Narrating Bodies into Existence
Negotiating the Necessity of Corporeality and Relationality for Subject Construction in Thomas Glavinic's novel Lisa (2011)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20655263 |
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| Authors | Simone Pfleger (0000-0003-4325-5997, University of Alberta, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 91 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 322-336 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The German Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-8831 • E-ISSN: 1756-1183 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/gequ.12078 |
| OpenAlex | W2887825275 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
This essay examines how Austrian author Thomas Glavinic's novel Lisa (2011) challenges the necessity of corporeal presence as a precondition for becoming a subject with a legible and stable identity. Focusing on protagonist Tom's storytelling and his descriptions of Lisa, the mysterious criminal who is haunting him, this essay argues for an ontology of fluidity as an analytical framework for interrogating the ways in which relationality enables character construction through narration. Taking the concept of ‘relationality’ as its point of departure, this analysis of Glavinic's novel emphasizes how the text critically questions the necessity of physical presence as a precondition for existence as a subject and critiques normative conceptions of what constitutes an accepted and acceptable social body
Aesthetics · Art · Character (mathematics) · Epistemology · Identity (music) · Literature · Narrative · Negotiation · Normative · Ontology · Precondition · Social science · Sociology · Storytelling · Subject (documents) · Computer Science · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Spatial and Cultural Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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