Digital Journal for Philology
Reguläre Ausgabe
Textpraxis # 9 (2.2014)
In the ninth issue Ashwin Manthripagada continues our encounter with the ’68 movement in his article on Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha, Elisabeth Heyne provides guidelines for a bio-aesthetical poetics of the symmetry between text and image and Michael Serrer, head of the Literature Office of Northrhine-Westphalia, is interviewed by the Textpraxis editors.
Theories of Literary Study
Elisabeth
Heyne
Zu einer bioästhetischen Poetik der Symmetrie zwischen Text und Bild in Judith Schalanskys »Der Hals der Giraffe«
Since the iconic turn resp. pictorial turn, the epistemic impact of scientific practices of visualization is widely discussed by various disciplines. In her article, Elisabeth Heyne picks on the current debate in order to link it with categories of literary analysis, which themselves react on the increased interest in imagery and presentability within sciences. By the example of Judith Schalansky’s Der Hals der Giraffe Heyne reflects on the correlations between image, diagram and text before the backdrop of the limits of visual image and written text. Furthermore, the article takes a deeper look on the interrelations between aesthetic representations and natural sciences.
Literature and Society
Ashwin
Manthripragada
While Hermann Hesse’s work was read widely before the 1960s, the Counterculture’s fixation on his work led to a parallel scholarly fixation on its global reception and impact. It is as if the scholarship was orchestrated to amplify Hans Robert Jauß’s contemporary ideas on reception theory. Jauß’s reception theory is a useful tool for understanding how one text can inspire myriad lines of thought, inquiry, and response. The article therefore seeks to discover why, about 45 years after its first publication, Siddhartha was so important for the U.S. Counterculture.
Literary Studies and Praxis
Michael
Serrer
Michael Serrer aus dem Literaturbüro Düsseldorf im Interview mit der Textpraxis-Redaktion
The Textpraxis editorial team talks with Michael Serrer about the transmission of literature in the digital era, canonisation and the role of literature in society. Michael Serrer is Director of the Literature Office of North Rhine-Westfalia and a feature writer.