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City of Glass by Paul Auster, which appeared in 1985, is a postmodern novel which deals with the ... more City of Glass by Paul Auster, which appeared in 1985, is a postmodern novel which deals with the senselessness of modern life and the loss of identity and fragmentation due to a loss of meaning. It is the first part of the New York Trilogy and stages like the following parts Ghosts and The Locked Room with detective quests. (Shiloh 35) City of Glass consists of a web of intertextual references which are referring to other works of literature. Such as Quinn's identity is fragmented by the various identities he took on, the whole novel is fragmented by the intrusion of various intertexts. The arbitrariness of meaning in human language is exemplified through the intertextual level of Paradise Lost by John Milton. This arbitrariness of the linguistic sign and therefore the arbitrariness of meaning in human language suggests that there is also an ambiguity of identity which has always been an important issue in the oeuvre of Paul Auster. A loss of identity is reflected through an int...

Das Thema der vorliegenden Dissertation sind drei Filme, die sich mit Gemälden befassen, welche v... more Das Thema der vorliegenden Dissertation sind drei Filme, die sich mit Gemälden befassen, welche vor dem Hintergrund der aktuellen Intermedialitätsforschung untersucht werden. Ferner wird geprüft, inwieweit diese Filme Eingang in bereits etablierte Kunstformen wie die Installation, bzw. ins Museum gefunden haben. Es stellt sich die Frage, ob man bei den zwei jüngst erschienenen Filmen The Mill and the Cross und Shirley - Visions of Reality von der Entstehung eines neuen Genre sprechen kann, da sich beide Filme ausschließlich auf Gemäldevorlagen beziehen und dementsprechend auch im musealen Kontext präsent sind. In diese Richtung wies bereits der Film Passion, welcher in den 1980-er Jahren gedreht wurde und welcher sich einerseits auf verschiedene Gemälde bezieht, andererseits eine Parallelhandlung zu den dargestellten Gemälden im Film verfolgt. Aus diesem Grund wurde der Film Passion als Beispielfilm in die Dissertation mit aufgenommen. Die Hypothese meinerseits lautet daher: durch d...

6. internationaler andré evard preis für konkret-konstruktive Kunst, 2022

Der Schweizer Maler André Evard (1876-1972) ist der Namensgeber für den alle drei Jahre von der k... more Der Schweizer Maler André Evard (1876-1972) ist der Namensgeber für den alle drei Jahre von der kunsthalle messmer ausgeschriebenen andré- evard-preis. Seine Werke machen den Großteil der Sammlung der kunsthalle messmer aus. Nachdem Evard zuerst in der Art seines Lehrers Charles L’Eplat- tenier im style sapin, einer schweizerischen Sonder- form des Jugendstils, malte, wendete er sich mit fortschreitendem Alter immer mehr der Abstraktion zu.

6. internationaler andré evard preis für konkret-konstruktive Kunst, 2021

Das vorliegende Werk stammt aus einer Serie aus dem Jahr 1932, die sich von allem unterscheidet, ... more Das vorliegende Werk stammt aus einer Serie aus dem Jahr 1932, die sich von allem unterscheidet, was Evard bis zu diesem Zeitpunkt geschaffen hat. Jedes der drei Werke hat einen Hintergrund in einer spezifischen Farbe: Weiß, schwarz und rot. Auf diesen Hintergrund setzte Evard seine geometrischen For- men in verschiedenen Anordnungen. Für jedes Gemälde ordnet er die Rechtecke, Dreiecke, L-förmigen Elemente, doppelte Linien und Kreise so an, dass sich jeweils ein unterschiedliches Raumempfinden ergibt.

The Beat Generation was a very productive period for writers and visual artists. It has to be kep... more The Beat Generation was a very productive period for writers and visual artists. It has to be kept in mind that there were two artistic centres: the East Coast with its anchor point New York and the West Coast with its anchor point San Francisco. Most people associate New York with the main representatives of the Beat Generation, which were Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs (Engelbach 87). From artistic point of view, we can state that the East Coast with New York was the centre of Fluxus and the Early Beat Generation writing. The artistic scene of the West Coast was called San Francisco Renaissance. The artists of the East Coast and the artists of the West Coast can both be called the Beat Generation because they shared common values and interests like for example ideas of a spiritual liberation, rejection of consumption and proprity, rejection of drugs being illegal and rejection of censure. They furthermore criticized militarization and industrialisation, promoted an ecological conscience and admired the Indians and their way of life (Engelbach 87).

Erste Staatsprüfung für das Lehramt an Gymnasien Wissenschaftliche Arbeit im Fach Englisch Januar 2019 , 2019

City of Glass consists of a web of intertextual references which are referring to other works of ... more City of Glass consists of a web of intertextual references which are referring to other works of literature. Such as Quinn’s identity is fragmented by the various identities he took on, the whole novel is fragmented by the intrusion of various intertexts. The arbitrariness of meaning in human language is exemplified through the intertextual
level of Paradise Lost by John Milton. This arbitrariness of the linguistic sign and therefore the arbitrariness of meaning in human language suggests that there is also an ambiguity of identity which has always been an important issue in the oeuvre of Paul Auster. A loss of identity is reflected through an intertextual level the text is working with by referencing Don Quixote, a 19th century novel by Miguel de
Cervantes. As the intertexts stand for a fragmented identity, we shall look at how the intertextual level is represented in the City of Glass the graphic novel.
The Graphic novel of City of Glass plays on the arbitrariness of the linguistic sign as a way to mirror Stillman senior’s thesis on 16th and 17th century theological interpretations of the new world. This thesis is based on a fake person named Henry Dark who should have been in contact with the famous British poet John Milton. The core of the thesis is that after the fall of humanity a thing and its name were not interchangeable anymore. Stillman claims in his thesis that by Henry Dark’s
coming to America, the fall of humanity could be reversed and as a consequence, the fall of language could be undone. The idea of the interchangeability of a thing and its name is pictorially transmitted in the passage where the letters of the word shadow stick to Adam like a shadow. In Saussure’s terms, it would mean, that the linguistic sign isn’t arbitrary anymore. In City of Glass the graphic novel, the
interchangeability of signifier and signified is represented through Graphic tools which shall be analysed further in this thesis.

Thesis Chapters by Julia Wuggenig

PHD, 2018

The topic of the presented dissertation are three films concerning paintings which will be looked... more The topic of the presented dissertation are three films concerning paintings which will be looked
at against the background of the present debate on intermediality. Furthermore, it will be examined in what measure the films could enter into already well established art forms, like installation or the museum in general. As a result, we can put into question whether through the two
most recent films of the dissertation, The Mill and the Cross and Shirley – Visions of Reality a
new genre has been born, as both films are referring back to hitherto paintings and therefore are
also represent in a museum context.

Drafts by Julia Wuggenig

Recently there has been much uncertainty regarding the value of sculpture as an artwork, or rathe... more Recently there has been much uncertainty regarding the value of sculpture as an artwork, or rather as a testimony of history. Sculptures which represent past values, including white supremacy, have been taken down all over the English-speaking world following the death of the African-American George Floyd during the course of a newly revived Black Lives Matter movement. Some think it is absolutely necessary to take these statues down, because they are no longer compatible with our present values, whilst others think that it is not possible to change history and we should embrace those sculptures as being part of our common heritage. This essay attempts to look at the issue from a philosophical perspective, taking into consideration the new developments of recent months. I will first look at the question from an aesthetic point of view, taking into account the perspective of Arthur Danto, Nelson Goodman and Martin Heidegger. Then I will consider the topic from a political perspective with the help of Jacques Rancière to come to my final conclusion.

term paper, 2015

Identity crises or the quest for one’s identity are a major topic of postmodern literature. Espec... more Identity crises or the quest for one’s identity are a major topic of postmodern literature. Especially in the works of Paul Auster the protagonists experience an identity crisis, which is always caused by the loss of one or more beloved persons. (Springer, 22) This is also applied in Auster’s novel City of Glass, the first part of the New York Trilogy. In the New York Trilogy, Intertextuality serves to mirror the identity crisis of the protagonist, Daniel Quinn. Intertextuality is another important concept for postmodern literature as postmodern writers seek to combine their texts with fragments from texts of other writers. The combination of texts mirrors the fragmentation of both the postmodern world and the individual. In the case of City of Glass, the intertextual level is represented by the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. Firstly, both novels have two important parallels: making sense of the world by using literature as a learning model for reality and developing a double identity – the real identity and the identity through literature. (Bautista Naranjo, 41) City of Glass ressembles Don Quixote in this way as it is an allegory for the “impossible human search of the sense of life in a world which is subject to fragmentation.” (Bautista Naranjo, 25) Thus, Don Quixote is a basic novel for postmodern writers. (Bautista Naranjo, 19)
The story of Don Quixote is a parody of the concept of the quest, made popular in the 12th century by Chrétien de Troyes. It deals with a “young man setting out in search for love, adventure – and himself” (Springer, 17) and is related to the themes of identity formation and identity crisis. (Springer, 17) As already mentioned above, the story of City of Glass is about a similar crisis: Daniel Quinn tries to re-establish his connection with the world through him becoming the hero of the novels, which he writes. Like Don Quixote/Alonso Quijano, he ultimately fails as his personality drastically changes and finally disappears. The paper therefore shall demonstrate that the implizit and explizit rewriting of Don Quixote serves as a mirror for Daniel Quinn’s identity crisis, the dubiousness of reality and fiction resulting in the individual’s sense of being lost in the modern world.

Term Paper, 2015

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Intertextuality serves to mirror the development of the character... more In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Intertextuality serves to mirror the development of the character of Frankenstein’s creature, which is from good to evil. In the case of Frankenstein, the intertextual level is represented by Milton’s Paradise Lost. At the same time, interweaving the story of Paradise Lost and Frankenstein is a way to question whether it is morally acceptable to create life artificially, as Paradise Lost is about the creation of man and Frankenstein is about the creation of artificial life in the shape of the monster, composed of various parts of dead bodies. The question of the moral ethics of creating artificial life is still relevant today. With the possibilities of the transplantation of organs, it is a question which couldn’t be answered yet: Whether a human being who gets an organ transplanted experiences changes in his or her personal identity; changes in his or her psyche or in the way he or she sees him or herself (Schicktanz, 201).

In 1818 when Shelley started to write Frankenstein, Shelley made use of the intertext Paradise Lost, as it is an “honorary classic” (Newlyn, 42) which is “the story of Genesis” (Newlyn, 42), however transformed. Frankenstein consists of “a dense network of allusions” (Newlyn, 43) which hold together the construction of the narrative.
Both pieces of literature have two important parallels: they both present the process of creation. In Paradise Lost it is Adam who is created. In Frankenstein, the protagonist artificially creates a monster and is therefore equal to the position of God in Paradise Lost. However, the main character in Paradise Lost is not Adam, but Satan. In Frankenstein we have the development of the monster from Adam to Satan, in other words: from good to evil.
The paper therefore demonstrates how the intertext serves as a mirror for the development of the creature from good to evil, which Newlyn defines as the “carelessness of good” (Newlyn, 124). Furthermore, we can observe that in Frankenstein “God must be the origin of evil, if everything is assumed to originate in God” (Newlyn, 124).

The Conflict of Folk Belief and Modern American Culture in Baby of the Family as a Way to Illustrate Double-Consciousness, 2016

Baby of the Family is an African American novel which talks about the conflict between cultural a... more Baby of the Family is an African American novel which talks about the conflict between cultural and historical memory and the role which African American women play in it. W.E.B. Du Bois describes this conflict of the black people living in a modern American society as double-consicousness when he writes „It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.“ (Du Bois, 4) The double consciousness is compared to a veil by W.E.B. Du Bois, which is like a second self for the African American.

Essay, 2017

1967 erreichte die Hippiebewegung mit dem Summer of Love ihren Höhepunkt. Die Hippiebewegung ging... more 1967 erreichte die Hippiebewegung mit dem Summer of Love ihren Höhepunkt. Die Hippiebewegung ging von San Francisco aus, hatte ihre Blütezeit in den Jahren von 1965 – 1971 und ist zum Teil heute noch in alternativen Bewegungen vorhanden. Im Allgemeinen wurden die Hippies auch als Blumenkinder bezeichnet. Sie wendeten sich gegen die bürgerlichen Tabus und Ideale der Mittelschicht und strebten eine befreite Lebensvorstellung an. Gesellschaftspolitisch bedeutend dürften für die Hippiebewegung vor allem die Friedensbewegung und der damit einhergehende Protest gegen den Vietnamkrieg bedeutsam gewesen sein. Dieser Essay untersucht zum Einen John Lennons eigenen Hintergrund, der hinter diesem Song steht, und zum Anderen mit welchen musikalischen und sprachlichen Mitteln der Song Strawberry Fields es geschafft hat, die Jugendlichen seiner Zeit anzusprechen und zum Teil heute noch fortzuwirken und weitere Jugendliche zu begeistern. John Lennons eigene Aussage Strawberry Fields sei „Psychoanalyse übersetzt in Musik“ rechtfertigt eine genauere Analyse des Stückes um dessen Hintergründe zu erleuchten.

Books by Julia Wuggenig

Architetti in viaggio La Sicilia nello sguardo degli altri, 2017

Gentz was 24 years old when he undertook the journey to Italy and Sicily. An outcome of the journ... more Gentz was 24 years old when he undertook the journey to Italy and Sicily. An outcome of the journey to Italy and Sicily was for example the so-called „Elementarzeichenwerk“ (Gentz only contributed to that)

In the end of his journey to Italy, Gentz wrote a report to his father about his visit to Italy and to Sicily for four years: this is the London fair copy. The journey to Italy has to be seen as the final part of his education as an architect. Gentz started his education as many other architects in the ateliers (?) of other architects who were already famous. Gentz worked for the state as building supervisor and in the autumn of 1790 he was offered a scholarship in order to be able to gain new experience and knowledge through a journey to Italy where he would be able to study the antique buildings himself. When he came back, he managed to integrate his new experiences into his work. But his premature death - he died when he was 45 years old - and the difficult political circumstances including the Napoleonic wars, didn‘t allow him to follow up his projects with the antique elements to a larger extent. His early death is also the reason why there are not many works by Heinrich Gentz. Nevertheless, although his opus is small, he is an important, influential German architect. Neither Gentz opus nor his journey documentations have been researched sufficiently yet.