A obra contística de José Rodrigues Miguéis, construída toda ela sob o signo do exílio, traz a marca da ambivalência nas cinco coletâneas publicadas uma a cada década de sua vida literária: Onde a Noite se Acaba (1946), Léah e Outras Histórias (1958), Gente da Terceira Classe (1962), Comércio com o Inimigo (1973) e Pass(ç)os Confusos (1982, póstuma). O tempo convulso e o espaço de desfazimentos que permeiam a diegese projetam, à luz da teoria de Bakhtin desenvolvida em Questões de Literatura e de Estética (A Teoria do Romance), configurações cronotópicas capazes de suscitar a imagem do estrangeiro em busca de um lugar de realização. É pela porta dos cronotopos que se vê o ciclo desventurado do sujeito migueisiano, cuja sina marcada pela viagem-desencontro-agonia irmana-se à dinâmica do exílio social-psicológico-metafísico. Em uma época de tantas guerras e tiranias, onde a realidade do não-lugar contrapõe-se ao sonho da reintegração, ao emigrante desterrado de si mesmo e do mundo resta a memória forte ou a arte para recuperar aquilo que perdeu. Nesse cenário de incertezas o estigma do despertencimento ultrapassa a contingência pessoal dos narradores ou personagens centrais para se tornar um elemento simbólico da condição humana. / The tales of José Rodrigues Miguéis, constructed under the sign of exile, bear the mark of ambivalence in the five collections published once every decade of his literary life: Onde a Noite se Acaba (1946), Léah e Outras Histórias (1958 ), Gente da Terceira Classe (1962), Comércio com o Inimigo (1973) and Pass(ç)os Confusos (1982, posthumous). The convulsive time and space of breakdowns that permeate diegese project, in the light of Bakhtin\'s theory developed in Questões de Literatura e de Estética (A Teoria do Romance), chronotopic configurations capable of eliciting the image of the foreigner in search of a place of achievement. It is through the door of the chronotopes that one sees the unfortunate cycle of the Miguéisian subject, whose fate marked by the trip-disconcert-agony joins the dynamics of social-psychological-metaphysical exile. In a time of so many wars and tyrannies, where the reality of non-place is opposed to the dream of reintegration, fort the emigrant exiled from himself and from the world remains strong memory or art to recover what he lost. In this scenario of uncertainties, the stigma of non-belonging goes beyond the personal contingency of narrators or central characters to become a symbolic element of the human condition.

A obra contística de José Rodrigues Miguéis, construída toda ela sob o signo do exílio, traz a marca da ambivalência nas cinco coletâneas publicadas uma a cada década de sua vida literária: Onde a Noite se Acaba (1946), Léah e Outras Histórias (1958), Gente da Terceira Classe (1962), Comércio com o Inimigo (1973) e Pass(ç)os Confusos (1982, póstuma). O tempo convulso e o espaço de desfazimentos que permeiam a diegese projetam, à luz da teoria de Bakhtin desenvolvida em Questões de Literatura e de Estética (A Teoria do Romance), configurações cronotópicas capazes de suscitar a imagem do estrangeiro em busca de um lugar de realização. É pela porta dos cronotopos que se vê o ciclo desventurado do sujeito migueisiano, cuja sina marcada pela viagem-desencontro-agonia irmana-se à dinâmica do exílio social-psicológico-metafísico. Em uma época de tantas guerras e tiranias, onde a realidade do não-lugar contrapõe-se ao sonho da reintegração, ao emigrante desterrado de si mesmo e do mundo resta a memória forte ou a arte para recuperar aquilo que perdeu. Nesse cenário de incertezas o estigma do despertencimento ultrapassa a contingência pessoal dos narradores ou personagens centrais para se tornar um elemento simbólico da condição humana. / The tales of José Rodrigues Miguéis, constructed under the sign of exile, bear the mark of ambivalence in the five collections published once every decade of his literary life: Onde a Noite se Acaba (1946), Léah e Outras Histórias (1958 ), Gente da Terceira Classe (1962), Comércio com o Inimigo (1973) and Pass(ç)os Confusos (1982, posthumous). The convulsive time and space of breakdowns that permeate diegese project, in the light of Bakhtin\'s theory developed in Questões de Literatura e de Estética (A Teoria do Romance), chronotopic configurations capable of eliciting the image of the foreigner in search of a place of achievement. It is through the door of the chronotopes that one sees the unfortunate cycle of the Miguéisian subject, whose fate marked by the trip-disconcert-agony joins the dynamics of social-psychological-metaphysical exile. In a time of so many wars and tyrannies, where the reality of non-place is opposed to the dream of reintegration, fort the emigrant exiled from himself and from the world remains strong memory or art to recover what he lost. In this scenario of uncertainties, the stigma of non-belonging goes beyond the personal contingency of narrators or central characters to become a symbolic element of the human condition.

Bislang konzentrierten sich die Untersuchungen des westdeutschen Blicks auf Ostdeutschland auf den Zeitraum vor der Wende oder auf Rundfunk- und Fernseh-Medien. Die Gegenwartsliteratur stellt einen weißen Fleck in dieser Frage dar. Anhand des Chronotopos-Konzepts von Michail Bachtin werden in dieser Arbeit daher zeitliche und räumliche Tiefenstrukturen in der Darstellung Ostdeutschlands in den Werken Jan Böttchers und Andreas Maiers herausgearbeitet und mit ihrer Darstellung Westdeutschlands verglichen. Neben grundsätzlichen Unterschieden fallen dabei signifikante Übereinstimmungen auf.

Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Naumburger Westchor unter den kulturellen Prämissen von Zeit und Raum im Mittelalter. Dazu wird das literarische Analysekonzept des Chronotopos vom Michail M. Bachtin auf den Naumburger Westchor als religiös und liturgisch determinierten Raum übertragen - unter Berücksichtigung der mittelalterlichen theologisch-historischen Quellenlage.

The master thesis presents and analyses a range of different ways in which the motif of the forest was treated in late-medieval literary sources as an element of thematic and compositional construction of the text. At the theoretical basis of the thesis is the concept of diachronic text reception and adaptations which bring along the transmission and simultaneous transformation of the use of topoi, while this process is being related to the development of the literary chronotopos signalizing a change in the public's horizon of expectation. The majority of sources for analysis are drawn from Czech sources of the long 14th century - courtly and chivalric romance, the Old Czech verse legend of St. Procopius and the Dalimil Chronicle - while a shorter part of the thesis is devoted to the presentation of individual tendencies in the development of the use of the forest topos in English and French literary allegory of the 14th and 15th centuries. In detailed comparison of specific passages from Old Czech texts with their actual models in other languages (Old Middle German, Latin), the thesis demonstrates, upon the example of the forest topos, that topoi do not represent fixed, inalterable clichés, but actually exhibit intense shifts in function, content and theme.

This study explores the theme of spatiality as based on a reading of the novel Flammenwand. Roman mit Anmerkungen. by Marlene Streeruwitz, and takes as its focus points the notion of atopias/non-places, the disciplining nature of spaces, the necropolitics of division, and the idea of chronotope to discover how the story is situated. The study further considers how idyllic interpretations of the space of origin are treated as utopic in the novel. Relying as well on Jurij M. Lotman’s thoughts on the structure and limits of the text/work of art, the study aims to suggest how the theme of boundaries and transgressing them also is shown in the form of the novel.