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The "Zeitschrift für Semiotik":
Anne Bohnenkamp Franziska Schößler Werner Stauffacher J. Ulrich Binggeli Henriette Herwig Brigitta Oesch Peter Rusterholz Preisverleihung Ulf Harendarski Peter Rusterholz Bärbel Tischleder
Literaturwissenschaftliche Intertextualitätsforschung im Spannungsfeld konkurrierender Intertextualitätsbegriffe Henriette Herwig Summary. This introductory essay discusses the forms and functions
of relations between literary texts. It presents relevant intertextuality
theories including the taxonomies developed in them and distinguishes
the narrow descriptive intertextuality concept from the broad ontological
one. With regard to relations between literary texts, the author argues
in favor of a semiotically based, context-oriented combination of the
aesthetic aspects of both text production and text reception. The essay
concludes with summaries of the articles in this thematic issue.
Intertextualität als Realisation
von Weltliteratur: Anne Bohnenkamp Summary. This paper begins by considering Goethe’s use of the
term „landscape“ and deals both in the broad sense and narrow
sense of the term with the intertextual structures of this epistemological
and aesthetic key concept of the modern age. The paper focuses on the
role of landscape descriptions in Faust and analyzes their
forms and functions in Goethe’s drama. An intertextual reading
of the opening scene of Faust II, „Anmutige Gegend“,
demonstrates that the landscapes described there are dialogically related
both to the natural scenery in Dante’s Commedia and to
the perception of landscape in Byron’s Manfred. Regarding
the concepts and uses of landscape, Goethe’s Faust can
be considered a realization of Goethe’s idea of a „world
literature“ constituted by intertextual relations.
Markierte Zitate und Kultur als Intertext: Varianten der Intertextualität in Thomas Manns Roman Königliche Hoheit Franziska Schößler Summary. This essay aims to show that narrow and broad conceptualizations
of intertextuality are not necessarily oppositional and can provide
readings of a text which augment each other. The first section analyzes
Thomas Mann’s second novel Königliche Hoheit, tracing
its marked and unmarked intertextual references to Carnegie’s
mercantile manual Empire of Business; the second section relates
this comedic novel to the (textual) culture of its time. Background
is provided by the broad concept of intertextuality as applied in discourse
analysis and New Historicism. Central to this ‚cultural contextualization’
is the notion Leistungsethos in Thomas Mann, Max Weber, and
Nietzsche, which can be used to elucidate the function references to
Carnegie have in Mann’s novel.
Intertextualität und Rezeptionsgeschichte
bei Alfred Döblin: „Goethe dämmerte mir sehr spät.“ Summary. Reception history and intertextuality can be understood as
basic and closely related perspectives on the phenomenon of literature.
Their relationship is similar to that between diachrony and synchrony.
Reception history has to do with sequences, interrelations, and conflicts
occurring with their historical contexts. The intertextual approach,
on the other hand, analyzes and compares the structures of texts. This
paper focuses exclusively on the aspect of reception history, especially
on Döblin's reception of Goethe. Part of the material dealt with
could, however, be the starting point for an additional piece of research
focusing on intertextual relations, which in turn would have to be structured
differently – both methodologically and terminologically.
Intertextualität und Lektüresemiotik:
Der Räuber-Roman von Robert Walser Summary. Arguing from a perspective combining semiotics and reader-response
criticism, this paper suggests that the novel Die Räuber
produced by the Swiss author Robert Walser – the most elaborate
and most disturbing piece emerging from the so-called Bleistiftgebiet
– can be read as a love story of sorts. Hitherto, structuralist
and post-structuralist readings of the text have focused on the immanent
structures of the novel itself. Those readings were responses to approaches
interested in the philosophy of history, social ethics, depth psychology,
or religious iconography. As a new paradigm of literary theory, intertextuality
research concentrates on the mirror function of Walser’s texts.
By examining the relations between the novel Die Räuber
and its predecessor texts, such as Vulpius’s robber novel Rinaldo
Rinaldini and Schiller’s drama Die Räuber,
this paper demonstrates the deeply ironic position of the text’s
narrator and its partly comical handling of the subject of love.
Intertextualität als Mittel der Assimilations- und Orthodoxiekritik in Joseph Roths Hiob. Roman eines einfachen Mannes Henriette Herwig Summary. Based on a semiotic and reader-oriented conception of intertextuality,
this paper combines the ethnographic question of how Eastern European
Jewish life is represented in Joseph Roth’s novel Hiob with the
poetic question of how the text instrumentalizes its intertextual relations
to three Old Testament narratives, namely the Book of Job, the legend
of Joseph, and the story of Debora – the judge, prophet, and female
war leader. It is shown that the conception of Mendel Singer as a Job-like
figure, which is suggested by the book’s title, is relativized
by the increasingly prominent intertextual references to the legend
of Joseph. On the other hand, the intertextual relation between Deborah
and the Book of Judges suggests an understanding of Mendel’s wife
that corrects the novel’s intratextual misogyny. The novel responds
to the experience of crisis caused by the delusion of Jewish hopes for
assimilation in European society and activates the biblical legends
in a demythologizing manner, thus rejecting both national assimilation
and the retreat to orthodoxy as political solutions.
Schiffbruch des Erzählens: Eine intertextuelle Lektüre der Rotkäppchen-Version in Ilse Aichingers Roman Die größere Hoffnung Brigitta Oesch Summary. This essay analyzes the intertextual relations between the
fairytale Little Red Riding Hood as published by the Grimm
brothers and Ilse Aichinger’s version of Little Red Riding Hood
in her novel Die größere Hoffnung. It is shown how
the reference to a single text can be used to instrumentalize an entire
narrative tradition and its constitutive conditions ex negativo. The
literary topos of storytelling staged to preserve life and the hope
of living is destroyed by a fictional frame-story thematizing the persecution
and annihilation of Jewish children in the “Third Reich”.
The text-immanent poetic theory of Aichinger’s novel is based
on the failure of a traditional setting of story-telling, mirroring
the problematic nature of narrating after 1945.
Vom ,Werk’ zur Intertextualität
der Stoffe: Peter Rusterholz Summary. Different notions of sign, language, and art lead to different
notions of intertextuality. This paper presents various conceptions
and functions of intertextuality in relation to the central problems
of contemporary theory of literature and interpretation. The development
of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s own understanding of author and
text paradigmatically demonstrates the move from the concept of a closed
work towards a concept of open text systems based on intertextual relations. |
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