Aesthetics of Addressee-Oriented Character Conception in Literature for Young Adults: Wie der Wahnsinn mir die Welt erklärte by Dita Zipfel
At the centre of this article lies Dita Zipfel‘s psychological, character oriented novel for young adults Wie der Wahnsinn mir die Welt erklärte. It focuses on philosophicalbackgrounds, structural complexity, diegetic unreliability, aesthetic ambiguity, and multiple addressee orientation. Special at...
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| Language: | deu |
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Istanbul University Press
2022-06-01
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| Series: | Studien zur Deutschen Sprache und Literatur |
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| Online Access: | https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/file/JTA6CLJ8T5/CEB5FC8D44754C5F8076DA734B5305A4 |
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| Summary: | At the centre of this article lies Dita Zipfel‘s psychological, character oriented novel for young adults Wie der Wahnsinn mir die Welt erklärte. It focuses on philosophicalbackgrounds, structural complexity, diegetic unreliability, aesthetic ambiguity, and multiple addressee orientation. Special attention is paid to intertextual allusions and philosophical pre-texts. Using theories from cognitive psychology, the article examines the special status of figures as mental models. Furthermore, it deals with the analysis of the complex topic of emotions of the main characters. Emotions are intersubjective, culturally, and linguistically coded text phenomena. The forms of manifestation and the genesis of emotions take the form of both thematization and presentation in narrative discourse. They can be implicit or explicit. Another concentration is on the mental events of the characters. Mental events are a special type of action, a change in the state of consciousness of narrated individuals. This study seeks to delineate criteria and conditions for mental events and emotions and develops techniques for depicting the consciousness and emotions of narrated figures. These cultural coded phenomena in the minds of narrated individuals are essential features of narrated works for adults. The article investigates how changes in consciousness are depicted in works for children and young adults. A final emphasis of the study is on the theories of the comic differentiation in Zipfel’s psychological novel for young adults and their artistic and cultural significance. |
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| ISSN: | 2619-9890 |