Jean Paul's novel The Life of Fibel, Author of the Bienrodische Fibel places itself in a specifi c relation to literacy by identifying the alphabet and the spelling-book as a matrix of its own production. Thus, the text refers itself and its sense-effects back to the arbitrariness of its elements and their combinatorics. Moreover, at the margins of the book, it feigns to be abandoned to the contingency of its preliteral physis which is suppressed by sense, authority, authorship and control (...) of the work. (shrink)

Jean Paul's novel The Life of Fibel, Author of the Bienrodische Fibel places itself in a specifi c relation to literacy by identifying the alphabet and the spelling-book as a matrix of its own production. Thus, the text refers itself and its sense-effects back to the arbitrariness of its elements and their combinatorics. Moreover, at the margins of the book, it feigns to be abandoned to the contingency of its preliteral physis which is suppressed by sense, authority, authorship and control (...) of the work. (shrink)

"Erscheinen und Verschwinden sind als Auf und Abtreten physische und symbolische Operationen, die sich auf die den Schauplatz abscheidend konstituierenden Grenze zwischen on-stage und backstage beziehen, aus dem das Geschehen auf der Bühne sich speist. Auftreten ist derart als ein riskanter und instabiler Vorgang zwischen Erscheinen und Verschwinden zu kennzeichnen. Am Beispiel zeitgenössischer Auseinandersetzungen mit den Bedingungen des Theaters, die die Bühne als Gefüge diverser Darstellungs-Flächen und -Räume nutzen, bekommt die Verwiesenheit der theatralen Präsentation auf das Anderswo einen spezifischen Witz (...) für das Verschwinden: was hier ›verschwindet‹ ist irgendwo anders. As entrances and exits, appearance and disappearance are physical and symbolic operations, which refer to the border between onstage and backstage that constitutes the scene and with it the action on stage. To make an entrance is thus a risky and unstable operation between appearance and disappearance. Using the example of contemporary explorations of the conditions of theater that use the stage as a structure of various presentation areas and -spaces, the dependence of the theatrical presentation on an Elsewhere produces a specific pun on disappearance: that which ›disappears‹ here is somewhere else.". (shrink)

?Starting from the literary translations and reflections on the theory of translation of Christoph Martin Wieland, this book deals with different modalities and methods of translating and transmitting? not only from language to language, but also between literary genres, epochs, knowledge formations and nations. Wieland is portrayed as an author and editor who devoted himself? with experimental openness? to a project of mediating and resolving dichotomies such as cosmopolitism and nation.".