Ralph Pordzik

Ralph Pordzik (* 1966 in Bielefeld ) is a German author, English specialist and university lecturer.

Career

Ralph Pordzik attended grammar school at the Waldhof in Bielefeld before he began studying English , American and linguistics at the Free University of Berlin in 1988 . After his doctorate (1995) in Berlin and his habilitation at the comprehensive university in Essen (2000), he worked as a lecturer for British literature and culture a. a. worked at the Universities of Freiburg and Munich before moving to a position as Academic Counselor and Associate Professor at the University of Würzburg in 2005 .

His work includes poetry and prose in German a . a. a series of publications written in the English language . His literary works appeared a. a. in the magazines Literatur in Bayern , Die Aktion , Sinn und Form , neue deutsche literature , concepts. Journal of Literature , Minutes , The Poem , Stand Magazine, and Torso . Reviewers described the author as a “filigree word mason”, who “spent years romping as a reader in the ups and downs of literature and was able to sharpen his own tools” and as a “precise observer and surveyor of the language, who knows about the conventions of the genre and uses them in a wise way. "

Awards

• 1992: Literature Prize of the Berlin Bauhütte for Media and Communication (East Berlin)

Publications

Prose and poetry

• Dark matter. Novel of a downfall. Ingolstadt: Les Derniers Jours, 2007, ISBN 978-1-4092-3798-3 .
• The illusion of the beginning. Stories. Würzburg: Les Temps Modernes, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4457-2210-8 .
• Hotel Salvador Dali and Other Poems. Würzburg: International Poetry Editions, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4457-2224-5 .
• Pretending to See Elephants. Poems. Würzburg: International Poetry Editions, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4457-5568-7 .
• Night passage across the sea. A Dramatic Duologue. Würzburg: International Poetry Editions, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4477-4470-2 .
• The world behind Kulka. Spectacles and dioramas . Ingolstadt: Les Derniers Jours, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4710-6971-0 .
• Appointment with my audience. Poems. Würzburg / Ingolstadt: Les Derniers Jours, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4717-2249-3 .
• Everything else verbally. Poems. Würzburg: Les Derniers Jours, 2015, ISBN 978-1-291-84332-3 .
• With German subtitles. Poems. Würzburg: École Noire, 2016, ISBN 978-1-326-52908-6 .
• The extinction . Würzburg: École Noire, 2016, ISBN 978-1-291-58193-5 .
• The inner meridian. Records 2011-2018 . Würzburg: École Noire / Les Derniers Jours, 2019, ISBN 978-0-244-11086-4 .

Scientific monographs (selection)

• Signatures of Postmodernism - Poetry as a Paradigm of Postmodern Literature. An examination of their forms and functions using the poetry of Geoffrey Hills, James Fentons, Fleur Adcocks and Tom Paulins . Verlag Die Blaue Eule, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-89206-745-7 (dissertation).
• Modern English-language poetry in South Africa 1950–1980. A representation from a functional and impact-historical perspective. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-0933-9 (habilitation thesis).
• The Quest for Postcolonial Utopia. A Comparative Introduction to the Utopian Novel in the New English Literatures. New York: Peter Lang, 2001, ISBN 0-8204-5193-2 .
• The English novel in the 19th century. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-503-06101-0 .
• The Wonder of Travel. Fiction, Tourism and the Social Construction of the Nostalgic. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2004, ISBN 3-8253-5041-X .
• Desired texts. Literary studies as the poetics of the unconscious. Hamburg: Kovac Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8300-2926-7 .
• Victorian wastelands. Apocalyptic Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Poetry. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8253-5979-9 .
• The diarian imaginary. Phenomenology and architecture of the modern diary . Würzburg: École Noire / Les Derniers Jours, 2019, ISBN 978-0-244-71260-0 .

Contributions (selection)

• Fiction, the Law, and the Docile Body: The Uncanny Presence of Kant and the Marquis de Sade in Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" . In: Journal for English and American Studies 57 (2009).
• Persistence of Obedience: Theological Space and Ritual Conversion in George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four". In: Ralph Pordzik (Ed.): Futurescapes: Space in Utopian and Science Fiction Discourses . Amsterdam 2009.
• Belated future. Resignation and Hope in Anglo-American Utopias of the Second Half of the Twentieth Century. In: Walter Delabar, Frauke Schlieckau (Ed.): Bluescreen. Visions, nightmares and reflections of the fantastic and utopian. Bielefeld 2010.
• Closet Fantasies and the Future of Desire in EM Forster's "The Machine Stops" . In: English Literature in Transition 53 (2010).
• The Poetry of Lastness: Reconsidering a Neglected Motif in Early Nineteenth-Century Literature . In: Anglia. Journal of English Philology 128 (2010).
• The Posthuman Future of Man: Anthropocentrism and the Other of Technology in Anglo-American Science Fiction. In: Utopian Studies 23.1, 2012.
• The liberation of anthropocentric thinking. Man and the 'other' of technology in the Anglo-American novel . In: S. Finkele, B. Krause (Hrsg.): Technology fictions and technology discourses . Karlsruhe 2012.
• Inside Argument Clinic. Depth dimensions of the comic in Monty Python's Flying Circus . In: Florian Niedlich (Ed.): Facets of Pop Culture. About the aesthetic and political power of the popular. Bielefeld 2012.
• When the irony gets wild, or: learn to read . Structures of parasitic irony in Christian Kracht's "Imperium" . In: Journal for German Studies, New Episode 23 (2013).
• Biopleasures: Posthumanism and the Technological Imaginary in Utopian and Dystopian Film . In: The Palgrave Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television . Basingstoke, Hampshire 2015.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ralph Pordzik in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Ralph Pordzik in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Page at the University of Würzburg
• Page at academia.edu

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kuno. Cultural Notes on Art, Music and Poetry: Poetry in the Age of Nervousness (accessed May 18, 2013)
2. ↑ fixpoetry. We talk about literature: [1] (accessed July 22, 2015)