Location
Stewart Center 313
Session Number
Session 17: REPRESENTATIONS OF TERRORISM IN GERMAN LITERATURE
Start Date
9-9-2011 3:15 PM
End Date
9-9-2011 4:45 PM
Abstract
This essay explores the connection of terrorism to communication, specifically to illocutionary and perlocutionary acts in Gregor Schnitzler’s Was tun wenn’s brennt and Leander Scholz’s novel Rosenfest. One cannot deny that violence plays an important role in German narratives about terrorism; however, the main focus of the works analyzed here is communication, which the narrative structure, the role of the spectator or reader and the main characters within the novel illustrate.
Included in
Terrorism as Communication in Gregor Schnitzler’s Was tun wenn’s brennt (2001) and Leander Scholz’s Rosenfest (2001)
Stewart Center 313
This essay explores the connection of terrorism to communication, specifically to illocutionary and perlocutionary acts in Gregor Schnitzler’s Was tun wenn’s brennt and Leander Scholz’s novel Rosenfest. One cannot deny that violence plays an important role in German narratives about terrorism; however, the main focus of the works analyzed here is communication, which the narrative structure, the role of the spectator or reader and the main characters within the novel illustrate.