{"title":"Im Sog des Untergangs","authors":"Christian Seebald","doi":"10.3790/ljb.62.1.67","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3790/ljb.62.1.67","url":null,"abstract":"Drawn into Doom. On the Conception of Narrative Suspense in the Nibelungenlied This paper examines the potential and the structure of narrative suspense in the Nibelungenlied, as it specifically evolves in the final part of the Middle High German epic, beginning with Kriemhild’s treacherous invitation. Due to the inevitability of the catastrophe, the expectations of the reader or listener are directed at those details of the plot which are part of the text’s distinct interpretation of the traditional story, so that possible anticipations reside in the questions of ›how‹ and ›when‹, while not completely disregarding the question of ›what‹. The complex and extensive build-up of suspense towards the end can be regarded as a genuine product of the literarization of oral lore.","PeriodicalId":224780,"journal":{"name":"Volume 62 · 2021","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133363192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Legendarisches Erzählen und die Poetik literarischer Sachlichkeit in Joseph Roths Roman Tarabas. Ein Gast auf dieser Erde (1934)","authors":"Moritz Strohschneider","doi":"10.3790/ljb.62.1.265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3790/ljb.62.1.265","url":null,"abstract":"Legendary Narrative Schemes and the Poetics of Literary ›Sachlichkeit‹ in Joseph Roth’s Novel Tarabas. Ein Gast auf dieser Erde (1934)\u0000 The article examines Joseph Roth’s position on the literature of ›Neue Sachlichkeit‹ using Tarabas as an example. In the first part, it analyses the statements made in Roth’s essays and shows that the author necessarily wants the literary representation of reality to be linked to its aesthetic formation. It then goes on to examine how Tarabas draws on legendary narrative schemes in the biography of its protagonist but problematizes them with regard to the necessary observation of reality. In a concluding third step, it shows that through the person of the protagonist the novel exaggerates and thus rejects essential aspects of the anthropology of ›Neue Sachlichkeit‹.","PeriodicalId":224780,"journal":{"name":"Volume 62 · 2021","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131791192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mandel’štam. Rom. Pasolini","authors":"Chiara Caradonna","doi":"10.3790/ljb.62.1.291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3790/ljb.62.1.291","url":null,"abstract":"Mandel’štam. Rome. Pasolini\u0000 In 1972 a small volume presented for the first time a varied choice of poems by the Russian poet Osip Mandel’štam to the Italian public, translated by Serena Vitale. One of the book’s first and most enthusiastic readers was the poet, film director and intellectual Pier Paolo Pasolini, who immediately reviewed it for the Italian newspaper Il Tempo. This review shows the great significance that Mandel’štam’s poetry acquired for Pasolini in the very last years of his life. So much so, that the first verse of Mandel’štam’s late poem, With the world of the powerful …, became the motto of Pasolini’s last, unfinished novel Petrolio. While offering a reading of this poem by Mandel’štam, the present article investigates the reasons for Pasolini’s passionate interest in the Russian poet, and sheds light on the political dimension of both Mandel’štam’s and Pasolini’s œuvre.","PeriodicalId":224780,"journal":{"name":"Volume 62 · 2021","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122301128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Zum historischen Roman in Frankreich und Italien: Balzac, Flaubert und Manzoni","authors":"Joachim Küpper","doi":"10.3790/ljb.62.1.239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3790/ljb.62.1.239","url":null,"abstract":"On the Historical Novel in France and Italy: Balzac, Flaubert, and Manzoni\u0000 Created by Walter Scott, the historical novel owes its immense and persistent success to the fact that it foregrounds an impression linked to the rapid political, social, and economic change at the end of the 18th century: individual fate may be contingent on either the will of a god or the inscrutable lottery of genes; but it is certainly dependent on historical circumstances, as well as an individual’s ability to cope with them. – This essay discusses three prominent 19th-century paradigms of the genre. Focusing primarily on Le Père Goriot, L’Éducation sentimentale, and I promessi sposi, it argues that each of the texts encapsulates conceptualizations of history that remain dominant well unto the present day. Balzac offers a (religiously based) historical optimism. Flaubert’s radical pessimism is grounded in the belief that all historical change is nothing but a series of ultimately irrelevant surface phenomena. Manzoni’s moderate political scepticism suggests that a rigorously rational approach to the problems emerging as a result of historical events may not be able to make this world a better place but might still help to prevent major catastrophes.","PeriodicalId":224780,"journal":{"name":"Volume 62 · 2021","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114898097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Die Begriffsfeier","authors":"Yashar Mohagheghi","doi":"10.3790/ljb.62.1.211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3790/ljb.62.1.211","url":null,"abstract":"The Celebration of Concepts. On the Homology of Festival and Hymn in Hölderlin and in the French Revolution\u0000 The present contribution aims to show that Hölderlin’s Tübingen hymns from 1790 to 1794 are influenced by the festivals of the French Revolution and its hymns. The Revolutionary festivals are staged as epochal rites of passage seeking to enact the turn towards a new age. Hölderlin’s hymns follow the dramaturgy of the festivities and thus represent a festive poetics. The homology of festival and hymn, typical of the period, conditioned their convergence in the political movement of the eighteenth century. Self-expression through joy serves the bourgeois self-assertion; it is reflected both in a new, self-referential festival type and in the release of the movere principle in literature. Against this background, the solemnity inherent in the hymn becomes topical, and in the context of the republican emotional culture, hymnal enthusiasm serves as self-affirmation. The movement of language and emotion that has been inherent in the hymn since Klopstock thus gains political valence and makes it the ideal genre for staging the movement of awakening and departure. In the late, post-revolutionary hymns the festival is a commemorative ritual recurrently executing the temporal transition in the historical present.","PeriodicalId":224780,"journal":{"name":"Volume 62 · 2021","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122070240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Zweifel, Skeptizismus und das Dilemma der Wahrheitsfindung in der höfischen Epik des Mittelalters","authors":"Christiane Witthöft","doi":"10.3790/ljb.62.1.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3790/ljb.62.1.33","url":null,"abstract":"Doubt, Scepticism, and the Dilemma of Establishing the Truth in Middle High German Epic. An Outline of a Research Field\u0000 The article reflects on the specific uses of doubt as a productive method of ascertaining truth in Middle High German Epic (12th to 14th centuries). Intra-textual debates on the correct interpretation of alternative claims to truth and the presentation of opposing points of view trigger a cognitive and emotional effect of doubt which strongly resonates in metaphors, images and rhetorical figures. Additionally, doubt inspires poetic (and narrative) techniques, motifs and character types which extant research has failed to recognise as interconnected. The purpose of this article is to introduce a research field that is concerned with the analysis of courtly scepticism in secular traditions of literature.","PeriodicalId":224780,"journal":{"name":"Volume 62 · 2021","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123427849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vom Problem einer demokratischen Ästhetik zur Ästhetik einer problematischen Demokratie","authors":"A. Franke","doi":"10.3790/ljb.62.1.321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3790/ljb.62.1.321","url":null,"abstract":"From the Problems of a Democratic Aesthetic to the Aesthetics of a Problematic Democracy\u0000 In analyses of poems from the 18th, 20th and 21st century, this article juxtaposes different degrees of trust in a democratic political order and the role of poetry in it. Philip Freneau, who supported a radical interpretation of the American Revolution as initiating a new and better social order, searched for a democratic poetics commensurate with the value placed on common people. For Muriel Rukeyser and even more so, Langston Hughes in the 1930s, democracy felt threatened not only by fascism abroad but by racism and exploitation at home. In 2014, Claudia Rankines Citizen: An American Lyric registers, like Rukeyser and Hughes, the difficulties in constructing a consensual reality and pushes this notion much further; surprisingly, perhaps, her work continues to see art as important to alert us to this difficulty of modern democracies and divers societies.","PeriodicalId":224780,"journal":{"name":"Volume 62 · 2021","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127782698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Schatten des Lichts","authors":"Sergius Kodera","doi":"10.3790/ljb.62.1.151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3790/ljb.62.1.151","url":null,"abstract":"Shadows of Light. Giordano Bruno’s Promethean Dialectic\u0000 This article examines the status of shadows, in particular in Giordano Bruno’s ars memorativa. As ›traces of light‹, shadows not only embody the universal substrate of an infinitely extended material universe, but human action, thought and communication also necessarily depend on the medium of the shadow. Bruno’s mnemonics teaches the targeted, deliberately steered – if not even deceitful – handling of the shadows. In contrast to the Platonic tradition, he ascribes shadows a status that is independent of Platonic ideas. This article argues that Bruno thus develops out of a Platonic dialectic a specifically Promethean poetics, a universal art of the shadow. This, in turn, enables the embodied individual to shift the boundaries of knowledge and to arrange the things of this world.","PeriodicalId":224780,"journal":{"name":"Volume 62 · 2021","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116741618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Echo, Narcissus, and the Translator’s Distress","authors":"D. Fishelov","doi":"10.3790/ljb.62.1.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3790/ljb.62.1.11","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues that the story of Echo and Narcissus as told in Ovid’s Metamorphoses can serve as a fruitful, suggestive metaphor or ›myth‹ of the translator, especially of the driving passion and the unavoidable frustrations characteristic of the translation process. The connection between Echo and the translator seems obvious – they both share the principle of repetition, »echoing« a primary text – but there are also interesting differences between the two: whereas Echo’s repetition is forced, partial, and mechanic, that of the translator is a creative and holistic choice. As for Narcissus, I suggest that both Narcissus and the translator are engaged in a magic yet futile dance of intimacy, reflection, and passion with their beloved (image or text). They both try to get as close as possible to their beloved while risking its loss paradoxically from getting too close. I conclude with a table, mapping important similarities and differences between the story of Echo, Narcissus, and the »story« of the translator, emphasizing that, unlike the tragic ending of Echo and Narcissus, the activity of the translator is a vital and fertile part of literary life.","PeriodicalId":224780,"journal":{"name":"Volume 62 · 2021","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123378683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neue Blicke auf einen ›alten Dichter‹","authors":"Barbara Sasse","doi":"10.3790/ljb.62.1.91","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3790/ljb.62.1.91","url":null,"abstract":"»Old Poet«, New Readings: Recent Work on Hans Sachs and Perspectives for Future Research\u0000 Stimulated by the flourishing of research on literature and culture of the early modern period in recent decades across the disciplines, interest in the body of literary works by the Nuremberg author Hans Sachs (1494–1576) is also on the rise again. This paper offers a report on scholarship devoted to his wide-ranging creative output and published between the re-emergence of Sachs studies in the mid-1970s up until the present day. Beginning with a retrospective that is primarily thematic in structure, it then turns to a discussion (in terms both of methodology and of content) of the focus and findings of studies to date, including the consideration of continuing gaps and desiderata. The latter are in the main related to textual problems, but also touch on many other aspects (literary, historical etc.) yet to be properly examined. There follows, finally, a delineation, based on the status quo as presented, of four highly relevant fields of study: the report thus provides a thematic and methodological framework of potential use for future research.","PeriodicalId":224780,"journal":{"name":"Volume 62 · 2021","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124488143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}