Produktive Fehler, konstruktive Missverständnisse = Erreurs productives, malentendus constructifs (Colloquium Helveticum ; 46.2017)
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The erroneous translation of Aristotle's Poetics by the famous Andalusi philosopher Averroes seems to be one the fundamental reasons why an autochthon Arab theater appeared quite late, namely after the Napoleonic campaign of 1798 in Egypt which started an extensive process of acculturation between the Arab countries and the West. Our contribution will explore the first theatrical experience in the Arab world, that of the Lebanese Mārūn Naqqāš (1817-1855): as every initial experiment, his attempt is inevitably voted to errors and misunderstandings. The analysis of errors will allow us to reflect on the new readings and interpretations of Western theatrical heritage made by the first Arabic drama.
EINKANTER, un des derniers poèmes de Paul Celan, se penche sur Rembrandt et traduit sensiblement non seulement les traits visibles, mais également les effets et la signification de sa remarquable peinture. Les stratégies rhétoriques et poétiques de son poème répondent aux exigeances du genre de l'Ekphrasis, mais elles poursuivent en même temps le développement de sa poétique. Selon Celan, le but suprême de la poésie est de rendre possible le mystère d'une recontre avec autrui. En parlant simultanément de l'oeuvre du peintre et du poème lui-même, EINKANTER est la réalisation parfaite de cette rencontre, c'est-à-dire entre la peinture de Rembrandt et la poésie de Celan. L'article est une lecture précise du poème qui révèle les différentes procédures linguistiques de l'Ekphrasis et les conditions dans lesquelles le mystère de cette rencontre se produit.
Am 6. Juli 1916 notierte Ludwig Wittgenstein in seinem Tagebuch: "Und insofern hat wohl auch Dostojewskij recht, wenn er sagt, dass der, welcher glücklich ist, den Zweck des Daseins erfüllt." Diese Aussage ist eingebettet in Überlegungen zur Beziehung von Ethik und Ästhetik in seinem Tagebuch, die später in den 'Tractatus logicophilosophicus' einfliessen (ab Satz 6.42). Die Figur Dostojewskijs, die am explizitesten solche Sätze aussprach, wie den oben zitierten, ist der Starez Sosima aus den 'Brüdern Karamasow'. Wittgenstein hat diesen Roman so oft gelesen, dass er ihn nahezu auswendig konnte, insbesondere die Reden des Starez Sosima. Obwohl Wittgenstein darauf bestand, dass Ethik "unaussprechbar" ist, deutet er an, dass Literatur das gute Leben "zeigen" kann. Somit überschreitet er die Grenzen der frühen analytischen Philosophie, die sich an mathematischen Wissenschaften orientierte und sich möglichst von der Kunst abzugrenzen suchte.
Le miroir intermédial : "Sneewittchen" des Grimm et "Blancanieves" de Pablo Berger en comparaison
(2017)
Contemporary studies about film adaptations of literary texts face many obstacles when it comes to compare two different media. They either tend to establish how faithful the film adaptation is to its textual source or they consider the literary text as canonical, which as such cannot be transposed to any other form. This contribution aims to cross the borders of 'adaptation studies' and offers an intermedial comparison between the Grimms' tale 'Sneewittchen', first published in 1812, and 'Blancanieves', a black and white silent movie directed by Pablo Berger and released in 2012. Regarding 'Blancanieves' not only as an adaptation of the Grimms' text(s), but also and above all as a reconfiguration of numerous media forms (film, photography, opera, among others), reveals how the Spanish director differentiates himself from the German tale and creates a new story with renewed meanings which echo the current social, economical and political situation of Spain.
Robert Walser's text "The Walk" enacts a narrative that is genuinely describable as one 'on the border' to non-narrativity. This paper takes a look at how "The Walk" uses indicators of narrativity / narrativeness in order to subvert them, especially by dissolving narrative times. This leads to narrative performativity. Its narrative techniques are mirrored in the very Walserian self-description of eating a meal. In the central episode of the "The Walk" the protagonist eats "pieces" (German "Stücke"), what in Walser's terminology means both sweets and narratives ("Prosastückli"). This leads to a circle of intertextuality, in which the writer reads his own text and re-writes it at the same time. Nonetheless, "The Walk" is not a pure manifestation of self-reflexivity because its non-systematic narration is undeniable. Walser's "The Walk" formulates and follows a poetics of "narrating-as-writing" which highlights both performativity and materiality of the act of narration.
Through the influence of postcolonial studies one tried to cross borders by alleviating all kind of differences such as the experience of strangeness. However, these differences still exist as we can come to know in everyday life. Andrea Leskovec insists on this experience of strangeness as basis for her "Alternativer hermeneutischer Ansatz für eine interkulturell ausgerichtete Literaturwissenschaft" (2009, 2011) based on the ideas of Bernhard Waldenfels. This approach combined with Lösch' and Breinig' theory of transdifference permits a well-founded literary analysis in consideration of current experiences. The exemplary analysis of "Nur Gute kommt ins Himmel" by D. Rajčić provides a first insight into the range of this approach. This includes the terminology for describing phenomena of strangeness in literary textes such as the appropriateness of this approach considering the plurality and diversity of (literary) reality.
Some errors are simply annoying, others are productive. Errors are productive when they function as triggers for processes that let the mistake appear as a chance to discover new perspectives or approaches to a solution. Productive errors suggest that the criteria for judging what seems right or wrong themselves should and have to be understood as mutable, since cultural processes of development cannot be thought in any other way. The article investigates what the productivity of errors can imply in the field of literature. Both literary examples discussed (Benjamin, Guggenmos) make recourse to the idea of a childhood of language: What might appear as an error to adults can indicate the beginning of a productive, linguistically sensitive engagement with the world for children (or for adults who can carry their minds back to that condition).
Depuis 2012, le programme doctoral CUS/CRUS (désormais Swissuniversities) de littérature générale et comparée s'efforce d'offrir un lieu et un réseau d'échanges et de pensée aux jeunes chercheurs de la littérature comparée et des différentes langues et littératures étudiées dans les universités suisses. L'orientation de ce programme le place doublement en position de transgression. D'une part, la littérature comparée est par essence une science du dépassement; la comparaison, la mise en réseau et l'éclairage croisé des langues et des littératures vont de pair avec l' "au-delà" d'un sujet préalablement circonscrit; comparer suppose la mesure d'un espace, l'expérience de ses limites et leur franchissement. D'autre part, l'invention d'un cadre réunissant à la fois des doctorants, des chercheurs plus confirmés et des professeurs, où puissent se discuter aussi bien des questions théoriques que les problèmes concrets auxquels la recherche expose les uns et les autres, invitait à ne pas se priver d'un questionnement croisant plusieurs approches. Nous avons donc imaginé un programme ouvert autant aux questions esthétiques et littéraires (les représentations des frontières et de leur transgression, la forme que ces représentations pouvaient adopter) qu'aux sujets engageant une métaréflexion sur les limites de nos outils de recherche et les conditions réelles d'une transdisciplinarité qui serait plus que programmatique (une théorie et une pratique de la transgression des limites).
De la productivité de l'erreur en contexte pédagogique 'kairos', abduction et poétique du cours
(2017)
In this paper we shall examine how error can constitute an occasion of improving the context of learning. Taking error into account, trying to understand and follow the way that led the student to make it, the Professor betters his empathy. Hence, thanks to this mimicry, the Professor enters into the student's process of thinking and the poetics of the course becomes more inclusive. Turning error into "kairos", the course truly becomes a moment of collective individuation.
This article analyzes some cases of lack of understanding as well as of misunderstandings and errors, voluntary or otherwise, which punctuate the sessions of French- Russian Studio, an important place of intellectual and cultural exchanges between Russian émigrés and French intellectuals between the Wars. These errors and misunderstandings turn out to be rather productive ones, leading sometimes to lively discussions. Two notions, humanism and intellectualism, become a real stumbling block to debates: being regularly referred to at the sessions devoted to Gide, Valéry, Proust and Descartes, they are differently interpreted by Russian and French debators. This reflects not only the explicit difficulties in translation of philosophical and cultural notions but also some implicit discrepancies in production of meaning.
