- Website, CV, Publications: http://homepage.univie.ac.at/dieter.fuchs/index.html
Dieter Fuchs
University of Vienna, English and American Studies, Faculty Member
- Dieter Fuchs works at the University of Vienna. He has taught widely in the fields of 16th ct. - contemporary literat... moreDieter Fuchs works at the University of Vienna. He has taught widely in the fields of 16th ct. - contemporary literature and culture, his main research areas include Shakespeare & Early Modern Studies, James Joyce & Irish Studies (18th ct. - contemporary), Literary & Cultural Theory.
Methodologically speaking, Fuchs focuses on rewritings of the ancients (cultural archaeology, intertextuality, myths and archetypes) and on discursive & semiotic approaches to representation.
Fuchs received his doctorate from LMU Munich with a thesis on James Joyce and Menippean Satire (supervisors: Hans Walter Gabler, Werner von Koppenfels).edit
... 18594. Hanford, JH, «Plutarch and Dean Swift», Modern Language Notes XXV (1910), pp. 1814. Knowles, Ronald, Gulliver's Travels. The Politics of Satire (New York, 1996). ... University of California, San Diego, 1973). Lucian,... more
... 18594. Hanford, JH, «Plutarch and Dean Swift», Modern Language Notes XXV (1910), pp. 1814. Knowles, Ronald, Gulliver's Travels. The Politics of Satire (New York, 1996). ... University of California, San Diego, 1973). Lucian, «Dialogues of the Dead» in Lucian Vol. VII, transl. ...
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
James Joyce's Ulysses rewrites the Homeric Odyssey in such a way that the ancient myth provides a structural pattern, which gives order and meaning to a seemingly chaotic and meaningless contemporary world-an aspect which T. S. Eliot... more
James Joyce's Ulysses rewrites the Homeric Odyssey in such a way that the ancient myth provides a structural pattern, which gives order and meaning to a seemingly chaotic and meaningless contemporary world-an aspect which T. S. Eliot called the "mythical method". As the characters of Ulysses are ignorant of this ordering device, they function as Jungian archetypes rather than individuals: Their deeds correspond to a mythical framework which is not actively remembered but provides a collective unconsciousness that guides their lives as a principle of order and continuity. What they do is meaningful although they consider themselves as insignificant agents thrown into a seemingly chaotic world. Whereas scholars have focused on Homer's Odyssey as an archetypal (i.e. collective unconscious) key to the cultural memory of the mythical roots of Western culture, they have turned a comparatively blind eye to the fact that Homer's corresponding work of the Iliad has a si...
With its penchant for dissecting rehearsed attitudes and subverting expectations, Flann O’Brien’s writing displays an uncanny knack for comic doubling and self-contradiction. Focusing on the satirical energies and anti-authoritarian... more
With its penchant for dissecting rehearsed attitudes and subverting expectations, Flann O’Brien’s writing displays an uncanny knack for comic doubling and self-contradiction. Focusing on the satirical energies and anti-authoritarian temperament invested in his style, Flann O'Brien: Problems with Authority interrogates the author's clowning with linguistic, literary, legal, bureaucratic, political, economic, academic, religious and scientific powers in the sites of the popular, the modern and the traditional.
Research Interests: Irish Studies, English Literature, Irish Literature, Surrealism, Literature and Politics, and 15 moreModernist Literature (Literary Modernism), Postmodern Literature, Postmodern Literary Theory and Popular Culture, Anglophone Literature, Fiction, Humour Studies, Indian English Fiction, Irish Modernism, Myles na Gopaleen, Humour in Literature, Anglophone Studies, Literature and Power, Cognitive Approaches to the Humanities, Flann O Brien, and Irish university
Research Interests:
This article considers the German Grammar School Novel from the first half of the twentieth century an all but forgotten Germanophone prototype of campus fiction. Whereas the Anglo-American campus novel of the 1970s, 80s and 90s features... more
This article considers the German Grammar School Novel from the first half of the twentieth century an all but forgotten Germanophone prototype of campus fiction. Whereas the Anglo-American campus novel of the 1970s, 80s and 90s features university professors as future-related agents of Western counterculture and free thought, the Grammar School Novel satirizes the German grammar school teacher known as Gymnasialprofessor as a representative of the past-related order of the autocratic German state apparatus from the beginning of the twentieth century. As Heinrich Mann's 1905 novel Professor Unrat / Small Town Tyrant (the source text of Marlene Dietrich's debut movie The Blue Angel) may be considered a foundational work of the German Grammar School Novel corpus, the main part of the article offers a sample analysis of this text.
Research Interests:
This article fuses a survey of the play’s most important standard interpretations with those aspects which may be considered particularly fascinating about this text: the conflict of England’s catholic past with the rise of protestant... more
This article fuses a survey of the play’s most important standard interpretations with those aspects which may be considered particularly fascinating about this text: the conflict of England’s catholic past with the rise of protestant culture in the early modern period; the meta-dramatic dimension of the play; the theatricality of Renaissance court life; the play’s reflection of the emerging modern subject triggered off by the rise of reformation discourse. To elucidate some aspects which tend to be overlooked in the scholarly discussion of Hamlet, the article will bring two important topics into focus: the courtly discovery of perspective and the dying Hamlet’s request to tell his story to the afterworld at the end of the play.
This article focuses on Wilfried Steiner’s 2003 novel Der Weg nach Xanadu / The Way To Xanadu which appears to be an Austrian campus novel owing to the setting of the Austrian world of academia in its first part. Owing to its lack of... more
This article focuses on Wilfried Steiner’s 2003 novel Der Weg nach Xanadu / The Way To Xanadu which appears to be an Austrian campus novel owing to the setting of the Austrian world of academia in its first part. Owing to its lack of local coloring, however, the Vienna-based plot of the first part does not feature a (stereo)typically ‘Austrian’ genius loci. Although this part of the text echoes features of the international campus novel tradition, it may be definitely not considered an Austrian campus novel. The second part of the novel is set in the Lake District, focuses on Coleridge’s Romantic poetry and the Doppelgänger-motif. Whereas the first part may be vaguely contextualized within the international campus novel tradition, the second part is deeply imbued with the Romantic tradition of the Künstlerroman or artist’s novel.
Research Interests:
... 25. Not only the Austrian Lloyd's founding father Baron von Bruck and the Archduke Max Ferdinand but also the Austrian steamship company and its vessels have left Triestine footprints in Ulysses. Joyce became familiar with ...
Research Interests:
“The Earl of Surrey's Geraldine-Sonnet Contextualized: Cultural (Mis-)Representations of Ireland in the Early Modern, the Enlightened and the Contemporary Period”, in Sonja Fielitz & Uwe Meyer (eds.). Shakespeare. Satire. Academia. Essays in Honour of Wolfgang Weiss. (Anglistische Forschungen 424) (Heidelberg: Winter, 2012), 167-85.more
“ 'Judgements of Paris and Falling Troy' - The French Metropolis as a Site of Cultural Archaeology in James Joyce's Ulysses and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Babylon Revisited'”, in Margarete Rubik & Elke Mettinger-Schartmann (eds.), Rive Gauche - Paris as a Site of Avant-Garde and Cultural Exchange in the 1920s. (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010), 21-39.more