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  1. Samuel Dodsworth bereist Europa
    Author: Fischer, Walter
    Published: 1933
    Publisher:  Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen ; FB 05 - Sprache, Literatur, Kultur. Anglistik

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    DDC Categories: 820
    Subjects: English & Old English literatures
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  2. Challenging Englishness: Rebranding and rewriting national identity in contemporary English fiction
    Author: Böhme, Anna Katharina
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen ; FB 05 - Sprache, Literatur, Kultur. Anglistik

    The perception of English national identity underwent notable changes towards the end of the 20th century. Since the mid-1990s, a changing zeitgeist and the political and cultural develop­ments in England and Britain have led to a redefinition of... more

     

    The perception of English national identity underwent notable changes towards the end of the 20th century. Since the mid-1990s, a changing zeitgeist and the political and cultural develop­ments in England and Britain have led to a redefinition of national self-images. The turn of the millennium can be seen to mark the heyday of a "rebranded" version of English­ness. Literature negotiates different versions and aspects of national identity. Contemporary novels take up existing cultural plots and schemata and creatively rewrite them. The three selected novels exemplify different ways in which contemporary liter­ature challenges Englishness: How to be Good (Nick Hornby, 2001) questions middle-class identity, White Teeth (Zadie Smith, 2000) sheds light on Englishness in postcolonial London and England, England (Julian Barnes, 1998) self-reflexively examines contemporary rebranding processes. These three texts are considered in relation to fourteen additional novels from around 1990 to 2010. In line with the New Historicist approach, the novels are seen as parts of their con­temporary cultural contexts, rather than as isolated entities. At the same time, this approach allows for a close reading of the novels according to narratological categories. It permits us to under­stand the narratives as part of the discourse on Englishness that influences later discourses. Literature can thus contribute to the redefinition and rebranding of Englishness by offer­ing various versions of identity construction. The narrative strategies employed in the novels that contribute to the rewriting and challenging of English­ness can be organised into three main areas: first, the employment of generic, stylistic and formal features; second, techniques of narrative transmission and focalisation, and third, semantisation of space. Through these narrative techniques, the novels negotiate a number of cultural concepts and aspects – including cultural memory, history, invented traditions and self-images. In particular, they question the making ...

     
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    Subjects: Englishness; nationale Identität; Remediation; zeitgenössischer Roman; national identity; rewriting; contemporary novels; English & Old English literatures
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  3. Die Shakespeare-Bacon-Frage in ihrer geschichtlichen Entwicklung
    Author: Fischer, Walther
    Published: 1947
    Publisher:  Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen ; FB 05 - Sprache, Literatur, Kultur. Anglistik

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  4. Narrating generations: representations of generationality and genealogy in contemporary British Asian narratives
    Author: Weingarten, Jutta Karen
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen ; FB 05 - Sprache, Literatur, Kultur. Anglistik

    The present study aims to introduce the concept of generation into literary and cultural studies. While the concept has previously been applied to literary history and genre theory, the present study breaks new ground in leaving behind the authorial... more

     

    The present study aims to introduce the concept of generation into literary and cultural studies. While the concept has previously been applied to literary history and genre theory, the present study breaks new ground in leaving behind the authorial biography, temporal classifications in literary periods, and the notion of family resemblances to analyse the representations of generations in contemporary migration literature. A text-immanent, work-oriented focus on how the two central aspects of generation, generationality and genealogy, are represented in narratives is this study´s point of departure. The doubled conceptuality of generation, that includes the aspects of generationality and genealogy, is based on the interrelationship of the etymological roots of the term: the Latin generatio, meaning procreation, and the Greek genos, meaning gender, genus. These two semantic levels reflect upon the different theoretical approaches to generations: Either, research on generations focuses on social generations and generationalities, meaning the formation of communities based on shared experience and the development of a generational identity; or on the succession of generations in families or other relational associations, conducting a form of genealogical research. This double conceptuality of generation invites the interdisciplinary research that characterizes generation studies. Combining generation studies and literary and cultural studies to analyse the representations of generations in contemporary British Asian narratives is the central aim of this study. As an overview over the state of generation studies shows, this very diverse and interdisciplinary field benefits from the combination of generation and literary studies in that the latter provides a methodological approach to representations of generations in narratives that is conducive to further research. In return, literary and cultural studies benefit from a generation studies´ perspective on migration literature, which offers new approaches to the ...

     
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    Subjects: Generation; Generationalität; Genealogie; Erzählliteratur; generationality; genealogy; narratives; English & Old English literatures
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  5. (Be)Coming Home : figurations of exile and return as poetics of identity in contemporary Anglo-Caribbean literature
    Author: Ravizza, Eleonora
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen ; FB 05 - Sprache, Literatur, Kultur. Anglistik

    The object of this work are the dialectic intersections and reciprocal transformations of the themes of “exile”, “home” and “return” in a literature issued from the cultural shipwreck, multiple diasporas, and violent, colonial encounters which shaped... more

     

    The object of this work are the dialectic intersections and reciprocal transformations of the themes of “exile”, “home” and “return” in a literature issued from the cultural shipwreck, multiple diasporas, and violent, colonial encounters which shaped the Caribbean. The theoretical framework of the book can be summarized in three main hypothesis. 1. That a “return” is a highly mediated act. Coming home is, in other words, never a direct act; it implies traversing the space of the other, the space where the self is conversely perceived as other. “Home” comes into being through the mediation of the other. 2. That the voyage home in Caribbean literature is actually a voyage-in sensu Said, a journey of hybridization undertaken by Third World intellectuals towards what may considered as the centers of literature and culture. “Return” is indeed a highly self-reflexive motif. It is a journey whose geography is, above all, that of the literary text, of language, and of the multiple connections that link the literary artifact to a multiplicity of intertexts – or to use a deleuzian terminology, to multiple, interconnected machines of sense and representation. 3. That the journey home is a journey of subjectivation (sensu Althusser); that the subject of a return does not pre-exist the return but comes into being precisely through the journey. Caribbean literary homecomings enact and perform the process through which subjects are interpellated by language (my main reference having been, in this sense, Jean-Jacques Lecercle´s Marxist philosophy of language), and through which they may, conversely, counter-interpellate language. This process of counter-interpellation has been addressed in terms of Deleuze and Guattari´s concept of minor literature, allowing for a significant parallel between the idea of “(be)coming home” and that of “becoming-minor”. The idea that never-ending literary journeys of homecoming construct multiple, discrepant visions of home has been paralleled by the idea that the process of reading a text is ...

     
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  6. Formen und Funktionen von Fotografie in Graphic Novels: Medialisierung und Fiktionalisierung am Beispiel ausgewählter zeitgenössischer Werke ; Forms and functions of photography in graphic novels: medialization and fictionalization by the examples of selected contemporary works
    Author: Schlichting, Laura
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen ; FB 05 - Sprache, Literatur, Kultur. Anglistik

    Innerhalb des äußerst umfassenden Themenfeldes der ‚Medialisierung des Erzählens‘ befasst sich die Arbeit mit einer sehr spezifischen, innovativen und produktiven Fragestellung: Welche Formen und Funktionen kann Fotografie im Erzählmedium der Graphic... more

     

    Innerhalb des äußerst umfassenden Themenfeldes der ‚Medialisierung des Erzählens‘ befasst sich die Arbeit mit einer sehr spezifischen, innovativen und produktiven Fragestellung: Welche Formen und Funktionen kann Fotografie im Erzählmedium der Graphic Novels einnehmen? Zum einen wird damit der Frage nach verschiedenen Verfahren der Repräsentation von Fotografie in Graphic Novels nachgegangen. Zum anderen werden fotografische Darstellungen zum Erzählen genauer analysiert. Die Arbeitshypothesen und Fragestellungen basierten auf der Feststellung, dass sowohl die Prozesse der Hybridisierung als auch das gegenwärtige Phänomen der Medialisierung für neue Erscheinungsformen und Entwicklungen in der zeitgenössischen Literatur verantwortlich sind. Diese Arbeit ging daher von der These aus, dass das Einfügen von Fotografie die Gattungsentwicklung der Graphic Narratives beeinflusst und – damit verbunden – die Einführung des neuen Subgenres z.B. ‚Photo-Graphics‘ nahe legt. Die Definition sei an dieser Stelle vorweggenommen. ‚Photo-Graphics‘ ist eine Unterkategorie innerhalb der Graphic Narratives. Charakteristisch für die ‚Photo-Graphics‘ ist – wie der Name schon sagt – der hohe Anteil an Fotografien und/oder fotografischen Darstellungen auf diskursiver Ebene. Eine inhaltliche Thematisierung von Fotografie reicht dabei nicht aus, sondern erfordert eine Inkorporation oder Imitation von fotografischen Bildern auf diskursiver Ebene, sodass eine „Medienkombination“ (vgl. Rajewsky 2002) des Werks gegeben ist. Die Arbeit untergliedert sich in eine Einleitung, in der das Genre bzw. Medium des Comics – auch anhand erster Beispiele zur Illustration der Thematik – genauer vorgestellt wird, in die aktuelle Forschungslandschaft eingeführt wird und wesentliche Ziele sowie theoretische Ansätze aufgeschlüsselt werden. Es schließt sich ein theoretisches Kapitel an, welches zentrale genretheoretische Überlegungen zu den Begriffen „Graphic Novel“, „Comic“ und „Graphic Narrative“ sowie medientheoretische Gedanken zur Fotografie vornimmt und ...

     
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    Subjects: graphic novel; Comic; Fotografie; Medialisierung; Intermedialität; Photo-Graphics; comics; photography; medialization; intermediality; English & Old English literatures
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  7. Tee," fish and chips " und Chintzbezüge : Kulturtransfer und nationale Identität
    Author: Stedman, Gesa
    Published: 2006
    Publisher:  Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen ; FB 05 - Sprache, Literatur, Kultur. Anglistik

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  8. „Choosing Not To Be“: Zur schriftstellerischen Auseinandersetzung mit dem Selbstmord in der englischen Literatur ; "Choosing Not To Be": The debate on suicide in English Literature
    Author: Hagedorn, Tanja
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen ; FB 05 - Sprache, Literatur, Kultur. Anglistik

    Ziel der vorliegenden Magisterarbeit ist die diachronische Untersuchung des Selbstmordmotivs in der englischen Literatur. Mit Blick auf die mentalitäts- und gesellschaftsgeschichtlichen Hintergründen des jeweiligen Zeitabschnitts, die einführend... more

     

    Ziel der vorliegenden Magisterarbeit ist die diachronische Untersuchung des Selbstmordmotivs in der englischen Literatur. Mit Blick auf die mentalitäts- und gesellschaftsgeschichtlichen Hintergründen des jeweiligen Zeitabschnitts, die einführend gegeben werden, umfasst die Analyse einen Zeitraum von Shakespeare bis zur Gegenwart und schließt Autoren wie Milton, Tennyson, Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Graham Greene und Evelyn Waugh ein. Dabei werden die Funktionen des Selbstmordmotivs herausgestellt, so z.B. die Funktion, auf negative äußere Umstände zu verweisen. ; This paper investigates the suicide motif in English literature throughout the ages, ranging from Shakespeare to our days and including authors such as Milton, Tennyson, Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Graham Greene, und Evelyn Waugh. The focus lies on the function of the suicide motif, which is e.g. to refer to negative circumstances.

     
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    Subjects: Selbstmord; Englische Literatur; Suicide; English Literature; English & Old English literatures
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  9. Forms and functions of narration and focalization in some selected poems of Lord Byron : A narratological analysis
    Author: Nkamanyang, Pepertua Kininla Lola
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen ; FB 05 - Sprache, Literatur, Kultur. Anglistik

    In the field of poetry criticism, there are missing concepts that would permit an understanding of how narration and focalization are productive for the analysis of narrative structures in the lyric, and the further function of reproducing issues... more

     

    In the field of poetry criticism, there are missing concepts that would permit an understanding of how narration and focalization are productive for the analysis of narrative structures in the lyric, and the further function of reproducing issues that are context sensitive. Narratological categories are especially able to provide solutions to this deficit. Furthermore, critics applying the insights of narrative theory to the analysis of Byron’s poetry have not adequately explored the diverse representations and functions of narrative elements that are both text-centered and culture specific. Still, the narrative theory of poetry, the significance of which is often narrowed down to a Formalist orientation (the grammar of narrative and text-centered issues) needs to be invigorated with the insights of both Classical and Post-Classical Narratologies to include cultural categories so that they not only take into account the specific type of narrative in poetry but permit the poetry under study to meet its target objectives of reproducing narrative mediation and to an extent specific contexts by narrative means. To break through theoretical and methodological restrictions in the narrative theory of poetry, the study develops an outline of transgeneric narrative theory of poetry criticism, an innovative conceptualization that permits an inclusion of authorial/heterodiegetic narrator, homodiegetic narrator, reflector, perceptual devices, consciousness representation strategies, tense representations and cultural categories (dealing with questions of colonizer, colonized, subjects and subjectivity, such as perspective structure, metannarative forms and communal voice), to enable the a context-sensitive textual analysis of aspects of narrative poems. The role that narrative representations of narration and focalization can play in the analysis of Byron’s poetry is shown in the analysis of about twelve novel-length narrative poems written during the Romantic period. In my analysis, poems like “Don Juan” and "Child ...

     
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    Subjects: Byron; Narratologie; narratology; English & Old English literatures
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  10. Anekdotische Literaturgeschichtsbeschreibung : Gießen und die anglo-amerikanische Dichtung der Moderne
    Author: Grabes, Herbert
    Published: 1999
    Publisher:  Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen ; FB 05 - Sprache, Literatur, Kultur. Anglistik

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  11. Literatur in der Defensive
    Author: Grabes, Herbert
    Published: 1980
    Publisher:  Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen ; FB 05 - Sprache, Literatur, Kultur. Anglistik

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  12. Anglistik
    Author: Brinkmann, Horst
    Published: 1982
    Publisher:  Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen ; FB 05 - Sprache, Literatur, Kultur. Anglistik

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  13. Shaping the university imaginary : configurations and refigurations in British fiction
    Author: Seligardi, Beatrice
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen ; FB 05 - Sprache, Literatur, Kultur. Anglistik

    The present work stems from the attempt to deal with the literary representations of the university imaginary by focusing on mimesis. The first part of the present study investigates the forms taken by university fiction in the British context from... more

     

    The present work stems from the attempt to deal with the literary representations of the university imaginary by focusing on mimesis. The first part of the present study investigates the forms taken by university fiction in the British context from the 19th century until the second half of the 20th, a period when the genre achieved specific and stable connotations that have been respectively classified as varsity novel and campus novel. The second part deals with what happens when the university imaginary and its representation go beyond the boundaries of university fiction as a genre. The case study proposed is constituted by the novels of the British writer A.S. Byatt. This case study allows us to analyse a different way in which the university imaginary has been configured, a way that is, of course, related to literary genres, but which also goes beyond the typical boundaries of genres as literary constructs. This re-figuration has been explained by resorting to a concept that originally came from theatre and adaptation studies, but which proves to be productive when applied to narrative texts: the concept of ‘dramatisation’. A narrower definition of the term is provided in order to embrace specific mimetic and diegetic strategies. Moreover, the comparison between university fiction and dramatisation, as regards processes of worldmaking, sheds light on how literary configuration is always subjected to processes of reconfiguration, which take shape through new strategies of representation and literary forms.

     
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  14. Forms and functions of nature representation in Virginia Woolf´s novels: symbols, metaphors and other modes
    Author: Moskalenko, Kateryna
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen ; FB 05 - Sprache, Literatur, Kultur. Anglistik

    The primary purpose of this dissertation was to investigate some of Virginia Woolf´s narratives in order to highlight a global concept of nature in these works. The secondary purpose was to analyze symbolical meanings of nature images in the... more

     

    The primary purpose of this dissertation was to investigate some of Virginia Woolf´s narratives in order to highlight a global concept of nature in these works. The secondary purpose was to analyze symbolical meanings of nature images in the narratives, single out main nature metaphors in them and consider their peculiarities. For this purpose, four groups of nature images in the narratives were roughly distinguished, namely symbolical images corresponding to fire (e.g., the sun), corresponding to the air (e.g., birds), corresponding to water (e.g., waves) and corresponding to the earth (e.g., trees). Using a metaphorical analysis procedure, the following conceptual nature metaphors were distinguished: LIFE IS WATER, TIME IS WATER, MIND IS A WATER ELEMENT, EMOTIONS ARE LIQUIDS, PEOPLE ARE PLANTS, PEOPLE ARE ANIMALS, PEOPLE ARE BIRDS, LIFE IS LIGHT, etc. The analysis of nature images revealed that they are often ambiguous and have archetypical symbolical meanings. The latter often include the dichotomies: life/death, temporality/eternity, reason/feeling and male/female. The nature metaphors allow us to deepen our understanding of the themes and motifs in the narratives through analogies based on the experience of nature in our lives. An important part of the dissertation was to distinguish the functions of the nature metaphors and representation of nature. It was found out that the representation of nature in Virginia Woolf´s narratives, along with its decorative function, has many other functions, including the function of aestheticizing, poeticizing, foregrounding and backgrounding of certain subjects and motifs, a commentary on narrative subjects, emotional and emphatic functions, etc. The dissertation is supposed to benefit both current and future Woolf research.

     
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    Subjects: Naturdarstellung; Metapher; Symbol; description; metaphor; English & Old English literatures
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  15. Victorian scrapbooks : cut, paste, remember : geklebte Erinnerungen : Victorian scrapbooks rediscovered : scrapbooks aus der Zeit um 1900
    Author: Spies, Martin; Jablonowski, Anna; Marcassa, Chiara; Schulz, Daniela; Heinig, Insa; Ulbrich, Inga; Grün, Jens; Hutz, Layla; Koziol, Markus; Grosch, Nele; Nalbantoglu, Özlem; Polonji, Svenja; Schülein, Viktoria; Kannangara, Yasara
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen ; FB 05 - Sprache, Literatur, Kultur. Anglistik

    Das Instagram des Viktorianischen Zeitalters: Ähnlich wie auf den digitalen Profilen Sozialer Netzwerke hielten viele Menschen des späten neunzehnten und beginnenden zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts besondere Momente, persönliche Interessen und allerlei... more

     

    Das Instagram des Viktorianischen Zeitalters: Ähnlich wie auf den digitalen Profilen Sozialer Netzwerke hielten viele Menschen des späten neunzehnten und beginnenden zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts besondere Momente, persönliche Interessen und allerlei Kurioses in Alben fest und zeigten und verglichen diese im Familien- und Freundeskreis. Die meisten dieser sogenannten Scrapbooks mit ihren Collagen aus Scraps – eben jenen gesammelten, zurechtgeschnittenen und eingeklebten Schnipseln – warten noch immer auf ihre Wiederentdeckung und Würdigung als wichtige historische Quellen, die in einzigartiger Weise den Zeitgeist ihrer Epoche widerspiegeln. Die hier gezeigten Scrapbooks erlauben dem heutigen Publikum exemplarische und zum Teil sehr persönliche Einblicke in das Leben von sechs englischen und amerikanischen Frauen zu Zeiten Königin Victorias und ihres Nachfolgers König Edward VII. Die Ausstellung wurde im Sommersemester 2019 von Studierenden des Instituts für Anglistik der Justus-Liebig-Universität im Rahmen eines Projektseminars unter der Leitung von Dr. Martin Spies erstellt. ; The Instagram of the Victorian Age: rather like the owners of digital profiles on social media platforms today, many people of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century captured special moments, personal interests and all sorts of curiosities in albums that they shared and compared among their families and friends. Long forgotten and ignored, these so-called scrapbooks with their collages of scraps – the preserved, cut-out and pasted-in bits and pieces – still largely await their rediscovery and acknowledgment as important historical sources reflecting the zeitgeist of their era in a unique way. The scrapbooks here on display offer a modern audience exemplary and sometimes very intimate glimpses of the lives of six English and American women in the age of Queen Victoria and her successor, King Edward VII. This exhibition was curated by students of the English Department at Justus Liebig University in the course of a ...

     
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  16. Spatial Belonging: Approaching Aboriginal Australian Spaces in Contemporary Fiction
    Author: Bach, Lisa
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen ; FB 05 - Sprache, Literatur, Kultur. Anglistik

    Based upon the overall assumption that cultures can be seen as “ensembles of narratives†(Müller-Funk 2008: 171; translation of the original term “Ensembles von Narrativen†by the author of this study), this thesis sets out to approach... more

     

    Based upon the overall assumption that cultures can be seen as “ensembles of narratives†(Müller-Funk 2008: 171; translation of the original term “Ensembles von Narrativen†by the author of this study), this thesis sets out to approach indigenous Australian manifestations of space and belonging as represented in three contemporary novels by Aboriginal authors. Within this endeavour, the category of the narrative represents the ultimate conceptual and culturally specific nexus. This is due to the fact that – when “seeing life as storied†(Bamberg 2009: 136) – indigenous Australian narratives in the form of novels constitute an adequate backdrop for shedding light on the culturally specific spatial as well as narrative contingency of Aboriginal lifeworlds. In order to grasp the multilayered and volatile levels of Aboriginal manifestations of spatiality, this thesis conceptualizes indigenous Australian spaces as a form of belonging – proceeding on the assumption that the notion of belonging represents a useful instrument for approaching the overall complexity of indigenous Australian spatial lifeworlds, specifically on their social, geographical and historical levels (cf. Miller 2006). As literary texts hold available a huge range of representations of spatiality, contemporary novels by indigenous Australian authors are a viable means for the analysis of the complexities of Aboriginal manifestations of spatial belonging on the basis of their fictional representations. To bridge the gap between culturally specific, extraliterary discourses on Aboriginal forms of spatial belonging and their negotiations in fictional narratives, this thesis implements the concept of worldmaking (cf. Goodmann 1985 [1978], Nünning/Nünning 2010a), which highlights the reciprocal relationship between literary texts and the non-literary worlds as well as their mutual construction. Regarding its corpus of primary literature, the dissertation focuses on widely known contemporary indigenous Australian novels – That Deadman ...

     
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    Subjects: Australien; indigen; Raum; Gegenwartsliteratur; Zugehörigkeit; indigenous; Australia; space; belonging; contemporary fiction; English & Old English literatures
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  17. Time loops in young adult fiction
    Author: Reinemer, Maureen
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen ; FB 05 - Sprache, Literatur, Kultur. Anglistik

    Narratives involving some form of time manipulation have fascinated humans for ages. From the incredibly popular and long-running series Doctor Who (since 1963) to Groundhog Day (1993) and The Time Traveler’s Wife (2003), no matter if the story is... more

     

    Narratives involving some form of time manipulation have fascinated humans for ages. From the incredibly popular and long-running series Doctor Who (since 1963) to Groundhog Day (1993) and The Time Traveler’s Wife (2003), no matter if the story is about time travel, alternative timelines, or time loops, rethinking and exploring time in fiction has never gone out of style. It is therefore not surprising that these narratives usually found in the science fiction or fantasy genres have recently found their way into one of the most popular literary genres of the twenty-first century: young adult fiction. This thesis seeks to explore how the mechanic of a time loop acts inside young adult fiction. To achieve this, we will first take a look at time loops on the mechanical level and examine the different ways in which a time loop begins, ends, and resets. In this basic mechanic, I make the distinction between time-based and event-based time loops, which are categorized by the trigger of the looping itself and show similarities to other popular media such as theater and video games. After introducing and explaining these aspects of a time loop mechanic, we will use three recently published young adult novels involving time loops and examine the time loops within these narratives according to these aspects. The novels chosen for this examination are Lauren Oliver’s Before I Fall (2010), Jessica Brody’s A Week of Mondays (2016), and Marisha Pessl’s Neverworld Wake (2018). After examining the three chosen works on the time loop level, I will analyze their narrative perspectives using categories established by Gérard Genette and show how these narrative choices shape the way the story is experienced by the reader. In the following part of my thesis I will argue that time loop narratives in the genre of young adult fiction are incredibly successful narratives because the time loop mechanic acts as a catalyst for the building and changing of identity. The mostly young adult readers of these stories have an easier ...

     
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    Source: BASE Selection for Comparative Literature
    Language: English
    Media type: Bachelor thesis
    Format: Online
    DDC Categories: 820
    Subjects: Zeitschleifen; Jugendliteratur; Identität; time loops; young adult fiction; identity; English & Old English literatures
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  18. Covering Surveillance: The Visualization of Contemporary Surveillance on Scholarly Book Covers
    Author: Guttzeit, Gero; Kalous, Isabel
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen ; Zentren. Gießener Graduiertenzentrum Kulturwissenschaften