09 Philosophisch-historische Fakultät
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Item Open Access A room of one's own : the author and the reader in the text(1986) Ziegler, HeideThe self-sufficiency to which postmodemist fictions aspire does not imply the denial of facts or a refusal to incorporate them within their borderlines. But it aims to subsume facts under the head of fictionality. And in order to ensure the special status necessary for fiction to justify this subsumption of facts, the fictional text can no longer rely on its immanent aesthetic value. In a world where texts tend to be commentaries on one another, the postmodemist novel attempts to regain an independent status by fictionalizing the authorreader relationship to the point where the factual relationship between author and reader becomes irrelevant. This fictionalization, as a permutation of the relationship from actual interdependence to a mode of self-sufficiency, is achieved by changing the temporal sequence of writing and reading into the spatial concept of an erotic relationship between author and reader. And this form of spatialization once more supplies the novel with the ideal necessary to overreach itself.Item Open Access Directions in german american studies: the challenge of the "New Historicism"(1990) Ziegler, HeideThe object of American Studies, the culture and civilization of the United States, is, paradoxically, no longer restricted to the United States as subject matter. Instead, American texts must be seen more and more as overarching cultural texts. Second, any method indebted to the New Historicism must itself be put in historical perspective, reflecting the fact that it is usable but uncertain in its results. Interest largely seems to supplant the search for truth. Yet since this interest must be kept alive more by the inner consistency of the argument than by adducing external facts, the plot - despite the fact that it assimilates elements of varying importance - can constitute a synthesis, wherein historical interpretation triumphs over pure chance in the aesthetic ordering of the parts into a whole. Thus, in spite of its limitations, the aesthetic leanings of the New Historicism strike me as able to impart new impulses to German American Studies at the present time and lead the discipline out of its provinciality.Item Open Access Item Open Access Zum Standort zeitgenössischer Literaturtheorie(1993) Ziegler, HeideDie Vertreter zeitgenössischer Literaturtheorien sind durch die zunehmende Thematisierung des Multikulturalismus in den USA und die entsprechend veränderte literarische Kanonbildung in amerikanischen Universitäten auch in Europa in eine Defensivposition gedrängt worden, die sich vor allem in vorsichtig-unbehaglichen Reflexionen auf den eigenen ideologischen Standort spiegelt. Obwohl die amerikanische Literaturtheorie ihrerseits europäische Einflüsse weiterhin nicht negieren kann, so sind diese Einflüsse aus europäischer Perspektive häufig eher eklektischer als organischer Natur.Ich möchte hier und heute an zwei Beispielen einerseits eine Begründung der europäischen Vorgehensweise anzudeuten versuchen und andererseits deren Relevanz auch und gerade vor dem Hintergrund eines multikulturellen Ansatzes nordamerikanischer Prägung aufweisen.Item Open Access On translating "The Sunday Drive"(1991) Ziegler, HeideWhat difficulties confront the translator of a text by William H. Gass? Apart, that is, from the difficulties known to any translator of any literary text, differences of environment, culture, and mental habits, as well as linguistic problems regarding tense, aspect, or mode? The following text will point out a few of those difficulties by facing eight paragraphs from Gass's piece "The Sunday Drive" with a German translation, each section to be followed by a commentary on the text and an evaluation of the special complications which that text presented to the translator. The following analysis, however, is not meant to be merely an exercise in translation. It has been said often enough that poetic texts cannot be adequately translated. But I intend to show that finding a translation that scores high by the usual criteria is often not of prime importance. Instead, the translator needs to understand the underlying aesthetic principle of the text and reenact it within his or her own cultural setting and linguistic context.Item Open Access The tale of the author or, Scheherazade's betrayal(1990) Ziegler, HeideJohn Barth, the postmodernist american writer, who is now in the second cycle of his middle age, professes to have had only one true love during all of his life. Her name is Scheherazade. This love affair began when the writer,"as an illiterate undergraduate, worked off part of my tuition filing books in the Classics Library at Johns Hopkins, which included the stacks of the Oriental Seminary". In 1972 Barth published "Chimera", which consists of three novellas.Item Open Access Virginia Woolf - KünstlerIn?(1991) Ziegler, HeideWoolfs Androgynität kann nur als Verweis auf die ihrem Romanwerk zugrunde liegende Philosophie verstanden werden, welche mit der Betonung der Grenze zwischen Leben und Tod, Vergänglichkeit und Dauer, sich einer säkularen Mystik anzunähern scheint. Aber unabhängig davon, ob man sich als Woolf-Leser von einer solchen säkularen Mystik angezogen fühlt oder nicht - die künstlerische Bewältigung ihrer philosophisch nicht zu bewältigenden Lebensproblematik ist unbezweifelbar. Es ist also keineswegs abwegig, wenn das Interesse des Woolf-Lesers feministisch ist - aber festzuhalten bleibt, daß die Leistung von Virginia Woolf darin besteht, mittels ihrer Kunst ein solches Interesse neben anderen als annehmbar erscheinen zu lassen. Die im Titel dieses Vortrags gestellte Frage: "Virginia Woolf - Künstlerin?" muß also verneint werden, aber nur, weil im Falle Virginia Woolfs das kleine "i" das größere ist.Item Open Access The dialectics of transculturation in Chicano/a literature(2013) Baur, Marie-Florence; Göbel, Walter (Prof. Dr.)The topic of the dissertation “The Dialectics of Transculturation in Chicano/a Literature“ is the representation of transculturation in Chicano/a literature. The text also discusses the consequences for identity formation for Chicanos/as in the lower classes of society. The analysis of novels and autobiographies by Chicano/a authors in this text is based on the transculturation theory by the Cuban Fernando Ortíz, who coined the term in his work "Cuban Counterpoint" in 1940, and its development by Mary Louise Pratt. The process of transculturation was a dominant topic in Chicano/a literature until the 1990s because it discussed the question of identity formation and the relation between dominant US culture and marginalized Chicano culture. Questions, that are answered in this work are on the one hand, how the clash of cultures which is taking place during the phase of transition between national and cultural borders is initiated. It is also analysed how negotiation between the different cultures influences the national and cultural belonging of Chicanos/as. Additionally, the texts asks how and to which extent this process leads to rejection and effacement of Chicano culture and how this loss is being dealt with. Finally, the literary presentation of these questions is described in order to show how the process and its consequences are presented aesthetically.Item Open Access "Überblicke" : der postmoderne amerikanische Roman(1988) Ziegler, HeideWährend die Erzähler der sogenannten Moderne, vor allem mittels der Erzähltechnik des sogenannten Bewußtseinsstroms, psychische Zeit darstellen wollten, die Abfolge von Eindrücken und Assoziationen, so wie sie im Bewußtsein erscheinen, geht es der Postmoderne um das genaue Gegenteil: sie will die Macht der Zeit über das erzählte Bewußtsein brechen. Die verschiedenen im folgenden aufzuzeigenden Formen der Verräumlichung des postmodernen Romans müssen vor diesem Hintergrund als eine Art Revolte gegen die Väter der eigenen Kunst gesehen werden.Item Open Access Art and omnipotence: genre manipulation in "Requiem for a nun"(1991) Ziegler, Heide"Requiem lor a Nun" is usually classified as a novel. Yet it remains an irritating example of the genre, since it appears to defy even the loosest definition of a novel. It consists of the three acts of a play called "Requiem for a Nun", each of which is preceded by a long introduction seemingly unrelated to the action, if not the setting, of the play.
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