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The Right to Difference
Develops a theory of intercultural literature to reconcile diversity with traditional notions of German identity
Ab Initio Language Teaching in British Higher Education
Drawing extensively on the expertise of teachers of German in universities across the UK, this volume offers an overview of recent trends, new pedagogical approaches and practical guidance for teaching at beginners level in the higher education classroom. At a time when entries for UK school exams in modern foreign languages are decreasing, this book serves the urgent need for research and guidance on ab initio learning and teaching in HE. Using the example of teaching German, it offers theoretical reflections on teaching ab initio and practice-oriented approaches that will be useful for teachers of both German and other languages in higher education. The first chapters assess the role of ab...
Distant Kinship
This study of Joseph Conrad's influential work "Heart of Darkness" presents for the first time the German-language reception of this reference text in the debate on postcolonialism. The spectrum ranges from Conrad's contemporaries (like Kafka) to many canonical authors of the 20th century (including Thomas Mann, Ernst Jünger, Christa Wolf) to the most recent names in literature (i.e. Christian Kracht und Lukas Bärfuss). Beyond the readings of their works, the study contributes to the study of cultural transfers as well as to Conrad philology, and it expands the theory of intertextuality with parameters that capture the complex factor of power in postcolonial relations.
Heimat and Migration
Discourses of Heimat and of migration both negotiate questions of identity, belonging, and integration; moreover, despite the reemergence of right-wing, racist, and exclusionary uses of the term Heimat, there are in fact more recent German-language cultural texts that problematize and challenge a view of Heimat as a community that excludes the Other than there are promulgating it. This volume addresses the parallel proliferation of discourses of Heimat and of migration in contemporary German-language culture and demonstrates that the entanglement of migration and Heimat can be productive: it can help us to reframe what it means to have a home, to lose one, find one, or belong to one.
Novo Celje
Monografija prinaša celostno predstavitev arhitekture in nekdanje opreme razkošnega baročnega podeželskega dvorca Novo Celje in njegovega predhodnika, dvorca Plumberk. Temelji na metodologiji, ki izpostavlja lastnike gospostva, saj avtorica vlogo naročnikov in uporabnikov razume kot ključno. Od ambicij, izobrazbe in razgledanosti naročnikov so bili odvisni arhitekturna in umetnostna naročila ter izbor umetnikov. Za Antona grofa Gaisrucka so med letoma 1756 in 1761 ustvarjali odlični arhitekt, umetniki in obrtniki, ki so dvorec Plumberk prezidali v enega najveličastnejših baročnih dvorcev na Slovenskem in ga opremili z izbrano štukaturo, stropnimi poslikavami, slikanimi tapetami, slikami, kipi in pohištvom. Knjiga prinaša nova spoznanja o umetnostnih naročilih Gaisruckovih dedičev in življenju v dvorcu v času Jožefa Ludvika Hausmanna, knezov in starih grofov Salm-Reifferschaidt-Krautheim in baronov Turkovićev. Osvetljene so tudi prodaje plemiške dediščine po prodaji dvorca državi ter poti umetnin v muzeje in zasebne zbirke.
Discourses on Nations and Identities
The third volume of the collected papers of the ICLA congress "The Many Languages of Comparative Literature" includes contributions that focus on the interplay between concepts of nation, national languages, and individual as well as collective identities. Because all literary communication happens within different kinds of power structures - linguistic, economic, political -, it often results in fascinating forms of hybridity. In the first of four thematic chapters, the papers investigate some of the ways in which discourses can establish modes of thinking, or how discourses are in turn controlled by active linguistic interventions, whether in the context of the patriarchy, war, colonialism...
Postjugoslawische Reisen in der deutschsprachigen Literatur
Die Studie widmet sich signifikanten Veränderungen innerhalb des literarischen Feldes zum Erzählgegenstand Jugoslawien: Zwischen der Veröffentlichung von Peter Handkes Winterlicher Reise (1996) und Saša Stanišićs Erzählwerk Herkunft (2019) ist eine diskursive Verschiebung von ‚fremden‘, externen Perspektiven auf den (post-)jugoslawischen Kulturraum zu autobiographischen Erzähltexten zu beobachten, was sich besonders gut an der Handke-Nobelpreis-Debatte im Jahr 2019 erkennen lässt. Den Untersuchungsgegenstand der Studie bilden Erzähltexte, die auf eigenen oder familiären Erfahrungen von Flucht und Migration dreier Autor:innen aufbauen: Saša Stanišić, Jagoda Marinić und Mark...
Transdifferente Lehre
In der transdifferenten Lehre wird die kulturell heterogene Situation des zeitgenössischen akademischen Lehrbetriebs nicht als Hemmnis, sondern als didaktischer Ausgangspunkt angesehen und aktiv genutzt. Transdifferente Lehre wird nicht als ein Transfer kanonisierten Wissens verstanden, sondern als eine Form der Wissensproduktion im Seminar, zu der alle Beteiligten beitragen: durch den Einsatz der erkannten eigenen Andersheit. In das interdisziplinäre Konzept fließen Erkenntnisse aus den Bereichen der Hochschuldidaktik und der (interkulturellen) Literaturwissenschaft hinein. Antonina Balfanz schließt damit an die Differenzforschung an und schlägt vor, diese für den didaktischen Umgang mit Heterogenität in der akademischen Lehre zu nutzen.
