TY - JOUR A1 - Schneider, Melanie T1 - « [C]’est absurde d’être bloqué sur une autoroute » – Das Motiv des Staus in der zeitgenössischen romanischen Literatur JF - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik N2 - Due to an ever-increasing number of automobiles on the roads, automobility fails more and more to fulfil its promise of free individual mobility, leading to traffic density and congestions of unprecedented proportions. However, those conditions seem to possess an aesthetic potential which we seek to analyze in terms of literature. Therefore, we are going to look on three novels from Romance-language areas: Julio Cortázar’s short story La autopista del sur (1966), Carlo Lucarelli’s novel Autosole (1998) and Grégoire Gauchet’s novel Les robinsons de l’autoroute (2018). First, we will analyze the nature of deceleration/congestion by referring to human geographer Tim Cresswell’s concept of friction. Second, we will examine recurring motifs linked to the deceleration/congestion in all novels before taking a closer look at Gauchet’s novel where the friction not only applies to traffic but also to human relationships. The aim is to look at different literary representations of an everyday experience like traffic congestion and to see how literature deals with such an occurrence. KW - traffic congestion KW - friction KW - motorway KW - immobility KW - car culture Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-329807 SN - 2364-6705 VL - 8 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Nabi, Haifaa T1 - La Nausée : Salut par l’art ou par les autres ? JF - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik N2 - In this article dedicated to Jean-Paul Sartre’s first novel La Nausée, we analyze how the idea of conversion to art grows in the imagination of the hero, Antoine Roquentin. Furthermore we show that all the narrative actions in the novel are based on the hero’s communicational interaction with the other characters. This lonely person who complains in his diary about social exclusion, yet he converts to art not through his reflections, but through communica-ting with the other characters. Also, many critical studies on La Nausée have considered jazz music that the hero listens to in a café as the critical moment of his conversion. In our opinion this reflects juste one phase of a connected sequence of events through which the hero passes from a state of relational negativity and existential alienation to a state of openness, achieved again mainly by the virtue of other characters. KW - conversion to art KW - others KW - communication KW - writing KW - loneliness Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-329799 SN - 2364-6705 VL - 8 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kreiner, Lea T1 - Das Genus im Sprachvergleich: Genuszuweisung bei substantivischen Lehnwörtern im Deutschen und Spanischen JF - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik N2 - This article examines principles of gender assignment in the German and Spanish language and in this way tries to answer the question of why loanwords are preferably assigned a particular gender and what criteria motivate this choice. After introducing some general aspects about gender as well as some important properties of the German and Spanish gender systems, this paper compares several formal (morphological and phonological) and semantic rules regarding gender assignment. Despite large structural differences between the languages, the comparison shows that the assignment rules prove to be in a sense cross-lingual, which do not only testify to the assumption but also the validity of an underlying system of rules. KW - gender assignment KW - loanwords KW - German KW - Spanish KW - contrastive linguistics Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-329784 SN - 2364-6705 VL - 8 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Henk, Lars Thorben T1 - Édouard Louis’ «J’accuse». Ein spätmoderner Adept Zolas? JF - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik N2 - French history of literature is undoubtedly characterized by a tradition of social criticism portraying the working class’ misery that can be traced back at least to the 19th century. Among these depictions, Zola’s novels have a prominent position. This is, among other aspects, due to their pretended scientific foundation and their pretentious claims to be scientific studies. The contemporary author Édouard Louis situates himself in this tradition of Zola’s naturalism. This invites us to examine the interrelation between Zola and Louis more closely. Based on the common ground of scientific foundation, scientific ambition and social commitment pursued in their novels, it will be demonstrated that Louis is a late-modern Zola whose milieu and character descriptions follow in detail Zola’s constructions. KW - Zola KW - misery KW - literature KW - scientific novel KW - Louis Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-329777 SN - 2364-6705 VL - 8 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Harjus, Jannis T1 - El aliento xeneize: Eine diskurslinguistische Analyse von Fangesängen der Anhänger des argentinischen Clubs Boca Juniors JF - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik N2 - In this contribution, chants of the followers of the Argentine football team Boca Juniors are analyzed with regard to possible identity constructions and othering. The results of the corpus-driven discourse-linguistic analysis demonstrate in particular metaphors and topoi that can be highlighted as a constitutive part of the discursive construction of a Boca Juniors supporters’ identity and the otherings of River Plate hinchas. Through the use of certain metaphors and determined lexical fields that clearly call for acts of violence, a masculine ethos is discursively constructed among Bocas own followers, which goes far beyond comparable insulting and cheering chants of comparable European football teams. KW - superclásico KW - linguistic discourse analysis KW - football chants KW - Argentinian Spanish KW - topoi Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-329768 SN - 2364-6705 VL - 8 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Haidacher, Bernhard T1 - The concept of confix in German, French, and Italian – a comparative study JF - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik N2 - Despite some critical voices, in German linguistics the concept of confix can meanwhile be considered as an established morpheme category. Schmidt (1987) introduced the term into German to describe bound morphemes that are lexical, but not inflectable. Since the 2000s, an increasing number of publications deal with the phenomenon and the term has begun to enter linguistic reference works as well. In French, the situation is completely different due to the structure of the language (poor in compounds and mostly post-determinative). Although the term and the concept have originall y been coined by the French structuralist André Martinet ([1961] \(^3\)1980 ), the denomination itself is barely present in Romance linguistics. French researchers usually take different approaches to discuss the phenomenon (e.g., neoclassical compounds, constructed lexemes). In Italian, the denominations confisso/ confissazione are first used by De Mauro (1999), who adopts both the term and concept directly from Martinet; moreover, they can be found in some contributions on word formation and lexicology (e.g., Adamo/Della Valle 2008). Nevertheless, the Italian termino-logy remains heterogeneous, with some researchers still using the terms prefissoide/suffissoide coined by Migliorini (1963). As I will show by comparing the languages in question, the terminology and the concept of confixes vary greatly between Romance and Germanic languages. KW - morphology KW - confixes KW - word-formation KW - theoretical and contrastive linguistics KW - German/French/Italian Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-329756 SN - 2364-6705 VL - 8 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cristalli, Marco Antonio T1 - Ein Mann ohne Ehrgeiz, Konturen und Tatendrang – Parodierung von Männlichkeitsnormen in Jean-Philippe Toussaints Monsieur (1986) JF - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik N2 - The nameless protagonist of the postmodern novel Monsieur, written by Belgian author Jean-Philippe Toussaint, can be described as a rather strange man. He lacks ambition, a drive for action and seems to be unfit for daily life. He constantly fails to accomplish his predestined role as a real man, as for instance to pay the bill for dinner when dating a woman. The scope of the present paper is to analyse, on the one hand, how this novel deconstructs hegemonial concepts of masculinity but, on the other hand, is in itself also a parody of the latter. KW - Cultural Anthropology KW - literary minimalism KW - Masculinity Studies KW - Postmodernism Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-329747 SN - 2364-6705 VL - 8 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Roy, Abhilasha ED - Jetter, Tobias T1 - Countercultures around the World: A Postcolonial Reading of Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic T2 - Global Cultural Studies? Engaged Scholarship between National and Transnational Frames N2 - No abstract available. KW - Kulturwissenschaften KW - Globalisierung KW - Gilroy, Paul: The Black Atlantic KW - Nationale Minderheiten KW - Rassismus KW - cultural studies KW - globalization KW - Gilroy, Paul: The Black Atlantic KW - minorities KW - racism Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-305829 PB - Würzburg University Press CY - Würzburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Khapai, YS Sochuiwon Priscilla ED - Jetter, Tobias T1 - Rethinking the Culture of Education with Raymond Williams T2 - Global Cultural Studies? Engaged Scholarship between National and Transnational Frames N2 - No abstract available. KW - Kulturwissenschaften KW - Willams, Raymond KW - Alltagskultur KW - Bildung KW - Indien KW - cultural studies KW - Williams, Raymond KW - ordinary culture KW - education KW - India Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-305854 PB - Würzburg University Press CY - Würzburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Chakraborty, Adreeta ED - Jetter, Tobias T1 - Political and Cultural Negotiations with Feminism in India: A Perspective T2 - Global Cultural Studies? Engaged Scholarship between National and Transnational Frames N2 - No abstract available. KW - Kulturwissenschaften KW - Feminismus KW - Indien KW - Theorie KW - Praxis KW - cultural studies KW - feminism KW - India Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-305866 PB - Würzburg University Press CY - Würzburg ER -