Textbildende Kategorien EIGEN und FREMD im Roman „Niedergang“ von R. Graf / Textforming Categories Friend or Foe in the Book „Niedergang“ by R. Graf)
DOI: 10.23817/lingtreff.15-36 (published online: 2019-09-17)
Keywords: mountain novel, literary space, border
Space and time are the main categories of people’s cognition and they must be counted as the most important aspects of the fictional world, as everything that happens is bound to time and space. There is no action without space because one can imagine the world only spatially and temporally. The opposition FRIEND or FOE is culture-specific and eternal. One can find the examples of this opposition in various discourses, e.g. in the literary discourse. Space can be enclosed by boundaries, e.g. it may be the imaginary boundary between friends and foes. The paper deals with the concept of the semiotic borders as well as textforming opposition FRIEND or FOE in the mountain novel „Niedergang“ written by R. Graf.
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