FRIAS Book Series "linguae & litterae"

Volume 22

Arthur Schnitzlers intertextuelles Erzählen

Aurnhammer, Achim

Intertextuelle Anleihen und Bezugnahmen auf literarische Muster prägen Arthur Schnitzlers erzählende Schriften viel stärker als bisher bekannt. Die kürzlich rekonstruierte ‚virtuelle Bibliothek‛ Schnitzlers erlaubt es, die intertextuellen Bezüge in seinem Werk zu präzisieren und die produktive Verarbeitung der Lektüren sowie die Dialogizität von Prätext und Posttext genauer zu bestimmen. Der vorliegende Band vereint exemplarische Studien solcher Prosatexte, die erstens markant die interpretatorische Ergiebigkeit der ‚virtuellen Bibliothek‛ belegen, zweitens Schnitzlers intertextuelle Produktionsästhetik in ihren unterschiedlichen Facetten besonders augenfällig zeigen und die drittens die Frage beantworten lassen, ob und inwieweit Schnitzlers Verfahren während seiner dichterischen Laufbahn eher konstant bleiben oder dynamischen Entwicklungsprozessen unterworfen sind. Dank der Unterscheidung von figuraler und narratorialer Intertextualität lassen sich auch die Personalisierung der Anleihen und ihre Funktion genauer deuten. Folgende Erzähltexte werden untersucht: Die Toten schweigen (1897), Die Nächste (1899), Lieutenant Gustl (1900), Andreas Thameyers letzter Brief (1902), Der letzte Brief eines Literaten (1917), Fräulein Else (1924) und Die Traumnovelle (1926).

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Volume 21

Realisms in Contemporary Culture

Theories, Politics, and Medial Configurations

ed. by Birke, Dorothee / Butter, Stella

‘Realism’ is a pervasive term in discussions of contemporary developments in the cultural sphere. By drawing on different theories of realism, the authors explore how the term may be used as a helpful concept in order to analyse and evaluate current trends in cultural production and, in turn, how cultural production changes our understanding of what counts as ‘realism’. The contributions deal with realism in narrative fiction, drama and audiovisual media (film, television news) within the context of national traditions: examples drawn on in the case studies range from Africa, Britain, Germany, Iceland, Russia, Turkey to the United States. While the authors take their cues from media-specific ‘realisms’, focusing especially on narrative fiction, the volume also highlights continuities and intersections between notions of realism in different genres and media. With its original essays, this collection invigorates the transdisciplinary engagement with forms and socio-political functions of realism in contemporary culture.

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Volume 20

Interaction and Mobility

Language and the Body in Motion

Ed. by Haddington, Pentti / Mondada, Lorenza / Nevile, Maurice

How do people interact when they are on the move? How do people interact in order to be mobile? How do people coordinate the mobility of others? How does mobility feature in social interaction? ‘Multimodal interaction’ and ‘mobility’ are of increasing interest to scholars across disciplines. Interaction and mobility is the first book to study these aspects comprehensively. It provides cutting-edge research by international scholars who use video-recordings of real-life everyday interactions for studying in close detail human social interaction in such diverse multimodal settings as airplanes, cars, traffic control centres, dance schools, museums and other public places, and as part of such activities as instructing, navigating, identifying an enemy on the battlefield, organising a meeting, playing videogames, shopping, performing and dancing. Together, these studies highlight features of social interaction, including language, embodied conduct, and spatial and material orientation, for being mobile, for interacting on the move, so that mobility becomes a ubiquitous feature of our lives. This book is a valuable resource to anyone interested in multimodal interaction and mobility.

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Volume 19

Nachkriegsmoderne

Transformationen der deutschsprachigen Lyrik 1945-1960

In diesem Band untersucht der Autor die Transformationen der deutschsprachigen Lyrik zwischen 1945 und 1960. Problematisiert wird das literarhistorische Analysemodell, demzufolge die westdeutsche Nachkriegsliteratur nach dem nationalsozialistischen Traditionsbruch vor allem durch eine Anverwandlung der ‚klassischen‛ Moderne westlicher Prägung charakterisiert sei. Deshalb geht es zunächst um die Rekonstruktion von Moderne als Diskussionszusammenhang, der im literarischen Leben nach 1945 sukzessive reflektiert und neu ausgehandelt wird, vor allem mit Blick auf kulturkritisch geprägte literaturpolitische Selbstverständigungsprozesse der frühen Nachkriegsjahre. Im Zentrum stehen exemplarische Studien zu Gottfried Benn, Bertolt Brecht, Günter Eich, Peter Huchel, Karl Krolow, Paul Celan, Ingeborg Bachmann, Peter Rühmkorf und Hans Magnus Enzensberger. Ergebnis der Untersuchung ist die kritische Revision der prominenten Auffassung einer raschen Assimilation von Poetiken der lyrischen Moderne nach 1945. Stattdessen wird Nachkriegsmoderne als komplexe ästhetische Übergangs- und Orientierungsphase vor dem Hintergrund der von Restauration und Modernisierung geprägten janusköpfigen 1950er Jahre vorgeschlagen.

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Volume 18

Prosody and Embodiment in Interactional Grammar

Ed. by Bergmann, Pia / Brenning, Jana / Pfeiffer, Martin / Reber, Elisabeth

Studies in Interactional Linguistics have provided impressive evidence of the systematic use of vocal, verbal, and visual resources in social interaction. While members of the field have discussed what role these resources play in a grammar of social interaction, they have focused primarily on lexico-syntactic structures. The contributions to the present volume, however, focus on prosody and embodiment, exploring the role prosody plays in interactional meaning-making and how visual-spatial resources such as gesture and gaze relate to the use of verbal and vocal resources. This volume includes contributions on Danish, English, French, German, and Swedish interaction, with a primary focus on Interactional Linguistics and additional work from multimodal corpora. This volume will be of theoretical and methodological interest to readers with a background in Linguistics, Conversation Analysis, and multimodal corpora.

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Volume 17

Dialectological and Folk Dialectological Concepts of Space

Current Methods and Perspectives in Sociolinguistic Research on Dialect Change

Ed. by Hansen, Sandra / Schwarz, Christian / Stoeckle, Philipp / Streck, Tobias

In variational linguistics, the concept of space has always been a central issue. However, different research traditions considering space coexisted for a long time separately. Traditional dialectology focused primarily on the diatopic dimension of linguistic variation, whereas in sociolinguistic studies diastratic and diaphasic dimensions were considered. For a long time only very few linguistic investigations tried to combine both research traditions in a two-dimensional design – a desideratum which is meant to be compensated by the contributions of this volume. The articles present findings from empirical studies which take on these different concepts and examine how they relate to one another. Besides dialectological and sociolinguistic concepts also a lay perspective of linguistic space is considered, a paradigm that is often referred to as “folk dialectology”. Many of the studies in this volume make use of new computational possibilities of processing and cartographically representing large corpora of linguistic data. The empirical studies incorporate findings from different linguistic communities in Europe and pursue the objective to shed light on the inter-relationship between the different concepts of space and their relevance to variational linguistics.

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Volume 16

Comic und Literatur: Konstellationen

Ed. by Schmitz-Emans, Monika

Die vielfältige Kontaktaufnahme des Comics mit der Literatur und der Literatur mit dem Comic ist in der literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Forschung bislang kaum Thema gewesen. Die Beiträge des Bandes verdeutlichen das breite Spektrum an Aspekten, unter denen die Beziehung zwischen Comic und Literatur zu betrachten ist, an verschiedenen Beispielen. Behandelt werden u.a. Alberto Breccia, Dino Buzzati, Dante, Alan Moore, Reinhard Kleist, Marcel Proust und Joann Sfar.

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Volume 15

Meid, Christopher: Griechenland-Imaginationen

Reiseberichte im 20. Jahrhundert von Gerhart Hauptmann bis Wolfgang Koeppen

Griechenland dient bis weit ins 20. Jahrhundert als ein zentraler, teilweise hoch ideologisierter Projektionsraum für die deutsche Identitätsfindung und -konstruktion. Auch nach Abflauen des traditionellen Philhellenismus ist der Bezug auf dieses Land unter veränderten Vorzeichen aktuell: Nietzsches Tragödien-schrift, die Arbeiten von Jacob Burckhardt und anderen Autoren bilden den Hintergrund dieser Versuche, sich einer immer noch als maßgeblich erachteten Kultur anzunähern. Dabei kommt gerade der Reiseliteratur eine besondere Bedeutung zu, da sie besondere Strategien der Authentisierung und Beglaubigung ermöglicht.

Diese Studie untersucht deutschsprachige Reiseberichte über Griechenland aus dem Zeitraum von 1908 bis 1962, den Erscheinungsjahren der Texte von G. Hauptmann und W. Koeppen. Erstmals wird ein wesentlicher Bestandteil des deutschen Griechenland-diskurses zugänglich gemacht, in übergreifenden Strömungen verortet und eingehend analysiert: Die Bandbreite reicht von den Subjektivitätsentwürfen der Jahrhundertwende (Hauptmann, Hofmannsthal) über die politisch akzentuierten Reiseberichte aus der Weimarer Republik und dem Dritten Reich (Kästner) bis hin zu den skeptischen Distanzierungen der Nachkriegsjahre (Koeppen).

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Volume 14

Wissensformen und Wissensnormen des Zusammen-Lebens

Literatur - Kultur - Geschichte - Medien

Ed. by Ette, Ottmar

Die Debatte um die Frage nach dem Lebenswissen hat weiter an Fahrt aufgenommen, seitdem der Begriff im Jahr 2007 von Ottmar Ette in die kultur-wissenschaftliche Diskussion eingeführt wurde. Die im vorliegenden Band versammelten Beiträge versuchen, diese Diskussion entscheidend voranzutreiben und neue Horizonte aktuellen wie künftigen literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Denkens und Handelns aufzuzeigen. Der Band geht auf ein internationales Symposium zurück, das im Juli 2010 am Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies stattfand. Der Stil wissenschaftlicher Konvivenz, der bei diesem Symposium geschaffen wurde, kommt in allen hier versammelten Texten zum Ausdruck. Europäische wie außereuropäische, philologische wie philosophische, fachgeschichtliche wie medienhistorische, erzähl-theoretische wie literarästhetische, transkulturelle wie transdisziplinäre Ansätze messen die Dimensionen eines Forschungsgebietes aus, dessen Wissens-formen und Wissensnormen es selbst noch näher zu bestimmen gilt. Dieser Herausforderung ist der Band verpflichtet.

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Volume 13

Linguistic Complexity

Ed. by Bernd Kortmann / Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (2012)

Linguistic complexity is one of the currently most hotly debated notions in linguistics. The essays in this volume reflect the intricacies of thinking about the complexity of languages and language varieties (here: of English) in three major contact-related fields of (and schools in) linguistics: creolistics, indigenization and nativization studies (i.e. in the realm of English linguistics, the “World Englishes” community), and Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research: How can we adequately assess linguistic complexity? Should we be interested in absolute complexity or rather relative complexity? What is the extent to which language contact and/or (adult) language learning might lead to morphosyntactic simplification? The authors in this volume are all leading linguists in different areas of specialization, and they were asked to elaborate on those facets of linguistic complexity which are most relevant in their area of specialization, and/or which strike them as being most intriguing. The result is a collection of papers that is unique in bringing together leading representatives of three often disjunct fields of linguistic scholarship in which linguistic complexity is seen as a dynamic and inherently variable parameter.

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Volume 12

Counterfactual Thinking – Counterfactual Writing
Ed. by Dorothee Birke / Michael Butter  / Tilmann Köppe  (2011)

Counterfactuality is currently a hotly debated topic. While for some disciplines such as linguistics, cognitive science, or psychology counterfactual scenarios have been an important object of study for quite a while, counterfactual thinking has in recent years emerged as a method of study for other disciplines, most notably the social sciences. This volume provides an overview of the current definitions and uses of the concept of counterfactuality in philosophy, historiography, political sciences, psychology, linguistics, physics, and literary studies. The individual contributions not only engage the controversies that the deployment of counterfactual thinking as a method still generates, they also highlight the concept’s potential to promote interdisciplinary exchange without neglecting the limitations and pitfalls of such a project. Moreover, the essays from literary studies, which make up about half of the volume, provide both a historical and a systematic perspective on the manifold ways in which counterfactual scenarios can be incorporated into and deployed in literary texts.

Volume 11

Zahlen, Zeichen und Figuren
Mathematische Inspirationen in Kunst und Literatur
[Numbers, Signs and Figures]
Ed. by Andrea Albrecht / Gesa von Essen / Werner Frick (2011)

This anthology examines the relationship between mathematics and the fine arts from medieval to contemporary times, and uses important historical paradigms to investigate the impact of mathematically structuring knowledge, and quantification, formalization and abstraction processes on creativity in music, visual arts and poetry. The focus is on two main issues: thematic reflections of mathematics in art and literature, and the mathematical structuring principles of formal aesthetic design processes.

Volume 10

Schmitz-Emans, Monika: Literatur-Comics. Adaptionen und Transformationen der Weltliteratur. [Literary Comics]
In collab. with Bachmann, Christian A. (2011)

Comics und Graphic Novels stehen in einer doppelten ästhetischen Tradition: Verfasser von Metacomics (Eisner, McCloud) betonen sowohl die Fundierung in der Geschichte der bildenden Kunst als auch die Beziehung zu Formen erzählerischer Darstellung. Viele Klassiker der Weltliteratur wie Goethes Faust, Melvilles Moby Dick und die Erzählungen Kafkas haben eine ganze Reihe von Umsetzungen in den Comic erfahren, und heute existiert ein eigener Kanon des Literaturcomics. Diese engen Beziehungen des Comics zur Literatur werden in den Kapiteln dieses Bandes anhand von Beispielen aus dem internationalen Kanon ausführlich analysiert. Die ausgewählten Comic-Adaptionen werden exemplarisch vorgestellt und theoretisch reflektiert. Diese Monographie wird sowohl der Comic- als auch der Intermedialitätsforschung als Standardwerk dienen und ihnen wichtige Impulse verleihen.

Volume 9

Unnatural Narratives - Unnatural Narratology
Ed. by Jan Alber / Rüdiger Heinze (to be published September 2011)

In recent years, the study of unnatural narratives has become an exciting new but still disparate research program in narrative theory. For the first time, this collection of essays presents and discusses the new analytical tools that have so far been developed on the basis of unnatural novels, short stories, and plays and extends these findings through analyses of testimonies, comics, graphic novels, films, and oral narratives.

Many narratives do not only mimetically reproduce the world as we know it but confront us with strange narrative worlds which rely on principles that have very little to do with the actual world around us. The essays in this collection develop new narratological tools and modeling systems which are designed to capture the strangeness and extravagance of such anti-realist narratives. Taken together, the essays offer a systematic investigation of anti-mimetic techniques and strategies that relate to different narrative parameters, different media, and different periods within literary history.

Volume 8

Figurenwissen. Funktionen von Wissen bei der narrativen Figurendarstellung [Character Knowledge. Functionalization of Knowledge in Narrative Character Representation]
Ed. by Lilith Jappe / Olav Krämer / Fabian Lampart (2011)

The anthology makes an important contribution to the research topic ‘Literature and Knowledge’ and picks up on the current narratological discussion on literary characters. The key question addressed in this volume is the function of knowledge in the production and reception of literary texts. Literary studies on works from different national literatures and periods are supplemented by insightful contributions from history, linguistics and philosophy, illuminating the discussion for the first time from a multilayered perspective.

Volume 7

Oliver Steven Ehmer: Imagination und Animation. Die Herstellung mentaler Räume durch animierte Rede [Imagination and Animation. The Creation of Mental Spaces through Animated Speech] (2011)

Imagination in conversations: This book explores a mental phenomenon from a conversation analytic perspective. It analyses sequences from interactions in which the speakers assume the roles of characters, animate what they say and put themselves in an imagined scene. Imagination is understood as conversational activity and mental phenomenon to establish a shared cognition. The study provides an important contribution to the topic of imagination and impressively combines the research fields of interactional linguistics and cognitive semantics.

Volume 6

Constructions: emerging and emergent. Ed. by Peter Auer / Stefan Pfänder (2011)

On the basis of empirical studies on spoken English, German, Hebrew, Swedish and French, the volume addresses the following questions: How can what initially appears to be construction x end up being construction y in on-line syntax? What are the local interactional needs which such processes respond to in the process of their emergence? Does the on-line (re-)modelling of a construction concern its syntactic or semantic side - or both? And finally: Should emergent grammatical structures as they unfold in real time be seen as stages in the emerging of grammar?

Volume 5

Visuelle Evidenz. Photographie im Reflex von Literatur und Film. [Visual Evidence] Ed. by Barbara Korte / Sabina Becker (2011)

During the 19th century, photography was almost absolutely considered to represent a medium guaranteeing authenticity. By contrast, in literature and film of the 20th century, it was precisely this characteristic attributed to the photographic method that was problematized and varied. Based on specific case studies from literature and film, the collected contributions of this book focus on the evidence of photography and its presentation in different, specifically narrating forms. The authors are scholars of German, English and Romance literature and the cultural sciences as well as media scholars.

Volume 4

Literatur und Wissen. Theoretisch-methodische Zugänge. [Literature and Knowledge] Ed. by. Tilmann Köppe (2010)

The philological and philosophical-aesthetic research area on “Literature and Knowledge” is very complex. The contributions of this book provide a survey of this research area and develop approaches to evaluate current theories and methods. Thus, the variety of case studies is supplemented by a primarily theoretically oriented perspective. The book covers, among other things, the explication of the key terms “literature” and “knowledge” and the classification of knowledge transfer to the functional spectrum of (fictional) literature. The various contributions give a basic overview of this complex research area.

Volume 3

Anna Alissa Ertel: Körper, Gehirne, Gene. Lyrik und Naturwissenschaft bei Ulrike Draesner und Durs Grünbein [Bodies, Brains, Genes] (2010)

German poetry of the 1990s is characterized by an intense examination of its relationship with the sciences. This book focuses on the works of the authors Durs Grünbein and Ulrike Draesner, two of the most important contemporary German poets, who increasingly take up scientific questions and motifs in their poems and essayistic texts on the nature and function of poetry. The study provides an important contribution to the current discussion on “Literature and Science”.

Volume 2

Thomas Klinkert: Epistemologische Fiktionen. Zur Interferenz von Literatur und Wissenschaft seit der Aufklärung [Epistemological Fictions. On the Interference of Literature and Science since the Enlightenment] (2010)

This monograph investigates the relationship between literature and science against the background of the functional differentiation of modern society. Using examples from different linguistic areas ‑ French (Diderot, Rousseau, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Proust, Houellebecq), German (Goethe, Freud, Musil), Italian (Vico, Manzoni, Pirandello, Svevo, Calvino, Del Giudice) and Spanish (Pío Baroja, Borges, Cortázar, Volpi) ‑ the book shows that despite the widening gap between literature and science, interferences occur which are poetologically and epistemologically revealing.

Volume 1

Günter Saße:Auswandern in die Moderne. Tradition und Innovation in Goethes Roman "Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre"  [Journey into the Modern Age] (2010)
Goethe wrote Faust II and Wilhelm Meister’s Journeyman Years over a period of decades. Both works thematize the beginning of the 19th century as an epochal shift marking the end of century-old traditions and the advent of modernity. Especially the Journeyman Years, the novel of Goethe’s old age, shows how ‘the new’ was manifested as the universal utilitarization of all areas of reality. This study interprets the novel as medium of reflection that integrates the knowledge of the present and past, in order to present it in the protagonists’ actions and experience as a means of ‘beholding understanding’.