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Die Frankfurter Poetikvorlesungen werden im Wintersemester 2014/15 einen etwas anderen Weg beschreiten: Unter dem Motto „Poetiken zwischen den Künsten – Dialoge mit der Literatur“ werden die Bezüge zwischen musikalischen, filmischen und literarischen Kompositionen ausgelotet. Für dieses Projekt konnten der Komponist Wolfgang Rihm und der Regisseur Dominik Graf gewonnen werden. Die Musikwissenschaftlerin Prof. Marion Saxer und der Filmwissenschaftler Prof. Vinzenz Hediger stellen im Folgenden die beiden neuen Poetikdozenten vor.
Bereits im November 2013 verstarb Prof. Dr. phil. Gundi Gompf, die sich große Verdienste um den Fremdsprachenunterricht in der Grundschule erworben hatte. Gundi Gompf wurde 1976 auf eine Professur für „Didaktik der Englischen Sprache und Literatur“ an der Goethe-Universität berufen. Diese Tätigkeit nahm sie bis zu ihrer Pensionierung im Jahre 2005 wahr.
Impairment in past tense production as well as interaction between tense and aspect have been found in both fluent and non-fluent aphasia (e.g. Dragoy & Bastiaanse, 2013). Inflection has been found to be relatively preserved in semantic dementia (SD) (Thompson et al., 2012). The aims of the present study are a) to compare the morphosyntactic abilities of patients with aphasia and SD in tense and aspect marking and b) to explore the interaction of lexical (+/- telic) and grammatical (perfective/imperfective) aspect in aphasia and SD. A sentence completion task was administered to 30 native speakers of Greek: 10 patients with aphasia (6 anomic, 2 Wernicke and 2 agrammatic), 10 age and education-matched controls, 5 patients with SD and 5 controls. The material consisted of unergative, unaccusative and transitive verbs (12 of each verb class) and the participants had to apply present (imperfective) and past (perfective) tense. Unergative and unaccusative verbs differ in terms of their aspectual properties with the unergative being [-telic], and unaccusative [+telic]. Transitive verbs vary. A principal distinction between the tested conditions was the standard ummarked combination ([+telic] verbs in past perfective and [–telic] verbs in present imperfective) vs. the marked one ([+telic] verbs in present imperfective and [–telic] in past perfective). Both control groups performed at ceiling in all conditions. Aphasic participants were significantly more impaired than the control group in all conditions. SD participants were significantly more impaired than the controls only in the production of present tense (M-W U= 1.5, p= 0.024). There was no difference between past perfective and present imperfective for neither group, but there was an interaction between verb class and tense for the aphasic participants, as performance in unaccusative verbs in past perfective (unmarked condition) was significantly better than in unergatives in past perfective (marked condition) (Z=2.512, p=0.012) but performance in unaccusatives in present imperfective (marked condition) was significantly worse than performance in unergatives in present imperfective (unmarked condition) (Z=2.680, p=0.004). In sum, aphasic participants performed significantly better in the unmarked than in the marked conditions. Such an interaction was not found for the SD group. Aphasic participants performed significantly worse than the SD subjects in past perfective tense (M-W U= 7.5, p=0.029) in total, and the difference was significant only for unaccusative verbs (M-W U= 6.5, p=0.021), although both groups performed very well in this condition. There was no difference in present, neither for each verb class separately nor for the total score. A general past tense deficit cannot be upheld for either group. Rather, SD participants appear relatively impaired in producing present tense. We argue for slight morphosyntactic impairment in SD, although with a different underlying cause than in aphasia. Moreover, our data suggest an effect of aspectual markedness in aphasia but not in SD. We discuss this finding in the light of the different neuropathology of the two populations.
Talking about emotion and sharing emotional experiences is a key component of human interaction. Specifically, individuals often consider the reactions of other people when evaluating the meaning and impact of an emotional stimulus. It has not yet been investigated, however, how emotional arousal ratings and physiological responses elicited by affective stimuli are influenced by the rating of an interaction partner. In the present study, pairs of participants were asked to rate and communicate the degree of their emotional arousal while viewing affective pictures. Strikingly, participants adjusted their arousal ratings to match up with their interaction partner. In anticipation of the affective picture, the interaction partner’s arousal ratings correlated positively with activity in anterior insula and prefrontal cortex. During picture presentation, social influence was reflected in the ventral striatum, that is, activity in the ventral striatum correlated negatively with the interaction partner’s ratings. Results of the study show that emotional alignment through the influence of another person’s communicated experience has to be considered as a complex phenomenon integrating different components including emotion anticipation and conformity.
More than 100 years after Henry James’s death, criticism is still working through unresolved gender issues in his fiction. This study proposes a new interdisciplinary approach to the gendered power relations in James’s novels that fills a crucial vacancy in the literature. Reading James’s intricately woven narrative form through the lens of relational sociology, specifically Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic domination, reconciles some of the most fiercely disputed positions in James studies of the past decades. With its focus on gender-related symbolic domination, this study demonstrates this approach’s potential to probe the depths of James’s fictional social worlds while developing the narratological tools to do so.
Many critics have paid attention to the relational nature of James’s social fictions as well as his talent for capturing unspoken, invisible, hidden social constraints. Blatantly missing from the literature is a systematic relational analysis into the specifically Jamesian method of narrating the socio-psychological, embodied responses to power and oppression. The present study closes this research gap. It reveals how James persistently narrates his characters as social agents whose perception, affects, and bodily practices are products of the social structures that they in turn continue to shape and reproduce. Moreover, it traces a development throughout James’s career that reflects his growing sensitivity for the stubbornness of some seemingly insurmountable social constraints. James’s fictional social worlds are relational ones through and through. This study is the first sustained effort to investigate the way in which his narratives capture this interrelatedness.
This article focuses on the opportunities and challenges of implementing an extensive reading project in an English as a foreign language classroom in Germany. Studies such as PISA have shown that comparatively poor German and foreign language reading skills are still a prevalent issue in German society today. Consequently, the question of how these poor results can be improved is of utmost importance. Reading motivation is often described as the ‘driving force of reading’. Research has shown that if reading motivation and reading for pleasure are supported, interest in reading in a foreign language can be created, which may in turn have a positive impact on the other influential factors in reading and related skills. Dörnyei’s framework of L2 motivation sums up the current thinking on reading motivation. With its constituents ‘language’, ‘learner’, and ‘learning situation’, it shows the aspects to be taken into consideration when it comes to the improvement of motivation. Within this theoretical framework, an ER project was conducted at a grammar school (Gymnasium) in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. On the basis of the gathered data, gained from questionnaires, worksheets and the transcript of a focus group discussion, six main categories could be identified. They point to the development of a positive attitude towards reading among the students and the potential of graphic novels as a motivating factor. It was also confirmed that a successful application of reading strategies led to increased motivation. Generally, the project showed that reading is still an issue amongst many teenagers and that an ER project can affect learners, their motivation and related language skills in a positive way.
Introduction
(2014)
Das Kino ist ein Ort, in dem das Kindliche vorausgesetzt und reaktiviert wird: kindlicher Glaube, kindlicher Wunsch und kindliche Ängste. Darum ist das Kino im freud'schen Sinne ein unheimlicher Ort par exellence, vor allem weil dort die Doppelgänger des Lebens erfahren werden, nämlich die Filme. Doppelgänger bezeichnet zwar ein aus narzisstischem Verhältnis entstandenes Spiegelbild, das aber im Laufe der Zeit zum Schattenbild wird, das uns dann an dem Tod erinnert. Das Kino bietet aus diesem Grund einen Möglichkeitsraum, in dem unser altes Ich sterben und neues Bewusstsein gewonnen werden kann, und zwar so wie die lacan'sche Trias den Heilungsprozess erklärt: durch den narzisstischen bzw. imaginären und symbolischen Tod, gelangt das Subjekt zum Realen, wo es sich seine eigene Realität erschafft.
Die vorliegende Studie befasst sich mit Stanley Kubricks letztem Film Eyes Wide Shut als Metafilm, der filmisches Sehen räumlich repräsentiert. Der Film wurde von Arthur Schnitzlers Traumnovelle inspiriert, die die sexuelle Ambivalenz in einer glücklichen Ehe durchforstet und die geträumte Untreue der Ehefrau mit dem wirklichen Versuch des Ehemannes gleichsetzt. Der Film verweist zudem auf das Kindliche, einerseits indem der Protagonist als Stellvertreter des Zuschauenden agiert, der wiederum wie ein Kleinkind wirkt, und andererseits indem die Frauen wie Puppen erscheinen. Das Augenmerk der Arbeit richtet sich auf die Erzählsituation sowie auf die geschlechterspezifische Darstellung, wobei die Dreierbeziehung zwischen Kubrick, Eyes Wide Shut und den Zuschauenden mit dem Erzählschema von Gérard Genette untersucht wird. Mit Eyes Wide Shut schuf Kubrick außerdem ein Metakino, indem er die innerfilmische Struktur die außerfilmische widerspiegeln ließ.