Schweiz schreiben. Zu Konstruktion und Dekonstruktion des Mythos Schweiz in der Gegenwartsliteratur
co-edited with Jurgen Barkhoff
Tübingen: De Gruyter, 2010
This volume examines how historically and culturally effective Swiss myths have been re-formed and continued, handed... more This volume examines how historically and culturally effective Swiss myths have been re-formed and continued, handed down and criticised especially in more recent Swiss-German literature since the Second World War. With contributors including Adolf Muschg, Peter von Matt and German scholars from Ireland and Great Britain, this volume reflects on important literary contributions to historical and present-day processes of identity-creation, including Switzerland's role in the Second World War, its attitudes towards Europe, Switzerland as a multicultural entity or the many myths about this country.
Provocation from the Periphery. Robert Walser Re-examined
Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2007
The Swiss writer Robert Walser spent much of his career on the fringes of what was considered acceptable by the... more The Swiss writer Robert Walser spent much of his career on the fringes of what was considered acceptable by the literary establishment. This analysis focuses on how Walser's writing bears the imprint of his marginal existence. It uses Feminist and Postcolonial approaches to marginality to highlight the battle between conformity and resistance that drives this writer's work. It focuses on the enigmatic Mikrogramme, the first drafts of Walser's texts, which have only recently been deciphered and published. By comparing the Mikrogramme with the published texts, it attempts to expose the battle between central and marginal, established and revolutionary that permeates all of Walser's work. This study of Robert Walser's writing demonstrates how current trends in literary theory can be used to offer new insights into the work of an important writer of the early twentieth century.
Günter Grass. Dal tamburo … al gambero. Atti del Convegno Internazionale, Penne, 28-29 novembre 2002
(a cura di Roberto Bertozzi), Pescara, Edizioni Tracce, 2003
Download (.pdf) Πρακτικά του Α΄ Διεθνούς Συνεδρίου «Η γλώσσα σε έναν κόσμο που αλλάζει». [Proceedings of the 1st International Conference «Language in a changing world»]
ΛΕΟΝΤΑΡΙΔΗ Ε., Κ. ΣΠΑΝΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ, et al. (επιμ.) (2008), Πρακτικά του Α΄ Διεθνούς Συνεδρίου «Η γλώσσα σε έναν κόσμο που αλλάζει», Τόμος Ι, Αθήνα: ΔΞΓ Παν/μίου Αθηνών (ISBN: 978-960-8028-49-4). [LEONTARIDI E., K. SPANOPOULOU, et al (eds) (2008), Proceedings of the 1st International Conference «Language in a changing world», Vol. I, Athens: Language Centre of the University of Athens]
Το Διδασκαλείο Ξένων Γλωσσών του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών οργάνωσε στις 9-11 Δεκεμβρίου 2005 Διεθνές Συνέδριο με τίτλο «Η... more
Το Διδασκαλείο Ξένων Γλωσσών του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών οργάνωσε στις 9-11 Δεκεμβρίου 2005 Διεθνές Συνέδριο με τίτλο «Η γλώσσα σε έναν κόσμο που αλλάζει», το οποίο πραγματοποιήθηκε στη Φιλοσοφική Σχολή του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών και τις εργασίες παρακολούθησαν περισσότεροι από 800 συμμετέχοντες από το χώρο της εκπαίδευσης.
Προσκεκλημένοι ομιλητές του Συνεδρίου ήταν οι John Wells (University College London) Jesús Fernández González (Universidad de Salamanca), Annalisa Saccà (St. John’s University NY), και François Weiss (Vice-president of Bilingual Culture in Alsace). Στο Συνέδριο παρουσιάστηκαν 123 εργασίες, από τις οποίες δημοσιεύθηκαν οι 99 σε κοινό τόμο πρακτικών, την επιμέλεια έκδοσης του οποίου ανέλαβαν η Ε. Λεονταρίδη και η Κ. Σπανοπούλου (συνεπικουρούμενες απο τίς Α. Γεωργούντζου, Σ. Ευαγγελίδου, Μ. Ιέλο, Ε. Μπαλάση, Ν. Τασσοπούλου και Ε. Τσίτου).
El Centro de Lenguas Extranjeras de la Universidad de Atenas del 9 al 11 de diciembre de 2005 organizó un Congreso Internacional con el tema “La lengua en un mundo que cambia”, en el que se presentaron trabajos de investigadores de Grecia y otros países. El Congreso tuvo lugar en la Facultad de Filosofía de la Universidad de Atenas y asistieron más de 800 participantes del mundo de la educación. Ponentes invitados del Congreso fueron los profesores John Wells (University College London), Jesús Fernández González (Universidad de Salamanca), Annalisa Saccà (St. John’s University NY), y François Weiss (Vice-president of Bilingual Culture in Alsace). En el Congreso fueron presentados 123 trabajos, de los cuales 99 fueron elegidas para ser publicadas en el volumen de Actas, cuya edición corrió a cargo de E. Leontaridi y K. Spanopoulou (con la colaboración de A. Georgountzou, S. Evangelidou, M. Ielo, E. Mpalassi, N. Tassopoulou y E. Tsitou).
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Paul Heyse: La vedova di Pisa. Die Witwe von Pisa
B. Delli Castelli (a cura di), Milano, LED, 2011
SOMMARIO: PARTE PRIMA: Paul Heyse: collocazione storico-culturale - Paul Heyse, mediatore culturale fra Italia e... more
SOMMARIO: PARTE PRIMA: Paul Heyse: collocazione storico-culturale - Paul Heyse, mediatore culturale fra Italia e Germania - Paul Heyse, traduttore e autore tradotto - Traduttore e testo letterario - Riferimenti bibliografici - PARTE SECONDA: Die Witwe von Pisa: considerazioni critiche - La vedova di Pisa - Die Witwe von Pisa.
Paul Heyse (Berlino 1830 - Monaco di Baviera 1914) fu insignito, nel 1910, del Premio Nobel per la Letteratura, il primo conferito a uno scrittore tedesco. Scrisse 216 novelle in prosa o in versi, 74 opere drammatiche, 8 romanzi, liriche (una sorta di diario in versi), memorie, tradusse in tedesco numerose opere di poeti e scrittori italiani, compose fiabe, canti popolari e tenne, infine, un carteggio immenso, del quale è stata pubblicata a tutt’oggi solo la parte ritenuta letterariamente più importante. Le novelle di Heyse, universalmente lodate, scritte sia durante il soggiorno in Italia, sia durante la lunga vita in Germania, mostrano il rispetto per le leggi della natura, fuori dalle quali nulla è bello e nulla è buono. Una notevole parte di tali novelle è di argomento italiano: italiani i protagonisti, italiano il paesaggio, oppure tedeschi i protagonisti, ma camuffati e trasportati nell’ambiente italiano, di cui Heyse ben conosceva gli aspetti esteriori e di cui credeva di conoscere non pochi segreti. Nella novella La vedova di Pisa, di cui si presenta la prima traduzione italiana, Heyse prende le distanze da storie di tragici amori e da figure di donne orgogliose, dai sentimenti profondi e travolgenti. Lucrezia, la protagonista, è, difatti, una vedova da farsa, un’Eva cui piace mordere, tratto tratto, il pomo del peccato.
Romanticism and the Gothic: Genre, Reception, and Canon Formation. Cambridge Studies in Romanticism. Series Editors: Marilyn Butler and James Chandler. Cambridge University Press: hardcover 2000; paperback 2006.
Reviewed: Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 46 (2005); Gothic Studies 7 (2005): 205-7; Keats-Shelley Journal 53 (2004) 168-72; Studies in the Novel 36 (2004), 120-4; Studies in Romanticism 42 (2003), 587-92; Etudes Anglaises 56:1 (2003); Year's Work in English Studies 81 (2002), 648-9; European Romantic Review 13 (2002), 476-9; Eighteenth-Century Studies 35:4 (2002), 615-22; Romantic Circles: Reviews 5.3 (September 2002), 7 pars.; Zeitschrift fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik (2002); Choice Reviews (March 2001) http://www.choiceonsite.org; SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 41.3 (2001) 626-7; Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVII et XVIII Siècle 53 (2001), 284-6; Notes and Queries 48 (2001), 452-4; The Wordsworth Circle 32 (2001), 256-8; SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 (2001), 623-65; Nineteenth-Century Literature 56:1 (June 2001), 105-7; Romanticism on the Net 22 (May 2001), 6 pars. URL: http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2001/v/n22/005975ar.html. Other mentions: Times Literary Supplement 11 February 2011.
Book Jacket blurb, for what it's worth: "A sharply focused analysis of how and why romantic writers drew on... more Book Jacket blurb, for what it's worth: "A sharply focused analysis of how and why romantic writers drew on gothic conventions whilst, at the same time, denying their influence in order to claim critical respectability. He shows how the reception of gothic writing, including its institutional and commercial recognition as a form of literature, played a fundamental role in the development of romanticism as an ideology. In doing so he examines the early history of the romantic movement and its assumptions about literary value, and the politics of reading, writing, and reception at the end of the eighteenth century. As a whole the book makes an original contribution to our understanding of genre, tracing the impact of reception, marketing, and audience on its formation."
Können Marginalisierte (wieder)sprechen?: Zum politischen Potenzial der Sozialwissenschaften
Dege, Martin; Grallert, Till; Dege, Carmen & Chimirri, Niklas (Eds.). (2010).Gießen: Psychosozial
Ausgehend von Formen der Marginalisierung und Ausgrenzung begibt sich dieser Band auf die Suche nach Möglichkeiten... more Ausgehend von Formen der Marginalisierung und Ausgrenzung begibt sich dieser Band auf die Suche nach Möglichkeiten politischer Transformation durch wissenschaftliches Handeln: Können Marginalisierte (wieder)sprechen? Welches emanzipatorische Potenzial bergen die Sozialwissenschaften? Inwiefern können unterschiedliche Ansätze in einen mitunter kontroversen Dialog treten? Bei der Beantwortung dieser Fragen bilden insbesondere die sozialwissenschaftlichen Methoden, die Forschungspraxis, die Rolle der Massenmedien sowie die Bedeutung des Narrativ-Fiktionalen Schwerpunkte des Buches. Die Frage nach Möglichkeiten einer politischen, politisierten und somit sozial handlungsfähigen Wissenschaftspraxis wird explizit gestellt. Die entwickelten Ansätze stehen nicht lediglich nebeneinander, sondern werden kontrovers diskutiert. Mit Beiträgen von Molly Andrews, Klaus-Jürgen Bruder, Niklas Chimirri, Carmen Dege, Martin Dege, Till Grallert, Sebastian Köhler, Maria Medved, Adrian Mengay, Stefan Müller, Sebastian Neubauer, Peter C. Pohl, Julia Prager, Katrin Reimer, Thomas Viola Rieske, Dorothee Roer, Catharina Schmalstieg, Lars Schmitt, Stephanie Sinclair, André Steiner, Peter Ullrich, Christoph Vandreier, Mario Vötsch und Karen Wagels
Transformations of the German Novel: Simplicissimus in 18th-Century Adaptations
At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the German literary establishment considered the novel the contemptible... more At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the German literary establishment considered the novel the contemptible entertainment of the uneducated. By the end of the century, the novel had eclipsed the epic poem as the most appropriate genre for depicting humankind and its preoccupations. The story of the novel's emergence as a respected and productive artistic genre is intimately bound up with the vicissitudes of the most popular of all German baroque works, Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen's (1621/22-1676) Der abentheurliche Simplicissimus: Teutsch (1668/69). Between 1756 and 1785, Simplicissimus quietly found its way into bookshops three times in radically different forms, in adaptations that were not, as critics have asserted, arbitrary, but quite purposeful. This investigation discusses the ways in which this canonical text was reworked to reflect the thinking of leading - and warring - Enlightenment aestheticians. At the genre war's end, the novel emerged triumphant and Simplicissimus adaptations had been instrumental in securing the victory; the multi-faceted Simplicissimus had served as a vehicle for reifying theoretical positions in the conflicts. For, as the social and aesthetic climate shifted radically, Grimmelshausen's work not only survived, but took on new life in the most important literary campaign of the century.
German and European Poetics after the Holocaust. Crisis and Creativity, Rochester, NY: Camden House 2011
by Gert Hofmann
Co-edited with Rachel MagShamhráin, Marko Pajevic, Michael Shields
Drawing on historian Dan Diner's 1988 description of the events of the Third Reich as a... more
Drawing on historian Dan Diner's 1988 description of the events of the Third Reich as a "Zivilisationsbruch"(rupture in civilization), it is our aim to examine how this rupture and crisis has been reflected in poetics. Adorno's famous dictum that to write poetry after Auschwitz would be barbaric, as much as it has haunted poetical discourse, has also given rise to a variety of poetic and theoretical endeavours seeking to transform this prevailing sense of negativism into artistic and literary acts of resistance. Entirely new beginnings seemed necessary to those who considered the humanist tradition to have lost all credibility. Such challenges have ranged from Adorno's own dialectical theory of literary commitment to more recent propositions describing literature as acts of testimony (Levinas et al.) and processes of survival (Agamben), to mention just a few.
Embedded in the theoretical discourse triggered by Adorno and others focal points are the poetical oeuvres of Paul Celan, Gottfried Benn and Ingeborg Bachmann, their frictions and mutual contradictions with regards to the meaning of poetical traditions. A second historical stage of the post-war literary discourse is marked by the writings of Heiner Müller, emphasising the significance of figures of discontinuity. Further German authors who are being discussed are Nelly Sachs, Charlotte Beradt, Rose Ausländer, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Thomas Kling, and Uwe Timm. The final section of the volume is committed to comparative explorations, dealing with European authors of particular importance such as Jean Paul Sartre, André Malraux, and Danilo Kis.
Among the contributors are Rüdiger Görner (London), Gisela Dischner (Hannover), Chris Bezzel (Hannover), and Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa (National University of Ireland, Galway).
Thesis title: 'An Other Tongue: Language and Identity in Translingual Writing'
Abandoning one’s mother tongue for another language is one of the most profound aspects of exile experience, often... more
Abandoning one’s mother tongue for another language is one of the most profound aspects of exile experience, often fraught with feelings of loss and alienation. Yet the linguistic switch can also be viewed as an advantage: the adopted language becomes a refuge, affording the writer creative distance and perspective. This thesis examines the effects of this switch as reflected in the works of two translingual Jewish authors, Stefan Heym (1913-2001) and Jakov Lind (1927-2007). Both were forced into exile after their lives in Germany and Austria were shattered by the rise of Nazism, and both chose English as a medium of artistic expression at certain periods of their lives.
Reading these authors’ works within their post-war historical context, the thesis argues that translingualism is associated with a psychic split as the self is divided between its languages. This schism manifests itself differently in the writing of each of these authors, according to their distinct perceptions of their identity and place in the world: in Lind’s work, it is experienced as a schizophrenic existence, and in Heym’s – as an advantageous doubling of perspective.
The first chapter focuses on autobiographical writing in a foreign language, exploring how self and language are bound together in Lind’s English-language autobiographies. The second chapter draws on Bakhtin’s notion of dialogism as it considers the relationship between narration, ideology and propaganda in Heym’s war novel The Crusaders. The third chapter examines Lind’s and Heym’s representations of the writer in their fiction, and how their translingualism defines their perception of their own identity and role as writers. The final chapter shows how the two authors reinterpret the figure of the Wandering Jew to construct different visions of a humanistic Jewish identity that correspond to their own diasporic existence.
ADALBERT STIFTERS SCHRECKLICH SCHÖNE WELT: Beiträge des Internationalen Kolloquiums zur Stifter-Ausstellung.
Germanistische Mitteilungen.
Zeitschrift für deutsche Sprache, Literatur und Kultur.
Heft 40 (1994) (= Acta Austriaca-Belgica. Bd. 1)
Hrsg. von Roland Duhamel, Petra Göllner, Johann Lachinger & C. Ruthner
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Hrsg. von Roland Duhamel und Clemens Ruthner
BRECHTS ERBE
Germanistische Mitteilungen
Zeitschrift für Deutsche Sprache, Literatur und Kultur
Heft 48 (1998)
Hrsg. von Roland Duhamel, Luk Van den Dries und Clemens Ruthner.
INHALT
> Bernhard Beutler: Grußwort
> Vivian Liska: Zum Geleit - Brecht und Kafka
> Jan... more
INHALT
> Bernhard Beutler: Grußwort
> Vivian Liska: Zum Geleit - Brecht und Kafka
> Jan Knopf: Brecht als Produzent
> Michel Vanhelleputte: Brechts Weltbejahung. Zu einer Konstante seiner geistigen Haltung
> Albrecht Betz: "Der Text ist primär und die Musik nicht sekundär". Über Brecht und Eisler
> Roland Duhamel: Metaliterarische Diskurse bei Brecht
> Bart Philipsen: Das Zaudern der Macht. Tragödie & Demokratie im ‘Antigonemodell 1948’
> Luk Van Den Dries: Heiner Müller. Brechts erster Erbe
> Kurt Vanhoutte: Mimesis, Technologie und Gestus. Das Erbe Brechts
> Clemens Ruthner: Germanisten am toten Mann. Ein (belgisches) Nachspiel mit Jelinek
> Kurt Palm: bertolt. du! du! dich. John Fuegi, Brecht und die Frauen
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PERIPHERE IDENTITÄTEN in der deutschsprachigen Literatur nach 1945
Germanistische Mitteilungen
Zeitschrift für Deutsche Sprache, Literatur und Kultur
Heft 55 (2002)
Hg. Anke Bosse & Clemens Ruthner
INHALT:
* B.H. Philipsen: Hinkend zwischen Ich und Ich.
Bekenntnisse oder: der Vater-Topos in Heiner... more
INHALT:
* B.H. Philipsen: Hinkend zwischen Ich und Ich.
Bekenntnisse oder: der Vater-Topos in Heiner Müllers
später autobiographischer Prosa
* A. Gilleir: "Was zu erstreiten wir nicht aufgegeben haben:
das menschenwürdige Leben"
Dissidente weibliche Literatur aus der DD
* I. Dusar: Die Mythologie der Wienerin.
Ingeborg Bachmanns Arbeit am habsburgischen Mythos
im Zeichen poetischer Gerechtigkeit
* I. Arteel: Stirb und Werde. Der Subjektbegriff in Friederike
Mayröckers Das Herzzerreißende der Dinge
* J. Ceuppens: Im zerschundenen Papier herumgeisternde
Gesichter. Fragen der Repräsentation bei W. G. Sebald.
RILKES POETIK UND DIE FOLGEN
Germanistische Mitteilungen
Zeitschrift für Deutsche Sprache, Literatur und Kultur
Heft 54 (2001)= Acta Austriaca-Belgica Bd. 3
Hg. Roland Duhamel, Patricia Linden & Clemens Ruthner
Red. Anke Bosse
INHALT:
* V. Liska: Lieben Sie Rilke? Eine Hinführung
* J.W. Storck: "Gunst... more
INHALT:
* V. Liska: Lieben Sie Rilke? Eine Hinführung
* J.W. Storck: "Gunst und Hass."
Vom feuilletonistischen Umgang mit Rilke
* R. Duhamel: Zur philosophischen Positionierung Rilkes
* A. Jacobs: "alles ist zur Stille um-gestaltet."
Rilkes lyrische ‘Spiele’ im Kontext des Symbolismus
* W. Müller-Funk: Kunst als religiöser Trost.
Kritische Anmerkungen zu Rilkes Arbeit am Orpheus-Mythos
* A. Bosse: "Auch die sternische Verbindung trügt."
Aspekte der Rilke-Lektüre Paul de Mans
* P. Linden: "Die leidenschaftlichste Inversion der Welt"
Weiblichkeit, Psychose und Schrift in Rilkes Malte-Roman
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UNTER/ORDNUNGEN: Herrschaft, (Ohn)Macht und Anarchie bei Thomas Bernhard
Germanistische Mitteilungen
Zeitschrift für Deutsche Sprache, Literatur und Kultur
Heft 60 (2004) - 61 (2005)= Acta Austriaca-Belgica 4
Hg.: Clemens Ruthner & Sonja Malzner
INHALT:
* C. Ruthner: Macht-Spiele. Kulturwissenschaftliche Kategorien
als Propädeutik... more
INHALT:
* C. Ruthner: Macht-Spiele. Kulturwissenschaftliche Kategorien
als Propädeutik zum Werk Thomas Bernhards
* M. Mittermayer: Besitzbeziehungen.
Über ein Macht-Modell in Thomas Bernhards Literatur
* M. Tabah: Macht und Gender in Th. Bernhards Erzählung Ja
* L. Bloemsaat-Voerknecht: Die Macht der Hör-Gewohnheit.
Beobachtungen zur Musik bei Thomas Bernhard
* D. Strigl: Geher und Untergeher.
Zur tödlichen Subordination unter das Genie
* W. Müller-Funk: Hohe Schule des Hyperbolische.n
Übertreibung als essayistische Konfiguration
* A. Bosse: Die Macht der Theatralität
in Thomas Bernhards Prosa
* E. Kovács: Autor und Leser als Richter. Forensische und
rhetorische Lektüren zu Thomas Bernhards Holzfällen
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