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Crisis and Form in the Later Writing of Ingeborg Bachmann
Ingeborg Bachmann (1927-73), one of the most acclaimed German-language poets of the post-war period, famously turned away from the lyric during the 1960s. Publicly declaring that she had stopped writing poetry, Bachmann began work on the prose Todesarten cycle that would dominate the last decade of her life. During a period of personal breakdown in the 1960s, however, she privately continued to write in verse, and the publication of selected drafts in 2000 threw new light on her compositional methods in this period. As the most extensive study to date of the poetic drafts, this monograph leads away from the polemic that surrounded their publication to establish the fragmentary texts as an experimental stage of writing that proved formally and thematically significant for later published prose works. Bridging the genre gap of much Bachmann scholarship, McMurtry illuminates the development of a reflexive mode where sophisticated aesthetic strategies enable the oblique expression of cultural critique. ine McMurtry is Lecturer in German at Durham University.
»Es gibt für mich keine Zitate«
Woran erkennt man Anspielungen und Zitate in einem literarischen Text? Wie prüft man, ob es sich wirklich um eine Anspielung handelt? In der Forschung scheint häufig die bloße Behauptung zu genügen. Die Untersuchung entwickelt in ihrem Einleitungsteil das methodische Rüstzeug zur kritischen Prüfung solcher Behauptung und leistet damit einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur Theorie der Intertextualität. Im Mittelpunkt stehen aber Werke Ingeborg Bachmanns (1926-1973): von den frühesten Gedichten (um 1947) bis zur späten Prosa des sogenannten »"Todesarten"-Projekts«. Manch Überraschendes fördert die Analyse zutage. So können der beliebte Mythos vom lyrischen Zwiegespräch zwischen der jun...
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Berlin
This book provides an informative overview of literary developments in Berlin since 1750, with more detailed readings of exemplary key texts.
andererseits – Yearbook of Transatlantic German Studies
andererseits is a collaborative project undertaken by students and faculties of universities in the USA (Duke and the University of Notre Dame), in Luxembourg (University of Luxembourg), and in Germany (University of Duisburg-Essen). It provides a forum for research and reflection on topics related to the German-speaking world and the field of German Studies. Works presented in the publication come from a wide variety of genres including book reviews, poetry, essays, editorials, forum discussions, academic notes, lectures, as well as traditional peer-reviewed academic articles. By publishing such a diverse array of material, we hope to demonstrate the extraordinary value of the humanities in general, and German Studies in particular, on a variety of intellectual and cultural levels. This edition features contributions by Carsten Dutt, Klaus Modick, Tanja Nusser, Thomas Pfau, Margarethe von Trotta, and others.
Precarious Times
In Precarious Times, Anne Fuchs explores how works of German literature, film, and photography reflect on the profound temporal anxieties precipitated by contemporary experiences of atomization, displacement, and fragmentation that bring about a loss of history and of time itself and that is peculiar to our current moment. The digital age places premiums on just-in-time deliveries, continual innovation, instantaneous connectivity, and around-the-clock availability. While some celebrate this 24/7 culture, others see it as profoundly destructive to the natural rhythm of day and night—and to human happiness. Have we entered an era of a perpetual present that depletes the future and erodes our grasp of the past? Beginning its examination around 1900, when rapid modernization was accompanied by comparably intense reflection on changing temporal experience, Precarious Times provides historical depth and perspective to current debates on the "digital now." Expanding the modern discourse on time and speed, Fuchs deploys such concepts as attention, slowness and lateness to emphasize the uneven quality of time around the world.
(Re-)Writing the Radical
The essays in this volume discuss the overlap between philosophical, aesthetic, and political concerns in the 1790s either in the work of individuals or in the transfer of cultural materials across national borders, which tended to entail adaptation and transformation. What emerges is a clearer understanding of the “fate” of the Enlightenment, its radicalization and its “overcoming” in aesthetic and political terms, and of the way in which political “paranoia”, generated by the fear of a spreading revolutionary radicalism, facilitated and influenced the cultural transfer of the “radical”. The collection will be of interest to scholars in French, German, English, and comparative studies working on the later 18th century or early 19th century. It is of particular interest to those working on the impact of the French Revolution, those engaged in reception studies, and those researching the interface between political and cultural activites. It is also of key interest to intellectual historians of this period, as well as general historians with an interest in modern conservatism and radicalism.
German Colonialism Revisited
The first collection of interdisciplinary and comparative studies focusing on diverse interactions among African, Asian, and Oceanic peoples and German colonizers
The Transcultural Turn
This edited collection makes a progressive intervention into the interdisciplinary field of memory studies with a series of essays drawn from diverse theoretical, practitional and cultural backgrounds. The most seminal critical development within memory studies in recent years has arguably been the turn towards transculturalism. This movement engenders a series of methodologies that posit remembrance as a fluid process in which commemorative tropes work to inform the representation of diverse events and traumas beyond national or cultural boundaries, transcending – but not negating – spatial, temporal and ideational differences. Examining a wide range of historical and cultural contexts, the essays in this collection focus on the dialogues that shape processes of remembrance between and beyond borders, critiquing the problems and possibilities inherent in current discourses in memorial practice and theory as they approach the challenge of transculturalism.
Cultural Exchange in German Literature
The influence of foreign cultures on German literature and other cultural productions since the 18th century. The Edinburgh German Yearbook is devoted to German Studies in an international context. It publishes original English- and German-language contributions on a wide range of topics from scholars around the world. Each volumeis based on a single broad theme: the first includes papers from the highly successful conference Kennst du das Land: Cultural Exchange in German Literature, held in Edinburgh in December 2006, supplemented by additional essays. The conviction that German culture and the German spirit are triumphantly unique has played a notorious role in Germany's history. It is no...
Die Kalibrierung literarischer Zeit
Durch die Entstehung der Industriegesellschaft wurde Zeit von der bloßen Dimension zur Ressource. Diese Veränderung der Wahrnehmung von Zeit hat sich auch auf die Literatur der Goethezeit ausgewirkt. Die Herausgeber machen es sich zur Aufgabe ein Konzept zu entwickeln, das die wesentlichen Kernbausteine eines Zeitstrukturwandels am Übergang von der Goethezeit zur Zwischenphase als solche benennt, sie konstelliert und miteinander in Beziehung setzt. In deneinzelnen Beiträgen geht es darum, Zeit und Zeitstrukturen als kulturhistorische Phänomene zu fassen, um Rückschlüsse auf literatur- und denkgeschichtliche Umstellungen am Ausgang der Goethezeit zu ziehen. Dabei wird an konkreten Fallbeispielen geprüft, wie literarische Umgangsformen divergieren, und geklärt, welche Schlüsse sich daraus für literarische Wandelprozesse, aber auch für den mentalgeschichtlichen Wandel der kulturellen Zeitauffassung um 1830 ziehen ließen.
