Walter Moers' Zamonien-Romane: Vermessungen eines fiktionalen Kontinents

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Gerrit Lembke (Hg.), Gerrit Lungershausen
V&R unipress GmbH, 2011 - Literary Criticism - 330 pages
In 2009 a zoologist from Bern discovered a new species of spider in the Alps, which he called Zamonische Zwergspinne (Caracladus zamoniensis). Thus the fantasy-novels by Walter Moers, who invented the fictional continent Zamonien, crossed over into the real world of biology. The present collection of essays dealing with Walter Moers' five Zamonien Novels (Die 13 Leben des Kapt'n Blaubar, Ensel und Krete, Rumo, Die Stadt der Traumenden Bucher and Der Schrecksenmeister) aims to establish his work in the philological world, too. Moers' intellectually ambitious and amusing storytelling makes his works very popular in both the public and academic circles. The present collection Walter Moers' Zamonien-Romane. Vermessungen eines fiktionalen Kontinents contains 14 essays which approach the novels in a variety of ways: In the first section the contributors analyze general aspects of the whole work, such as intermediality, authorship and postmodernity. In the second section the articles concentrate on individual aspects of the five novels. This collection marks the first comprehensive scholarly approach to the work of one of the most popular contemporary German authors.
 

Contents

Danksagung
11
Daniel Schäbler
23
Die Antworten auf fast alle Fragen von heute stehen in alten Büchern
45
Ein Meister des Versteckspiels Schriftstellerische Inszenierung
59
Anne Hillenbach
73
Der Große Ompel Kartographie und Topographie in den Romanen
87
Eva Oppermann
121
Frankenstein und die Folgen Zur Poetik des Monströsen bei Walter
139
Eva Kormann
157
Wissen ist Nacht Konzeptionen von Bildung und Wissen in Walter
173
Ensel und Krete 2000
189
Ninon Franziska Thiem
215
Maren J Conrad
235
TimFlorian Goslar
261
Maren J Conrad
281
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