Digital Journal for Philology
Reguläre Ausgabe
Textpraxis # 12 (1.2016)
In the twelfth issue, Jean Marie Carey analyzes Franz Marc’s painting Liegender Hund im Schnee, Tilmann Köppe and Jan Stühring differentiate Genette’s categories regarding focalization and Lena Lang deals with Elfriede Jelinek’s digital (self-)promotion.
Theories of Literary Study
Tilmann
Köppe
Jan
Stühring
Is zero focalization reducible to internal focalization or to variable internal and/or external focalization? In this paper, we provide some arguments that it is not. In a nutshell, our claims are these: Given the account of focalization made popular by Genette, zero focalization is not reducible to internal and/or external focalization. Since the account of focalization made popular by Genette has considerable weaknesses, we provide what we take to be a better account of focalization. For this account, zero focalization is not reducible to internal and/or external focalization either. Our paper is devoted to spelling out these claims in more detail and to providing a rationale for each of them.
Literature and Society
Jean Marie
Carey
In her article Eyes Be Closed: Franz Marc's ›Liegender Hund im Schnee‹, Jean Marie Carey studies the polysemic meaning of the painting Liegender Hund im Schnee, which hitherto has been uninvestigated. Carey reconstructs this not only with reference to the exchange of letters between Marc and his Expressionist colleagues and the different developing phases of the image, but also by looking at other artists who have influenced Marc at this stage of his work.
Literary Studies and Praxis
Lena
Lang
Elfriede Jelineks digitale Selbstinszenierung
The Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek has been running her own website since 1996, which houses an extensive text archive by now. On the Internet, she presents herself in-between the public and the private sphere, as a discursively produced media icon, but also repeatedly in connection with her own biography. This article examines one of Jelinek’s strategies, which is central to her self-image as an author and is clearly reflected on the website: the paradoxical simultaneity of exhibiting the private and of undermining this reception offer, the simultaneous presence and absence of the author, which is expressed textually and paratextually through the motif of the living dead.