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Germans Going Global
Germans Going Global is the first monograph in English to address in depth the interrelatedness between contemporary German literature and globalization. In an interdisciplinary framework and through detailed readings of a wide variety of texts, the study shows how the challenges globalization has posed for Germany over the last two decades have been manifested and reimagined in aesthetic production. Analyses of the literary marketplace and public debates illuminate the more material sides of this development. The study also analyzes the ways in which German-language writers born between 1955 and 1975, such as Chr. Kracht, Th. Meinecke, J. Hermann, S. Berg, F. Illies, K. Röggla, J. v. Düff...
Witness
Witness is an anthology comprising 40 critical essays from an international cast of researchers who engage with a complex set of questions concerning notions of witnessing and attestation in 20th- and 21st-century Western culture. The contributors provide insightful perspectives on the subject of witnessing and suggest how this vital yet relatively unexplored concept lends itself to a wide range of media and subject areas. The essays critically reconsider existing scholarly tendencies which focus on historical evidence and the witness' vocalization of true remembrance. They do this by establishing important links with canonical texts, images, and voices within a theoretical and interpretive framework where questions of mediation, memorization, and representation are addressed.
Christian Kracht‘s Aesthetics
The contributions to this volume are devoted to Christian Kracht's aesthetics under two main aspects: On the one hand, with regard to sometimes irritatingly twisted actualizations of that self-reference and reservation which, since Kant, is to be evaluated as a central mode of the aesthetic; on the other hand, with regard to interferences with areas that are usually perceived as extra-aesthetic, but which can be evaluated as ferments of contemporary aesthetics: Stagings in the field of the literary establishment, the aesthetic under media and market conditions, and in the focus of canonization and criticism. Kracht's Frankfurt Poetics Lectures, which were intensively commented on by the media, form the background to this discussion.
Contemporary German Fiction
These accessible and informative essays explore the central themes and contexts of the best writers working in Germany today.
Into the Groove
A new and wide-ranging view of the confluence, since the 1990s, of the fields of contemporary literature and popular music in Germany.
Distant Kinship
This study of Joseph Conrad's influential work "Heart of Darkness" presents for the first time the German-language reception of this reference text in the debate on postcolonialism. The spectrum ranges from Conrad's contemporaries (like Kafka) to many canonical authors of the 20th century (including Thomas Mann, Ernst Jünger, Christa Wolf) to the most recent names in literature (i.e. Christian Kracht und Lukas Bärfuss). Beyond the readings of their works, the study contributes to the study of cultural transfers as well as to Conrad philology, and it expands the theory of intertextuality with parameters that capture the complex factor of power in postcolonial relations.
Aesthetic Experience and Somaesthetics
This collection of essays explores the crucial connections between aesthetic experience and the interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics, while further advancing inquiry in both. After the editor’s introduction and three articles examining philosophical accounts of embodiment and aesthetic experience in existentialism, phenomenology, hermeneutics, and pragmatism, the book’s nine remaining articles apply somaesthetic theory to the fine arts (including detailed studies of the body’s role in painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry, music, photography, and cinema) but also to diverse arts of living, considering such topics as cosmetics and sexual practice. These interdisciplinary, multicultural essays are written by a distinctively international group of experts, ranging from Asia (China and India) to Europe (Denmark, Finland, Hungary, and Italy) and the United States.
Die Popliteratur nach ihrem Ende
Die Popliteratur hat während der letzten Jahre eine wechselhafte Konjunktur durchlebt: Vom medialen Boom-Phänomen Ende der 1990er Jahre über eine breite publizistische und literaturwissenschaftliche Rezeption bis hin zum Ausruf ihres vermeintlichen Todes. "Popliteratur nach ihrem Ende" führt die Forschungsergebnisse zum jüngsten popliterarischen Jahrzehnt zusammen und geht in literarischen und kulturwissenschaftlichen Analysen zu neuen Werken von Rocko Schamoni, Thomas Meinecke und Christian Kracht der Frage nach, in welcher Weise dort Positionen aus der literarischen Popästhetik fortgesetzt oder in andere Kontexte überführt werden.
Deutschsprachige Pop-Literatur von Fichte bis Bessing
Der vorliegende Band versammelt eine Reihe detaillierter Einzelanalysen exemplarischer und/oder besonders wirkungsmächtiger Werke der deutschsprachigen Pop-Literatur. In systematischer Hinsicht geht es um übergreifende Textmuster, in diachroner Perspektive um Kontinuitäten, Wandlungsprozesse und Brüche, die bislang übersehen oder nicht ausreichend gewürdigt wurden. Auf diese Weise kristallisieren sich Formen, Schreibweisen, Inhalte, Referenzen und Inszenierungsmodelle heraus, die nicht alle in jedem, von denen aber einige in bemerkenswert vielen Texten eine tragende Rolle spielen. So wird das ansonsten schwer greifbare Genre Pop-Literatur dennoch beschreib- und in seiner Divergenz peri...
Engagement
In his radio lecture "Commitment" Theodor W. Adorno showed that the question of commitment versus artistic autonomy is not a rigid antithesis. Literary texts that are intended to be purely partisan and (politically) committed fail to recognise the autonomous status of every artistic utterance. Conversely, a literature that claims to be autonomous is blind to its own relation to society and to the counterfactual objection that has always suggested itself by virtue of the mere existence of literary texts as literature.The volume examines, from a historic and systematic perspective, the antagonistic tension that emerges through the concept of commitment and the present-day relevance of literature. The topics range from concepts of "Zeitdichtung" in the 19thcentury to 20th-century literary models and aesthetic positioning of the present day.
