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Die Immunitätsmetapher als kohäsionsstiftendes Element in Hugo Loetschers Der Immune
Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2015.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/50911 Die Immunitätsmetapher als kohäsionsstiftendes Element in Hugo Loetschers Der Immune Muhr, Stephan waldo.grove@yebo.co.za Grové, Waldo UCTD Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2015. This study investigates the internal textual structure (cohesion) of Hugo Loetscher’s novel, Der Immune (1975/1985). The secondary literature (in particular Nigg (1992: 12), So nicka (2009: 109) and various reviews) makes it clear that what makes the text form a whole is a matter of dispute. It may be assumed that this is partly due to the work’s non-linear, stylistically heterogeneous composition. The matter of the text’s cohesion thus becomes crucial to the understanding of the novel. Rastier (1987: 205) defines cohesion as the “unité d’une séquence, définie par ses relations sémantiques internes”. Rosmarie Zeller (1989: 1041) claims that it is the immunity metaphor which makes the work form a whole in this sense. Zeller’s claim has to be reformulated due to lack of evidence. In this study, it is replaced by the hypothesis that the immunity metaphor itself is the product of interaction between various other ‘metaphors’ or semantic fields. For although immunity is seldom addressed explicitly in the text, when this does occur, it is often contextualised by means of other (literal and figurative) themes, which occur more frequently in the text. This makes the term ‘metaphor’, with its traditional meaning of ‘figurative speaking’, problematic. For this reason, ‘metaphor’ is discarded in favour of a group of semantic isotopies (based on Rastier 1987), which combine to form a multidimensional network. The study is structured as follows: 1. An introduction and short methodological statement is followed by a literature review, in which the controversy surrounding the novel’s cohesion is discussed. 2. A cursory narratological discussion of the novel’s formal characteristics serves to introduce the main part of the study. The narratological form the text takes is only of interest to the extent that it contributes to the problem of the text’s cohesion. As such, this part of the study focusses on demonstrating the work’s polyphony and its subsequent difficulty for reception as a cohesive text. 3. In the main part of the study, the themes ‘Theatre’, ‘Intellect’, ‘Society’ and ‘Language’ are analysed by means of the isotopy concept, as it is established that these often co-occur with ‘Immunity’. Each of these themes is investigated in terms of its interaction with the others, in order to contribute to the creation of ‘Immunity’ as the text’s implicit main theme. 4. In conclusion, the results from the main part of the study are discussed and it is considered to what extent ‘Immunity’ as a theme is capable of shaping the novel Der Immune into a cohesive whole. tm2015 Modern European Languages MA Unrestricted 2015-11-25T09:54:18Z 2015-11-25T09:54:18Z 2015/09/01 2015 Dissertation Grové, W 2015, Die Immunitätsmetapher als kohäsionsstiftendes Element in Hugo Loetschers Der Immune, MA Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/50911> S2015 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/50911 af © 2015 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Die Immunitätsmetapher als kohäsionsstiftendes Element in Hugo Loetschers Der Immune |
| title | Die Immunitätsmetapher als kohäsionsstiftendes Element in Hugo Loetschers Der Immune |
| title_full | Die Immunitätsmetapher als kohäsionsstiftendes Element in Hugo Loetschers Der Immune |
| title_fullStr | Die Immunitätsmetapher als kohäsionsstiftendes Element in Hugo Loetschers Der Immune |
| title_full_unstemmed | Die Immunitätsmetapher als kohäsionsstiftendes Element in Hugo Loetschers Der Immune |
| title_short | Die Immunitätsmetapher als kohäsionsstiftendes Element in Hugo Loetschers Der Immune |
| title_sort | die immunitatsmetapher als kohasionsstiftendes element in hugo loetschers der immune |
| topic | UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/50911 |