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Textpraxis # 11 (2.2015)

In this eleventh issue of Textpraxis, Josch Lampe analyzes ›black‹ perspectives on Germany around 1900, Robert Matthias Erdbeer discusses the functions and meanings of modeling for the analysis of literary and digital texts and Ilse Orth talks about the benefits of »Poesie -und Bibliotherapie«.

Theories of Literary Study
Robert Matthias
Erdbeer
Poetik der Modelle

»What is a literary model?« asks Robert Matthias Erdbeer in his contribution Poetik der Modelle. Based on Ilse Aichinger’s narration Der Gefesselte and the computer game The Stanley Parable, the article discusses the question in how far functions and meanings of modelling can be fruitful for the analysis of literary and digital texts - as model poetics (»Modellpoetik«). Erdbeer’s thesis is that texts themselves serve as models. It aims at a reassessment of narrative, structural and text-context-oriented research approaches in order to then clarify how model construction takes place within the literary fiction, how it is aesthetically effective and how it connects to extra-literary model construction.

Literature and Society
Josch
Lampe
»Meine Tochter […] soll alles lernen, was die weissen Mädchen lernen…«
»Schwarze« Perspektiven auf Deutschland um 1900

This article investigates two contrasting Black perspectives with regard to Germany around 1900. An analysis of Friedrich Maharero, a native of the former German South-West Africa, and a Tongolese native, Nayo Bruce, illustrates, not only, how two different perspectives within the colonial discourse describe colonial structures from a rare Black perspective, but it also shows, through their diversity, how complex this topic is.

Literary Studies and Praxis
Ilse
Orth
Unsägliches sagbar machen
Die Poesie- und Bibliotherapeutin Ilse Orth im Interview mit der Textpraxis-Redaktion

Ilse Orth is psychotherapist and co-founder of the »Integrative und Intermediale Kunsttheraphie« and of the »Integrative Poesie- und Bibliotherapie«. 

The Textpraxis editorial team talks with Ilse Orth about this concept of the »Integrative Poesie- und Bibliotherapie« as a possibility to integrate literature as a form of theraphy.