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The "Death of Literature" will be doubted as an affirmation, but, on the other hand, it will be analysed as an effective and dynamic theme in the history of literature. Considering the "Advent of new Medias" (J. Hörisch) and with reference to J. Derrida it will be demonstrated that literature since antiguity is orientated on an not only phonetical, but also optical 'Imaginary', and it is always playing with the auto-transgressing of itself- and that consequently the audio-visual medias represent a very special challenge as they are a kind of 'fulfilling' of these intraliterary tendencies. Modern German-speaking authors react upon this new "anxiety of influence" (H. Bloom) in at least five ways: by retreating in the 'essence' of literature (askesis), by adopting various technical elements (adaptio), by historizing and 'outstripping' the medias (reductio), by pretending an anticipation of the innovations of the medias by the literature (anticipatio) and last but not least with a fight under equals, using all means (agon).
Das Thema stellt sich nicht nur im Blick auf die vom Medium Stummfilm geforderten Zwischentitel, sondern auch im weiteren Sinne. Seine Spannbreite reicht von den sogenannten 'Inserts', konkreten in der Filmhandlung auftauchenden schriftlichen Dokumenten, bis hin zu literarischen Referenzen und Motivkonstellationen. All dies zeigt, dass das frühe Kino als das 'neuere' Medium fortwährend auf das 'ältere', die Schriftkultur, Bezug nimmt, es zitiert und auratisiert, sich ebenso von ihm absetzt wie von ihm herleitet.
This article deals with the relevance of deconstructivist theory today, more precisely, in the context of modern philologies. The author introduces the theory of deconstruction with an "elementary gesture", which we can find in the use and the analysis of quotation marks in certain texts of Jacques Derrida. The quotation marks indicate a special treatment of the concepts of the Western metaphysical tradition; the moments of quotation, distance and literality are also important for the theory of literature of Paul de Man. The critical, non-ideological use of deconstructive concepts and their "lectio difficilior" is interesting for research into texts and interpretation.
The opposition city-country which appears already in Vergils Georgics and becomes very relevant in the British and French poetry of the 18th and 19th centuries, will be treated at first with regard to the German tradition of 'city-poetry'. Since about 1900 the phenomenon of the big city (metropolis) combines with demoniac and sublime motives, while French, English or American authors (Baudelaire, Wordsworth, Whitman) saw the city from a less ideological perspective. Only in the postwar-decade – after some anticipations by authors of Expressionism like Ernst Stadler or Gottfried Benn – the pluralistic, hybrid character of the city will be discovered also in German poetology. Some examples of Modern North American and Brazilian poetry will be analyzed in the last chapter of the article.