TY - THES A1 - Schulz, Frank T1 - 'How can you go to a Church that killed so many Indians?' : Representations of Christianity in 20th century Native American novels N2 - Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht Romane indianischer Autorinnen und Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts hinsichtlich ihrer Repräsentation von Konflikten zwischen amerikanischen Ureinwohnern und der vorherrschenden christlichen Religion des allgemeinen gesellschaftlichen Umfelds. Verschiedene Schwerpunkte sind zu erkennen, die im Laufe des Jahrhunderts immer wieder dargestellt und in veränderter Perspektive betrachtet werden. Sowohl historische Konflikte der Kolonialisierung und Christianisierung als auch die immerwährende Frage indianischer Christen -- 'Wie kannst Du in eine Kirche gehen, die so viele Indianer umgebracht hat?' [Alexie, Reservation Blues] -- werden in den Romanen diskutiert und in meiner Arbeit analysiert. Es wird ferner versucht, eine literaturgeschichtliche Klassifizierung der einzelnen Werke entsprechend ihrer Repräsentation dieser Probleme vorzunehmen. In Anlehnung an Charles Larsons chronologisch-thematische Darstellung indianischer Prosa, werden die Kategorien rejection, (syncretic) adaptation, and postmodern-ironic revision eingeführt, um die unterschiedlichen Darstellungsweisen zu beschreiben. Anhand der fünf Hauptbeispiele ist eine Entwicklung der zeitgenössischen indianischen Literatur zu beobachten, die sich von der engen Definition der 1960er und 70er Jahre zugunsten eines breiteren und vielfältigeren Ansatzes löst und dabei mittels interkultureller und intertextueller Referenzen, postmoderner Ironie, und einem neuen indianischen Selbstbewußtsein auch neue Positionen gegenüber dem Glauben der einstigen Kolonialmacht einnimmt. Gutachter / Betreuer: Prof. Rüdiger Kunow ; Dr. Jürgen Heiß N2 - This MA thesis examines novels by Native American authors of the 20th century in regard to their representation of conflicts between the indigenous population of North America and the dominant Christian religion of the mainstream society. Several major points can be followed throughout the century, which have been presented repeatedly and discussed in various perspectives. Historical conflicts of colonization and Christianization, as well as the perpetual question of Native American Christians -- 'How can you go to a church that killed so many Indians?' [Alexie, Reservation Blues] -- are debated in these novels and analyzed in this paper. Furthermore, I have tried to position and classify the works according to their representation of these problems within literary history. Following Charles Larson's chronologic and thematic examination of American Indian Fiction, the categories rejection, (syncretic) adaptation, and postmodern-ironic revision are introduced to describe the various forms of representation. On the basis of five main examples, we can observe an evolution of contemporary Native American literature, which has liberated itself from the narrow definition of the 1960s and 1970s, in favor of a broader and more varied approach. In so doing, and by means of intercultural and intertextual referencing, postmodern irony, and a new Indian self-confidence, it has also taken a new position towards the religion of the former colonizer. KW - Literatur der Indianer Nordamerikas KW - Belletristik KW - Romane KW - Christentum KW - Christianisierung KW - Kolonialisierung KW - Religion KW - amerikanische Ureinwohner KW - D'Ar KW - Native American literature KW - fiction KW - novels KW - Christianity KW - Christianization KW - colonization KW - religion KW - American Indians KW - D'Arcy McNickle KW - N. Scott Momad Y1 - 2002 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-0001154 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Priewe, Marc T1 - An den Grenzen der Kultur(en) Y1 - 2002 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kunow, Rüdiger T1 - At the borderline : placing and displacing communities in postcolonial narratives Y1 - 2002 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Tristram, Hildegard L. C. T1 - Attrition of Inflections in English and Welsh N2 - A close comparative analysis of the attrition of inflections in historical English and Welsh reveals that Welsh had already lost its entire NP inflection when it surfaces in writing in the 7c AD, while English was still fully inflected both in the NP and VP. The comparison of the modern English and Welsh morphological categories shows that English overtook Welsh in its rate of analyticising drift. This shows first in writing during the Middle English period. Thus in English, the attrition bothfully affected the NP and the VP, while in modern Welsh the attrition of the verbal inflection in the VP is much less advanced than in English. Both languages, however, share the shift in the VP from the synthetism of verbal tense, mood (and voice) marking towards analytic aspect marking, which continues to gain in importance in both languages today. The question is raised, whether this joint development may have been due to the influence of the 'Late British' speaking shifters to Old English, to prolongued areal contactin the island of Britain ("Sprachbund") and/or to a more general drift from syntheticity to analycity in (Western) IE languages in Europe, which affects some languages more than others. The Appendix prints the earliest Old English and Old Welsh texts (dated by absolute chronology) and marks their loss of inflections, in order to highlight the advanced analycity in the Old Welsh NP as opposed to the Old English NP. Y1 - 2002 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krück, Brigitte T1 - Chancen, Grenzen, Legitimationsprobleme : Computermedien und literarische Texte ; Erfahrungen aus der Lehrerbildung N2 - Berichtet wird über ein Projekt, das mit Lehramtsstudierenden in einem Hauptseminar zu Neuen Technologien im Englischunterricht vorbereitet und mit Englischlernenden auf der Sekundarstufe II durchgeführt wurde. Ausgangspunkt des Projekts war die Lektüre eines literarischen Textes, der mit Hilfe des Internets kontextualisiert werden sollte. Die praktischen Erfahrungen werden mit theoretischen Aussagen zum Thema in Beziehung gesetzt, was schließlich in eine fachdidaktische Positionsbestimmung mündet. Y1 - 2002 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Brunkhorst, Martin T1 - Das Maskenspiel als höfische Unteraltungsform : Grenzfälle einer theatralischen Gattung bei Shakespeare, Milton und Crowne Y1 - 2002 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Tristram, Hildegard L. C. T1 - DO-Periphrasis in Irish N2 - Periphrastic DO constructions are very common both in English and in the Neo-Brittonic languages and are used for various functional purposes. These form part of a larger linguistic area in western and northern Europe. The literature does not mention comparable constructions for Irish and Scottish Gaelic. Irish informants, however, confirm orally that they are in common use among present day Gaeltacht speakers. They appear also to have been common in late spoken Manx. This study is based on the "Caint Chonamara" electronic corpus, the field work for which was first untertaken by Hans Hartmann (Hamburg) and Tomás de Bhaldraithe (Dublin) in the early 1960s und brought to a close by Arndt Wigger (Wuppertal) in the 1990s. The file for the Ros Muc dialogues yielded a very low return of potential DO constructions, i.e. 14 tokens of DÉAN + VN out of 494 DÉAN tokens altogether in the file. This shows that the DÉAN + VN construction was grammatically correct and acceptable to the native speakers, but was not grammaticalised and had a very low frequency. This result is interesting, but not surprising, since the informants chosen for this file conformed to the NORMS category (non-mobile old rural males. They were born around the turn of the 19c/20c and acquired their language now more than 100 years ago. This was well before the independence of the Republic. They would have acquired their Irish orally from native speakers and underwent very little formal training in Irish, or none. This small sample confirms that Irish did not belong to the broad linguistic area in Western Europe which makes use of periphrastic DO constructions, at least not until very recently. Y1 - 2002 SN - 90-429-1026-7 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wischer, Ilse T1 - Dynamic have in North American and British Isles English Y1 - 2002 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krück, Brigitte A1 - Loeser, Kristiane T1 - Entwicklung von Lehr- und Lernmaterialien für Politische Bildung in englischer Sprache : ein Erfahrungsbericht N2 - Krück und Loeser geben in ihrem Beitrag einen Bericht über Verlauf und erste Ergebnisse eines Pilotprojekts zur Entwicklung von Lehr- und Lernmaterialien für eine Lerneinheit im Fach Politische Bildung in englischer Sprache. Ausgehend von einigen theoretischen Überlegungen beschreiben die Autoren anhand jeweils eines Beispiels zu rezeptiven und produktiven Sprachtätigkeiten die Natur der Textgrundlage, die Art der Aufgabenstellung und die daraus resultierenden Lernerprodukte. Letztere werden einer linguistischen Analyse unterzogen, die zusammen mit schriftlichen und mündlichen Schülerkommentaren Rückschlüsse auf die ausgelösten Lernprozesse und die Effizienz der eingesetzten Materialien zulassen. Daraus werden Schlußfolgerungen für die weitere Überarbeitung der Materialien gezogen. Y1 - 2002 SN - 3-631-39483-7 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Tristram, Hildegard L. C. T1 - European Versification : the Effect of Literacy N2 - A report of Mikhail Gasparov's 1989 book on the 'History of European Versification' is the starting point of the discussion in this article of the types of versification found in the Insular Celtic literatures from their first documenation in the early middle ages to the present day, as Gasparov's survey does not cover these poetries. It is claimed here that their metrical constraints were pre-literate and first and foremost geared at aural reception. The introduction of writing led to an increase in metrical sophistication which, while still basically oral, because of the process of "prelecting" (i.e. reading out aloud to illiterate or semi-literate audiences), required a very careful appreciation of their metrical skills. Contact with English and French syllabic poetry in the later middle ages and particularly in the modern period produced so-called "free verse" poetry. The word "free" in this particular context meant that the rather loose metrical constraints of these majority literatures in no way compared with the extraordinarily high metrical sophistication of the native oral derived or "bardic" poetry. Y1 - 2002 SN - 3-631-35697-8 ER -