The Staircase Wit or, The Poetic Idiomaticity of Herta Müller's Prose
'The Staircase Wit; or, The Poetic Idiomaticity of Herta Müller's Prose' explores idioms and Sprachbilder as poetic views of the mother tongue. This exploration involves a special focus on Müller's Nobel lecture, considered as both a compendium and an enactment of her meditations...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Untying the mother tongue |
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2023
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 'The Staircase Wit; or, The Poetic Idiomaticity of Herta Müller's Prose' explores idioms and Sprachbilder as poetic views of the mother tongue. This exploration involves a special focus on Müller's Nobel lecture, considered as both a compendium and an enactment of her meditations on language, on the nature of writing, and on the creative process. While Müller frequently employs idioms in her articles, lectures, and novel titles, she never uses them in a superficial way or as a mere reproduction of common or daily speech. Rather, as this essay argues, idioms in Müller's prose are indicative of her attitude toward language and toward the mother tongue in general. In the Nobel lecture as well as elsewhere, idioms serve a dual, occasionally conflicting purpose, combining the need for the ‘singularity’ of aesthetic experience with the search for a new kind of 'conventionality'. |
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| ISBN: | 9783965580497 9783965580480 |