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Die Schriftstellerin Katja Lange-Müller hat in ihren fünf Frankfurter Poetikvorlesungen über »Das Problem als Katalysator« doziert. Der UniReport hatte nach der dritten Vorlesung, in der sie sich unter anderem mit Kurt Tucholsky und Wolfgang Hilbig beschäftigte, die Gelegenheit, mit ihr zu sprechen – natürlich erst, nachdem sie unzählige Bücher signiert hatte.
Die von der Friedrich Stiftung sowie von der Vereinigung von Freunden und Förderern der Goethe-Universität unterstützte Ringvorlesung richtet sich an Studierende und Lehrende sowie an die interessierte Öffentlichkeit.
Sie wird am 19. April 2016 um 18 Uhr (c.t.) im Casinogebäude Raum 1.801 (Renate-von-Metzler-Saal) beginnen – und in der Folge jeweils dienstags von 16 bis 18 Uhr im Raum HZ 13 des Hörsaalzentrums auf dem Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität fortgesetzt werden.
"Che tempo, che tempo": Geology and Environment in Max Frisch’s 'Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän'
(2016)
Critical readings of Frisch’s Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän [Man in the Holocene] have tended to read its heterogeneous and inter-medial form as a code for the mental disintegration of its protagonist. This paper argues instead that this feature can be seen as a poetological engagement with geological and climatic timescales. Due to its hybrid form, the incorporation of a multiplicity of textual fragments and pictorial representations, the text undermines both conventional definitions of narrative and representations of nature. Holozän’s non-linear structure establishes an aesthetic of slowness that ushers in an awareness of the utterly different time schemes of geological and climatic processes. Furthermore, the importance of the material features, such as an interplay between text and image and the disconnected, paratactical arrangement of sentences mirrors the novel’s focus on natural phenomena. Frisch’s narrative establishes a poetics that tries to reach beyond the confinements of an anthropocentric perspective and thereby subverts the borders between culture and environment.
Understanding a sentence and integrating it into the discourse depends upon the identification of its focus, which, in spoken German, is marked by accentuation. In the case of written language, which lacks explicit cues to accent, readers have to draw on other kinds of information to determine the focus. We study the joint or interactive effects of two kinds of information that have no direct representation in print but have each been shown to be influential in the reader's text comprehension: (i) the (low-level) rhythmic-prosodic structure that is based on the distribution of lexically stressed syllables, and (ii) the (high-level) discourse context that is grounded in the memory of previous linguistic content. Systematically manipulating these factors, we examine the way readers resolve a syntactic ambiguity involving the scopally ambiguous focus operator auch (engl. “too”) in both oral (Experiment 1) and silent reading (Experiment 2). The results of both experiments attest that discourse context and local linguistic rhythm conspire to guide the syntactic and, concomitantly, the focus-structural analysis of ambiguous sentences. We argue that reading comprehension requires the (implicit) assignment of accents according to the focus structure and that, by establishing a prominence profile, the implicit prosodic rhythm directly affects accent assignment.
This commentary on Edwin Carels’ essay “Revisiting Tom Tom: Performative anamnesis and autonomous vision in Ken Jacobs’ appropriations of Tom Tom the Piper’s Son” broadens up the media-archaeological framework in which Carels places his text. Notions such as Huhtamo’s topos and Zielinski’s “deep time” are brought into the discussion in order to point out the difficulty to see what there is to see and to question the position of the viewer in front of experimental films like Tom Tom the Piper’s Son and its remakes.
Anankastic relatives
(2016)
This dissertation investigates a semantic puzzle in German concerning certain sentences with an intensional transitive verb and a modalized relative clause modifying its indefinite object. In their unspecific reading, the modal inside the relative clause seems to lack a semantic contribution and the construal of the relative clause appears spuriously ambiguous between a restrictive and an appositive reading. However, as a thorough discussion of a wide range of data reveals, the embedded modal is actually anaphoric to the matrix attitude and does contribute to the sentence meaning. But then, precisely due to its anaphoricity, this semantic contribution is restricted and in some cases very subtle; in particular, the semantic phenomenon under scrutiny cannot be analyzed as an instance of modal concord. Rather, previous observations on related data involving epistmic anaphoric modals and anankastic conditionals turn out to indicate the direction for an adequate analysis of the relevant semantic observations. For the restrictive construal, a conservative account is developed containing a fine-grained Lewis-Kratzer-style modal semantics, but with a twist: the anaphoricity of the modal is taken care of by restricting the anaphoricity of the modal to the ordering source of the matrix verb; moreover, the embedded modal receives a historical modal base. In this way compositionality issues and problems of cross-identification are avoided. Finally, the non-restrictive construal is analyzed as an instance of modal subordination, exploiting the well-studied parallel between appositive relatives and discourse anaphora.
Sich mit Christa Wolf auf einen „Spaziergang durch ein Stück deutscher Künstlerlandschaft der letzten Jahrzehnte“ zu verabreden heißt, die Künstlerin von einer neuen, bisher unbekannten Seite kennenzulernen.
Als Autorin ist sie keine Unbekannte. Ihr Werk erfuhr internationale Anerkennung und eine umfassende Rezeption, was sich in zahlreichen Monographien und Einzeluntersuchungen niederschlug. In der Akademie der Künste in Berlin lagern nach Schenkungen von Gerhard Wolf und des Luchterhand Literaturverlags ungefähr 1000 Bände Archivmaterial mit Werkmanuskripten aller Schaffensperioden sowie zugehörige Materialien und Druckschriften, Privat- und Geschäftskorrespondenz sowie zahlreiche Leserbriefe und Rezensionen. Die Bibliothek der Akademie beinhaltet die gesamte Primär- und Sekundärliteratur sowie zahlreiche weitere Dokumente.2 So sind hier „Zeugnisse gelebten Lebens, künstlerischer Entwicklungen, menschlicher Beziehungen bewahrt, individuelle und Zeitgeschichte eingefangen“...