Following their first gathering in Munster, Westphalia, the city of Ford's ancestors, Fordians present a multi-faceted image of this Anglo-German and Francophile English Modernist. International interest in the Hueffers' German background will be triggered by two articles on Franz Hueffer and the references to Munster and Westphalia in Ford's writings. Excursions in politics and poetry and Ford in context provide a framework for "Aspects of Parade's End," the edition and simultaneous translation of which into major European languages forms the most important project for the new Millennium.
Als Schriftsteller verfangen in den eigenen Worten. Ein Ausstellungskatalog
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) hat nur fünf Jahre als berühmter und teilweise beliebter Literat von seinem Ruhm zehren können. Doch begann er diese Phase im Sommer 1890 mit einer auf beiden Seiten teils sehr giftig geführten Pressedebatte im Gefolge der Veröffentlichung von „The Picture of Dorian Gray“ in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Der Katalog zu einer Ausstellung, die bislang in Wien, Berlin, München, Passau und Dortmund gezeigt wurde, zeichnet diese Phase von Wildes Leben und Werk minuziös nach. Der Biograph und Übersetzer Jörg W. Rademacher hatte die Ausstellung konzipiert, um die enge chronologische Verzahnung von Werk und Leben bei Wilde in all ihrer Tragik bis hin zur Verurteilung wegen grober Unzucht im Mai 1895 aufzuzeigen.
" James Joyce's Other Image is the author's multi-faceted response to four years of almost exclusive concentration on James Joyce's Own Image, a study on the terms `image' and `imagination' in A Portrait and Ulysses. Having convinced himself that Joyce is a canonical writer even from the removed German perspective, he goes on to explore different aspects of Joyce studies before he addresses Ulysses in terms of Shakespeare and Sterne as well as Musil, Joyce, and Bachmann in terms of their ""fictional memoirs of the Hapsburg Empire"". Since the focus is on textual presence rather than on personal (and possibly absent) influence, a pedagogical case study of how Sterne's and Shakespeare's works may be read through Ulysses and an essay on Joyce's ""Omnipresence in Contemporary Literature"" seem in order. Finally, a fictional trialogue between George Moore, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett maps out a move beyond the realm of criticism. Jörg Rademacher teaches English for Specific Purposes at the University of Münster, Germany. He also works as a free-lance translator and literary critic. His publications include James Joyce's Own Image (1993), Was nun, Herr Bloom!, a collection of essays by diverse hands to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the publication of Ulysses, which he edits, as well as translations of books by Daniel Defoe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Hein Grosskopf, and James Joyce's Ireland by David Pierce. "
