In view of a crisis in literary history education in German-speaking schools and universities, which can also be proven with empirical findings, the article endeavours to examine inter-discourse analysis as an alternative basis for didactics of literary history. For this purpose, it critically discusses humanities and didactic objections to a literary-historical and literary-pedagogical recourse to inter-discourse analysis – including the relationship of the approach to the text-context-problem and the accusation of the marginalization of the individual text. As an interim result, the basic features of the knowledge-poetic-interdiscursive method of didactics of literary history are presented. The article then offers insights into the results of a large-scale empirical training experiment with student teachers, in which the interdiscursive approach was systematically compared with three established teaching methods with regard to effect sizes of literary-historical understanding. The findings allow conclusions to be drawn as to what extent a didactic approach to the literary history based on historical-generative inter-discourse analysis can and should be further developed conceptually, evaluated formatively and established at secondary schools, universities and in teacher training.
This article deals with five longer prose works of the German-language author of Austrian origin, Melitta Breznik (b. 1961). It aims to situate the texts in the context of specifically selected current theoretical concepts on autobiographical and auto-fictional writing and to point out their specific features through a differentiated approach. The study will illustrate some possibilities of narrative self-design, based on this contemporary author, psychiatrist and psychotherapist.
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