Abstract The German figura etymologica ‘Hausen außer Haus,’ as ‘dwelling’ or ‘housing outside the house,’ is developed in this paper as a specific figure of thought in two contemporary literary texts in which the respective protagonists’ outside ‘housing’ contrasts with the space of the houses they pass through, thus transforming them into transitory spaces through the reflection of the outside. This dialectical movement challenges the concept of the house as a definable space. In terms of literary-spatial theory, the protagonists are examined as transitory figures; their transgressions of inside/outside and up/down are identified in a topological analysis, and finally the argument is presented that the imagination of the protagonists functions as a transitory modus as they move within the narrative. Both texts show the ability of literature to reflect on space and enable a link to the spatial turn of 1980 s cultural studies. The innovative contribution of my argument occurs in rethinking the concept of the house as a definable space with reliable boundaries and in proposing a conception of the outside as a potential change to the inside. By providing new insights into the concept of the house, literature itself can be seen as a space of thinking ‘outside the house.’

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Hausen außer Haus: Transitorische Räume in Marilynne Robinsons Housekeeping (1980) 和 Ernst Augustins Robinsons blaues Haus (2012)

摘要 德语 figura 词源 'Hausen außer Haus' 意为“住宅”或“房屋外的房屋”，在本文中被发展为两个当代文学文本中的特定思想人物，其中各自的主人公在“房屋”之外进行对比与它们穿过的房屋空间，从而通过外部的反射将它们转化为过渡空间。这种辩证的运动挑战了房屋作为可定义空间的概念。在文学空间理论方面，主人公被视为转瞬即逝的人物；在拓扑分析中确定了他们对内/外和上/下的超越，最后提出了主角的想象力在叙事中移动时作为一种过渡方式起作用的论点。这两篇文章都展示了文学反思空间的能力，并能够与 1980 年代文化研究的空间转向建立联系。我的论点的创新贡献体现在重新思考房屋作为具有可靠边界的可定义空间的概念，以及提出将外部视为内部潜在变化的概念。通过提供对房子概念的新见解，文学本身可以被视为“房子之外”的思考空间。