Teaching Peter Bichsel's "Ein Tisch ist ein Tisch" in First-Year German Classes

Conard, Robert C.

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“…In the language classroom, intermediate‐level learners can be assisted in analyzing these multilingual concerns of the German postwar literary era by, for instance, assigning one poem and one short story, Gomringer's 1953 “Schweigen” poem and Peter Bichsel's “Ein Tisch ist ein Tisch” (, see also Conard, ). Together these two texts articulate an alternative stance on utopian multilingualism, where silence itself substituted for language in the postwar period, one of many ways that Germans responded to the Nazi deformation of the German language.…”

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A Multilingual Turn in German Studies: Premises, Provisos, and Prospects

2019

Die Unterrichtspraxis

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In fall 2016, a group of scholars gathered at the 40th German Studies Association convention in San Diego, CA, in a space called the Eaton Room, for a seminar on multilingualism in German Studies. After three days sharing this space of dialogue, members returned home to their various teaching and research settings and, reflecting further on insights developed out of the group's collaborative work in the GSA seminar space, each formulated the maxims on multilingualism in German Studies presented in this article. Though the 10 subsections derive inevitably from the work and insights of these individual scholars and their programs of research, the entirety of the manuscript was counter‐read, commented, and emended by each member of the authorial collective, at several stages of the composition process, before and after blind peer‐review. Thus, in the spirit of collaborative inquiry – and indeed of multilingual practice itself – the members consider The Eaton Group to be the singular though multiple author of this piece. As such, The Eaton Group offer this collaboratively developed constellation of premises, provisos, and prospects for the future of multilingualism in German Studies teaching and research, not as a consistent and sequential protocol of directives but as a set of aspirations and provocations with which language, literature, and culture teachers may engage as they make their own curricular and pedagogical decisions.

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A Multilingual Turn in German Studies: Premises, Provisos, and Prospects

2019

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“…The selection of the short story was based on Conrad's statement indicating that the short story is most appropriately used to introduce German literature. Conrad's study revealed that glossaries help students comprehend the story with ease and feel its seriousness and depth (Conard, 1981). Prang also conducted a study on this short story and concluded that semiotic discourse functions as a source of inspiration that leads beyond academic responses to the creative compositions of fictional texts (Prang, 2010).…”

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“…One of Peter Bichsel's short stories is called "Ein Tisch ist ein Tisch," which literally means "a table is a table" (Bichsel, 1995). Although this short story is frequently used to facilitate literature learning in German elementary schools (Conard, 1981), few studies on this short story have been done. Based on the search results on scholar.google.com accessed on January 21, 2020 using the keyword Ein Tisch ist ein Tisch, 266 titles and articles were found as well as six citations, three journal articles (Conard, 1981;Krause, 2012;Prang, 2010) and one undergraduate thesis (Pamungkas, 2010).…”

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Analysis of Desires of the Main Character in the Short Story “Ein Tisch ist ein Tisch” by Peter Bichsel: A Study of Deleuze and Guattari’s Schizoanalysis

2020

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This study aims to describe the desires of the main character ‘der Mann’ in the short story by Peter Bichsel using Deleuze and Guattari’s Schizoanalysis theory. This was a qualitative study with a descriptive approach. The research data were comprised of words, phrases, and sentences. The collected data were subsequently categorized into types of desires. Data were analyzed using reading and recording techniques and described based on the proportion of desires. The results of the analysis showed that the main character receives constant pressures from society, leading to the emergence of paranoid desire, a desire that is formed due to the pressure of particular systems or social codes outside of the main character. This desire is schizophrenic at the individual level. In the short story, this desire is manifested through the creation of a new language by ‘der Mann’. In the end, the main character ‘der Mann’ can use new vocabulary at the levels of phrases and sentences, but unable to influence other language users. As a result, his newly self-created language is unacceptable in society. However, the schizophrenic desire at the individual level has the potential to destruct social formation

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Semiomimesis: The influence of semiotics on the creation of literary texts Peter Bichsel's Ein Tisch ist ein Tisch and Joseph Roth's Hotel Savoy

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Teaching Peter Bichsel's "Ein Tisch ist ein Tisch" in First-Year German Classes

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A Multilingual Turn in German Studies: Premises, Provisos, and Prospects

A Multilingual Turn in German Studies: Premises, Provisos, and Prospects

Analysis of Desires of the Main Character in the Short Story “Ein Tisch ist ein Tisch” by Peter Bichsel: A Study of Deleuze and Guattari’s Schizoanalysis

Semiomimesis: The influence of semiotics on the creation of literary texts Peter Bichsel's Ein Tisch ist ein Tisch and Joseph Roth's Hotel Savoy

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