook
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