Spatial reading ilse aichingers novel von wiltshire gail (1 Ergebnisse)

sewn PAPERBACK, fresh attractive copy, appears unused. WILTSHIRE, GAIL. A spatial reading of Ilse Aichinger's novel Die grössere Hoffnung. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2015, 147pp., . Aichinger, Ilse, 1921-2016. - As theoretical underpinnings she incorporates a number of hypotheses by contemporary cultural theorists. She refers to M.M. Bakhtin's concept of "chronotopicity", that is, "time space" in The Dialogic Imagination (1981), and Michel Foucault's treatise on heterotopic otherness in "Different Spaces" (1967) and Discipline and Punish. The Birth of the Prison (1975). Furthermore, she draws on Aleida Assmann's theory of memory outlined in Cultural Memory and Western Civilisation (1999) to interrogate the nexus between space and memory in Aichinger's novel. Finally, Foucault's seminal discourse "What Is an Author?" (1969) contributes to an analysis of (auto-)biographical space. The application of the theories of Bakhtin, Foucault, and Assmann to this novel breaks new ground. - Apart from a detailed reading of Aichinger's novel, this volume also includes interviews with individuals who are close to Aichinger, personally and professionally: Helga Michie née Aichinger, Ruth and Hugh Rix, Dr. Christine Ivanovic and Reto Ziegler. ISBN 9783826057076.…