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Von allen wichtigen Texten Benjamins sind seine Sonette auf seinen Dichterfreund Christoph Friedrich Heinle, der seit 1913 mit ihm in der Jugendbewegung aktiv war und am 9. August 1914 verzweifelt über den Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs mit seiner Verlobten Rika Seligson Selbstmord verübt hatte, verhältnismäßig wenig von der Kritik gewürdigt worden. Entstanden sind die Gedichte vermutlich zwischen 1915 und 1925, mit Handschriften-Datierungen von vor Ende 1917 und nach Anfang 1918; ihr Manuskript befindet sich unter den Papieren Benjamins, die im Juli 1981 von Giorgio Agamben in der 'Bibliothèque nationale' in Paris gefunden wurden. Sie sind in einer komplexen Sprache verfasst, die verschiedene Vorbilder - darunter den Duktus Stefan Georges und den Spätstil Hölderlins - höchst eigenwillig weiterführt. Esoterische, oft rätselhafte Metaphern und willkürlich-kryptische Bilder, eine preziös-archaisierende Stilhöhe, grammatikalische Brüche und das syntaktische Zusammenhänge verschleiernde Fehlen der Interpunktion, durch diese Merkmale verweigern sich die Sonette einer hermeneutischen Entschlüsselung, die sich durch den Nachvollzug der Einzelheiten im Gesamtzusammenhang das Verständnis kohärenter Sinntotalität erhofft. Stattdessen sind die Leser darauf angewiesen, die sich immer wieder selbst verschleiernde Beziehung des lyrischen Ichs zu dem Verstorbenen durch ein Nachbuchstabieren bestimmter Textdetails so zu rekonstruieren, dass deren Inkonsistenzen, Sinnbrüche und Mehrdeutigkeiten nicht beseitigt, sondern als das Medium erkannt werden, in dem eine poetisch-erotische Liebe die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen ihrer eigenen Versprachlichung reflektiert. Diese performative Selbstreflexion - so meine Kernthese - geschieht vorrangig im Rahmen einer intermedialen Beziehung zwischen Schrift, Bild bzw. Blick und Musik. Dabei soll gerade der letzteren Kunstform besondere Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt werden, ist sie doch erst in jüngster Zeit systematisch von der Kritik behandelt worden.
Seit den 1980er Jahren entwickelte sich in den Literaturwissenschaften die Fragestellung nach den literarischen Konstitutionsbedingungen der Beschreibung fremder Kulturen. Dies untersuchte vor allem die narrativen Entwürfe der Begegnung mit dem Fremden in fiktio-nalen Texten. Das Schaffen Hermann Hesses bildet ein Beispiel dafür, dass unterschiedliche Mentalitäten unterschiedliche Wahrnehmungsformen von Kulturen präformieren.
Propomos neste texto indicar que a presença da Primeira Guerra na poesia de Georg Trakl vincula-se de modo inextricável à sua concepção sombria do mundo, em que o homem surge como um ser incontornavelmente desgraçado. Se nessa poesia resiste um romântico desejo de pureza, beleza e bondade, tal aspiração é continuamente refutada por imagens ameaçadoras do mal inerente ao mundo, dentre as quais as da Guerra talvez se imponham como as mais aterradoras. A fim de evidenciar esse vínculo, buscaremos primeiramente explicitar a experiência de prevalecimento do mal no poema "De Profundis" (De Profundis), escrito antes da Guerra, para em seguida analisar essa experiência nos poemas "Grodek" (Grodek) e "Lamento" (Klage), em que está diretamente associada a ela.
Um Wedekinds politisches Engagement und Denken am Vorabend und während des Ersten Weltkriegs zu verstehen, bedarf es zunächst einer Rückschau, denn so sehr auch individuelle politische Äußerungen sich auf ein aktuelles Tagesgeschehen beziehen, sind sie doch nicht nur allein aus diesem Kontext heraus zu verstehen.
Einen kleinen Ausschnitt der literarisch-künstlerischen Auseinandersetzung mit dem Weltkrieg möchte ich im Folgenden verfolgen, indem ich nachzeichne, wie sich der Erste Weltkriegs in drei Romane einschreibt, die man mit guten Argumenten als zentrale Texte der deutschsprachigen Literatur der Zwischenkriegszeit betrachten kann, sowohl thematisch als auch ästhetisch und programmatisch.
The reading of Kafka's "Metamorphosis" that I propose on the following pages is based on two assumptions that are derived from widely divergent approaches to Kafka's writings. The first is the offspring of psychological interpretation and recognizes that homologous unconscious strategies are operative in the "Letter to his father" and Kafka's tale. Josef Rattner, writing about the "Ur-Situationen", the "primal situations" that Kafka experienced as a child and which produced in him his most basic psychological attitudes (Rattner calls them Grundhaltungen), concludes: "Kafka's life is an incessant attempt to cope with his father-experience. His father is at the base of his anxiety of life and his crippling hypochondria. … Sadism and masochism are distinctive features of Kafka's works."
This essay deals with two retellings of Genesis: Thomas Mann's "Joseph and his brothers" and Anita Diamant's "The red tent". Both authors note the presence of implicit pagan tendencies among the women of Jacob's clan (Gen 31:19; 35:2) and develop this subtext for their respective ideological purposes. Thomas Mann creates a dichotomy between the backwardness of the pagan female realm and the progressive nature of the monotheistically-oriented patriarchs. The path toward modern humanist values comes from the likes of Jacob and Joseph rather than Rachel and Leah in Mann's novel. Anita Diamant, on the other hand, adopts the opposite attitude, namely, that the paganism of Rachel, Leah, as well as other women in Jacob's family, is a humane and natural form of spirituality in contrast to the bloodthirsty Yahwism of Jacob and his sons. The latter point is illustrated by the sacking of Shechem. In order to question the patriarchal stance of the Old Testament Diamant reverses the key values informing the theology of the Bible. Thus, in "The red tent" Jacob's wives venerate the Ashera in particular. The latter constitutes a challenge to the stance of the Deuteronomic History where the cult of the Ashera is viewed as a key reason behind God's decision to let the Babylonians destroy the Southern Kingdom of Judah. And since Mann's novel upholds the patriarchal spirit of the biblical text, Diamant enters into debate with the continuity of female disempowerment which reaches all the way from Genesis to "Joseph and his brothers".
It is commonplace to assert that the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament is based on an androcentric position. Although critics have tried to introduce some sort of female empowerment by reassessing various biblical stories (cf. Savina Teubal, 1984), Genesis remains a man's realm with only a limited female perspective. The case of Dinah's rape by Shechem in Genesis 34 illustrates the marginality of womanhood in the biblical world and theology. The pericope tells us that, while the Israelites are settled near the Hivite city of Shechem in Canaan, Jacob's and Leah's daughter Dinah goes out of the Israelite camp. She is raped by Shechem, the prince of the eponymous city, who then abducts her and makes her one of his household. A deal is concluded by Jacob's sons and the Shechemites, according to which the situation can be made legitimate through marriage if the men of Shechem circumcise themselves. While the Shechemites are weak at er the surgery, the Israelites sack the city, kill all the males and take Dinah back.
The Book of Job from the Old Testament is juxtaposed in detail with its hypertext in Thomas Mann's novel: the chapter where Jacob mourns for his "dead" Joseph. An argument is made that Mann's awareness of rabbinical literature creates a connection with the Akedah tradition, i.e., different ways of dealing with the sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham in Genesis. The notion that Abraham actually does kill Isaac, as suggested by a medieval rabbinical text, is interwoven into the analysis of Jacob's mourning for Joseph who appears as an Issaac-like sacrificial victim in Mann's novel. A connection is established between Abraham, Job and Jacob as figures whose children are claimed by God, and their reactions to this test are compared.
The argument proceeds from the documentary hypothesis in modern biblical studies. This hypothesis is based on the assumption that the 1st 5 books of the Old Testament were written by four different authors at different times. These authors are known as J, P, E and D. Their writing was joined in the 5th c. B.C.E. into what became the Pentateuch and the first part of the Old Testament. The result of this joining was a series of contradictions and redundancies in the final text as we have it today. Readers of the Bible who seek to read it as one coherent text try to naturalize these contradictions by what I call "stitching." Stitching involves putting coherence back into the Pentateuch by accounting for the contradictions and redundancies in terms of plausibility and common logic. Modern authors who write versions of Old Testament stories, such as Thomas Mann in his "Joseph and his brothers", also engage in stitching. I demonstrate how Mann stitches a number of important episodes from the Patriarch saga. I discuss the effect of this process on the story line. I compare that to two other recent instances of biblical stitching in modern fiction. And I conclude with the argument that stitching in modern biblical hypertexts stems from the need for coherence in the modern realistic novel. This post-enlightenment coherence impulse is contrasted with myth and the latter's tolerance for loose ends and less than coherent narrative.
Sholem Asch's epic novel "Moses" has been criticized for a number of shortcomings. One of the main reproaches has do with Asch's attempt to present myth as history in a serious and at times "stuffily reverential" style (Siegel 194). Leslie Fiedler compares Asch's retelling of Exodus-Deuteronomy to Thomas Mann's version of Genesis in "Joseph and his Brothers" and argues that Asch, unlike Mann, lacks the irony of Mann's approach which is essential for handling mythological material in the modern age. Fiedler maintains that Mann's novel is superior to Asch's because Mann does not try to modernize the original material by rationalizing it (Fiedler 73-4). While there is much truth in what Fiedler says about "Moses", the contrast between Mann and Asch is not quite so clear-cut. Undoubtedly, the two authors did handle their material in radically different ways. However, both authors were writing modern realistic novels, i.e., they were dealing with a genre that demands structural coherence. And in this respect one must not overemphasize the difference between Asch's and Mann's treatment of myth.
Partindo das considerações de Gianni Vattimo e de Jürgen Habermas sobre a instauração nietzschiana da pós-modernidade como uma "despedida" à modernidade ocidental e ao tipo de racionalidade a ela associada, este texto analisa o modo pelo qual uma "crítica autorreferencial da razão" (Habermas) é efetivamente engendrada pelo pensamento estético nietzschiano, de modo a reconsiderar os termos pelos quais a própria "despedida" pós-moderna deve ser concebida.
Em 1903, Arthur Schnitzler publicou a peça "Reigen" (port. "A ronda"), a qual apresentava dez diálogos, cada qual se desenvolvendo antes e depois de uma conquista sexual. A obra pretende apresentar comportamentos típicos de diferentes classes sociais através da forma como se comportavam para chegar ao mesmo objetivo. A ciranda sexual apresentada no texto causou comoção em sua época e foi criticada por sua alegada imoralidade. Em 1950, a peça foi transposta para o cinema em um filme de Max Ophüls. Sua obra buscou ser fiel ao original, mas também concedeu uma certa leveza ao tema, o que parece indicar um alargamento nos padrões morais diante o sexo. Em 2012, Fernando Meirelles filmou uma releitura da peça de Schnitzler: "360". Na atualidade, uma era marcada pela liberação sexual, o filme não mantém a leveza dada por Ophüls, mas, pelo contrário, é pesado e trata de relações interpessoais através do prisma do sentimento de culpa provocado por traições ou desejos sexuais reprimidos. Neste artigo, será discutido como a temática do desejo e dos impulsos sexuais trazida por Schnitzler se transformou com a passagem de mais de um século, e como a questão da ética foi modelada a cada obra e seu tempo.
The article examines the reception of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's works by two Czechoslovak authors writing in German: Max Brod and Josef Mühlberger. The reception of Hofmannsthal's oeuvre is reflected primarily in Brod's novel "Mira", Brod's correspondence with Hofmannsthal, and Mühlberger's essay "Hugo von Hofmannsthal". The article explores how both authors depict the Viennese poet and what they consider to be Hofmannsthal's main significance and legacy for future generations. The article also compares Brod's and Mühlberger's statements with thematically similar texts by the Austrian author.
The author of the study examines the relations between the poetry of the German expressionist Georg Heym (1887–1912), the Austrian expressionist Georg Trakl (1887–1914), and Czech literature, especially poetry. Both these authors are representatives of early expressionism. Heym is also known in the Czech lands through the translations of Bohuslav Reynek, František Vrba, Ivan Slavík, Ludvík Kundera and Radek Malý. Trakl's work affected the development of modern Czech poetry through translations by Bohuslav Reynek. Specific and significant manifestations of Trakl's influence can already be found in the work of Bohuslav Reynek and in the first two collections by František Halas. In varying degrees, the authors have left traces in the poetry of František Hrubín, Vilém Závada and Jan Zahradníček. The echoes of Trakl's poetry can be heard in the 1960s in the work of the poet Zbyněk Hejda.
The friendly relationship between the renowned Munich doctor Wilhelm Schenk von Stauffenberg and the Austrian author Hugo von Hofmannsthal can be viewed in terms of the writer's life and work. This study traces the contacts between the two men, describes their shared interests and shows how Hofmannsthal planned to depict Stauffenberg in his works. These issues are viewed against the background of Stauffenberg's and Hofmannsthal's friendship with Countess Mechtilde Lichnowsky, who introduced the two men in 1909; the paper traces the mutual contacts until Stauffenberg's death in 1918.
Dějiny šlechtického rodu Lichnowských otevírají vhled do evropského kulturního panoramatu od poslední čtvrtiny 18. století až do konce první poloviny 20. století. Členové této knížecí rodiny se proslavili nejen svou vlastní literární a hudební tvorbou, ale také kulturními kontakty se soudobými umělci. Taktéž biografie kněžny Mechtildy Lichnowské (1879–1958) je protkána přátelstvími s německy a anglicky píšícími autory, hudebními skladateli a v neposlední řadě soudobými malíři. Předložená studie navazuje na dlouhodobý výzkum zabývající se fenomenální kulturní kontinuitou šlechtického rodu Lichnowských a přibližuje kontakty kněžny Mechtildy Lichnowské a Hugo von Hofmannsthala. Přátelství obou autorů bylo formováno jejich literárními a hudebními zájmy, jež ovlivňovaly vzájemnou, umělecky podnětnou výměnu názoru. Reflexe dramatické tvorby Hugo von Hofmannsthala a obraz jejich několika setkání, zachycený ve vzájemné korespondenci, doplňují mozaiku informací o literární tvorbě, kontaktech, názorech a uměleckém vývoji obou spisovatelů.
Franz Janowitz je autorem skici s názvem "Die Biene". Tento krátký alegorický text sice používá metaforu včely, v té době již tradiční, netradičně ji ovšem přenáší do oblasti podstaty sexuality ženského pohlaví, čímž metafora nabývá oproti obvyklé pozitivní konotaci konotaci negativní. Autor prostřednictvím této dekontextualizace zdánlivě pojednává o životě včel, ve skutečnosti se ale zabývá ženskou sexualitou v duchu filozofie Otty Weiningera, jíž byl prokazatelně ovlivněn.
Cílem tohoto článku je popsat, co je styl každodenního života a jak se liší od stylu poezie. Na základě stylistické analýzy básně "Panter" Rainera Marii Rilka je zřejmé, že Rilkovi nešlo primárně o zvíře jako takové, ale o to, jak chycené zvíře prožívá svoje uvěznění. Jako kontrast k básni je použita kapitola o panterovi v Brehmově "Životu zvířat". V tomto případě mluvčí vypovídá o světě, který je podle jeho přesvědčení skutečný.
Darstellungen der Erwerbsarmut sind in der deutschen Literatur spätestens seit dem 19. Jahrhundert weit verbreitet, prominente Beispiele stellen etwa Georg Büchners "Woyzeck" als schockierende gesellschaftliche Analyse des Teufelskreises aus Armut, Erniedrigung und Unterdrückung des Paupers sowie Gerhart Hauptmanns "Die Weber" als desillusionierende Darstellung der Ausbeutung des Proletariats dar. In den 20er und 30er Jahren gerät eine neue soziale Schicht in den Fokus der Aufmerksamkeit, die in zahlreichen sozialen Studien und literarisch, nun vorrangig nicht mehr in der Form des sozialen Dramas, sondern im Genre des neusachlichen Romans, aufgegriffen und beleuchtet wird: die Angestellten.