Goldmann, Julius
Congratulations on passing the viva voce on 12 June 2017.
Dissertation topic: "Gaddas Mailand - Ein Beitrag zur Großstadtliteratur."
Contact address at the University of Würzburg:
Institute of Modern Languages and Literatures - Romance Studies
University of Würzburg
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg
First supervisor: Prof Dr Matha Kleinhans
Second supervisor:
Prof Dr Richard Schwaderer (retired)
Class in the Graduate School: "Philosophy, Languages, Arts"
Doctorate in the Graduate School from WS 2013/2014.
Abstract:
Carlo Emilio Gadda's work is an integral part of European literature, but due to its complexity and multi-layered nature, its reception has probably not yet been further advanced, especially in German-language research.
In my opinion, there is an approach to Gadda's work that constitutes modernity, but apart from a Würzburg habilitation project, this has not been further specified. The urban space. Already during his early creative period, Gadda intended to transform the phenomenon of modern urbanity into literature. He conceived the fragmentary novel project of Adalgisa as a sketchy depiction of his hometown in the sense of the ut pictura poesis topos; the alternative title Disegni milanesi makes this clear. In order to make the motif of the modern metropolis in Gadda methodologically tangible, an interdisciplinary approach is required which, in addition to comparative analyses of urban themes already well developed in literary studies - such as the Paris of the French naturalists or the Berlin of Döblin - also integrates the constituents of urban culture and space thematised in Gadda's work, such as painting, architecture, history and sociology.
By analysing the specific literary components of his urban space, the aim is to clarify whether it is a primarily mimetic or amimetic literary transformation and whether a tendency can be identified as to whether Gadda's work is closer to modernism or even postmodernism. In this way, Gadda's urban literature is to be placed in a framework that creates comparability and thus enables easier access to his work.
