Metareferentielles Aspektkippen: die Kognitionskunst der deutschen Gegenwartsliteratur

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dc.contributor.advisorDueck, Cheryl
dc.contributor.advisorStrzelczyk, Florentine
dc.contributor.authorRaedler, Bernadette
dc.contributor.committeememberPetersen, Christer
dc.contributor.committeememberWall, Anthony
dc.contributor.committeememberHöppner, Stefan
dc.contributor.committeememberWagner, Martin
dc.date2019-11
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-23T16:15:36Z
dc.date.available2019-05-23T16:15:36Z
dc.date.issued2019-05-22
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation examines metareference as cognition art, prompted by a collision and reconfiguration of antithetic narratives that is sparked by personal or societal change. Those underlying ruptures – perceived or devised – register in literary texts as metaization, the process of initiating structural reflections. A close reading of four contemporary German novels, including one graphic novel, is employed to examine if metareferential strategies indeed lead to the relativization and destruction of meaning, of which they have been accused of, or if they rather enable human cognition to respond to global challenges. By drawing on the concept of fictional metabiographies that encompasses established genres, namely historiographic fiction, fictional biographies, and metamnemonic novels, this investigation shifts away from a narratological approach that relies on a high degree of typological differentiation. The novels Heimsuchung by Jenny Erpenbeck, Liebe schaut weg by Line Hoven, Corpus Delicti by Juli Zeh, and Stadt der Engel oder The Overcoat of Dr. Freud by Christa Wolf are examined to demonstrate a defining trend that acknowledges both differences and analogies in cultural encounters and their representations. The underlying pluriaspectuality will be exemplified by way of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s multistable figures, and will be measured against theoretical frameworks developed by Werner Wolf and Wolfgang Funk. The study results in a new interpretation of metareference that identifies these borderline fictions as a narrative testing ground, deriving them from the maieutic method of the Socratic dialogues: The reader is the test person being prompted to reflect and judge. The narrative lab structure is used to envision a less violent cultural evolution by giving voice to suppressed narratives, provoking polylogic thinking, and rewarding the possibility and process of reconfiguration rather than insisting on essentialist claims. Viewed in this light, metareferential strategies demonstrate an adjusted understanding of rationality: By triggering emotional response, circumventing fixed reader perceptions, and rendering agency accessible, these texts re-frame habitual practices. They do not reject, but complement enlightenment. The pluriaspectual narrative emerges as a template for a more just coexistence through diplomatic renegotiations of complex tasks. Rather than being deconstructed, meaning is traced within its limitations, and enabled with new possibilities.en_US
dc.identifier.citationRaedler, B. (2019). Metareferentielles Aspektkippen: die Kognitionskunst der deutschen Gegenwartsliteratur (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/36545
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/110376
dc.language.isogeren_US
dc.publisher.facultyArtsen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.en_US
dc.subjectMetareferenceen_US
dc.subjectmaieutic methoden_US
dc.subjectHebammenkunsten_US
dc.subjectmultistable figuresen_US
dc.subjectKippfiguren_US
dc.subjectChrista Wolfen_US
dc.subjectJenny Erpenbecken_US
dc.subjectLine Hovenen_US
dc.subjectJuli Zehen_US
dc.subjectcognition arten_US
dc.subjectmetaizationen_US
dc.subjectmetafictionen_US
dc.subjectfictional metabiographiesen_US
dc.subjectpluriaspectual narrativesen_US
dc.subject.classificationEducation--Arten_US
dc.subject.classificationEducation--Bilingual and Multiculturalen_US
dc.subject.classificationEducation--Language and Literatureen_US
dc.subject.classificationLiterature--Modernen_US
dc.subject.classificationLiterature--Germanicen_US
dc.subject.classificationHistory--Europeanen_US
dc.titleMetareferentielles Aspektkippen: die Kognitionskunst der deutschen Gegenwartsliteraturen_US
dc.typedoctoral thesisen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineGermanic, Slavic and East Asian Studiesen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgaryen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)en_US
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