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Internationales Alfred-Döblin-Kolloquium, Berlin 2001
Der Band versammelt Vorträge, die auf dem XIII. Kolloquium der Internationalen Alfred-Döblin-Gesellschaft auf Einladung der Freien Universität vom 25. bis 27. Mai 2001 in Berlin gehalten wurden. Döblins Verhältnis zur Berliner Avantgarde von der Jahrhundertwende bis zum Exil wird im Lichte neuer Forschungsansätze zur Erzähltheorie und literaturgeschichtlicher Epochenbildung erörtert. Neben seinem Verhältnis zu zeitgenössischen Künstlern (Kirchner, Marinelli, Benjamin, Benn, Hauptmann) kommt Döblins Tätigkeit als Theaterkritiker und Essayist zur Darstellung. Über Berlin als Schreibort werden neue Lesarten zu «Berge, Meere und Giganten» und «Berlin Alexanderplatz» angeboten. Einige Beiträge zur Döblinforschung, die nicht zum unmittelbaren Kreis des Symposionsthemas zählen und ein Verzeichnis neuer Primär- und Sekundärliteratur zu Alfred Döblin schließen den Band ab.
On the Rationality of Poetry
This study explores Heinrich Böll's 'aesthetic thinking', as it is expressed in the author's disparate and voluminous writings on literature. Böll's work in this field is situated in the multi-faceted context of social, political, and cultural developments in post-war Germany, and is shown to be an important adjunct to the novels and stories which were honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature. An understanding of Heinrich Böll's 'aesthetic thinking' can illuminate the writer's fiction in an intriguing way. In particular, Böll's defence of the 'rationality of poetry' raises issues which reverberate in continuing debates on the social validity of literature.
Alfred Döblin
Döblin’s texts, which range widely across contemporary discourses, are paradigms of the encounter between literary and scientific modernity. With their use of ‛Tatsachenphantasie’, they explode conventional language, seeking a new connection with the world of objects and things. This volume reassesses and reevaluates the uniquely interdisciplinary quality of Döblin’s interdiscursive, factually-inspired poetics by offering challenging new perspectives on key works. The volume analyses not only some of Döblin’s best-known novels and stories, but also neglected works including his early medical essays, political journalism and autobiographical texts. Other topics addressed are Döblin’s engagement with German history; his relation to medical discourse; his topography of Berlin; his aestheticisation of his own biography and his relation to other major writers such as Heine, Benn, Brecht and Sebald. With contributions in English and in German by scholars from Germany and the United Kingdom, the volume presents insights into Döblin that are of value to advanced researchers and to students alike.
A Companion to German Realism, 1848-1900
This volume of new essays by leading scholars treats a representative sampling of German realist prose from the period 1848 to 1900, the period of its dominance of the German literary landscape. It includes essays on familiar, canonical authors -- Stifter, Freytag, Raabe, Fontane, Thomas Mann -- and canonical texts, but also considers writers frequently omitted from traditional literary histories, such as Luise Mühlbach, Friedrich Spielhagen, Louise von François, Karl May, and Eugenie Marlitt. The introduction situates German realism in the context of both German literary history and of developments in other European literatures, and surveys the most prominent critical studies of ninteenth...
Schiller's Aesthetic Essays
Friedrich Schiller, the dramatist and poet, greatly influenced the development of aesthetics through his essays. He sums up the eighteenth century while anticipating modern ideas; his notions of the naive and the sentimental, of art as play, and of beauty as semblance, have had a lasting impact on aesthetic speculation. Dr Sharpe's book is the first study devoted to tracing the attempts of successive generations of philosophers and literary critics to expound the works and deal with the problems they present. Surveying Anglo-American as well as German-language criticism, she illuminates the impact of critical and political change on their evaluation.
Detectives, Dystopias, and Poplit
The first broad treatment of German genre fiction, containing innovative new essays on a variety of genres and foregrounding concerns of gender, environmentalism, and memory. Some of the most exciting research and teaching in the field of German Studies is being done on "genre fiction," including detective fiction, science fiction, and what is often called "poplit," to name but a few. Such non-canonical literature has long been marginalized by the German tradition of Bildung and the disciplinary practice of German literary studies (Germanistik). Even today, when the examination of non-canonical texts is well established and uncontroversial in other academic contexts, such texts remain unders...
Friedrich Schiller
"A final chapter addresses Schillerian intertextuality in the twentieth century, and the survival of Schillerian ideals of freedom and aesthetic education in modern mutations. Foremost among these texts are Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange and Stanley Kubrick's film of that novel."--Jacket.
