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Front Matter

Foreword

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Foreword

Intersecting at the Real: Painting, Writing, and Human Community in Adalbert Stifter’s Nachkommenschaften (1864)

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Intersecting at the Real: Painting, Writing, and Human Community in Adalbert Stifter’s Nachkommenschaften (1864)

Notes on an Installation: Crater of a Home, Corner of a Mind

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Notes on an Installation: Crater of a Home, Corner of a Mind

Transgressing the Intellectual Status Quo: How Transhumanism Seeks to Overcome More than Biological Limitations

Wed, 5 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Transgressing the Intellectual Status Quo: How Transhumanism Seeks to Overcome More than Biological Limitations

Transitions of a Myth? The Idea of a Language-Defined Kulturnation in Germany

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Transitions of a Myth? The Idea of a Language-Defined Kulturnation in Germany

Ernst, Jutta/Florian Freitag (Eds.). Transkulturelle Dynamiken. Aktanten – Prozesse – Theorien. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2015.

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Ernst, Jutta/Florian Freitag (Eds.). Transkulturelle Dynamiken. Aktanten – Prozesse – Theorien. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2015.

On the Question of ‘Real Modern Art’ in East Germany: Werner Tübke’s Fünf Kontinente

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On the Question of ‘Real Modern Art’ in East Germany: Werner Tübke’s Fünf Kontinente

About the Authors

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About the Authors

Huyssen, Andreas. Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and Film. Cambridge, MA and London, UK: Harvard UP, 2015.

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Huyssen, Andreas. Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and Film. Cambridge, MA and London, UK: Harvard UP, 2015.

About the Artist

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About the Artist

About the Authors

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About the Authors

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Table of Contents

Book Review: Heiduschke, Sebastian. East German Cinema: DEFA and Film History. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013.

Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Book Review of Sebastian Heiduscke's East German Cinema (2013).

Eulenspiegel auf dem Pegasus: Wolfgang Koeppen als Stadtschreiber von Bergen-Enkheim

Mon, 20 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Der Romancier, Essayist und Reiseschriftsteller Wolfgang Koeppen wurde 1974 für ein Jahr zum ersten symbolischen Stadtschreiber der bei Frankfurt gelegenen Kleinstadt Bergen-Enkheim erkoren. Es war der erste Literaturpreis dieser Art in der Bundesrepublik, der auf einen in der literarischen Peergroup hoch angesehenen, der breiteren Öffentlichkeit jedoch weithin unbekannten Autor fiel. Die Preisvergabe an den von Vorschüssen mehr schlecht als recht lebenden Koeppen hatte einen mäzenatischen Anstrich. Im Gegenzug sollte sein prestigeträchtiger Name dem Stadtschreiberpreis Glanz verleihen. Fernerhin wurden vom Stadtschreiber Besuche in Bergen-Enkheim und der Austausch mit der Bevölkerung erwartet. Dabei war Koeppen ein Autor, der von sich das Bild eines öffentlichkeitsscheuen Einzelgängers und provinzverachtenden Großstädters entworfen hatte. Bei dieser Konstellation waren Konflikte die natürliche Folge. In der Tradition Eulenspiegels definierte Koeppen für sich die Rolle des Stadtschreibers...

Robert Musil's Literary Ethics: The Man without Qualities Reconsidered

Fri, 17 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

In this article I present a reading of Robert Musil's novel The Man without Qualities from an ethical perspective, examining the work as an important contribution to philosophical ethics.

Book Review: Stolleis, Michael. Origins of the German Welfare State: Social Policy in Germany to 1945. New York: Springer, 2013.

Thu, 16 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Review of Michael Stolleis' Origins of the German Welfare State: Social Policy in Germany to 1945.

Raumerfahrung zwischen Dorf, Sanatorium und Schneelandschaft: Grenzüberschreitungen in Adalbert Stifters Bergkristall und Thomas Manns Der Zauberberg

Sun, 12 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Der vorliegende Aufsatz macht es sich zur Aufgabe, Grenzüberschreitungen in der Erzählung Bergkristall von Adalbert Stifter und im Kapitel „Schnee“ des Romans Der Zauberberg von Thomas Mann zu untersuchen. Hinzugezogen wird des Weiteren Stifters – auch autobiographisch zu lesender – Text Aus dem bayrischen Walde, da dieser Aspekte thematisiert, welche für die Interpretation der fiktionalen Texte relevant sind. Als theoretische Grundlage der Untersuchung dienen Jurij Lotmans Überlegungen zum räumlichen Element der Grenze, die sich in seiner Monographie Die Struktur des künstlerischen Textes finden. Ausgewählte, im inhaltlichen Kontext für wichtig befundene Thesen sollen im Folgenden besprochen werden.

“Die Ewigkeit als Dauererektion”: Synchronic and Diachronic Abjection in Heiner Müller’s Quartett

Thu, 9 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The implicit dialogue between the Heiner Müller’s dramatic works and Julia Kristeva’s theory of the abject has been largely neglected in scholarship. This article suggests not only that Kristeva’s theory of the abject informs a reading of Müller’s 1988 drama, Quartett, but also that Müller’s drama adds to Kristeva’s theory by linking the synchronic abjection pertaining to the body and subject relations with what I term “diachronic abjection,” a mode of abjection pertaining to historical placement. In Müller’s enigmatic work, violent sexuality, physical decay, and excrement are related not only to mortality and self-definition, but also to the individual’s ability to exist in the present without forgetting the past. While Kristeva only briefly considers how the abject relates to historicity, Müller makes this central to his work, which carries political implications considering his dramas’ role in critiquing the relations between memory and revolution, as well as GDR memory...

Narrating the Date: Brecht’s Cäsar und sein Legionär and the Calendar Story

Wed, 1 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The calendar story is a genre that is largely ignored by literary criticism. The history of the genre indicates a progressive emancipation from its medium, i.e. its printing on calendars. Bertolt Brecht, for instance, published a collection of stories entitled “Kalendergeschichten” with no reference to a calendar, so that there are “Kalendergeschichten” without calendars. This paper traces the history of the genre with regard to the disappearance of the medium, the calendar, and provides an extensive reading with regard to dates, times, politics, and historical events in: Brecht’s “Cäsar und sein Legionär.” It argues that in this ‘new’ calendar story, the calendar not only plays a central role within the narrative, but is indeed being narrated. The calendar is no longer the medium, but moves ‘inside’ the story and defines it from within.

Book Review: Etkind, Alexander, Rory Finnen et al. Remembering Katyn. Cambridge, UK and Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2012.

Wed, 1 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Book review of REMEMBERING KATYN, by Etkind & Finnen et al., by Thomas Kreuzberger.

Cover Art

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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NGR 25 Contributors

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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Front Matter

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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About the Artist: Marcel Bühler

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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The "Medusan" Glance: Language and Critique in the Early Writings of Walter Benjamin

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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The Red and the Black: Race in the DEFA Indianerfilm Osceola

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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Cohen-Pfister, Laurel and Dagmar Wienroeder-Skinner, eds. Victims and Perpetrators: 1933-1945. (Re)Presenting the Past in Post-Unification Culture. Berlin/ New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2006.

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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Bernd Hamacher. Offenbarung und Gewalt. Literarische Aspekte kultureller Krisen um 1800. München and Paderborn: Fink, 2010.

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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Ulrich Plass, Franz Kafka Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 2009.

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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Bennett, Benjamin. The Dark Side of Literacy: Literature and Learning How Not to Read. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008.

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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Vergangenheitsbewältigung: Historikerstreit and the Notion of Continued Responsibility

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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Gottwald, Herwig and Andreas Freinschlag, Peter Handke, Böhlau: Stuttgart, 2010.

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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The Eternal Return as Sexual Affirmation

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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Review: German Film after Germany. Toward a Transnational Aesthetic