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Moments of Rupture: Narratological Readings of Contemporary German Literature
Get PDFThesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-08“Moments of Rupture: Narratological Readings of Contemporary German Literature” explores the representation of disruptive moments in contemporary German novels using a narratological framework of analysis. Joining the larger conversation on narrative practices in contemporary German literature, the dissertation focuses on key questions of literary form, narration and storytelling in four major novels published at the beginning of the twenty-first century: Christoph Ransmayr’s Der fliegende Berg (2006), Wolfgang Herrndorf’s Sand (2011), Lutz Seiler’s Kruso (2014) and Saša Stanišić’s Vor dem Fest (2014). The project investigates the use of narrative elements to relate, mend and overcome moments of personal, hermeneutical, political and social rupture. By drawing on influential works of narratology, from Aristotle’s early narratology to pertinent contemporary theories (e.g. Bakhtin, Brooks, Fludernik, Genette, Phelan), my study shows how narratives shape and are in turn shaped by the ruptures they describe. Chapters are organized around key narrative categories, which serve to explore one literary text. The opening chapter discusses the significance of time and space in Der fliegende Berg. It shows how a moment of personal rupture is reflected in the transitions between physical, virtual and mythological times and spaces, and in the encounters that characterize them. Chapter two investigates the plotting of Sand. It examines the tension between (re)cognition and mistakes, between understanding and utter bafflement both on the level of diegesis and of reading. Chapter three examines the characters in Kruso. It shows how the relationship between the main figures translates into a political allegory, which stands for the failure of a utopian project and the fall of the Berlin Wall. The final chapter explores the features of the plural voice in Vor dem Fest and its role in preserving a post-socialist community affected by slow decline and the death of its storyteller
Writing Across Margins: Contemporary Afro-German Literature
Get PDFThesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2019My dissertation argues that Afro-German literature—a new strand in contemporary German literature since the late 1980s—functions as aesthetic activism by creating collective identity through textual practices. Joining the larger conversation in Black German Studies on Afro-German poetry and autobiography, this project focuses on writing practices in Afro-German feminist poetry by Helga Emde, Katharina Oguntoye, and May Ayim; Afro-German spoken word poetry by Chantal-Fleur Sandjon, Philipp Khabo Köpsell and Samy Deluxe; Afro-German celebrity autobiographies by Abini Zöllner and Detlef Soost; as well as Afro-German memoirs by Theodor Michael and Gert Schramm. Black German textual practices develop parameters of collective identity that range from the emergence of Afro-German voices to a new understanding of Afro-German blackness; from a new recognition of Afro-German identities, to the rise of an Afro-German memory. The writing practices that shape parameters of collective identity—métissage, imagery, autofiction, multilayering—organize my dissertation and provide the categories for textual analysis. By combining close readings with aesthetic (e.g. Lionnet, Bürger, Gates, Wagner-Egelhaaf) and cultural theory (e. g. Du Bois, Gilroy, Hall, Silverman), my project demonstrates that Afro-German writing practices help to bend and transgress literary and social categories. The opening chapter reflects on how the aesthetic development in Afro-German feminist poetry breaks the history of Afro-German silence and establishes critical Afro-German voices by employing a form of textual interweaving, a practice I refer to as poetic métissage. Chapter two illustrates how a contemporary double-imagery in Afro-German spoken word poetry—what I describe as the twoness of textual elements that ignite the senses—defines new conceptions of German blackness that escape single-stranded representations. Chapter three explores how celebrity autobiographies by East German authors deploy autofiction in life writing to bring forth new ways of conceptualizing Black German recognition. The final chapter focuses on the ways in which palimpsestic multilayering—a form of textual layering—extends German cultural memories, while their development within the structure of the memoirs drives the formation of an Afro-German collective memory
Vom nationalen zum postnationalen Theater. Performances des „Österreichischen“ seit den 1950er Jahren
No full textPoesie und Trauma der Grenze : literarische Grenzfiktionen bei Ingeborg Bachmann und Terézia Mora
No full textMeine Überlegungen in diesem Essay gelten zwei sehr unterschiedlichen Grenzfiktionen in der Prosa von Ingeborg Bachmann und Terézia Mora, die in der Kontrastformel meines Titels als Poesie und Trauma der Grenze umschrieben sind. Damit bezeichne ich die Tendenz dieser topographisch angelegten Geschichten, eine prekäre Marginalität im Hinblick auf eine imaginäre Herkunft zu transzendieren oder als allegorisches Verfallsszenario zu chiffrieren.
Es handelt sich um Ingeborg Bachmanns Erzählung 'Drei Wege zum See', die letzte und längste von fünf Geschichten des 1972 erschienenen 'Simultan'- Bandes und auch die letzte Publikation zu Bachmanns Lebzeiten, sowie um Terézia Moras ersten Erzählband 'Seltsame Materie', dessen zehn Geschichten allesamt im ungarisch-österreichischen Grenzgebiet in unmittelbarer Nähe des Eisernen Vorhangs angesiedelt sind. Für eine dieser Erzählungen mit dem Titel 'Der Fall Ophelia' wurde die 1971 in Ungarn geborene und seit dem Ende des Kalten Krieges in Berlin lebende Schriftstellerin auch mit dem Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis des Jahres 1999 ausgezeichnet. Der zeitkritische Gestus von Bachmanns Erzählung ist geprägt von einer modernen Entfremdungserfahrung und der Sehnsucht nach einem imaginären Ursprung; der anti-heimatliche Blick Terézia Moras auf das Terrain der eigenen Herkunft resultiert aus der alptraumhaften Erfahrung der Welt als Gefängnis, wie sie sie in einer Europa-Kolumne zum EU-Beitritt mittelosteuropäischer Länder im Mai 2004 skizziert hat: "Ich durfte zur ersten Generation gehören, die ihr Erwachsenenalter in einer neuen Welt begann. Vom Atomkrieg habe ich seither nicht mehr geträumt. Von Grenzschikanen bis heute. [...]
Funny Games : Semiotischer Sündenfall und ästhetische Restauration in Grillparzers Trauerspiel. EinTreuer Diener seines Herrn
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
“Ist es nicht ein finsterer Wald, in den wir gerieten?”. Waldgänge und Waldgänger in Maja Haderlaps Roman «Engel des Vergessens»
Get PDFThis essay examines the literary portrait of the forested Southern Carinthian border region as a place of Austrian Slowenian historical experience and cultural memory in Maja Haderlap’s novel Engel des Vergessens. The autobiographical and documentary novel published in 2011 asks what it means to live on in a landscape contaminated by historical violence. At issue here is the novel’s representation of individual and collective Austrian Slowenian history in its depiction of the narrator’s forest walks as a child and the Carinthian Slowenian partisans’ life in the woods
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