... Wie auch beim ersten Buch hat nur eine Auswahl des reichen Schaffens Aufnahme in die vorliegende Sammlung gefunden. Die Auswahl, diesmal von Autor selbst getroffen, fiel schwer, denn jedes Gedicht ist ein Stück gelebtes Leben, ein Stück seiner Sicht auf die Welt. So finden sich in diesem Buch auch einige ältere Gedichte, die den Werdegang der Kinder oder einige denkwürdige Tagungen und Kongresse reflektieren. ... (aus dem Vorwort)

... Wie auch beim ersten Buch hat nur eine Auswahl des reichen Schaffens Aufnahme in die vorliegende Sammlung gefunden. Die Auswahl, diesmal von Autor selbst getroffen, fiel schwer, denn jedes Gedicht ist ein Stück gelebtes Leben, ein Stück seiner Sicht auf die Welt. So finden sich in diesem Buch auch einige ältere Gedichte, die den Werdegang der Kinder oder einige denkwürdige Tagungen und Kongresse reflektieren. ... (aus dem Vorwort)

Taarab in contemporary Zanzibar currently experiences great changes since the Nineties with the emerging and growing success of modern taarab. This has shocked the fans of the traditional style (taarab asilia) with musical and instrumental innovations, including powerful amplifiers and more danceable rhythms, but also textual innovations, using in their songs, commonly called mipasho, a sort of language and poetical imagery very open and non-disguised (Khamis 2002: 200). The perception of a split between the two musical and poetical styles is widely shared among the artists and fans of traditional taarab, but it actually tends to simplify the dynamics of continuity and change of this art deeply rooted within the social and political life of Zanzibar islands.

Motherhood is a contemporary topic that affects the majority of women in Germany, and yet the experiences and struggles of working mothers often remain taboo or are in conflict with social conventions and established traditions. If one adds to this mothers’ wishes or needs to pursue a career, challenges occur: conflicting priorities, the family structure, social perceptions and pressures, and reconciling and balancing the multi-faceted demands on a woman’s life. „Eine Poetik der Mutterschaft“ breaks the silence around these concern and explores the poeticity of motherhood in German literature and the artwork of two female authors, who pursued their personal and career goals and did not conform to the ideal image of motherhood in Germany: Else Lasker-Schüler (1869-1945) and Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901-1974). Both women were working mothers, who had different motherhood experiences and challenges. The dissertation begins with a close look at these authors’ biographies, their personal experiences of pregnancy, birth, and motherhood. Next comes an analysis of the literary and artistic works with examples of how motherhood informs their works and creative process, how images of maternity are utilized to communicate a message, and some metaphorical meanings of motherhood in the selected works. I argue that the creative process is a parallel to motherhood itself, and I show how this is connected to the metapoeticity of the works. This dissertation highlights the ways in which Lasker-Schüler and Kaschnitz, like other historical working mother-artists such as Käthe Kollwitz, become role models and inspire women in contemporary times, enabling women to draw strength from each other and to continue to stretch the boundaries of traditional and ideal perceptions of mothers and motherhood. / Thesis (Ph.D, German) -- Queen's University, 2012-04-13 11:13:43.731

Diss. : Literaturwissenschaft : Göttingen : 1979. - Bibliogr. p. 463-499. Résumé en anglais. -

The dynamic element of Xhosa oral poetry has clearly changed and is continuing to change with changes in the Nguni society. The aim of this paper is to investigate the changes that have intruded into Xhosa praise poetry during 1990s.

This study centers on a 1907 collection of art songs for voice and piano composed by Alexander Zemlinsky. Although his small cycle of five songs was not published during the composer's lifetime and has not been given the scholarly attention that other pieces in his oeuvre have, it is well crafted and carries a high degree of expressive and emotional weight. The cycle sets the poetry of Richard Dehmel; a contemporary of Zemlinsky and the inspiration behind works of Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern and Richard Strauss as well. In these 1905 settings Zemlinsky experiments with an extremely chromatic language while exploring themes of love and betrayal in the poetry of Dehmel. This study examines this chromatic style and how it relates to the themes in the text. Through the detailed analysis of each of the songs the reader will see how, in spite of the free succession of harmonies that often obscure the tonal orientation, a central underlying tonic/dominant relationship is at the core of each song except the first. In this manner the songs display a subtle yet powerful exploitation of tonal ambiguity that brings out many of the nuances of Dehmel's poems. / School of Music

Taarab in contemporary Zanzibar currently experiences great changes since the Nineties with the emerging and growing success of modern taarab. This has shocked the fans of the traditional style (taarab asilia) with musical and instrumental innovations, including powerful amplifiers and more danceable rhythms, but also textual innovations, using in their songs, commonly called mipasho, a sort of language and poetical imagery very open and non-disguised (Khamis 2002: 200). The perception of a split between the two musical and poetical styles is widely shared among the artists and fans of traditional taarab, but it actually tends to simplify the dynamics of continuity and change of this art deeply rooted within the social and political life of Zanzibar islands.

Uppsatsens problemställning rör frågan om det är möjligt att utröna hur tystnaden framställs i Nelly Sachs sena lyrik och vad den säger, och huruvida det är möjligt att relatera denna tystnad till en medveten kontra omedveten uttrycksform. Min avsikt är alltså att undersöka de strukturer eller mönster – medvetna som omedvetna – som står att finna i Sachs lyrik som kan kopplas samman med denna tystnad, inte för att fastställa en dikts betydelse utan för att undersöka hur tystnadens närvaro tar sig uttryck och låter sig urskiljas i hennes dikter. Jag gör detta dels genom att i uppsatsens del ett redogöra för hur tystnaden som tema och problem uppfattas i den tidigare forskningen. I del två försöker jag fördjupa dessa rön genom en vidare koppling till Sachs modernistiska formspråk, och med hjälp av bland annat psykoanalytisk teori görs ett antal närläsningar av hennes senare dikter. Den teoretiska ramen för diskussionen hämtar jag alltså främst från psykoanalysen som på olika vis uppmärksammar lakuner, trauman och omedvetna dimensioner i språket, vilket jag menar kan öka förståelsen för tystnadens problematik hos Sachs. Undersökningen genomförs närmare bestämt i linje med Julia Kristevas teoribildning. Kristeva är psykoanalytiker och även professor i lingvistik och har formulerat teorier om det poetiska språket som visat sig fruktbara i min läsning av det ”ordlösa språket” hos Sachs. Kathrin M. Bower refererar träffande till Kristevas arbete som ”Kristeva’s distinctive brand of psychoanalytic semiotics”.

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