The Rhetoric of Topics and Forms The Many Languages of Comparative Literature / La littérature comparée: multiples langues, multiples langages / Die vielen Sprachen der Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Collected Papers of the 21st Congress of the ICLA Edited by Achim Hölter Volume 4 The Rhetoric of Topics and Forms Edited by Gianna Zocco ISBN 978-3-11-064148-6 e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-064203-2 e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-064198-1 DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110642032 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International Licence. For details go to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Library of Congress Control Number: 2020943467 Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. © 2021 Gianna Zocco, published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston The book is published open access at www.degruyter.com. Cover: Andreas Homann, www.andreashomann.de Typesetting: Dörlemann Satz, Lemförde Printing and binding: CPI books GmbH, Leck www.degruyter.com Table of Contents Gianna Zocco Introduction: The Rhetoric of Topics and Forms 1 1 Expressing the Inexpressible: The Figurative Language of Love and Emotion Kathrin Bethke Emotion Metaphors and Literary Texts: The Case of Shakespeare’s Sonnets 15 Eleonore De Felip Metaphern gegen den Tod. Friederike Mayröckers ekstatische Trauergedichte 29 Nina Tolksdorf Zu Kafkas Sprachen der Scham 39 Richard Trim Networking at the Interface between Conceptual and Linguistic Metaphor in Comparative Literary Texts 51 Christiane Kazue Nagao The Importance and Scope of Metaphor in Representing a Central Buddhist Image: The Treasure Tower 63 Rainer Just Liebeskarotte / Wortgarrotte – Beobachtungen aus dem Folterhaus der Sprache 75 Stefan Kutzenberger Enden der Liebe, Enden des Texts. Der Alltag der Liebe bei Navid Kermani und Karl Ove Knausgård 87 Tanja Veverka Liebe auf Distanz 103 VI Table of Contents Gianna Zocco Love and Propaganda in W. E. B. Du Bois’s Novel Dark Princess 115 Zlatka Timenova-Valtcheva La scène du bal en littérature : le langage silencieux des émotions 127 D. R. Gamble The Limits of Language: Emotion and Its Expression in the Work of Alfred de Musset 141 2 Relating Linguistic Realities and Literary Representations: Stylistic Phenomena in Multilingual Literature Markus Huss “A screeching as of jackdaws”: Sounds, Noises, and Incomprehension as Aspects of Literary Multilingualism 155 Kristina Malmio A Strange Romance: Malin Kivelä, Du eller aldrig (2006) as a Case Study of Late Modern Multilingualism in Finland-Swedish Minority Literature 165 Sophie Wennerscheid ‚Saatana. Mie se kyllä kiroan‘: Finnische Schimpfwörter in schwedischer Literatur nach 1970 177 Stephan Michael Schröder Deutsche Mutter-Sprache in dänischsprachiger Literatur 187 Antje Wischmann Varietäten als Gegenstand der Verhandlung in Texten sogenannter Südschleswiger Literatur 197 Philipp Wagner „You är ju även du“. Englisch als Mittel zur ‚Selbst‘-Reflexion in Aino Trosells En egen strand (2013) 209 Johanna Laakso Real Language, Real Literature: Problems of Authenticity in Modern Finnic Minority Literatures 221 Table of Contents VII Hannah Tischmann Mehrsprachigkeit als Verfahren der gesellschaftlichen Inklusion in schwedischer Gegenwartsliteratur am Beispiel von Neftali Milfuegos’ Tankar mellan hjärtslag (2015) und Sami Saids Väldigt sällan fin (2012) 233 Elin Fredsted Funktionaler und indexikalischer Gebrauch von Vernakularsprachen im Film 243 Robert Leucht, Jürgen Spitzmüller „Du bist ein Symbol, Mensch! Du bist ein echtes Symbol!“ Metapragmatische Positionierungen im Diskurs zur deutschen Revolution 1918/19 255 3 Travelling between Ancient and Modern Worlds: The Language of Themes, Motifs, and Topics K. Alfons Knauth L’imaginaire somatique du multilinguisme dans le mythe et la littérature 273 Tone Smolej La thématologie et les actualisations des figures mythiques – le cas d’Antigone 309 Nina Beguš A Typology of the Pygmalion Paradigm 319 Irina Brantner Three Labyrinths and One Maze: The Motif of the Labyrinth in European Poetry of the First Half of the Twentieth Century 331 Magda El-Nowieemy Harry Tzalas’s Farewell to Alexandria and the Alexandrian Mime in Antiquity: The Metaphorical Language of Cultural Identity 341 Anat Koplowitz-Breier Retelling the Bible: Jewish Women’s Midrashic Poems on Abishag the Shunammite 353 VIII Table of Contents 4 The Rhetoric of Social Critique and Moral Subversion: Satire, Irony, and the Green Language of Global Concern Antonio Leggieri Magistrates, Doctors, and Monks: Satire in the Chinese Jestbook Xiaolin Guangji 369 Georgia Panteli The Satirical Tradition of Collodi and Pinocchio’s Nose 381 Julia Bacskai-Atkari The Verse Novel and Don Juan as a Vehicle for Satire 391 Benjamin Boysen A War in Words: James Joyce’s Last Comedy (Finnegans Wake) 403 Karima Lanius Ironie: Eine Spielart der Satire 415 Oksana Weretiuk Shades of Green Language: Environmentalism in Contemporary Eastern-European Fiction 427 Ewa Wojno-Owczarska „mal sehen, ob die wälder wieder brennen, mal sehen, ob starke hitze uns entgegenschlägt“ (Kathrin Röggla). Klimawandel und Wetterbericht in ausgewählten Werken von Marcel Beyer und Kathrin Röggla 439 Doris Hambuch Ecopoetic Elements in the Work of Sarah Kirsch, Ahmed Rashid Thani, and Derek Walcott 477 5 Comparing Aesthetic Styles and Forms: The Language of Individual Texts and Literary Genres Kodjo Attikpoé La langue de la littérature pour la jeunesse : une lecture des Confidences de Médor de Micheline Coulibaly et des Cendres du père de Pius Ngandu Nkashama 493 Table of Contents IX Luciana Persice Nogueira La folie du dire dans « la trilogie » de Ben Jelloun 507 Walter Wagner Die Ästhetik des hohen Nordens. Eine vergleichende Stilistik des Erhabenen 519 Alexandra Irimia Depicting Absence: Thematic and Stylistic Paradoxes of Representation in Visual and Literary Imagery 533 Jesper Gulddal Putting People in Jail, Putting People in Books: Author Characters in Agatha Christie and Dashiell Hammett 545 Alice Leal Borges’s Pierre Menard and Schnitzler’s Herr Huber: Language as a Topos in Fiction 557 Andrea D’Urso Bounoure, Effenberger et les « réflexions parallèles » de La civilisation surréaliste ou la sémiotique du surréalisme après Breton et Teige 573 Gianna Zocco Introduction: The Rhetoric of Topics and Forms 1 This fourth volume of papers emerging from the 21st World Congress of the Inter- national Comparative Literature Association (Vienna, 21–27 July 2016) comprises articles focusing on what are provisionally called “topics” and “forms” in the book title.1 Thus, this volume promises to join two aspects that have often been viewed as a dichotomy: the level of literary content and the level of literary form – questions concerning the “aboutness” of a text and the contextual or world ele- ments contributing to it on the one hand, and questions related to the intrinsic, aesthetic qualities of a literary work on the other hand. Studying a text’s motifs, themes, topics/topoi, clichés, Stoffe, myths, symbols, images, or discourses is typically seen as part of the former area of investigation, whereas the latter is linked to questions of style, structure, language, form, tropes, rhetorical devices, and so on. In literary scholarship, influential claims over the priority of intrinsic, formal approaches over content-oriented, contextual ones were made by repre- sentatives of literary schools such as formalism, new criticism, and structuralism, who typically accused thematically oriented fields of literary research for having a focus on the sources and influences of particular literary themes that was too sim- plistic and positivistic, and that necessarily missed the “momento creativo, che è quello che davvero interessa la storia letteraria ed artistica” [the creative moment, which is that which truly interests literary and artistic history] (Croce 1903, 78; my translation, emphasis in original). The defences of the criticized fields, however, often involve two lines of argument. On the one hand, it is argued that any act of reading literature is, by nature, thematic, and that the consideration of thematic aspects does justice to the experiences of “common” readers. Variations of this 1 Being a member of the organizing committee of the ICLA congress “The Many Languages of Comparative Literature,” and editing this volume of its collected papers, was a project that ac- companied me through various cities and stages of my life – from Vienna, to New York, to Berlin, from the Department of Comparative Literature in Vienna, to maternity leave, to the Leibniz-Zen- trum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung in Berlin. It was a pleasure to collaborate with so many people, and I wish to express my special thanks to everyone involved in this project. In particular, I am grateful to Hannah Schroder and Juliane Werner from the Department of Comparative Lit- erature in Vienna for their efforts and support in the process of preparing this volume of papers. Open Access. © 2021 Gianna Zocco, published by De Gruyter. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110642032-001 2 Gianna Zocco argument (with differences in emphasis and intention) can, for example, be found in a volume on new approaches to literary thematics from the 1990s, in