Pub Date : 2023-05-25DOI: 10.14712/24646830.2023.15
C. Au
Georg Brandes (1842–1927) has had a significant influence on the development of the Chinese lyrical tradition since the beginning of the 20th century. During a panel on comparative literature at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) in 1971, Chen Shih-Hsiang said that the “Chinese literary tradition as a whole is a lyrical tradition,” offering another perspective for interpreting the Chinese literary tradition. The Chinese lyrical tradition emphasizes expressing deep feelings (or embodying lyricism) in various art forms. When tracing the trajectory of the development of the Chinese lyrical tradition, one finds that Lu Xun’s “Moluo shi li shuo” (On the Power of Mara Poetry) (Mara Poetry) has had a profound impact on the formation of the lyrical tradition, which was proposed by Chen ShihHsiang in 1971, and has been consolidated by Chan K. K. Leonard since the 21st century. However, the important role that Brandes played in Lu Xun’s analysis in “Mara Poetry” has not received the attention it deserves. In fact, Lu Xun’s article is deeply indebted to Brandes’s Poland: A Study of the Land, People and Literature (Poland). In order to bridge this research gap, the aim of this paper is twofold. Firstly, it attempts to examine the degree to which Brandes helped develop the Chinese lyrical tradition by identifying his influence on Lu Xun. Secondly, it traces the development of the tradition by delineating both Chen’s and Chan’s contributions. Chen’s research helps highlight the characteristics of A. Mickiewicz’s poetry introduced by both Brandes and Lu Xun, which were considered the major characteristics of the Chinese lyrical tradition by Chen later on. Chan’s study further suggested that the characteristics embodied in Mickiewicz’s poetry can also be found in Lu Ji’s (261–303 AD) “Wen Fu” (Essay on Literature).
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Pub Date : 2023-05-25DOI: 10.14712/24646830.2023.4
Lukáš Felbr
This paper analyses the role of visualisations in grammar books for learners of German as a foreign language. It evaluates a sample of grammar books self-labelled as pictorial as well as other grammar books designated for non-native speakers of German. The analysis focuses not only on pictures, but on all the visual means that grammars use to convey grammatical rules. The aim of the study is to provide a better understanding of didactic and cognitive-linguistic aspects of the grammar transmission. In order to do so, it inquires into the usage of visual metaphors and mnemonic devices. Though the benefits of such types of visualisations have repeatedly been proven, they appear only seldom in the analysed grammar books as most of the visualisations depict only the semantics of example sentences. The article presents concrete cases to illustrate both problematic uses of visualisations and examples of good practice that can serve not only as a starting point for further didactic contributions in this field but also as suggestions for teachers of German or authors of teaching materials.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-25DOI: 10.14712/24646830.2023.7
S. Schicker, Jürgen Ehrenmüller
This article first presents the theoretical and empirical foundations of “Station 2” of a didactic setting in which learners deal with sourcing operations and apply them to a text corpus on a topic created for this didactic setting. The core of the text corpus is a reportage about former miners who now earn their money as “snail strokers” in order to help a landscape devastated by coal mining to grow new vegetation with the snail slime obtained in this way. Through sourcing operations (i.e. through metadata-based evaluation of the texts), learners can identify intentions and perspectives in these texts and assess the credibility of the information. The paper further presents results of data analysis, which are used in the sense of design-based research for further optimization of the setting and modification of the theoretical considerations about it.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-25DOI: 10.14712/24646830.2023.14
Sylwia Izabela Schab
The aim of the article is to investigate Brandes’s impact on the Poles’ self-image and to explain how he became an actor in an internal Polish network of relationships. Three aspects have been analysed with regard to this aim: the reception of Brandes in Poland, reception of Scandinavian literature in Poland as an outcome of the Danish critic’s visits and his reception, and the contemporary virtual guide to Poland “Where is Poland?”, where he is used to provide guidance on how to understand Poland. Actor-Network-Theory provides the inspiration for how to present the intertwined relations of Polish and Danish literary cultures, with changing actants and with Brandes being the key actor.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-25DOI: 10.14712/24646830.2023.2
L. Behnke
The grammar of a language constantly changes. Synchronically this change is manifest in the emergence of alternate grammatical constructions. The side-by-side of old and new variants is part of a speaker’s language competence. Thus, a greater awareness of variation, which would allow learners to contextualize different variants, at least receptively, is demanded for the teaching German as a foreign language. The present paper investigates how five different textbook series of German as a foreign language deal with five different language change phenomena: (1) explicitly in productive exercises and grammatical overviews, (2) (for three of the five textbooks) implicitly in their audio- and reading material, which was compiled into a corpus. The distribution of variants was compared with the distribution in authentic texts, available in corpora of written and spoken speech. It turns out that the productive exercises aimed at the acquisition of grammatical constructions are limited to constructions, which are typical for written language use, although some textbooks draw attention to grammatical variants. In audio-material and reading texts, grammatical variation between new and old constructions, which is manifest most clearly in the distinction between oral and written speech, is present, but remains uncommented. On the basis of these data the paper argues for a more authentic approach and a more tolerant attitude towards phenomena of grammatical change in teaching German as a foreign language, which also includes their adequate production.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-25DOI: 10.14712/24646830.2023.17
Dominika Střížková, J. Dlask, Michael Kovar
Book review on Johanna Laakso (Ed.). Ways of Being in the World: Studies on Minority Literatures. Central European Uralic Studies, volume 1. Praesens Verlag, Wien 2020, 196 p.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-25DOI: 10.14712/24646830.2023.6
Tomáš Mach
Finding a German publication in the field of foreign language acquisition that does not explicitly mention the role of literature would be an anomaly. Within DaF (German as a foreign language), the position occupied by works of literature has been subjected to no or very little scrutiny in the past decades. Simultaneously, it has become fashionable to criticise the (supposed) deficiencies of the pragmatic and competence-driven approach to teaching. The paper offers a critical examination of the theoretical underpinnings as well as the arguments often employed by the proponents of the use of literature in teaching. The findings hint at misleading citation practices, the absence of empirical research in the area as well as problematic argumentation at times.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-25DOI: 10.14712/24646830.2023.5
Václav Kříž, Martin Šemelík
The topic of this paper is the role of German language history in the context of university-based German studies abroad (so called “Auslandsgermanistik”) with focus on German studies in the Czech Republic and selected didactic aspects. Above all, the paper aims to present a project of a new collection of texts and tasks on German language history, which is currently being developed at the Department of Germanic Studies (Faculty of Arts, Charles University). The paper comments on the specific features of the book, including a focus on German texts from the Czech Lands and interdisciplinary orientation, among others. The appendix contains excerpts from the forthcoming publication.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-25DOI: 10.14712/24646830.2023.11
H. Březinová, Jana Lainto
In our contribution, we explore the Czech-speaking discourse related to Georg Brandes in the Bohemian Lands in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century, which means before and shortly after Czechs gained their independence from Austria-Hungary in 1918. Our research of archival sources, especially periodicals and private letters, enables us to confidently claim that the impact of Brandes’s criticism on the Czech arts was rather insignificant. At the same time, the sources give a clear picture that the Czech-speaking intelligentsia were interested in using Brandes’s symbolic capital to promote their struggle for Czech cultural autonomy. Thus, it was not Brandes’s works that can be considered influential in the Czech context but his persona. This strategy of using Brandes’s symbolic capital mirrors his own efforts to be viewed as an international intermediary. Finally, we explore the East-West dynamics in Brandes’s relationship with Czechs and vice versa, and here, we identify a considerable asymmetry
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Pub Date : 2023-03-16DOI: 10.14712/24646830.2022.34
Klára Petříková
Sweeping economic and social developments in the twelfth century gave rise to a series of intellectual and spiritual changes which laid emphasis on exploring and cultivating the self via personal experience and refining one’s virtues, which became the pivot of the romance genre. In the religious sphere, such tendencies gave rise to the emergence of new forms of religious life. One of these was anchoritism, striving to replicate the vita apostolica of the first followers of Christ. Ancrene Wisse was composed to provide spiritual guidance originally to three sisters from one noble family who devoted their lives to God as anchoresses. The text of the guide typically uses secular imagery, including romance motifs, for spiritual ends. This article discusses which romance motifs can be discerned in the text of Ancrene Wisse and assesses their function. It concentrates on comparing the romance topos of the lady in the bower with the symbolic space of the anchorhold and considers the issue of permeability of its borders in terms of the genres of anchoritic guide and romance. It also comments on the active/passive role of the romance lady and the anchoress, on their roles as a receiver and an initiator of action.
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