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Zur modernen Erzähltechnik nach 1945 und ihrer Funktion anhand ausgewählter Prosa von Alfred Andersch (Sansibar oder der letzte Grund; Efraim)

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Kowalski J.

Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature

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2009

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issue 33

33-49

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The present paper Narrative technique in modern novel after 1945, on the example of Alfred Andersch’ chosen prose writings (1914-1980) focuses upon novel methods of shaping the form and structure of the modern novel, and the role they play in the narrative construction of a literary work. The author presents the most significant narrative techniques such as segmentation of the novel’s text, simultaneous introduction of characters, frequent use of the so-called internal monologue to make the contemporary reader realize how picturesque is the language of literary fiction that, in the 20th C. boldly transcends the textual frames of the work.

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Flaubert’s Provocation

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Culler J.

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture

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2017

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issue 7

55-70

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Madame Bovary, which was scandalous in its own day for its focus on the adultery of a provincial woman, has had a strange, complex fate. Flaubert remade the image of the novelist, as pure artist, for whom style was all that mattered, and disrupted novelistic technique, in ways that critics and writers have found exemplary, treating this as the novel novelists cannot overlook; yet for readers Madame Bovary is not a “book about nothing” but provides a searing portrait of provincial life and of the condition of women. The vividness and complexity of the character Flaubert created here made Emma a type: a sufferer of “Bovarysme.” Flaubert’s revolutionary notion that a trivial subject was as good as a noble subject for a serious novel was taken to be connected to the democratic notion that every human subject is as worthy as another and allowed to have desires. Yet, while promoting Emma as a valid subject of literature, equal to others, Flaubert writes against the attempt to democratize art, to make it enter every life, and renders trivial the manifestations of this subject’s desires, while making her an exemplary figure.

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Flaubert’s Provocation

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Culler J.

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture

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2017

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issue 7

55-70

EN

Madame Bovary, which was scandalous in its own day for its focus on the adultery of a provincial woman, has had a strange, complex fate. Flaubert remade the image of the novelist, as pure artist, for whom style was all that mattered, and disrupted novelistic technique, in ways that critics and writers have found exemplary, treating this as the novel novelists cannot overlook; yet for readers Madame Bovary is not a “book about nothing” but provides a searing portrait of provincial life and of the condition of women. The vividness and complexity of the character Flaubert created here made Emma a type: a sufferer of “Bovarysme.” Flaubert’s revolutionary notion that a trivial subject was as good as a noble subject for a serious novel was taken to be connected to the democratic notion that every human subject is as worthy as another and allowed to have desires. Yet, while promoting Emma as a valid subject of literature, equal to others, Flaubert writes against the attempt to democratize art, to make it enter every life, and renders trivial the manifestations of this subject’s desires, while making her an exemplary figure.

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Remembering and Forgetting as a Narrative Mode in W.G. Sebald’s “Austerlitz”

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Aslan E.

Jednak Książki. Gdańskie Czasopismo Humanistyczne

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2015

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issue 4/2015 O Młodej Polsce mniej znanej

183-190

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The relationship between memory and literature is a complex and curious one. While memory implies a relation with the past, with the factual, literature’s realm is the fictional. They, nevertheless, implicate each other: while re-membering the past which is what is gone and not there anymore always entails mediation and a degree of fictionality, we can consider literary language as acting out psychic processes through metaphor, concealment and temporal dislocation. The novel that I deal with in this paper is Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald which recounts the story of a series of chance encounters between two travelers – the narrator and Austerlitz – in a time span of thirty years. As they traverse Europe, conceived in the text as a landscape in which cultural, natural and personal history intermingle, their paths converge several times and it is in their lengthy talks that Austerlitz’s traumatic past gradually emerges. Sent to England by his parents on a kindertransport just before the beginning of the Second World War and raised in Wales by foster parents, Austerlitz pursues a life unaware of his real identity. In this paper, focusing on the relationship of forgetting and remembering with storytelling, I explore how the mnemonic processes are represented in the text with an emphasis on the effect of the mechanisms of repression on the way the narrative is told.

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Zur modernen Erzähltechnik nach 1945 und ihrer Funktion anhand ausgewählter Prosa von Alfred Andersch (Sansibar oder der letzte Grund; Efraim)

Flaubert’s Provocation

Flaubert’s Provocation

Remembering and Forgetting as a Narrative Mode in W.G. Sebald’s “Austerlitz”