Booklover - Randomly Greedy Jacobs, Donna
Against the grain (Charleston, S.C.),
02/2021, Volume:
33, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
The book or collection of works is discovered while popping into a bookstore, walking the stacks in the library, or digging into a pile of books at a flea market. Sadly none of these activities are ...easily or safely available during a pandemic. Albeit, there is a virtual counter activity to each of these methods, but it just isn't the same. A clinical approach went into the current choice and, for the first time, there is no connection in Elfriede Jelinek's novel Creed, translation provided by Martin Chalmers, except random. Yet it does fit right into the reason behind why she was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature; "for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power."
»Aufstörung«, »Verstörung«, »Zerstörung« - damit wurde Jelineks dramatisches Schreiben von Beginn an belegt, ohne jedoch den Begriff der Störung zu definieren oder zu differenzieren. Ging es zunächst ...um die Zerstörung des bürgerlichen Dramas und Repräsentationstheaters, sucht das Sekundärdrama eine Auf- und Verstörung, ein komplexes Miteinander von Drama und »postdramatischem« Theatertext.
Ausgehend von kommunikations-, medien-, kultur-, literatur- und theaterwissenschaftlichen Ansätzen beschreibt Teresa Kovacs erstmals Jelineks Ästhetik der Störung und zeigt, was passiert, wenn Jelineks Sekundärdramen auf ihre »Vorlagen«, auf Goethes »Urfaust« und Lessings »Nathan der Weise« treffen.
Die Reihe Gegenwartsliteratur - Autoren und Debatten präsentiert konzise Auseinandersetzungen mit vorwiegend deutschsprachiger Literatur nach 1989. Sie ermöglicht ihren Leserinnen und Lesern ...Annäherungen an Texte, deren Bedeutungsspektrum noch längst nicht ausgeleuchtet ist. Die thematisch fokussierten Bände liefern Impulse zu den drängendsten Fragen der literarischen Jetztzeit.
Taking as his point of departure Sigmund Freud’s famous remark on the extension of the psyche, in the first part of the article the author develops the idea of the relation between “soul,” body and ...space in the psychoanalytical tradition. In doing so, he refers to the interpretation given to Freud’s remark by Jean-Luc Nancy. Crucially modifying Nancy’s perspective and moving back to the psychoanalytic tradition, the author develops a general notion of das Unbehagen im Raum – the discomfort felt in space. In the second part, the author deepens this analysis by looking at a certain desperate strategy of confronting this discomfort – a strategy adopted by the protagonist of The Piano Teacher, a novel by Elfriede Jelinek.
Elfriede Jelinek’s novel The Piano Teacher is examined in relation to psychoanalytic theories of mother-daughter dynamics. This paper uses a Lacanian reading to explore the development of the ...protagonist as a perverse sexual subject
Elfriede Jelinek’s postdramatic stage essay Rein Gold (2012) interweaves countless texts including Richard Wagner’s operas from the Ring cycle, Karl Marx’s The Capital, and Marx and Friedrich ...Engels’s The Communist Manifesto as well as contemporary writings and news articles. Scholarship has so far examined the play in comparison to Wagner’s Rheingold opera, which serves as the base for the dialogue between the father Wotan and daughter Brünnhilde. This article examines intertextualities with the story of the National Socialist Underground, an extremist right-wing group that committed hate-crime murders and bank robberies, and with the exploitative history of workers, particularly women, in capitalist systems. Jelinek compares the National Socialist Underground’s attempt to violently rid Germany of non-ethnic Germans with Siegfried’s mythical fight as dragon slayer in the Nibelungenlied that created a hero who has been cast as a German identity figure for an ethnonational narrative and fascist ideas in twenty-first-century Germany.
* 20. Oktober 1946 in Mürzzuschlag (Steiermark), Schriftstellerin. Elfriede Jelinek wuchs in Wien auf und erhielt ab 1960 eine umfassende musikalische Ausbildung am Wiener Konservatorium, u. a. ...Orgel-...
Las novelas de Jelinek Die Kinder der Toten y Neid. Privatroman recuerdan el capítulo oscuro en la historia de Austria, es decir el “Anschluss”, que tuvo lugar en marzo de 1938 y la participación de ...algunos austriacos en los crímenes en masa del nacionalsocialismo. El objetivo de este artículo es analizar las técnicas narrativas dentro de las novelas elegidas para la representación critica de una estética de la Shoah la tendencia a la estadística abstracta e imprecisa, las inserciones en las tramas novelescas que sirven para recordar la época del austrofascismo y el nacionalsocialismo. Mediante la simbolización de las víctimas y los victimarios, se llena el vacío en la memoria dejado por la Shoah y se representa la ausencia de las víctimas.
Holocaust as entertainment? Millions of people participated in the Holocaust actively, involuntarily, or as bystanders. Holocaust survivors and Hollywood writers have brought very different historic ...facts to life. This study meets at the intersection of historical drama and dramatic history in two different formats: cinema and theater. It explores the relationship between the Israeli/Austrian film The Testament (2017), and Elfriede Jelinek's play Rechnitz (2008), and the historical accuracy of both. Film and play skillfully reflect the clash between selective pasts and different presents, exemplified by a massacre of Jews during the last days of WWII in the Austrian town of Rechnitz. Although the format and genre of both pieces differ, their renditions reveal significant parallels. Their admonishing tone evokes a discussion about guilt, responsibility, and the past. Director and writer Amichai Greenberg depicts the search for the mass grave. Elfriede Jelinek centers her play on the guests who committed the horrendous murder, and the residents who have made every effort to forget and deny.
Silke Felber describes Jelinek's theater of (tragedy) traversal for the first time at the intersection of theater, literary, and cultural studies. In the form of a richly detailed study, this ...foundational work reveals gestures of lamentation and anger that extend back to antiquity while simultaneously pointing toward an uncertain future.
Silke Felber beschreibt Jelineks Theater der (Tragödien-)Durchquerung erstmals an der Schnittstelle von Theater-, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft. In Form einer materialreichen Studie bringt dieses Grundlagenwerk Gesten der Klage und der Wut zum Vorschein, die bis in die Antike und gleichzeitig in eine ungewisse Zukunft weisen.
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