Von einer poetik der drastik zum entwurf eines »Realismus der Globalisierung« am Beispiel der Romane von Terézia Mora

In light of this (not so) new century, there is good reason to consider the rise of a »realism of globalization«. As the former leading agent of modelling alternative worlds, the tradition of the realistic novel has long lost ground against the dominance of new, »visual novels« (i.e. The Wire) with their own approach towards realistic aesthetics. What is the role that literature can play in this transformative, mediatic field? Which originality can it claim? The objective of this (two part) study is to respond to these concerns by example. The case is made for two novels, Alle Tage (2004) ...