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Olga Iljassova-Morger

Duisburg-Essen University
German language and literature Studies

From an intercultural to a transcultural literary hermeneutic.

Olga Iljassova-Morger graduated from the department of German and English Studies at the State Tschernyschewski University of Saratov, Campus Balashov (Russia). Since 2004, she is working on her PhD project “From the Intercultural to the Transcultural Literary Hermeneutics” at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) in the department German Studies/Literary Studies. Since fall semester 2006, she is an associate member of the Graduate School within the Humanism Project.

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Dissertation

From intercultural to transcultural literary hermeneutics

The main issue of my project is to investigate the significance of the reader’s cultural background for the reception of literature. First, I outline existing models of intercultural hermeneutics in relation to the field of literary reception, describe their deficits and suggest alternative solutions. In order to pay attention to the cultural and poetic kinds of otherness (N. Mecklenburg), which constitute the situation of understanding through the medium literature, I approach my object from two sides. I outline different actual social-cultural processes which increasingly take place in the contemporary globalized world and influence people also as readers. These processes explode the notion of cultures as static, holistic units. The concepts of Transculturality, Glocalization a.o. can be regarded as alternatives. On the other hand, the specific features of the fictional texts and their impact on the understanding must be taken into account. To expose transcultural potentials of literature and their hermeneutical exemplifications I use among others the theories of U. Japp, P. Ricœur, and W. Iser.