Glede na prevladujočo vrsto prikazanega nasilja v izbranih primerih sodobne slovenske kratke proze obstajata dve veliki skupini kratkih pripovedi, ki tematizirajo: individualno nasilje (fizično in ...psihično nasilje ene ali več ali več oseb nad drugo in drugimi ter nasilje nad samim sabo v smislu samopoškodbe ali samomora) v prevladujoči intimistični paradigmi sodobne kratke proze; kolektivno nasilje neke skupnosti na individuumom, ki se kaže kot strukturno (sistemsko) nasilje različnih družbenih institucij nad posamezniki in skupnostjo, kamor sodi tidu ideološko oziroma transcedentalno nasilje.
The book focuses on the short prose works by the Jewish writer Ernst Weiss (1882?1940) by typologising this specific section of the novelist's production, defining its themes and in six interpretive ...sketches drawing out a type of narration which is classified as parabolic. The study explicates Weiss' position on the problem of existence and knowledge, defines the concept of the parabolic conception of narration and demonstrates the narrative features of this conception.
"Pleasure," Jennifer Moxley writes in her introduction to this volume, "is the word that first comes to mind at the mention of Nicole Brossard's poetry." This volume provides English-language readers ...with an overview of the life and work of Nicole Brossard, poet, novelist, and essayist, who is widely recognized in her native Québec and throughout the French-speaking world as one of the greatest writers of her generation. Brossard's poetry is rooted in her investigations of language, her abiding commitment to a feminist consciousness, and her capacity for renewing meaning as a virtual space of desire. The reader enters a poetic world in which the aesthetic is joined with the political, and the meaning of both is enriched in the process. The selections in this volume include translations of some of Brossard's best-known works-Lovhers, Ultra Sounds, Museum of Bone and Water, Notebook of Roses and Civilization-along with short prose works, an interview with Brossard, and a bibliography of works in French and English, and constitute the most substantial English-language sampling published to date of one of Canada's greatest living poets.
Diese Studie stellt die Kurzprosa des jüdischen Schriftstellers Ernst Weiß in den Mittelpunkt. Weiß, 1882 in Brünn geboren, nahm sich 1940 beim Einmarsch der deutschen Truppen in Paris das Leben. Von ...der Germanistik wird sein Werk seit den 1980er-Jahren erforscht. Bislang widmete sich jedoch keine Arbeit explizit der Kurzprosa des Autors. Die Studie typologisiert den Werkausschnitt, bestimmt seine Thematik und arbeitet in sechs Interpretationsskizzen einen Erzähltypus heraus, und bezeichnet diesen als parabolisch. Sie erläutert Weiß Position zur Existenz- und Erkenntnisproblematik, den Begriff der parabolischen Erzählkonzeption und zeigt narrative Merkmale dieser Konzeption auf.
Short, Terse or Angular? Notes on Expressionism and Prose in the Nordic Countries 1910–1930 With Pär Lagerkvist’s earliest collections of short prose, Motiv (1914) and Järn och människor (1915) as a ...point of reference, the article discusses ”shortness” in relation to the problems of defining expressionist prose. Most researchers agree that expressionist prose is, first and foremost, short, with the argument that the expressionist intensity or tendency towards abstraction works against a narrative pace. However, in examining how authors critically concerned with expressionism in Germany, as well as in the Nordic countries, create and imagine an expressionist or modern prose, it becomes obvious that shortness is not a dominant requirement or idea. It is at least equally important to note that authors often strive to achieve inter-medial effects: aspiring, for instance, to the angularity, hardness and abstraction of cubist art, or to the tempo and technique of modern film. It also becomes evident that the term ”expressionist” needs to be more carefully applied in the Nordic than in the German context, in order to be meaningful. In the end, the concept of ”shortness” per se, does not aid in the definition of expressionist prose. Moreover, it cannot be concluded that Nordic authors utilize short forms in their literary experiments more consistently than they use longer forms. However, it is apparent that Lagerkvist is extremely attentive to the different effects of reducing or expanding his texts, particularly in order to let his readers see and see beyond the ”angularity” of his art.
Rad se bavi detektiranjem i analizom različitih manifestacija motiva bijega u pripovijestima Josipa Kosora. Uz strast kao dominantan motiv Kosorova opusa, likovi su njegove kratke proze redovito ...povezani s nekim oblikom kretanja, promjene, putovanja
i bijega, koji se u prostoru književnoga teksta može odvijati fizički ili imaginarno – eskapističkim uzmicanjem u maštu, sanjarenje, osamljeništvo ili umjetnost. S obzirom na autobiografičnost Kosorovih djela, likovi bjegunaca, vagabunda, buntovnika, sanjara i
boema dovode se u vezu s autorovim vlastitim turbulentnim životnim putem.
U članku se raspravlja o modalitetima nove strategije riječi u kratkoj prozi kojom je stvarana od šezdesetih do osamdesetih godina dvadesetoga stoljeća postmodernistička formacija u hrvatskoj ...književnosti. Argumentira se tvrdnja o sve dominantnijem metaforičkom načinu pisanja koji je proizvod specifičnoga stvaralačkog odnosa prema stvarnosti i postmodernistički oblikovanim postupcima u djelima Nenada Šepića, Gorana Tribusona, Pavla Pavličića, Stjepana Čuića i Dubravke Ugrešić. Temeljnim odlikama takvoga načina pisanja smatramo pored metaforizacije i simbolizacije strah od značenja riječi, slutnju mogućega postojanja nekodificiranih komunikacijskih modela, kritički odnos prema dominantnoj političkoj ideologiji te oblikovni ludizam kojim se podjednako relativizira značaj književne prakse i društvene stvarnosti.