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German Language and Literature

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Doctoral Dissertations

2015

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‚Literarisch Inszenierte Sprachbiographien’ Familiengedächtnis, Liebe Und Stadt In Dimitré Dinevs Engelszungen, Marica Bodrožićs Das Gedächtnis Der Libellen Und Ilma Rakusas Mehr Meer. Erinnerungspassagen, Anja Katharina Seiler Aug 2015

‚Literarisch Inszenierte Sprachbiographien’ Familiengedächtnis, Liebe Und Stadt In Dimitré Dinevs Engelszungen, Marica Bodrožićs Das Gedächtnis Der Libellen Und Ilma Rakusas Mehr Meer. Erinnerungspassagen, Anja Katharina Seiler

Doctoral Dissertations

Literary characters as well as the realities that surround them can be portrayed and developed through the lense(s) of the languages that these characters speak and experience. This dissertation analyzes such ‘literarily enacted language biographies’ (‘Sprachbiographien’) in the following German texts: Engelszungen by Dimitré Dinev (2003), Das Gedächtnis der Libellen by Marica Bodrožić (2010) and Mehr Meer: Erinnerungspassagen by Ilma Rakusa (2009).

Drawing upon current research that focuses on literary multilingualism as well as language biographies, this dissertation analyzes which literary strategies Dinev, Bodrožić and Rakusa employ in these texts to narratively (re)construct the protagonists’ language biographies. Three common thematic …