09 Philosophisch-historische Fakultät
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Item Open Access Item Open Access Borders turning into escapes : a novel approach to borderscapes in Michelle Gallen's Bildungsromane "Big Girl, Small Town" and "Factory Girls"(2023) Rosenberger, LisaThe protagonists of Michelle Gallen’s novels Big Girl, Small Town (2020) and Factory Girls (2022) both struggle with their coming-of-age process due to the remoteness of their hometowns and the lack of parental support and guidance. Considering the novels’ placement near the border of Northern Ireland, the context of border studies opens a wide range for interpreting Gallen’s Bildungsromane with a focus on the importance of borders in the life of her protagonists Majella and Maeve, respectively. Especially the area of investigating borderscapes - namely, the borders and their surrounding landscapes - is an effective tool to approach the Bildungsroman’s individual coming-of-age stages as the protagonists’ thresholds in their psychological, emotional, and moral development.Item Open Access Intertexts in City of Glass as a way to represent ambiguity and fragmentation of meaning in human language - a comparison between the novel and the graphic novel(2019) Wuggenig, JuliaCity of Glass by Paul Auster, which appeared in 1985, is a postmodern novel which deals with the senselessness of modern life and the loss of identity and fragmentation due to a loss of meaning. It is the first part of the New York Trilogy and stages like the following parts Ghosts and The Locked Room with detective quests. (Shiloh 35) City of Glass consists of a web of intertextual references which are referring to other works of literature. Such as Quinn’s identity is fragmented by the various identities he took on, the whole novel is fragmented by the intrusion of various intertexts. The arbitrariness of meaning in human language is exemplified through the intertextual level of Paradise Lost by John Milton. This arbitrariness of the linguistic sign and therefore the arbitrariness of meaning in human language suggests that there is also an ambiguity of identity which has always been an important issue in the oeuvre of Paul Auster. A loss of identity is reflected through an intertextual level the text is working with by referencing Don Quixote, a 19th century novel by Miguel de Cervantes. As the intertexts stand for a fragmented identity, we shall look at how the intertextual level is represented in the City of Glass the graphic novel.